Teaching and learning at ESDS

ESDS offers support for the secondary use of data across the research, teaching and learning communities. ESDS can help teachers and students on many aspects of using data resources in lectures and for self-study. The use of real-life data in teaching adds interest and relevance to courses, and, if the data are updated on a regular basis, ensures that the courses are pertinent to current substantive, theoretical and methodological debates.

ESDS can help provide support in many areas of teaching research methods:

• research design
• survey design and analysis
• software for analysis data
• secondary analysis of qualitative data
• managing research data
• consent and ethics

ESDS data collections are accompanied by user documentation and a record of main publications resulting from original use and re-use of the data. The value of the documentation should be recognised as a resource in its own right.

The following pages in this section contain links to teaching datasets, examples of how to use data in the classroom, and links to resources for research methods teaching.

• Teaching datasets
• Ways to use data in teaching
• Research methods at ESDS
• Teaching and learning resources - ESDS and external