The Q-Step Centre offers 'with Data Analytics' pathways on Sociology and Criminology degrees at City St George's.
Based in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, the Q-Step Centre offers a Data Analytics pathway for students who want to receive specialist data analytics training as part of their degree.
Stand out in the job market
Data literacy and number skills are highly sought after in sectors as diverse as the government and local government, education, market research organisations, the not-for-profit sector, the financial sector, HR and the news media.
The UK has a shortage of social science graduates with the quantitative skills needed to evaluate evidence, analyse data, and design and commission research.
How does it work?
You will enrol on one of the following undergraduate programmes:
Courses
When you transfer your degree at the end of year 1 it is renamed to a ‘with Data Analytics’ degree, e.g. BSc Sociology with Data Analytics.
In the second and third year you take some core data analytics modules alongside your substantive degree modules, and your third year dissertation will have a significant data analytics component, such as a survey or secondary data analysis. You still take the same number of modules as students not taking the pathway.
You will also undertake a graded research placement and will have the opportunity to apply for an international placement in the summer between your second and third years of study.
Placement
The year two placement module gives students the opportunity to apply their data analytics skills in the real world. The placement is an accredited module and part of your degree course.
You will do ‘data analytics work’ on the placement which could involve producing, analysing or reporting quantitative data or statistics.
Some of the organisations involved in hosting our students have included:
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About the Q-Step programme
Q-Step is a national programme aimed at achieving step-changes in undergraduate social science data analytics training in the UK.
Q-step is motivated by the UK’s shortage of social science graduates with quantitative skills. City St George's is one of seventeen Q-step Centres located in different universities across the UK.
The objective of these centres is to support the development and delivery of specialist undergraduate quantitative programmes, through the development of new courses, work experience opportunities and pathways to postgraduate study.
City St George's Q-Step co-Directors
Centre Members
- Professor Rachel Cohen, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Head of Department
- Professor Jason Dykes, Professor of Visualisation
- Dr Vanessa Gash, Reader in Sociology
- Professor Katrin Hohl, Reader in Criminology
- Nhlanhla Ndebele, Q-Step Teaching Fellow.