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Prompt course · 9 lessons · 25 prompts · 1 hour · Beginner

AI for Social Scientists

This prompt course walks social scientists through research design, literature, surveys, interviews, analysis, writing, presenting, and ethics paperwork. Each lesson gives you prompts to adapt, with room for your own judgment and care.

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What you'll learn

  • Research Design Basics: Turn a rough interest into a workable study plan with help on the question, method, and sampling.
  • Literature And Theory: Get oriented in an unfamiliar literature and assemble a framework section without drowning in PDFs.
  • Survey And Instrument Design: Write better survey items faster and get a bias check on your wording before you field the instrument.
  • Interview Preparation: Build interview guides, rehearse probing, and write recruitment and consent text people understand.
  • Qualitative Analysis: Speed up coding and theme building while keeping your own interpretive judgment in charge.
  • Quantitative Analysis: Get help reading statistical output, checking test choices, and explaining methods to non-specialists.
  • Writing And Paperwork: Move from results to a submittable manuscript and handle grants and ethics forms faster.
  • Presenting Findings: Translate results into a talk, a policy brief, or a plain-language summary for non-researchers.

What's inside

9 lessons · 25 prompts
  1. Before you start · framework course RACE Prompt Framework: Role, Action, Context, ExpectationAs a social scientist, RACE fits your interview analysis for a policy brief because it defines role, action, context, and expected quality.
  2. Start here Nadia's Wednesday, Two WaysA day in the life of a Social Scientist, before and after these prompts.
  3. 01 Lesson 1 · 3 prompts Research Design Basics
  4. 02 Lesson 2 · 3 prompts Literature And Theory
  5. 03 Lesson 3 · 3 prompts Survey And Instrument Design
  6. 04 Lesson 4 · 3 prompts Interview Preparation
  7. 05 Lesson 5 · 3 prompts Qualitative Analysis
  8. 06 Lesson 6 · 3 prompts Quantitative Analysis
  9. 07 Lesson 7 · 3 prompts Writing Papers And Reports
  10. 08 Lesson 8 · 2 prompts Presenting Findings
  11. 09 Lesson 9 · 2 prompts Grants And Ethics Paperwork

About this course

7 topics

A Prompt Course for Social Scientists

Social scientists handle many kinds of writing and analysis in one week. A good prompt can turn a blank page into a useful draft while you stay in charge of the thinking.

This course gives you a set of prompts for each stage of a study, from the first research question to the final presentation. You can use them in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or a similar tool.

  1. The lessons
    1. Research Design Basics: Turn a rough interest into a workable study plan by having AI help you sharpen the question, pick a method, and spot sampling problems early.
    2. Literature And Theory: Get oriented in an unfamiliar literature, compare theoretical explanations, and assemble a framework section without drowning in PDFs.
    3. Survey And Instrument Design: Write better survey items faster and get a bias check on your wording before you spend money fielding the instrument.
    4. Interview Preparation: Build interview guides, rehearse your probing technique, and write recruitment and consent text that participants actually understand.
    5. Qualitative Analysis: Speed up the mechanical parts of coding and theme-building while keeping your own interpretive judgment in charge.
    6. Quantitative Analysis: Get help reading your statistical output, sanity-checking your test choices, and explaining your methods to non-specialists.
    7. Writing Papers And Reports: Move from finished results to a submittable manuscript and handle the revision process without losing a week to formatting.
    8. Presenting Findings: Translate your results into a talk, a policy brief, or a plain-language summary for audiences who will not read the paper.
    9. Grants And Ethics Paperwork: Get the administrative writing done faster so you can spend your time on the research itself.
  2. What This Course Covers

    The course follows the arc of a study. You start with research design, then move through literature, surveys, interviews, qualitative and quantitative analysis, writing, presenting, and grants and ethics paperwork.

    Each lesson gives you prompts to copy, adapt, and save for your own projects.

  3. How The Lessons Connect

    The lessons are ordered the way a project usually unfolds. A stronger research question leads to better instruments, cleaner analysis, and clearer writing.

    You can jump to the lesson you need today, but the sequence works well if you are starting a new study.

  4. Using Prompts Well

    Treat a prompt as a first draft, not a final answer. Give the AI context about your population, method, and constraints, then ask it to show its assumptions.

    Check names, numbers, citations, and claims before you use anything. Keep your own interpretive judgment in charge.

  5. Who This Course Is For

    This course is for social scientists who write, analyze, and present for a living. It fits graduate students, policy researchers, program evaluators, and academics who want practical help without technical jargon.

    You do not need prior AI experience.

  6. Safety And Privacy

    Research data can be sensitive. The course covers what not to paste into an AI tool, how to de-identify examples, and when to check with your ethics board or institution.

    It also covers bias, consent language, and the limits of AI in analysis.

  7. Your Next Step

    Start with the research design lesson and one real project. Use the prompt, edit the output, and note what worked.

    Then continue through the lessons that match your current tasks. The goal is a habit, not a single trick.