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Module session archive

1.1: Introduction to social science – definition, approaches and role in broader humanitarian action
This session discusses the value and the role of social science research in humanitarian action with a focus on communit...
1.2: Operational social science research in the humanitarian programme cycle
This session defines operational social science and how it can be used in settings where research is time-sensitive. It...
1.3: Advocating for the inclusion of social science in emergency response activities that engage communities
This session explores why and how to advocate for the inclusion of social science research in activities that engage com...
2.1: Understanding context, vulnerability and inequality in public health and humanitarian emergencie
2.2: Understanding behaviour in public health and humanitarian emergencies – models and theories
2.3: Rapid strategies to understand the political, socio-cultural, and economic factors that increase vulnerability
This session discusses rapid strategies to establish and deepen participants’ understanding of social determinants, risk...
2.4: Understanding the importance of language in social science research
This session discusses the significance of language in social science research in humanitarian action with a focus on co...
3.1: Ethical principles and approvals for social science research in a humanitarian context
The session covers the main ethical principles that should guide social science research, they are an important responsi...
3.2: Promoting the meaningful translation and application of ethical principles
The session discusses how research teams and practitioners working in community engagement and/or communications during...
4.1: Localised research: designing operational social science research that is responsive to communities
This session covers how to plan and roll-out social science research that brings in local knowledge and expertise and pu...
4.2: Quantitative and qualitative approaches to generate data in operational social science research
This session lays out the differences between quantitative and qualitative approaches to collecting and analysing socio-...
4.3: Quantitative data collection methods: knowledge, attitudes and practice / perceptions surveys
This module gives an overview of how to apply quantitative approaches, specifically knowledge, attitudes, practice/perce...
4.4: Qualitative data collection methods: in-depths interviews, observation, and focus group discussions
4.5: Quantitative data analysis in operational social science research
This session gives an overview of how to apply quantitative approaches to analyse data in operational social science res...
4.6: Qualitative data analysis in operational social science research
This session aims to improve knowledge around the tools and steps to analyse qualitative data relevant to community enga...
4.7: Mixing different methods to produce quality evidence
This session teaches the value and benefits of applying mixed methods approaches.
4.8: Triangulation of data: why it is important and how does it work?
This session teaches how to triangulate social science data with other types of data to generate evidence relevant to co...
5.1: Evidence synthesis for social and behavioural data
This session presents ways to access the relevant data and information required to undertake an evidence synthesis and t...
5.2: How to transform social science data and evidence into actionable findings
This session teaches how to effectively design research and transform social science data and evidence into findings tha...
5.3: How to communicate and present research outputs to different audiences
This session explores ways to communicate and present social science research outputs to different audiences effectively...
5.4: Feeding back to communities and using findings to support community-level solutions and actions
This session describes the different approaches used to sharing research findings back with communities through a range...
6.1: Translating social science research into
This session explores how social science evidence can translate to actual change in the planning and roll-out of communi...
6.2: Enabling environments for the uptake of social science evidence in emergency response
This session aims to explore what an enabling environment looks like, so social science can inform different phases of a...
7.1: Tracking the use or ‘application’ of integrated operational social science outputs: Integrated Outbreaks Analytics and MONITO
This session discusses tools and approaches for monitoring the use of integrated evidence by emergency response actors t...
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