Dan Joinson had this to say about his experience:
‘This was a training course run by the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), who are a research group with the purpose of designing methods and tools to use online devices and platforms for research. The training course was attending by a range of participants, including international PhD candidates, new media postgraduate students and journalists. The course involved several 
keynote speeches from digital methods researchers, and tutorials highlighting the use of several of the methods that the Initiative has developed. The main portion of the course was spent participating in a group project, alongside a digital methods academic. My project comprised of both PhD and Masters students, and was focused on exploring the communication of science information and misinformation around three areas of debate (monkeypox, low traffic neighbourhoods, genetically modified organisms). This involved harvesting content from both
Tik Tok and Twitter, and performing data and network analysis on the themes emerging in this content.
The course ended with a poster event, in which our project was presented to digital methods academics and other participants. The poster will also be posted on the DMI website, alongside a video presentation I produced, explaining it. We were also required to write a report providing more details on our methodology and results. There is an opportunity for me to be credited on future publications stemming from this project. Furthermore, the aim is to present this work to the relevant British Research Council organisation.
This course provided me with the opportunity to learn new digital methods skills, which will help with future analysis I perform in my PhD project. Furthermore, I developed skills in highly interdisciplinary group work.’