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Courses 2021
Social Science Switch
top course online courseThis online course enables students trained in the natural or medical sciences to switch to a social science mode of thinking, theorizing, reading and writing. Due to a number of i...
Courses 2022
Global London: Contemporary Urbanism, Culture and Space
top courseThis course will use London to explore how contemporary cities are being theorized, experienced and understood. Consideration will be given to how cities are conceptualised in and...
Politics, Identities, and Inequalities
top course online courseRecently, matters of identity and politics have become more and more entangled: when the personal and the political intertwine, inequalities emerge that point precisely to the ways...
Research-creation: merging the critical and the creative
online courseThis course invites students to rethink and re-evaluate the standard methods of thinking, knowing, and doing within academia. We will highlight artistic practise as a path to resea...
Advanced Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society
top courseDuring this four-week advanced programme, participants will build on their existing knowledge of sexuality as it is contextualized by issues of ethnicity, nationality, class, and r...
Machine-Learning for the Social & Behavioural Sciences
top courseHow can we understand how societies become polarized using Twitter data? How might we extract emotion dynamics from individual time series data? In order to answer research questio...
Understanding and Countering Radicalisation and Terrorism
top courseThis module will provide an introduction to the phenomena of radicalisation and terrorism; including key definitions, causal accounts, empirical trends, past and present manifestat...
Intercultural Competence
top courseDo you want to help others develop their intercultural competence? “How can we develop in ourselves and others the necessary mastery and concomitant humility required to be effe...
Rare Diseases
The 8th Rare Diseases Summer School will focus on a wide variety of subjects in the arena of rare diseases, from disease mechanisms and animal models, to improving diagnoses, to no...
Creative Psychotherapy
The course introduces Creative Psychotherapy to those seeking a deeper understanding of the dynamics of creativity, psyche and human behaviour. During this course students will lea...
Key Topics in Urban Studies
top course online courseThis online winter course can be completed at your own pace, and will introduce you to the field of Urban Studies through a series of pre-recorded lectures by our team of experts....
The Circular City: Towards a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem
top courseDue to their environmental impact, cities play a crucial role in the transition towards sustainable societies. Despite the fact that they occupy only 3% of the global terrestrial s...
How the Brain Works and What Can Go Wrong
top courseThe brain is an amazing object which controls human lives – it is a complex inter- connection of neurons which store our memories and knowledge and has a complex brain chemistry....
Understanding and Preventing Crime
top courseThis module introduces students to the study of crime and its prevention. It begins by considering the challenges with how we define and measure crime, and the implications thes...
Unravelling Sociological Theory
online course»Discourse«, »network«, »co-operative action« or »post-ideology« are terms students of sociology and social sciences frequently find themselves confronted with nowadays. Terms that...
The Art and Science of Connecting: Interpersonal Neuroscience in Dance, Music, and Cinema
top course online courseThis online course aims to provide students with knowledge into the state-of-the-art in interpersonal neuroscience, basic research skills and tools for developing applications of i...
Bootcamp: Ethnography and Design
top course online courseAre you familiar with ethnographic research and curious about how you can turn your insights into action and pitch your research to an interested organisation? Are you interested i...
Mindfulness and Compassion-based Interventions
top courseAs our world becomes busier and more interconnected, people's lives take different trajectories towards new futures. This socio-cultural shift also affects our well being. But has...
Gamification/Design of Serious Games
online courseSerious games and gamification are different things – serious games are designed to achieve some serious goal, gamification is the use of game elements in a non-game context and no...
Cybersecurity Risk Management
top courseThis module introduces the students to the aspects of how risk management methods are applied to improve cyber security. Firstly, it provides an overview of threats from cybercrime...
Gender Studies Winter School
online courseStudy in London this winter! Spend an amazing week learning about gender across different disciplines – literature and culture, philosophy and sociology, media and communication...
Narrative Studies Winter School
online courseThe winter school will cover the key concepts and ideas of narrative theory and will offer an opportunity of creative engagement in storytelling and narrative interpretation. While...
Planning the Cycling City
top courseThis graduate level programme unravels urban cycling from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective. We draw on historical and current events and thinking and engage with top Du...
Ethics in a Global Context
The Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE under the patronage of UNESCO, 9 - 14 June 2022 The application periode lasts from 15 September until 30 November...
Exploring (Non)Racial Amsterdam
top courseWithin the past year, protest movements like BlackLivesMatter have made racial injustice and institutional racism focal points for broad societal discussions. But racialized otheri...
Digital Innovation for Civic Engagement Projects
online courseDigital Innovation for Civic Engagement Projects is a programme for digital transformation in communities and civic initiatives in order to involve more people into the discussion...
Climate Change and Sustainability in Practice
top courseThere are more than 750 million people living on islands, from the densely populated urban centres of the Philippines and Hawaii’s to the atolls and archipelagos of the Caribbean,...
Industrial Applications: Modelling Aircraft Icing
top courseThis module is in the interdisciplinary field of icing in relation to aircraft. Ultimately, this course will draw from mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering to provide st...
Comprehensive Introduction to Research Methodology and Design
top course online courseThis course aims to lay a solid, diverse and integrated foundation for conducting first-rate qualitative and quantitative research, and for embedding it in effective and feasible m...
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Courses 2021
Oral History Workshop
online courseThe workshop is designed for students, young scholars independent researchers and history, culture and tradition enthusiasts who would like to improve their academic skills, introd...
Ethics of Safety and Well-Being in Nordic Society
The course provides students with focused expert presentations on some ethical issues in Nordic society. The topics covered in the course include military ethics, ethics of educati...
Data Driven Decision Making and Change Management in Organisations
online courseThis course is designed to introduce knowledge management and strategic planning concepts into an organizational change context and to provide an in-depth focus on data-driven deci...
Feminist Movements, Practices and Experiences of Decolonisation
In case that an on-campus Summer School is not possible due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this module will take place online. The political debate about the restitution of objects r...
Introduction to Data Science with R and Rstudio for the Social Sciences
Understanding patterns in data is crucial for understanding human societies and making sound decisions. Learn R and Rstudio to become a modern data scientist in the social sciences...
Transsectoral DigitalLab: (Dis-)Assembling the (Post-)Digital Social
online courseViadrinicum is an annual summer school devoted to the countries of the Eastern Partnership, and the larger context of Central and Eastern Europe. This year‘s edition is designed as...
Urbanism on Screen Workshop
online courseCinema has had its focus set on the city ever since the former's inception. Twentieth century witnessed probably the most radical transformation of urban form, and it was film that...
Sea, Nature and Finnish Culture
The student will get the basic knowledge of the long-term relationship between human and non-human nature in Finnish society and culture. Thus, the course will grant knowledge o...
Introduction to R/RStudio for Social Scientist
online courseAs quantitative data becomes more accessible, researchers are turning to software that can do more and is free to access. The first part of the course will walk you through the...
Talk at Work
online courseThis course in applied conversation analysis introduces students to the rules of talk-in-interaction and explores how these rules are used in professional settings. In the first pa...
First steps in the elaboration of a dynamic microsimulation model
online courseThe ONLINE Summer School on the 'Elaboration of a dynamic microsimulation model' aims at offering young researchers (MSc, PhD) or more advanced scientists yet beginners in dynamic...
Responsible Research
Summer School on Responsible Research (RR) is designed to provide you with knowledge and skills needed for responsible conduct of research, regardless of your research background....
Social Network Analysis
online courseThis workshop examines the theoretical and statistical analysis of social networks from an interdisciplinary perspective. Participants learn about the nature, structures, and dynam...
Collecting and Analyzing Longitudinal Social Network Data
online courseSocial scientists often are interested in understanding how social networks emerge and/or how they shape individual behavior. These questions of network formation (“selection”) and...
Arts, Activism and Social Justice
Are you a future community leader with a passion for social justice and activism? Do you want to learn from activists and change-makers working in the UK’s thriving arts and volunt...
Experimental Methods & Simulations in Social and Cognitive Sciences
blended courseThe Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics housed at the St. Petersburg campus of the Higher School of Economics will host an international summer school in experimental m...
Multilevel Analysis
In case that due to the Covid-19 pandemic an on-campus summerschool is not possible, this module will take place online. Sociological research often deals with the question of h...
Social Science Education in Globalization
online courseThis unique summer school in France and the French-speaking world explores epistemological, historical and educational reflections that integrate the consequences of postcolonial a...
Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
online courseThe objective of this course is to show how structural equation modeling can be used to develop and/or test both measurement models (scales) and causal theories between latent vari...
Designing, Implementing, and Analyzing Longitudinal Surveys
online courseThe course will provide an overview of those aspects of survey design, implementation, and analysis that are unique to longitudinal surveys or that have distinct features in the lo...
Gender in Academia and the Professions
online courseThis is a theoretically and empirically based lecture course on the social construction of gender within the labor markets of academia and other professions. We start out study wit...
Cultures of Dissent in Eastern Europe (1945-1989): Research Approaches in the Digital Humanities
online courseThis 6-week online course in digital humanities research methods from early January through mid-February 2021 aims to develop a strong cohort of scholars of East European cultures...
Perfecting your Academic Writing Skills
Although writing is one of the most essential skills for a PhD student, many are not the productive super writers they would like to be. During this one week course, experienced wr...
Survey Sampling and Weighting
online courseThis practical course will cover the process of probability sampling, weighting and estimation. This includes a) methods of sample selection, b) methods of weighting including desi...
The Norwegian Welfare State
online courseThis course presents the historical background, development and present-day challenges of the Norwegian welfare state. It examines the role of values and norms in shaping the servi...
Multimodal Interaction in Professional Contexts
online courseThe course is directed towards people whose profession entails encountering people from varied backgrounds, and who, therefore, need wide-ranging interaction skills. During the...
Ethics and Politics of Care
online courseThis course will examine the ethics and politics of care. We will not begin with the presumption that care is a self-evident good. Nor is our goal to posit a definitive theory of c...
EUtopia 2021-27? Visions and Missions of Europe
online courseThis intensive but enjoyable online summer program will focus on the forthcoming 2021-27 period of the European Union and will discuss hot topics such as the global pandemic and th...
Pretesting Survey Questions
online courseThe course covers the basic elements of evaluating questionnaires and highlights the general importance of carrying out (cognitive) pretests before fielding a questionnaire. This i...
International Development Studies
online courseThe course provides a multidisciplinary analysis of global poverty and of development on global, national and local levels. A thematic approach is applied. Country comparisons are...
On Caring Coexistences
As members of the feminist art collective Maternal Fantasies the lecturers propose the ‘aesthetics of care’ as the basis for inter-species coexistence. The workshop explores aut...
Feminist Peace and Security Studies: The Gendered Continuum of Peace-War
online courseThis course focuses on the adjacent fields of Feminist Peace Studies and Feminist Security Studies, which explore issues of peace/ war/ conflict/ security from a variety of feminis...
Global Citizenship Education
UNESCO defines global citizenship as a “sense of belonging to a broader community and common humanity”. Global citizenship education, in this context, concerns learning to recogniz...
Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling
The primary objective of this course is to provide participants with a proper understanding and the practical skills necessary for applying advanced techniques in structural equati...
The Science of Sexology
If something has changed in the digital and pandemic era, it is undoubtedly the way we experience sex. Our summer course given by the Unidad de Estudios Sexológicos of the Universi...
SPSS and Statistics Refresher
online courseYou should attend this workshop if you have no or not much skills with basic statistics and statistical packages, especially if you attend another workshop during the Summer School...
Managing Language in International Organizations
online courseThe specific aim of this course is to enable students acquire knowledge of the role of language in various management activities in international organizations. This is achieved in...
Innovative strategies to study education and care in a European perspective
online coursePublic services, including education and care, account for a very large share of social expenditure throughout Europe, and have an important impact on inequality, poverty and the q...
Applied Regression
online courseThe purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with basic regression methods, including linear regression, logistic regression, and Poisson regression. The course assumes kn...
Developing Research Skills Workshop
online courseThe workshop is designed for students, young scholars and independent researchers who would like to improve their academic research skills in order to succeed in studies and in car...
Expert meeting on nowcasting and mid-term projections through microsimulation models
online courseThe Expert meeting on nowcasting and mid-term projections through microsimulation models will explore best practices to update the input data of microsimulation models, with the ai...
How Democracies Emerge and Survive
online courseThis course introduces the academic study of how democracies emerge, sustain, and break down. Following the optimism of the so-called third wave in the 1980s and 1990s, democracy i...
Time: Human Views on the Progress of Existence
online courseThe goal of this course is to introduce biology students to the mathematical modeling of living processes from a systems perspective. According to this perspective, biological proc...
Causal Inference in Observational Studies
online courseThere is a growing expectation from governmental, and non-governmental organisations for social scientists to produce research which are capable of assessing the impact of certain...
Between Cradles and Barricades: Feminist Methodology and Artistic Research Methods
blended courseWhether one agrees that feminist art is a stage in art history, a movement, a discourse or a complete shift in ways of doing things it is clear that it embraces a different way of...
Introduction to Machine Learning
online courseMachine learning methods involve methods that deal with multivariate data, learning hidden structures and prediction. In particular within prediction methods, classification is a s...
Acquisition of Intercultural Skills in and through Dance/Movement
In the course of increasing migration movements, the importance of intercultural competence acquisition is increasingly coming to the fore. It is therefore all the more important t...
Birth and Death of Democracy?
online courseHistory has taught us that governments are fluid, able to move between dictatorships, autocracies, democracies and monarchies. This course uses the Central-European path to democra...
Behavioral Data Analysis in R
online courseBehavioral Data Analysis in R is one of the courses of the CEBEX Summer School on Behavioral Sciences 2021. You can attend face-to-face in Prague or online. The course takes place...
Life course analysis: data and methodological challenges
online courseThe data forum on Life course analysis: data and methodological challenges aims to bring together experts in life course analysis to discuss data and methodological issues. The dat...
Survey Analysis and Missing data in R
online courseRepresentative sample surveys are key to social science whether for employment numbers or studying attitudes towards the environment. To achieve representativeness we need to con...
Crash Course in R
online courseCrash Course in R is one of the courses of the CEBEX Summer School on Behavioral Sciences 2021. You can attend face-to-face in Prague or online. The course takes place on 6 and 7 A...
Statistical Analysis of Incomplete Data
online courseThis course provides an introduction to the theory and application of Multiple Imputation (MI) (Rubin 1987) which has become a very popular way for handling missing data, because i...
Migrants, Human Rights, Democracy
The Summer School, organized by the Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement - University of Palermo, continues the conversation on “displaced lives and vul...
Social Media Theory and Research
Understanding social media in everyday life in political communication on social media, the news on social media to entertainment of social media. Social media (such as Twitter...
Causal Machine Learning
online courseParticipants of this course will learn and apply recent Causal Machine Learning methods to analyse effects of either experimental or observational interventions. Causal Machine Lea...
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Research Design and Application
This workshop gives a thorough introduction to the method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), with an emphasis on research design and practical application. Since its incept...
Using Directed Acyclic Graphs for Causal & Statistical Inference
online courseThis courses uses causal graphs (or “directed acyclic graphs”) as a remarkably simple, yet general and powerful framework to describe & discuss a large set of problems that empiric...
(Non-)Probability Samples in the Social Sciences
online courseThe main objective of the course is to provide students with a full overview of the history, theoretical foundations, critical arguments, and accumulated empirical evidence surroun...
Cultural Trauma and National Identity in Greece and Israel
online courseThe summer school explores the ways cultural trauma(s) have shaped, and continue to effect national identity in Greece and Israel. It explores the ways such cultural traumas have s...
Latent Class & Factor Analysis
This course contains an introduction to factor analysis and latent class analysis. Both analytical techniques allow detecting concepts or groups in your data that are not directly...
Data Management for Sensitive Data in the Era of Open Science
In the era of Open Science, researchers are increasingly required to share their research data. Not only do funders require data management plans (DMPs) to be submitted along with...
Latin America in the New Global Resource Politics
online courseThis digital course consists of lectures and seminars during the first week of the summer session, with a take home exam the following week. In this course you will learn about Lat...
The Anthropocene in the Humanities
In case that an on-campus Summer School is not possible due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this module will take place online. The notion that the current geological epoch should be...
Bayesian Statistics
online courseBayesian data analysis is a rapidly developing field of statistics, which has many useful applications in various areas of political science, sociology, and international relations...
Gender Studies Winter School
blended courseStudy in London this winter! Spend an amazing week learning about gender across different disciplines – literature and culture, philosophy and sociology, media and communication...
Design and Implementation of Web Surveys
online courseThis course introduces students to the design and implementation of online survey data collection instruments. The course is both hands-on and conceptual. It begins by discussing w...
Birth and Death of Democracy?
The program provides a broad understanding of state transformation issues in general and from the practical experience of the Czech Republic and its Central European neighbours dra...
Contemporary Economic Sociology
online courseThe aim of the course is to demonstrate what kind of theoretical and empirical phenomena economic sociologists are dealing with. The contemporary themes include sustainable consump...
Youth, Drugs and Alcohol - Social Science Approaches
online courseIn many countries, alcohol and other drug use is widespread, particularly among young people. These substances are used as part of various social activities, on weekends in bars, n...
Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries
online courseThe course gives an introduction to the Nordic context and an overview of how the concept and implementation of gender equality has developed and is currently practiced in the Nord...
The Identification and Monitoring of Vulnerable Groups in the Labour Market
online courseThe European Union describes vulnerable groups as those that experience a higher risk of poverty and social exclusion than the general population. These groups include, for instanc...
Population Health and Well-Being Consequences of Demographic Changes
online courseHealth and well-being consequences of demographic change are key challenges for research and innovation as they concern citizens’ health and have enormous economic implications and...
Power starts with bioeconomy: from principles to practice
online courseBioeconomy has a great potential to reduce the impact of climate change and contribute to sustainable development goals. Bioeconomy sector focuses on the sustainable use of biologi...
Introduction to R for Data Analysis
online courseThe open source software package R is free of charge and offers standard data analysis procedures as well as a comprehensive repertoire of highly specialized processes and procedur...
Gamification Workshop
online courseGamification is a process that helps you create interesting, interactive and fun content from the mundane by adding game-inspired elements. The best part about gamification is that...
Children at the Heart of Human Rights
online courseGeneva has long been one of the world’s capitals of international law and the headquarters of international institutions dedicated to human rights. This inspiring context naturally...
Migration Summer School
online courseMigration Summer School (MIGSS) on "Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic" has been carefully designed and developed to provide participants w...
Peace Research
online courseThe course provides a general introduction to this interdisciplinary field with an empirical focus. This is combined with more detailed study of selected areas and themes. Major to...
(Short) Scale Development
online courseAdequate measurement of its key concepts is a prerequisite for any successful science. Survey-based research in the social and behavioural sciences is no exception. Especially when...
The Cultural Heritage of Hungary
online courseThe objective of the online summer program is to introduce the Hungarian cultural heritage from many different perspectives. Students learn about the history of Hungary, as well as...
Causal Inference and Experiments
online courseThis course examines lab, survey, and field experimental methods for causal inference. After providing an overview of the essential aspects of experiments, the course focuses prima...
Gender & Diversity Studies: Core Concepts
The interdisciplinary Summer School course Gender & Diversity Studies: Core concepts is based in the academic work that is being done at Radboud University Nijmegen and will be tau...
Service Design for Innovation - IED Barcelona
Everyday we are active users of different kinds of services from the very second we wake up to the second we fall asleep: when we go to the office, to school, to the supermarket or...
Questionnaire Design
online courseBriefly speaking, a respondent's answer can only be as good as the question being asked. Thus, an effective questionnaire is a key component of a survey contributing to overall dat...
Competencies in industry 4.0
blended courseCompetencies can be described as skills, abilities and knowledge that are needed for successful work. Workplaces are changing rapidly in last decades. With development of new techn...
Panel Data and Non-linear Models
The workshop is in jointly held with the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) Summer School. Workshop contents and objectives This course introduces participants to methodolog...
Difficult Settings, Preparing for Fieldwork
top course online courseIn this winter course, the lecturers speak about the difficulties and concerns that they have encountered in their various fields of research. By openly discussing specific issues,...
Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
online courseChatbots, robots, smart agents in virtual reality – social computers are popping up everywhere. With the commercialization of chatbots and virtual reality, our society is becoming...
How to Conduct a Meta-Analysis Using Open-Science Software
online courseWith the increasing use of alternative software packages like R in data analysis, now is the time to learn their ins and outs. The large number of active programmers creating R pac...
Mixed-Methods and Multimethod Research
online courseThis course deals with mixed-methods and multimethod research (MMR) in the social sciences. We will discuss the broader understanding of combining qualitative and quantitative meth...
National and European Surveys on Working Conditions: Explore the potential of data harmonisation and integration
online courseThe data forum on National and European surveys on working conditions aims to bring together experts either of data production or data use in the field of working conditions. The o...
Social Sciences
online courseJoin a global learning community of like-minded people on the Virtual Winter Festival of Learning, from 18-29 January 2021. Discover a wide range of over 50 week-long courses....
Modern Statistical Computing in R
online courseOver the recent years, R has become the leading software tool for statistical computing and graphics. The software is greatly enhanced by numerous contributed packages submitted by...
Epidemics and Social Science: a Holistic Approach
top course online courseThe Ebola outbreak in West Africa (2014-2016) was a turning point for the role of the social sciences in disease outbreak control. The emergency response was led by a biomedical ap...
Minorities and the New Digital Paradigm
The notion of a ‘new digital paradigm’ (NDP) has been with us for more than two decades. Digital spaces and online identities have become a pervasive part of our social reality. In...
Mixed Methods Research and Design
This introductory course will teach participants when, how, and why to integrate a qualitative and a quantitative research component within one research design. The first part will...
Multilevel Modelling
online courseWorkshop contents and objectives Populations commonly exhibit complex structure with many levels, so that patients (level 1) are assigned to clinics (level 2); while individuals...
Social Enterprises: Using Your Creativity and Sensitivity
online courseThe course is intended to contribute to the students’ systematic understanding of social enterprises in order to promote social inclusion of vulnerable people in the community in a...
Behavioral Data Analysis in R
Behavioral Data Analysis in R is one of the courses of the CEBEX Summer School on Behavioral Sciences 2021. You can attend face-to-face in Prague or online. The course takes place...
Introduction to Stata for Data Analysis
online courseThis course will give a thorough introduction to the Software Stata. It is tailored to the needs of academics and other research practitioners who are new to Stata or who wish to r...
Introduction to Mindfulness and Compassion
top course online courseThis two-week online winter course will introduce participants to the science of contemplative practices including mindfulness and compassion within emotion regulation framework. I...
Introduction to Survey Design
online courseThis course gives an overview of the design and implementation of surveys from the initial planning phase to the data preparation as a final step. Topics include survey mode assess...
Sport and Exercise Sciences
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. Summer School of Sport and Exercise Sciences provides a cross-cultural learning experience in the area...
The Fundamentals of Human Rights
online courseThis digital course consists of lectures and seminars during the first three weeks of the summer session, with a take home exam the following week.The course offers an introduction...
Text mining and qualitative data visualisation using R
online courseThis 1/2-day course will explore basic test visualisation using tidytext package to: - Learn how to clean qualitative data, calculate and visualise word frequencies - Create a...
An Introduction to Environmental and Wildlife Crime
online courseThis course provides an introduction to environmental crime and wildlife crime and how justice systems deal with, and respond to, current threats to the environment and non-human n...
How to Evaluate Psychological Interventions Through Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
online courseThe number of studies examining relevant research questions is staggering. Each year thousands of new randomized controlled trials are conducted, and endless numbers of epidemiolog...
Key Topics in Urban Studies
top course online courseThis two-week online course will introduce participants to the field of Urban Studies through a series of lectures from a team of experts on key topics in the multidisciplinary stu...
Migration and Gender: a Legal and Literary Perspective
Postponed until 2022 The summer school course on Migration and Gender offers a legal-literary approach to the ways in which migration influences gender. Gender is a constitutive...
Argumenting Science
This workshop aims to provide PhD student and young researchers with a deeper understanding of how novel ideas in science are communicated to peers in order to convince them of the...
Global and Multicultural Society
online courseThis course will present the basic framework of the multicultural society and the global phenomena around it. It also describes the methods how to understand global and multicultur...
Qualitative Epistemologies: Understanding the Threads in your Tapestry of Methods
online courseThis is an introductory course that covers fundamental questions about qualitative approaches and competing ontologies and epistemologies. The course begins with an examination of...
Content Analysis and Natural Language Processing
online courseWorkshop contents and objectives The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with a practical hands-on and theoretical understanding of new methods in content analysis m...
Crash Course in R
Crash Course in R is one of the courses of the CEBEX Summer School on Behavioral Sciences 2021. You can attend face-to-face in Prague or online. The course takes place on 6 and 7 A...
Analyzing the Unobservable: Structural Equation Modeling in Comparative Social Research
In case that an on-campus Summer School is not possible due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this module will take place online. Sociological research is often interested in phenomena...
Experimental Methods in the Social Sciences
online courseThis course introduces students to experiments as a tool for social science research and provides the tools needed to integrate them into their research agendas. Contemporary socia...
Reducing risk of poverty in the EU: Data and policies
online courseThis online summer school, organised by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), will give the opportunity to the participants to delve on data availability to study social p...
Global Health, Drugs, Policy and Power
The Summer School “Drugs, Drug Use, Drug Policy and Health” will be organised by the Institute of Global Health and partners (Graduate Institute of International and Development St...
De/Postcolonial Feminist Theory and Activism
In case that an on-campus Summer School is not possible due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this module will take place online. The political debate about the restitution of objects r...
Existential Questions Regarding Life Issues. An Intercultural and Integrated Approach
online courseOn many moments in life people are confronted with questions about their existence. Unique questions about what they will do or not do, about their relationships with others, the e...
Everyday Life and Criminal Justice in the UK
How does society shape our lives and how do we shape society? Explore the routines and practices in UK society and how the state punishes certain deviations from these routines...
Elementary Forms of Social Life
In case that an on-campus Summer School is not possible due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this module will take place online. The elementary forms of social life refers to an analyt...
The Sustainable City: An Integrated Perspective
online courseThis summer school aims to address the sustainable city from an interdisciplinary perspective. We assess how the introduction of technology can transform contemporary cities toward...
