New academic year, new Q-Step Research Seminars

The academic year is starting and the Q-Step community is looking forward to our September kick off and a great line-up of speakers for our Q-Step Research Seminar Series.

On 23rd September, from 12.00, we invite all members of the Q-Step community - new and returning students, undergraduates and postgraduates as well as all members of staff - for a kick-off to the new semester and the first Q-Step Research Seminar. Over coffee, tea, and sandwiches we can catch up, share stories of summer holidays and research projects, and talk about the plans for the new semester. The kick-off will take place from 12.00 in the Violet Laidlaw Room (6.02) on the sixth floor of the Chrystal Macmillan Building.

23 Sep 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 
Q-Step Meet & Greet to kick off the new semester for students and staff
With tea/coffee & sandwiches!
Violet Laidlaw Room (6.02), 6th floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building

This casual Meet & Greet is directly followed by the first Q-Step Research Seminar of the new academic year, at 13.00 in the same room. And it is a special one! We are looking forward to hearing from our 4th year students, Lihe Wang, Sarah Aron and Lindsey Flagler, about their experiences during their Q-Step summer placements: the projects they worked on, which methods they used, what they found out, and what their most surprising experiences were. Sarah, Lindsey and Lihe will be joined by their employers: Cathy Mitchell, Assistant Director, Scottish Funding Council, and Dr Dinah Aitken, The Salvesen Mindroom. Together with Sarah, Lindsey and Lihe, Cathy Mitchell and Dr Dinah Aitken will reflect on the placement experience from the point of view of the employers, on the role data and research skills play in their work, and on what skills they value in future employees.

23 Sep 2019, 13:00 – 14:15
Lindsey Flagler, Lihe Wang, Sarah Aron (4th year Q-Step students), Cathy Mitchell (Scottish Funding Council) & Dr Dinah Aitken (The Salvesen Mindroom Centre)
Placements that count: case studies from Q-Step summer work placements
Violet Laidlaw Room (6.02), 6th floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building

Five more Q-Step Research Seminars are planned for October, November and December:

• 14 Oct 2019: Vernon Gayle (University of Edinburgh) - An Alternative Investigation of Social Class Inequalities in School Attainment
• 4 Nov 2019: Lindsay Paterson (University of Edinburgh) - Assembling data sets can be exciting: the pleasures of designing secondary data analysis
• 25 Nov 2019: Plamena Panayotova (University of Edinburgh) - The evolution of statistics in the work of Karl Pearson (1857-1936) and R. A. Fisher (1890-1962)
• 9 Dec 2019: Stefanie Reher (University of Strathclyde) - How Voters Evaluate Candidates with Disabilities: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment
• 16 Dec 2019: Sarah Stopforth (University of Edinburgh) - Operationalisation Challenges: Cultural Capital and Social Class in School-Level Attainment

All seminars start at 13:00 and will take place in the Violet Laidlaw Room (6.02) on the sixth floor of the Chrystal Macmillan Building. Students and staff - all welcome! 

You can keep up to date with the latest schedule and events at http://www.q-step.ed.ac.uk/community/events.