Agentic Coding for Survey Research

Training

05 Nov 01:00 PM

Until 19 Nov, 05:00 PM 14d 4h

Online

Organiser

NCRM

Date & time

Thur 5, 12 & 19 Nov 2026, 13:00–17:00

Format

Online

Booking deadline

Weds 4 November 2026

Overview

This online course (3 afternoons across 3 weeks) looks at using AI agents to improve survey research workflows while preserving privacy, reproducibility, review discipline, and institutional data-governance boundaries. The course adapts agentic coding methods to the survey-research lifecycle: designing survey instruments, analysing survey data, documenting metadata and derived variables, checking outputs, and preparing reproducible or release-ready packages. Participants work hands-on with Cursor, GitHub, and role-specific repository workflows, producing auditable artifacts they can reuse in their own organisations.

Outcomes

Participants will:

✓ Set-up a practical agentic workflow using Cursor, GitHub, and a role-specific repository structure

✓ Use issues, branches, pull requests, review logs, and acceptance criteria to make survey workflow tasks auditable

✓ Apply restricted-data decision rules for cloud AI, local models, metadata-only work, synthetic data, and TRE/sandboxed environments

✓ Configure project guardrails with rules, AGENTS.md, .cursorignore, .gitignore, and documented data-use boundaries

✓ Turn a survey workflow into a spec-driven plan with a safe input map, role-specific deliverables, and verification checks

✓ Build or adapt reusable skills and subagents for survey-specific work such as measure mapping, questionnaire review, metadata checks, derived-variable checks, disclosure risk review, and user-guide review

✓ Package a reviewed output for their role track: reproducible analysis, questionnaire/specification worklow, or data-release documentation

Contributors

Dr Antonio Mele

Associate Professor of Economics (Education), LSE

Expertise in Macroeconomics, Computational Methods, Monetary Economics, Dynamic Contracts

Eligibility & booking

This event is organised and hosted by NCRM and is open to all ESRC DTPs, including SCDTP students. It will take place online.

Bookings close Wednesday 4th November 2026. Please use your institutional (.ac.uk) email address when booking.

View full details & book on the NCRM site →

EXTERNAL Training

This training is organised by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), not SCDTP. It is open to SCDTP students.

Agentic Coding for Survey Research