Pre-university Honours Programme: Sustainable Cities
top course online courseThis programme introduces high-school students to sustainability within urban studies, and more specifically, within the context of the cities in which we live. We live in a crucia...
Ethnographic Methods
Ethnographic methods are increasingly being used in diverse and creative ways in both long-term and short-term studies across the social sciences. This course provides a comprehens...
Advanced uses
online courseThe course will cover recent extensions of the EUROMOD model to include wealth-related policies and indirect taxes, different options for nowcasting the effects of the COVID-19 pan...
The Challenges of Modern Sport to Ethics
online courseSport has acquired an extraordinary importance in the last decades of the last century and the early years of XXI. It can be said that sport has suffered a deep transformation, fro...
Courses 2020
Stability, Security, and Happiness: State - Society - Religion
GUSEGG 2020 will offer a broad discussion of our understanding of security, stability, and happiness. Defined quality assurance mechanisms and product and service safety measures a...
Global and Multicultural Society
online courseThis course will present the basic framework of the multicultural society and the global phenomenons around it. It also describes the methods how to understand global and multicult...
Understanding Research Methods
online courseUnderstanding Research Methods is a unique offering to the summer school environment. The online course is designed for a wide-ranging number of participants whether preparing for...
Big Data in Society
More and more data is being collected about us and our activities. Our social media interactions, online search and shopping behaviour, but also offline location tracking and senso...
Bangor University School of Health Sciences
Due to the current uncertainties surrounding the longer-term effects of the coronavirus, we have decided to cancel the Summer School for 2020. We look forward to welcoming you i...
Global and Regional Migration Governance
Learn about migration governance from leading international organizations and experts Gain an interdisciplinary perspective Network with experts working in the field...
CityLAB VIII: Sex, Gender, and the City
How do the various branches of contemporary urban studies engage with theories and cases developed in gender and sexuality studies or queer studies? All of these fields are by defi...
Summer Intership Programme
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes will take place in 2021. We will announce new dates once they are available. It is a four-week internship programme with an innovati...
Occupational Safety and Health Policy Indicators
online courseIn a changing world of work, questions about the scope of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) monitoring and the most reliable OSH policy indicators are becoming increasingly impo...
Human and Animal Relationships and Interactions (HARI)
Though we live with them, eat them, love them, and wear them, we give very little academic attention to the roles of animals in society. In this course, we will examine the most in...
Winter school ‘Causal mediation analysis and machine learning'
The winter school on ‘Causal mediation analysis and machine learning’ aims at advancing the knowledge and expertise of PhD students as well as junior researchers in the field of ca...
University of Liverpool International Summer School Week 1-3
The University of Liverpool International Summer School webpages will tell you more about how you can enhance your CV by studying for internationally recognised credits at a top, g...
Introduction to Social Data Science
The objective of this course is to learn how to analyze, gather and work with modern quantitative social science data. Increasingly, social data that capture how people behave and...
Digital Methods and Transformation: Applied Social Network Analysis
Digital technologies are increasingly permeating the way we work, live, and think. A crucial aspect of the digital transformation lies in the ever increasing amount of data that is...
University of Liverpool International Summer School Week 1-6
The University of Liverpool International Summer School webpages will tell you more about how you can enhance your CV by studying for internationally recognised credits at a top, g...
South Asia: Diversity, Democracy and Discord
online courseHow should we go about studying the political aspirations and agency of almost two billion people in South Asia, governed by contradictory and unstable regimes, where religion, lan...
Environmental Justice
Across the Globe, people rise up and protest against social inequities and environmental threats. They protest when confronted with environmental ‘bads’ such as polluted or degrade...
Psychedelic Medicine 2.0: The Past, Present and Future of Mind-altering Substances in Therapy
Long before Western people in the sixties and seventies tried out psychedelics for recreational and therapeutic purposes, other cultures had already been using them for ages becaus...
Humanitarian Action
online courseThis course seeks to provide its participants with general knowledge about action in situations of humanitarian support, with special focus on the capacity for reflection and ident...
Social City Design
Get to know everything about social innovation and human centered design in the city context! We will be thinking and doing on superdiversity, creative storytelling, citizen driven...
Smart Cities and Beyond
THE ISSUE In recent years, “smart cities” has become a hegemonic concept in urban discourses, referring either to the broad set of technologies introduced towards steering infrast...
Theory and Practice of Bayesian Hypothesis Testing: A JASP Workshop
top courseThe main purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with key Bayesian concepts in hypothesis testing. Concrete examples illustrate how to compute, report, and interpre...
Italian Cooking and Winery Summer Course
The course fee includes: lessons, didactic materials, accommodation, guided tours Italian cooking and winery summer course addressed to students and amateurs wishing to further the...
The Psychology of Communication
The module will examine theory and research related to the psychology of communication. A range of communication types will be considered; these include intentional and unintention...
Winter school ‘Four dimensions of the future of work’
The world of work looks different every day with unprecedented changes in their scale, speed, and depth. Not only have professions and labour markets changed, the very nature of wo...
Acquisition of Intercultural Skills in and through dance/movement
In the course of increasing migration movements, the importance of intercultural competence acquisition is increasingly coming to the fore. It is therefore all the more important t...
International Migration Studies in Child, Youth and Family Welfare
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. Topics covered include: • International and internal migration tends and demographics • The rights...
Product Management for Digital Business
Product Manager is besides modern software engineering and sales one of the most sought after positions by digital businesses such as Swisscom, Google, Avrios and Leonteq. This...
Applied Multiple Imputation
online courseMissing data are a pervasive problem in the social sciences. Data for a given unit may be missing entirely, for example, because a sampled respondent refused to participate in a su...
Project, Programme and Policy Evaluation
online courseEvaluations play an increasingly important role in the policy process. Stakeholders, including the public in general, hold expectations that governments demonstrate the results and...
SRH Summer School in Music Therapy
Our SRH Summer School for Music Therapy 2020 is an introduction to music therapy practices in Germany, with an emphasis on music therapy in psychosomatic care. Students experience...
Managing and Analyzing Data in Social Science
You will be introduced to concepts, terminology and methods relevant to handling data and spatial information in R and QGIS. At course end, you will have a toolbox of scripts enabl...
Global CoffeeScapes. Understanding the Coffee Commodity Chain: Land, Labour, and Environment
Why Coffee? With an estimated market value of 83 billion USD and 2.25 billion cups of consumed every day, coffee is one of the most important agricultural commodities, employing...
Economy & Society Summer School
A week-long residential summer school, combining lectures, masterclasses, panel discussions : drawing from a broad range of social science, from anthropology through economics to p...
Specialized Course on Food Security at the time of COVID-19
online course“It is highly likely that the COVID-19 pandemic will result in increased hunger and poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean.” (Food security under the COVID-19 pandemic Report,...
Gender Studies
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. The school will be rescheduled in 2021. Organized jointly by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)...
Amsterdam in Global Capitalism: 1500-Present
online courseCapitalism from its origins operated on a global scale, but it has also always produced dynamic centres of wealth and power. From 1600 onwards, for a long time Amsterdam was at the...
Gerontological Nursing
online courseGeneral course description: -gerontological nursing -interaction with an individual with memory disorders -geriatrics -special issues in nutrition -the contents involve fami...
Countering Organized Crime
This week-long course on Countering Organized Crime seeks to present a tentative account of organized crime in the Baltic region and beyond as well as providing some recommendation...
University of Liverpool International Summer School Week 4-6
The University of Liverpool International Summer School webpages will tell you more about how you can enhance your CV by studying for internationally recognised credits at a top, g...
Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists: A Refresher Course with R
online courseThis course aims to refresh mathematical concepts which are required for the understanding and the application of recent developments in empirical research methodology. The course...
Multidisciplinary Online Course
top course online courseThis summer programme can be customized to fit your needs. Built of modules that can be combined to create the credit value and schedule of your choosing, you can join us in Amster...
Humanitarian Action
This course seeks to provide its participants with general knowledge about action in situations of humanitarian support, with special focus on the capacity for reflection and ident...
Your International Student Experience: Reflection & Publication
This module allows students to explore their own international student journey from the perspective of culture, language, educational background and psychological and affective fac...
Consumer Neuroscience and Neurobusiness
This summer course will give you an overview of the crescent field of consumer neuroscience. Moreover, we will explore the applications of neurosciences in different fields such as...
Research Designs and Causal Inference
online courseSocial scientists are frequently interested in drawing causal inferences. Typical research interests refer to the analysis of the causes of social phenomena and the mechanisms cons...
An Introduction to Developmental Neuropsychology
In this course, students will be introduced to the innovative and ’mind-blowing’ field of developmental neuropsychology. The anatomy of the brain and relevant brain functions wi...
Intercultural Management: A Scandinavian Perspective
The course focuses on comparing Scandinavian and Norwegian cultures with other cultures in the international business arena. This context will provide the backdrop for understandin...
Occupational Safety and Health Policy Indicators
In a changing world of work, questions about the scope of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) monitoring and the most reliable OSH policy indicators are becoming increasingly impo...
The Taste of Istanbul and Anatolian Food Culture
This course provides an introduction to the rich Turkish Culinary Culture by way of theoretical information, practical lessons in the state-of-the art kitchens of Istanbul Aydin Un...
PERSON CENTERED CARE
This module is created for students of Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Biomedical Diagnostics study programmes. The module consists of theoretical lectures, ind...
Prejudice, Discrimination and the Diversity Challenge
Prejudice and discrimination are often causes of individuals’ suffering, social inequalities, and human conflicts in contemporary societies. Prejudice and discrimination are pervas...
Survey Methodology
The Barcelona Summer School in Survey Methodology is a two-week intensive program covering diverse topics on survey methodology and advanced statistical analysis of survey data. Pa...
Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution
online courseThe summer school course seeks to further our understanding of environmental conflicts and the possibilities of resolving them through collaborative management and participatory in...
Brain Stimulation
This summer school is an intensive four-day course on non-invasive brain stimulation. Mornings are filled with lectures by international experts, starting from the basics of brain...
Global Gender Relations
The module intends to enable students to critically understand and analyse the relation between gender and globalisation processes in relation to the ever-changing global policies...
Experimental Designs in Social Policy Research: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
Experimental and quasi-experimental research designs have become more popular in social policy research, following the general trend in micro-economics and sociology of advocating...
Media and Gender: Representations, Subjectivities and Power
online courseThis two-week interdisciplinary online course addresses the intersection of gender and media through developing a critical understanding of how ‘gender’ helps shape media texts and...
Expert workshop ‘Non-take-up and coverage’ of social benefits
The non-take-up of social benefits has an important impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of social benefits in general and social assistance benefits in particular. In spite...
Migration Studies
online courseNowadays we live in a society which is completely different from that of the past decades. In fact, multiculturalism has become one of the most characteristic aspects of the curren...
Innovative e-governance in local democracy
Electronic governance (e-governance), generally understood as the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in various spheres of political life, plays a significant ro...
Courses 2019
Ecole Doctorale Francophone d'Été en Études Genre Brulau
Le BRULAU est l’école doctorale internationale francophone d’été en études genre, organisée par le Centre d’Études Genre (CEG) de l’UNIL et la Structure de recherche interdisciplin...
European welfare state: current challenges and perspectives
This course deals with the social policy characteristics of the European welfare state. The recent economic crisis and developments in the EU have led to a rise in poverty and unem...
Descriptive & Inferential Statistics in SPSS
This two-day short-course is designed for researchers who have little or no experience using statistical software such as SPSS or who may need a refresher course in this area.
Analysing Longitudinal Data: Using Latent Variable Models to Assess Change
The analysis of change is central to much psychological and social research. Latent Growth Models (LGM) are an important class of models for the assessment of change. In essence t...
Music as Support to Train Language Skills
As you already know, music therapy is a clinically and scientifically proven application of musical interventions with the aim of achieving individualised and clearly defined goals...
Doing, Writing, Thinking Sport History
Organized in collaboration with the International Center for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort University (ICSHC), this course aims to provide a unique environment for PhD s...
Utopia Europe II
The participants of the summer school, organized by the Hans Farmont foundation, are invited to spend time with young people from Europe on a ten-day sailing trip in Greece. On the...
Race, Sovereignties and South-Eastern Thought
This year’s Summer School engages with the entanglements of race and sovereignty from both the Global South and the European East perspectives, in an effort to explore the potentia...
Advanced Tools for Psychology and Social Science
PROGRAM AND OBJECTIVES Measurement in psychology and social science always has been a significant challenge. Research in quantitative science has developed several methods and tec...
Economy & Society Summer School
Residential summer school, run by UCC, WIT, focusing on 'economic' questions in the broadest sense.
Radical (Dis)Engagement: State - Society - Religion
Radical (Dis)Engagement: State – Society – Religion Constant political uncertainties. Climate change. Demographic transformation. Continual re-thinking of societal coherence in...
Attractive Cities: Successes and Conflicts
Key issues that will be examined are location theories, cultural capitals, mobility, housing, night time economy, tourism and citizenship. Internationally well-known experts will...
Perspectives on Psychology: From Molecules to Behavior
This is the 2nd edition of our summer school with the theme ‘Perspectives on Psychology: From Molecules to Behavior’, inthe interface between Psychology and Biology. Attendants wil...
