This is especially for candidates who need to consider new and alternative approaches to data, especially relevant for those who may have been planning to collect and work with primary data, but now face having to change their approach given travel restrictions. It may also be useful for those in the Provisional year.

The aim is to help them think about news ways of working with data, collecting data, different ways of things about “field work”. We need researchers who use two categories of secondary data - large existing databases, and collecting (often mining) secondary data to create a database.

For the format, we have in mind short presentations and a Q&A panel.