Advanced Training Modules

Our Advanced Training improves the quality of PhD work, creates networking opportunities regionally and nationally, and brings cutting-edge expert knowledge to the heart of doctoral training.

View Advanced Training Modules (2025/26 academic year)

Advanced Training Modules open to all MGS DTP researchers (click on the names below for further details. Modules will be in person, unless otherwise stated).

Modules without dates will be updated as soon as dates are available.
Code	Title	Credits
EPID4033	Systematic Reviews (dates tbc for 2026/27 academic year)	10
LAWW4129	Children and Research (not running in 2025/26)	10
NURS4049	Mixed Methods in Health Research (dates tbc for 2026/27 academic year)	10
NURS4072	Individual & Group Interviews (In person, dates tbc for 2026/27 academic year)	10
NURS4075	Individual & Group Interviews (Online, dates tbc for 2026/27 academic year)	10
PHARM4005	Social Epidemiology: theories and methods for understanding the social determinants of health (not running in 2025/26)	10
PSGY4002	Advanced Methods in Psychology (dates tbc for 2026/27 academic year)	20
PSGY4013	Analytical Research Methods (dates tbc for 2026/27 academic year)	10
SOCI4063	Doing Ethnography (dates tbc for 2026/27 academic year)	10

View Other Specialist Modules offered by Schools and Departments

Specialist modules offered by Schools and Departments open to some MGS DTP researchers depending on prior expertise and requirements (Click on the names below for full details. Modules will be in person, unless otherwise stated).

Modules without dates will be updated as soon as dates are available.
Code	Title	Credits
PSGY4008	Current Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience (dates tbc for 2026/27 academic year)	10
SOCI4005	Researching the Social: Contemporary Debates in Sociology (dates tbc for 2026/27 academic year)	20
SOCI4069	Investigating Social Policy (dates tbc for 2026/27 academic year)	20
SOCW4008	Contemporary Issues and Debates in Social Work (dates tbc for 2026/27 academic year)	20

Find Out About Advanced Training elsewhere in the Consortium (ESRC-funded students only)

In addition to their home institution offering, ESRC-funded students will have the option to take advanced training across the consortium. Examples include Digital Methods and Big Social Data (Warwick), Q-Methodology, A Systematic Approach for Interpretive Research Design (Birmingham); and Methodological Implications of Critical Realism (Loughborough).

Request a Place on the Advanced Training Modules

Nottingham ESRC Doctoral Training Programmes

University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 4708
email: esrc-dtc@nottingham.ac.uk

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