Winter School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM)
BI Norwegian Business School offers in co-operation with the University of St. Gallen the fourth Winter School in Empirical Research Methods in Oslo from 7-18 January 2019 as part...
How Switzerland got rich
This Summer School looks at the development of Switzerland into one of the richest and most globalized countries in the world. The course director Prof. Dr. Patrick Ziltener wil...
European Public Policy (introduction)
Public policy is the language through which governments across the world communicate with their administrations and societies. This course will focus on public policy practices, sp...
An Introduction to Developmental Neuropsychology
In this course, students will be introduced to the innovative and ’mind- blowing’ field of developmental neuropsychology. The anatomy of the brain and relevant brain functions will...
Utopia Europe I
The participants of the summer school, organized by the Hans Farmont foundation, are invited to spend time with young people from Europe on a ten-day sailing trip in Greece. On the...
Paris Summer School | Urban Ethnography
The annual SSPSSR UG Summer School in Urban Ethnography provides participants with direct experience of urban ethnography and equips them with skills for future research. The Summe...
Barcelona Social Summer 2019
BARCELONA SOCIAL SUMMER SCHOOL The Faculty of Social Education and Social Work Pere Tarrés (Ramón Llull University) offers an international summer course directed to university...
Pristina International Summer University 2019
OPEN CALL FOR STUDENTS - PISU 2019 Date/Venue: 8-19 July 2019, Prishtina, Kosovo Fee for International students: 100€ (including accommodation, meals) Deadline: 6th of May...
PSYCHOALAYSIS, ART AND CULTURE
The lectures of the Summer University focus on the most fundamental psychoanalytic concepts and current theoretical constructs. The courses will cover various topics, such as the B...
Factorial Survey Designs
The factorial survey (“vignette analysis”) is a method that integrates multi-factorial experimental set-ups into surveys. Respondents are asked to evaluate hypothetical situations,...
Chinese-Austrian-EU Summer School
Lectures are held at the University of Salzburg, the University of Vienna, Paris Descartes Universite and the University of Heidelberg. The students have also the opportunity to v...
Summer Schools for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics 2019
The Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics is permanent project, originally initiated by the Department for Gender Studies at the Institute for Social Sciences and H...
Dealing with Uncertainty: Decision-Making and Memory Processes
We have invited four internationally recognized experts in the field of Cognition, Learning, Memory, and Metacognition to be our keynote speakers. They will present their research...
Intercultural Competence - Drawing on the Swiss Experience
Intercultural communicative competence has become an increasingly important skill and a valuable asset in today’s world characterized by mobility, super-diversity and the global fl...
Data Forum on Data Pooling: Opportunities and Challenges
CELSI has accumulated more than ten years of experience with the collection, processing and analysis of the WageIndicator data on wages, cost of living, minimum wages and collectiv...
Countering Organized Crime
Organized crime represents one of the most pressing national and international security threats. It is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centraliz...
Summer School on Academic Integrity
In recent years, breaches of academic integrity have attracted the attention of a large number of involved stakeholders: Academics, PhD students, Researchers, HEI administrators,...
Expert workshop 'Measuring job quality: new data and methods'
The ‘expert network programme’ of the InGRID-2 project targets senior researchers and others expert of the InGRID-related scientific community.
City development in the 21st Century
This course is entitled to engage students with the challenge of creating 21th century cities based on knowledge and innovation. Principles as technological enhancement (smart city...
An Introduction to Latent Variable Modelling using Mplus
This short-course provides an introduction to latent variable modelling – an ever increasingly used approach in the behavioural and social sciences.
Smart Cities
What is a smart city? We hear all the time that technology changes our lives, including our environment. The developments not only improve the life of individuals, but benefit...
Behavioral Economics and Psychology
The Summer School on Behavioral Economics and Psychology brings to students of various backgrounds the state-of-art research on behavioral aspects of decision-making and experiment...
Think Camp – Rural Development: Future-oriented Approaches Bringing Economics, Management and Social Sciences into Practice
This Think Camp is an international cooperation within the scope of the Euroleague for Life Sciences and is organised by faculties and departments that focus on economics, manageme...
Utopia Europe III
The participants of the summer school, organized by the Hans Farmont foundation, are invited to spend time with young people from Europe on a ten-day sailing trip in Greece. On the...
General Linear Model with Applications in ANOVA, Regression Analysis and Factor Analysis
This three day short course provides participants with a firm working knowledge of a wide range of statistical models – many of which are the most commonly used statistical models...
Managing and Analysing Cross Sectional and Spatial Data in Social Science
The amount of data publically available from online sources is increasing dramatically. It is crucial that aspiring researchers and natural resource managers know how to handle the...
Human Mind and Society
In the Human Mind and Society course, you will explore fundamental concepts of psychology, sociology and criminology. It covers the relationship between psychological processes and...
Petnica International
Petnica International is a science camp for undergraduate university students and senior high school students interested in science, which takes place every summer at Petnica Scien...
Music Therapy in Germany
Our SRH Summer School for Music Therapy 2019 is an introduction to music therapy practices in Germany, with an emphasis on music therapy in psychosomatic care. Students experience...
Innovation in Social Design
We offer a 5-day practical, inspiring and engaging summer school in the context of Social Design. Product, service and system designers (from local and international agencies), soc...
Open Access to Research Data. Facing Funder´s Requirements on Making Research Data FAIR
Nowadays, more and more funders, like the European Commission, require Open Data of high quality that can be re-used by researchers for replication as well as for new (research) pu...
Youth Leadership Initiative
The HEC Paris Youth Leadership Initiative is an intensive, residential program for high school students who are eager to develop their potential. They will learn to lead by example...
School Education in the UK
This exciting module explores a range of aspects and perspectives of childhood and UK culture. It aims to give you an overview of the differing perceptions related to children and...
Safety and Security
The aim of the summer academy is to increase the operational capacity of young people studying in more specific fields of internal security to cope and help fellow citizens in dail...
Intensive course on anti-corruption
Transparency International School on Integrity is an annual state-of-the-art anti-corruption and accountability training for future leaders. The upcoming School will take place dur...
Speculative and Critical Design – Special Programs Think Tank
We invite you to take part in a rare opportunity to serve in the Special Programs Think Tank to envision and create hypothetical “special programs” that Estonia’s government might...
Questionnaires for Cross-Cultural Surveys
Cross-cultural surveys are increasingly being set up in numerous disciplines and around the globe. They allow testing for the generality of hypotheses across cultures and systemati...
Expert workshop 'Comparative analysis of longitudinal data on educational outcomes’
Educational outcomes are crucial for social participation and labor market opportunities. To develop strategies to improve people’s social and economic prospects, governments are i...
