Call for applications: PhD Crosscutting Courses

The Directorate of Research and Graduate Training in collaboration with the School of School of Statistics and Applied Economics, announces the PhD-Crosscutting Training Course:

ADVANCED QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS

• Course Duration: 8th to 26th July, 2019
• Venue: Makerere University Library
• Who should apply: PhD Students Maximum Number of Participants: 40

This course is among the required crosscutting courses designed to help PhD students embarking on research to understand the principles and practical application of statistics for analysis of research data. The course revisits standard statistical techniques together with a comprehensive hands-on illustration of their application using a standard statistical package. By the close of the course, students are expected to have acquired the ability to choose the appropriate statistical technique(s) to use for the type of data to be collected as well as correct interpretation of the results.

Applicants should submit their applications with evidence of full admission to the PhD Program. Priority shall be given to those at data collection and analysis phase of their
research project.

ONLY SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS SHALL BE CONTACTED.
Please indicate your Gender, Department, School, College, telephone and e-mail contact.
Submit electronically to: conference@rgt.mak.ac.ug or director@rgt.mak.ac.ug.

The deadline for receiving application: 3rd July, 2019

Partnering with the School of School of Social Sciences the Directorate of Research and Graduate Training inannounces the PhD-Cross-cutting Training Course:

ADVANCED QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS

• Course Duration: 15th to 26th July, 2019
• Venue: Senate Telepresence Room
• Who should apply: PhD Students Maximum Number of Participants: 30
• Latest Date of application: 9th July, 2019

This course unit is among the required crosscutting courses for PhD students to be knowledgeable in the philosophical underpinnings of qualitative research; have acquired
skills of literature search, critical analysis and writing; be able to identify would-be qualitative research problems; be able to call into use of appropriate qualitative research
methods of investigating the identified problem(s); appreciate analysis of qualitative data (manually and by use of computer software) and able to explore various ways of writing
a qualitative research report.
Applicants should submit their applications with evidence of full admission to the PhD Program. Priority shall be given to those at data collection and analysis phase of their
research project.

ONLY SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS SHALL BE CONTACTED.
Please indicate your Gender, Department, School, College, telephone and e-mail contact.
Submit electronically to: conference@rgt.mak.ac.ug or director@rgt.mak.ac.ug.
Deadline for application is Friday 9th July, 2019.
 

Further details can be found in the documents below: