Warwick Q-Step Centre
Our Aims
The Warwick Q-Step Centre was established to host the Q-Step programme at the University of Warwick. The aim of this Programme is to help deliver 'a step-change' in quantitative skills within one of the strongest UK and global Social Science Faculties.
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Contributing to the step-change required to address the UK’s national ‘deficit’ in quantitative methods;
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Delivering (through our host deprtments) new undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in quantitative methods;
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Peparing students to work in ways that help them to understand, participate and intervene in today’s data-driven digital society;
- Positioning Warwick as one of the leading universities of the digital age.
News
Q-Step Centre Hosts Nuffield Research Placement Students in 2020
The Q-Step Centre was delighted to welcome 4 Nuffield Research Placement students over the summer vacation. The secondary shool students spent 4 weeks working remotely on a data-related research project on Hate Crimes in the US.
Spring Camp 2019
On 18 and 19 March 2019 Warwick Q-Step Centre hosted its fourth annual Quantitative Methods Spring Camp on the theme of Social Media Analysis. The event was a great success and we saw our highest attendance rate yet in our Spring Camp series
New Q-Step Videos
Hear what our students think about the Warwick Q-Step degrees and placements, watch our new videos.
Q-Step Centre Hosts Nuffield Research Placement Students in 2019
The Q-Step Centre was delighted to welcome 3 Nuffield Research Placement students over the summer vacation. The students, all from secondary schools in the Birmingham/Coventry area, spent 4 weeks working on a data-related research project entitled Social Class and Prosocial Behaviour.
Upcoming Events
Q-Step Option Modules
Q-Step members offer a number of exciting quantitative option modules, which are intended to appeal to a broader range of social siences and humanities students:
Determinants of Democracy: Analysing Emergence, Survival, and Fall