Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences - Tenth Annual Conference

This conference will include keynote and invited presentations from national and international speakers and contributed presentations on all aspects of randomised trials in the social sciences. The conference will be an opportunity for delegates to share expertise, interests, and concerns about conducting trials in all fields of social sciences.

The conference will be followed by a workshop (11th September) on trial designs and the implementation of these within a social science setting, run by Hannah Ainsworth, David Torgerson and Ben Styles. David will cover cluster randomisation, stepped wedge, split plot, randomisation combined with regression discontinuity. Hannah will look at the challenges of recruiting participants (schools and students) into educational trials and describe what recruitment strategies do and what don't work. Ben will also be discussing sample size requirements and calculations for randomised trials.

Visit www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/research/trials/rct2015/.