Self-paced online courses
Practical online courses for researchers and research professionals, covering skills across research, evaluation, engagement and teaching.
How self-paced works
All modules are available from the start, with no live sessions or fixed weekly timetable. Your progress is saved, so you can stop and return whenever you need to.
STEP 1
Once your enrolment is confirmed, you decide when to begin and how quickly to work through the course.
STEP 2
Follow instructional videos, examples, readings and activities at a pace that fits around your other work.
STEP 3
Use exercises and templates to apply what you are learning to your own research, project or professional context.
STEP 4
Depending on the course, you will develop or improve something you can use in your work, such as a plan, set of questions or evaluation approach.
The catalogue
Our catalogue covers research, evaluation, engagement and teaching, with each course focused on skills you can apply directly to your work.
Learn how to get your evidence in front of policy audiences and assess what changes as a result.
For researchers with policy-relevant findings and the research or impact staff who support them. Open to any level of experience.
Design an evaluation that answers the question you actually need to answer.
For researchers who need to assess what is working and why
Write survey questions that produce data you can actually use.
For researchers planning a survey for research, evaluation or engagement.
Analyse qualitative evidence in a way that stands up to scrutiny.
For researchers working with interviews, workshops and open-text responses.
Choose and use quantitative methods that fit your evaluation needs.
For researchers who need numbers to carry weight
Build a theory of change your partners recognise and your funder accepts.
For researchers developing proposals, planning projects or setting up an evaluation.
Plan and teach in ways that help people understand and apply what they learn.
For anyone who teaches research methods, trains researchers or supervises students.
Practical, evidence-based training
Built from published research and established methods.
Developed by active researchers who use these methods in their own work.
Designed around the type of tasks researchers and research teams actually face.
Shaped by our work with universities, funders, industry and policy organisations.
For institutions
Institutions can purchase access for researchers and staff through their usual procurement processes.
You will have access to your course for six months. If you need more time, you can renew your access. Renewal is not automatic.
Yes. Once you have completed the full course, you will automatically receive a certificate of completion.
Yes, and there is no surcharge for it. Choose invoice at checkout, or get in touch first if procurement needs a document before raising the order.
The Impact Training Programme is a free introductory course covering the foundations of research impact. Self-paced courses focus on specific skills in greater depth, with more examples and practical activities to help you apply what you learn.
Yes. Our self-paced courses are designed to be accessible. Video is captioned, materials are provided in formats that work with screen readers, and the site is keyboard navigable to WCAG AA. If you have specific accessibility requirements, please contact us and we will be happy to discuss them with you.
