The Practice of Data Analysis: How Students Are Doing It for Themselves

Presentation at University of Edinburgh Q-Step Centre event event. "Practice makes perfect! Putting a spotlight on data-driven work placements"

1. The Practice of Data Analysis: How Students are Doing it For Themselves 22 F eb 2019 Professor Jackie Carter University of Manchester, UK

2. The world is social Chapters 1: The Gap Instinct 2: The Negativity Instinct 3: The Straight Line Instinct 4: The Fear Instinct 5: The Size Instinct 6: The Generalization Instinct 7: The Destiny Instinct 8: The Single Perspective Instinct 9: The Blame Instinct 10: The Urgency Instinct 11: Factfulness in Practice

3. BUT IT DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING BUT IT DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING Our students are interested in the social world (but not so much in numbers) Sociology Politics International Relations Politics, Philosophy and Economics Criminology Linguistics

4. C ontext matters The research question motivates the student, not the data

5. Size also matters Is <insert value> a big number? 50 million

6. Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn

7. www.manchester.ac.uk /q-step/internships

8. Making sense of politics Understanding social media Researching culture and society Unequal societies: health, well-being and happiness Criminological research methods

9. Making sense of criminological data Quantitative methods in language sciences Variation and change in English Changing social attitudes The survey method in social research How to conduct politics research Essentials in survey design and analysis Research design and statistical inference Market research

10. No formal assessment Celebration and self-reflection Poster as minimum output

11. From the classroom to the workplace

12. 5 summers, 200 students, 60 organisations 3 case studies What happens when students practice data analysis

13. Case study 1: IPPR North A social and political think-tank

14. Marcus PPE 2015 Four Tests for the Northern Powerhouse, acknowledgement Leo Pol & IR 2016 Building northern resilience in an era of uncertainty, co-author Candice Pol & IR 2017 The Millenial Powerhouse – acknowledgment Leah PPE 2018 Reprioritizing the Northern Powerhouse , co-author

15. And here’s what they say …

16. Case Study 2: The Home Office, London - Crime & Policy Unit

17. Victoria 2015 Criminology Won national student prize in 2016, now works in the HO and mentors Q-Step interns Shaun 2015 Sociology Worked on longitudinal twins study; did MSc Sociological Research Robyn 2016 Criminology Drug Misuse publication; Commercial Victimisation Survey; SPSS &R, did MA Criminology Marilena 2016 Linguistics Now project manager at Royal Mail Hannah 2016 Criminology Violence against children project – now works in the Home Office, Faststreamer Natascha 2016 Criminology Modern Slavery Unit, worked on sensitive data Briony 2017 Criminology & Sociology Crime trends by crime type. Now financial crime analyst at Eversheds Charlotte 2017 Criminology Central Analysis and Insights Team Grace 2017 Criminology Drugs and Alcohol Research Unit Hannah 2017 Criminology Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice – used Homicide Index 2003-2016 Eleanor 2018 Criminology Time spent on non-crime matters Xenajean 2018 Criminology Looking for a data analyst role after graduating, preferably in crime analysis

18. Case Study 3: Audiencenet - social and consumer research agency

19. Anna 2014 Politics & IR See previously!! Hannah 2015 Politics & IR Millenials and the political establishment (US v UK) Fernanda 2016 Politics &IR Based in Washington DC – the importance of ethics in politics. Now digital marketing business analyst Merrill 2017 Politics & Social Anthropology Now studying MA in Geopolitics Luyao 2017 PPE Studying MPhil, Oxford, International Relations and Affairs Carmel 2018 PPE Immigration opinions in the US Derek 2018 Sociology The value gap in the music industry Zvi 2018 Sociology Based in London and Washington DC Smartphones and sleep . Now working on this for his dissertation.

20. The Facts 8-weeks long Data-driven, research-led The host organisation creates a project brief The University of Manchester administers the setting up, and runs pre-internship training We pay living wage (incl. London weighting) Each internship costs circa £3000 The Q-Step grant contributes around 40%, The University the rest We aim to give opportunity to all

21. The Challenges Getting organisations to co-fund Finding the right level of internship Supervision (for academics over the summer) Maintaining contact and evaluating the intervention Self-selection

22. The Book Work placements, internships and applied research Student Guide – publication end of 2019

23. Our website www.manchester.ac.uk/q-step Videos Student stories Research internship outlines Posters Events Information about teaching

24. Thankyou @ JackieCarter j [email protected]