The Sociology Department was awarded £60,000 from the ESRC
Friday 12 October 2012
The Department was awarded £60,000 from the ESRC to introduce new and innovative ways of teaching quantitative methods to undergraduate students across our sociology programme. The project emphasises the ‘full integration’ of quantitative methods skills into the undergraduate curriculum – joining the threads together in a coherent way – in a manner that ensures quantitative literacy is achieved early, occurs frequently and is integrated with approaches that account for students’ different learning styles. The primary output of the project is a blended learning environment. This draws together a range of quantitative methods resources in an accessible way and gives students the opportunity to practice and develop their skills drawing on relevant sociological examples. We hope the result will be that students find quantitative methods more accessible, the relevance to their degree programmes clearer and that their confidence and ability in using quantitative methods will improve.

