Rabia Butt and Klara Valentova are our Q-Step interns from the University of Manchester. Q-Step is a £19.5 million programme designed to promote a step-change in quantitative social science training, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the ESRC. We asked Rabia and Klara to tell us a bit about themselves and their journey to this internship.
Klara
I am one of a small cohort of students taking a degree morocco rcs data pathway ‘Sociology and Quantitative Methods’ at the University of Manchester.
I have been very enthusiastic about data analysis since the year 2014 when I completed a study exchange programme in the USA. I attended a local high school in Georgia and took a module called AP Statistics. I really enjoyed it, and decided I would like to study statistics even further. This, together with my interest in sociology and especially social inequalities, have led me to study Sociology and Quantitative Methods at the University of Manchester.
In my second year of University, I chose a module about data modelling. I have learned how to use R and developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills, but wanted to enhance these to a professional level. I have been very interested in working with the Census data, and in learning more about deprivation while improving my data skills. Thus, I am very lucky to have been given the opportunity to work at the UK Data Service on calculating Carstairs Deprivation Scores for the UK.