Research Skills Courses and Certifications

Social Science Approaches to the Study of Chinese Society Part 1

52 ratings at Coursera

Become a critical consumer of social science research: compare disciplines, weigh study designs, spot interpretation pitfalls, and judge cause-and-effect claims, including research on China.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Social Science Approaches to the Study of Chinese Society Part 2

20 ratings at Coursera

Design your own social science study: build a research proposal, locate public data on China, apply random sampling, run basic quantitative analysis, and navigate research ethics.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Comparative Research Designs and Methods

12 ratings at Coursera

Compare complex cases systematically: apply most similar/most different designs, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, fuzzy sets, and macro-quantitative regression to build social science explanations.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

165 ratings at Coursera

QCA is a comparative method that is mainly used in the social sciences for the assessment of cause-effect relations (i.e. causation). The course is designed for people who have no or little experience with QCA.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Public Involvement in Research

19 ratings at Coursera

Learn to involve citizens and patients at each of the seven stages of the research cycle, from prioritising topics to disseminating findings and evaluating involvement impact.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Research Methodology: Complete Research Project Blueprint

2065 ratings at Udemy

Research Methodology From A-Z. A Step-by-Step Guide Through Research Design, Data Collection, Analysis, & Interpretation

• Udemy
• 7 hours 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Methods and Statistics in Social Science - Final Research Project

71 ratings at Coursera

Run a full social science study with fellow learners: formulate a hypothesis and design, build measurement and manipulation instruments, collect data, analyze it statistically, and report results.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Eindhoven University of Technology

Improving Your Statistical Questions

112 ratings at Coursera

This course aims to help you to ask better statistical questions when performing empirical research.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Chandra Astrophysics Institute

1 rating

Develop research skills through authentic astronomy investigations, culminating in x-ray astronomy projects using observations from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

American Psychological Association Career Certificate

Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology

87 ratings at Coursera

Explore qualitative psychology: trace its historical and philosophical roots, master interviewing techniques, ethnographic and observational methods, case studies, and qualitative data analysis.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Research Methods For Business Students

1334 ratings at Udemy

A-Z guide to writing a rockstar Research Paper with a bulletproof Research Methodology!

• Udemy
• 3 hours 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

American Psychological Association

What is Qualitative Research?

55 ratings at Coursera

Explore lived experience through qualitative inquiry: interviews and observations, the historical and philosophical roots of the field, and the four trustworthiness criteria for judging rigor.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Research Instruments and Research Hypotheses

36 ratings at Coursera

Design research instruments: develop and pretest questionnaires, build measurement scales, assess reliability and validity, code data, and run parametric and non-parametric hypothesis tests.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

EDUCBA Career Certificate

Analyze & Apply Generative AI for Research & Finance

34 ratings at Coursera

Apply generative AI to FinTech use cases, R&D workflows, and coaching scenarios using ChatGPT and research AI platforms, alongside Agile and Scrum business practices.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

American Psychological Association

Observational Methods and Qualitative Data Analysis

28 ratings at Coursera

Learn to conduct ethnographic inquiry and case study research through participant observation, then analyze the data with initial, focused, and axial coding and the constant comparative method.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course