Southampton Summer Statistics School 2025

Key Details:

• Dates: 9 - 11 July, 2025
• Time: 09:00 - 16:30 daily
• Location: Tizard Building, Room 13/3019 - Seminar Room, Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
• Target Audience: Non-academics and Academics working with numeric data and social science. This includes professionals, PhD students, and Post-Docs from from all disciplines!
• Registration Fee: Free

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Elevate your statistical analysis skills at the Southampton Summer Statistics School (SSSS) 2025, a 3-day intensive program designed to provide professionals, PhD students, post-doctoral academics, and professionals seeking to enhance their expertise in advanced statistical techniques.

Hosted by the Southampton Education School, each day features workshops that combine 50% theory with 50% hands-on practical exercises. Attendees can choose to any, all, or a combination of the sessions. Simply select which sessions you'd like to attend when reviewing the tickets.

Day 1: Wednesday, 9 July 2025

AM Session: 09:30 - 13:00:

• Keynote: "Making better decisions, eschewing conspiracy, populism and science denial: Analysing the attributes of individuals who engage effectively with ideas" - Prof Chris Brown, Southampton Education School
• Lecture & Workshop: Introduction to Strucutral Equation Modelling (SEM) - Dr James Hall, Southampton Education School
  PM Session: 14:00 - 16:30:

• Lecture & Workshop: SEM for Growth Modelling - Dr James Hall, Southampton Education School

Day 2: Thursday, 10 July 2025

AM Session: 09:30 - 13:00:

• Panel Discussion: "Making Statistical Methods Matter: Lessons from Educational Research"
• Lecture & Workshop: Multilevel Modelling - PM Session: 14:00 - 16:30:

• Lecture & Workshop: Causal Inference in Observational Data - Ms Yin Wang, Southampton Education School

Day 3: Friday, 11 July 2025

AM Session: 0900 - 11:30:

• Lecture & Workshop: Machine Learning for Social Scientists - Dr Nora McIntyre, Southampton Education School

PM Session: 12:30 - 16:30

• Lecture & Workshop: Item Response Theory (IRT) - Prof Christian Bokhove, Southampton Education School
• Closing Session: "Connecting Research and Practice: Opportunites for Collaboration with Southampton"

To assist attendees, pre-session resources, including software installation guides and datasets, will be provided beforehand to maximise your learning and participation in hands-on activities.

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