Start: 8 February, 2010
Finish: 25 February, 2010



Primary Contact: Annette Herbert, NZSSN Course Organiser, Ph. 021 565 841

Email: courses@nzssn.org.nz

The NZSSN Summer Programme for 2010 has finished. We had hoped to be trying a Winter Programme this year for the first time, but we have called off plans for this as we do not have the resources at this time. So look forward to Summer 2011 and we hope a good attempt at Winter too!


NZSSN short courses are designed to cater to fundamental, changing and emerging research strategies, and to serve a wide variety of needs for training and professional development within the academic, public and private sectors. Courses cater not only to researchers in the social and political sciences, but also those in areas such as the behavioural sciences, medical and health sciences, epidemiology, policy research, education, economics, law, management, marketing, public relations and human resource management.

Short courses are arranged into three levels: introductory, intermediate and advanced. Introductory courses provide a basic grounding in areas such as research design, statistical techniques, qualitative research methods and data analysis. Intermediate courses build on a basic knowledge of research methods and data analysis by examining multivariate techniques or special applications in research and data analysis. Advanced courses cover more complex, cutting-edge statistical techniques and applications, and examine topics in greater depth.

The following fee structure applied for the 2010 Summer Short Courses.

Course details:

Introduction to Statistics 8 February to 12 February, 2010

Qualitative Research Techniques 8 February to 12 February, 2010

Case Study Research 8 February to 12 February, 2010

Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling using Amos 8 February to 12 February, 2010

Advanced Analysis of Linked Health Data 8 February to 12 February, 2010

Data Analysis using SPSS 15 February to 19 February, 2010

Introduction to NVivo 15 February to 19 February, 2010

Introduction to Program Evaluation 15 February to 19 February, 2010

Introduction to Survey Design 15 February to 19 February, 2010

Research Synthesis for Policy and Practice 15 February to 18 February, 2010