A key function of the Department of Methodology is to provide training for PhD and MSc students in the design of social research and in qualitative and quantitative analysis. Methodology courses are open to all LSE students taking MSc or PhD programmes. This means that research students are welcome to attend any of the Department's courses, regardless of which department they are based in. They should seek approval from their research tutors or supervisors.
Watch our introductory Methodology course videos.
Methodology courses for MSc students
Methodology courses for PhD students
Methodology Workshops
We're offering workshops under MY530 and MY560 on a variety of specific and advanced topics in qualitative and quantitative research methods.
These workshops are primarily aimed at PhD students but may be taken by Masters students. The workshops are non-examinable, self-contained and may be attended independently. Workshops usually take place towards the end of Michaelmas Term, and during Lent and Summer Terms, with the schedules available from the MY530 and MY560 Moodle pages, and in the relevant workshop tabs below.
Sign up via the LSE Training and Development system, which usually opens for bookings around one month prior to the events.
As part of the Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) network, the Department reserves and small number of places on MY530 and MY560 workshops for non-LSE external visitors at £30 per workshop. Interested parties can sign up via the NCRM Events page or via the LSE online store.
For queries about workshops, please email methodology.research@lse.ac.uk.
Lent Term
- Week 2 - Participatory Research (24th January) by Dr Audrey Alejandro, LSE campus LRB 4.02
- Week 5 - In-Depth Interviewing (14th February) by Dr Aliya Rao, LSE campus LRB 4.02 (Cancelled due to strike action)
- Week 6 - Thematic Analysis (22nd February) by Dr Aliya Rao, LSE campus LRB 4.02 (Cancelled due to strike action)
- Week 10 - Discourse Analysis (22nd March) by Dr Audrey Alejandro, LSE campus LRB 4.02 (Cancelled due to strike action)
Summer Term
- Week 5 - Small-n Case Studies and Comparative Analysis (30th May) by Dr Ellie Knott, LSE campus LRB 4.02
- Week 5 - Process Tracing (30th May) by Dr Ellie Knott, LSE campus LRB 4.02
- Week 6 - Genealogy and Archeology as Qualitative Methodologies (7th June) by Dr Laura Pantzerhielm, LSE campus LRB 4.02
Lent Term
- Week 3 - Questionnaire Design 1 (pre-recorded lectures) by Professor Jonathan Jackson
- Week 4 - Questionnaire Design 2 (pre-recorded lectures) by Professor Jonathan Jackson
- Week 4 - Applied Bayesian Data Analysis for Social Science (7th February) by Dr Patrick English, LSE campus LRB 4.02
- Week 5 - Design of Experiments 1 (pre-recorded lectures) by Professor Jonathan Jackson
- Week 7 - Design of Experiments 2 (pre-recorded lectures) by Professor Jonathan Jackson
- Week 9 - A Practical Introduction to Text Classification (14th March) by Dr Blake Miller, LSE campus LRB 4.02
- Week 10 - Event History 1: Introduction and Models for Discrete Survival Times (23rd March) by Dr Ben Wilson, LSE campus CON 1.01
- Week 10 - Event History 2: Understanding the Cox Model and Semi-parametric Analysis (24th March) by Dr Ben Wilson, LSE campus CON 1.01
Summer Term
- Week 2 - Agent Based Modelling (9th May) by Emeritus Professor Michael Laver, LSE campus LRB 4.02
- Week 6 - Matching Techniques Beyond the Propensity Scores (9th June) by Dr Chris Posch, LSE campus LRB 4.02
- Week 7 - Introduction to oTree – how to program your own experiment (14th June) by Martina Testori, LSE campus LRB 4.02