The Q-Step Network

The 15 Q-Step Centres across the UK work closely together hosting events, sharing innovative techniques and good practice.

Listed below are the Q-Step Centres in other Universities:

• University of Bristol
• Cardiff University
• City University London
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Exeter
• University of Glasgow
• University of Kent
• University of Leeds
• University of Manchester
• University of Oxford
• Queen’s University Belfast
• University of Sheffield
• University College London
• University of Warwick

Our Funders

The development of Q-Step emerged from a ‘strategic response’ to counter the deficit of quantitatively skilled social science graduates.

The £19.5m invested in the Q-Step programme aims to make a ‘step-change’ in ensuring that graduates leave higher education quantitatively skilled and able to respond to the needs and demands of contemporary social life and the UK economy.  One of the largest funding partnerships of recent times, the Nuffield Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Higher Education Funding Council for England came together to funded 15 UK universities to establish the Q-Step Centres.

For more information about our funders and their objectives in developing the Q-Step programme, follow the links below: 

• Nuffield Foundation
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
• Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)