Kent's Q-Step Centre

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Student, Charlotte Louette

“A fantastic opportunity to develop your skills”

Charlotte Louette, BA (Hons) in Criminology with Quantitative Research

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Why data skills?

What is the Q-Step programme and why are data skills so important?

Q-Step degrees

Social science degrees that have Q-Step data skills as part of their study programme.

Convert to Q-Step

If you’re a first or second year student at Kent, here’s how to convert to a Q-Step degree.

Work placements

Put your quantitative skills into practice in a selected professional environment.

Graduate prospects

In the UK, there is a serious shortage of data-savvy graduates. If you can analyse and communicate using data, it opens up many areas of work in business, government and the third sector.

Student, Alejandro Javierre

“It opens up a whole new area of careers”

Alejandro Javierre, BA (Hons) Criminology with Quantitative Research

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Our academic staff

Our Q-Step Centre includes academic staff from across the social sciences.

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All the latest news and events, including our popular pubTalk series.

Contact us

We're here to answer your queries: here's how to get in touch with the Q-Step Centre.

Visit us

Thinking of studying one of the social sciences at Kent? Here's how to visit the University.

OUR RESEARCH EXPERTISE

You learn skills and techniques from influential academics whose own groundbreaking work includes the expert use of quantitive research.
Dr Tina Haux delivering a lecture

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