Researcher Development Initiative (RDI), 2005 - 2010

The Researcher Development Initiative (RDI) supported the training and development of researchers in the social sciences at all stages of their career. RDI was established by the ESRC’s Training and Development Board to contribute to the development of a robust national training infrastructure, which was intended to develop research training in a systematic way. RDI programme was coordinated by Professor Mike Wallace from Cardiff University.

RDI projects were funded in four rounds during 2005-2012. Projects included events, training and development of new web resources for training. Some of the RDI web resources are maintained by ReStore project at NCRM and may be accessed directly by clicking on the icons below.

Round 1 projects (2005)	Round 2 projects (2006)
Training Researchers to Engage with Policy and Practice (TREPP)	Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation Interdisciplinary Masterclass
Training in Pragmatic Social Interventions: Problems, Promises and Protocols	Training Researchers in Online Research Methods (TRI-ORM)
Provision of Teaching Datasets and Workshops for Lecturers based on British Cohort Studies	Sociolinguistic Ethnography in a Changing Society
Live Sociology: Practising Social Research with New Media	Advanced Research Training for Scottish Postgraduate Human Geographers (Kindrogan Consortium)
Master Classes, Training Courses and Symposia in Microdata Methods and Practice	Increasing the Competence and Confidence of Social Work Researchers: Building Research Capacity in Social Work
Linking International Macro and Micro Data	Writing Across Boundaries: Explorations in Research, Writing and Rhetoric in Qualitative Research
Tools and Training for Analysis of Multilevel Data with Missing Observations	The Royal Economic Society Easter School
Geo-Refer: Georeferencing Resources for Social Scientists	Scottish Programme of Advanced Training in Social Anthropology
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection	SRA Development Programme for Advanced Training for Mid-Career and Senior Social Research Practitioners
Qualitative Data Analysis Skills for Social Researchers	Building and Strengthening Management Research Capacity in the North: The Northern Way Initiative
Longitudinal Data Analysis for Social Science Researchers	Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics PhD Training Sequence
Building Management Research Capacity: Training Researchers as Trainers	Scottish Social Survey Network
Advanced Postgraduate Training in Finance	Building Capacity in Visual Methods
Building Management Research Capacity: Developing Researchers Through the Life Course	Training Researchers on Ethics and Ethical Practice in Social Science Research
Managing Research Projects: Supporting Researchers in Collaborative Project Management	Residential Training Course for Postgraduate Students
	British Educational Research Association (BERA) Residential Summer School 2007

Round 3 projects (2007)	Round 4 projects (2010)
Strategic Expansion of Management Research Capacity: Managing the Training of Researchers as Trainers	Researching Multilingualism, Multilingualism in Research Practice
Training in the Quantitative Synthesis of Intervention Research Findings in Education and the Social Sciences	Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative II (NARTI II)
Increasing the Competence and Confidence of Social Work Researchers II: An Action-Learning Programme to Develop Research Capacity	Advancing Visual Methodologies in Business and Management
Building Research Capacity in Empirical Socio-Legal Research	Building Capacity for Business Engagement with Impact
A Multilevel Approach to Meta-Analysis for the Social Sciences	Interdisciplinary Residential Training Course for Postgraduates in Economic and Social History
Geo-Refer 2: Meeting Community-Specific Research Needs in Geographical Referencing	Applied Psychometrics II: Advancing Quantitative Methods in Psychological Assessment using freeware (R), Mplus and Stata
Developing Methods Repertoires: Advanced Quantitative Methods Training in the Midlands	International Social Research Training
Training the Trainers to Develop and Enhance Research Capacity in Counselling and Psychotherapy	Enhancing Expert Thinking and Problem-Solving: the Development of Insight and Perspective in Theory and Practice
Building Management Research Capacity: Developing Researchers Through the Life Course and Creating a Coordinating Infrastructure	Advanced Research Training in Finance
Building Capacity in Complex Systems and Complexity Theory	The Royal Economic Society Easter and Autumn Schools
The Ethics 'Guidebook': an Online Training Resource and Practical Guide to Ethics Processes and Procedures for Social Research	Further Development of Research Skills of Mid-Career Social Work Academics: Supportive Learning Sets, Mixed Methodologies and Research Placements
Researcher Development Initiative in Applied Psychometrics	Training in Latent Variable Modelling Based on Archived Social Science Datasets in Northern Ireland
	Data Management and Sharing for Researchers Training Programme

Researcher Development Initiative (RDI), 2005 - 2010

Round 1 projects (2005)

Round 2 projects (2006)

Round 3 projects (2007)

Round 4 projects (2010)