What is the Quantitative Methods Initiative?
A key part of ESRC’s research methods strategy is to combat the skills deficit in quantitative research methods across the social science research base. ESRC has been working in collaboration to develop a strategy to address the current shortages. More recently these efforts have been given added momentum through significant co-funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) and the Scottish Funding Council (SFC). The strategy recognises that there is a need to enhance quantitative skills across the full breadth of the ‘educational lifecourse’, from building new capacity at the undergraduate level to refreshing the quantitative skills of mid-career academics that teach undergraduates and supervise PhD students (‘training the trainers’).