Europe and its Regions
In the 1990s, researchers commonly asserted a declining significance of the nation state (“hollowing out the nation state”) and of the local level, which was paralleled by a rise i...
Quantitative Research Summer School
Core elements of statistical analysis covering a range of quantitative skill areas including regression, contingency tables and continuous data in a problem-based learning environm...
Social Policy
Part of the public policy family, social policy is the discipline concerned with the governmental action aimed at insuring individuals in situations when these fail or face difficu...
Introduction to Social Network Analysis
This is an introductory course, covering the concepts, methods and data analysis techniques of social network analysis. The course is based on the book "Analyzing Social Networks"...
An introduction to Latent Class Analysis Using Mplus
This workshop will involve a mixture of interactive lecture-type sessions and practical examples using real-life epidemiological datasets in Mplus.
GDM - GLOBAL DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT Manage and Value Diversity in the Workplace
The School is based on an intense academic program, as well as several visits to local corporate organizations, and is strongly committed to an applied approach in order to match t...
Courses 2018
Global Trends
The world is getting more and more connected, not only consumers but also organizations are increasingly interlinked. The public and private sector, once clearly separated, are mov...
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON GROUNDED THEORY
International Summer School on Grounded Theory (ISSGT 2018) focuses on improving your skills in using Grounded Theory strategies to help you increase the incisiveness, clarity, and...
Intercultural Communication in Health Care and Social Work
Intercultural understanding and communication plays a major role in providing health care and social work. Intercultural competence, especially in person related professions, inclu...
Labor Dystopias and Redundant Humans: Slaveries, Serfdoms, Precariousness
The 2018 edition of the Telciu Summer School is dedicated to forms of unfree, precarious, or unremunerated labor across the global capitalist system, the structural changes they ha...
Quantitative Research Summer School
Core elements of statistical analysis covering a range of quantitative skill areas including regression, contingency tables and continuous data in a problem-based learning environm...
Junior Summer Courses for 8-12 year old students
For each week-long session, students aged 8-12 can choose from a variety of subjects, including the Junior English Programme, Business Discovery, Coding with Scratch, Game Creation...
Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics 2018
The Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics is permanent project, originally initiated by the Department for Gender Studies at the Institute for Social Sciences and H...
International School on Energy Systems - ISES 2018
The energy infrastructure of a country provides a fundamental means for societal development and economic growth. Energy systems comprise the technologies required for the conversi...
Adult Summer School for 19-25 year old students
Oxford Royale Academy's 2 and 4 week programmes offer adult students aged 19-25 the opportunity to live and study in a college of the University of Oxford. Students may choose from...
Gender, Power and Violence
Around the world, no place is less safe for women than their own home – almost one in three women have suffered physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner and one in fo...
Personality Disorders: Psychoanalytic and other treatment modalities
Personality Disorders: Psychoanalytic and Other Treatment Modalities is an academic program organized by Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Education and Psychology aiming to unit...
Summer Courses for 16 - 18 year old students
Oxford Royale Academy's 2 and 4 week programmes offer the opportunity to live and study in a college of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London or St Andrews. Students may ch...
Crime in Numbers: From Correlation to Causation
Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for causal inference. Using an experimental and a control group, double-blind and with a placebo, the effect of an intervention c...
Summer Courses for 13 - 15 year old students
Oxford Royale Academy's 2 week programmes offer students aged 13 to 15 the opportunity to live and study in a college of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge. Students may choos...
Leading health care by Developing, Implementing and Evaluating Innovations in Service Delivery
In this course, participants will be introduced to the full cycle of developing, implementing and evaluating innovations in service delivery, using an implementation science framew...
Multidisciplinary Research in Archaeology
This course has been developed to provide students with the skills and abilities needed to thrive in the increasingly multidisciplinary research environment of archaeology, where t...
Human Rights, Gender and Alterity
Joint Summer School between the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies – Geneva. In 2018 the second edition of the Summer Schoo...
Gender and Space
Die Sommerschule vermittelt Studierenden und Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen feministische Theorien, Themen und Methoden an der Schnittstelle zwischen Geographie und Gender Studies....
Contemporary Society and Religion: Conversion of Multiple Religions
Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, would like to invite you to its international summer school, titled: “Contemporary Society...
Cybercrime: The Human Factor
As society has gone digital, so has crime. Not only have new offences appeared, like hacking and attacks designed to take down websites or networks, but IT has begun to play an inc...
The Power of Algorithms
Shopping on Amazon, searching with Google, communicating on Facebook – in all these cases algorithms are at work. They organize and rule the attention economy of the media. The...
Paris Summer School | Urban Ethnography
The annual SSPSSR UG Summer School in Urban Ethnography provides participants with direct experience of urban ethnography and equips them with skills for future research. The Summe...
Pre IB Diploma Programme for 15 - 17 year old students
Oxford Royale Academy's 1, 2 or 3 term programmes offer students aged 15-17 the opportunity to live and study in Oxford Royale's own International Study Centre, based in the beauti...
Meditating and Mediating Change: State - Society - Religion
In our interpretation, meditating and mediating change is the taking on of the responsibility of intellectuals to offer critical in-depth discussion in a world of babble. This is a...
Research and critical perspectives on children`s health literacy
The 3rd International Health Literacy Summer School organised by the German Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence (HLCA) Consortium focusses on health literacy research, inc...
Gap Year Courses for 17-19 year old students
Oxford Royale Academy's 10 week gap year programmes offer the opportunity to live and study in Oxford Royale's own International Study Centre, based in Yarnton Manor, Oxford. Stude...
Academic Courses in Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of how arguments are put together and taken apart, you will see how arguments are constructed using premises that move to conclusions; and how such argument...
Economy & Society Summer School
Week long residential summer school in a castle in rural Ireland, with core staff and visiting speakers leading an intensive interdisciplinary discussion on Economy + Society.
Exercising modernity
The program is aimed at Polish and German final and pre-final year students of art and the humanities and young creators, scholars and culture animators (up to 35 years of age). Fo...
University Foundation Course for 17-25 year old students
Oxford Royale Academy's 6 or 9 month accredited programmes offer students aged 17 to 25 the opportunity to live and study in Oxford Royale's own International Study Centre, based i...
Courses 2017
Placemaking and Destination Shaping
This course is the first part of the NHTV summer school programme which we organise with our Chinese partner IFT, Macao. During these three days you'll learn everything about dest...
Questionnaire Design
The design of a questionnaire does not start with questions. It starts with the definition of the concepts of interest. From the concepts, assertions can be made, and then requests...
Art and Society
This module is an introduction to the visual culture of London, including painting, architecture, photography and contemporary media. Students will visit the major art galleries to...
Correction for measurement error
This crash-course to correction for measurement error in survey data starts with defining measurement error and highlighting why it is important to take it into account in statist...
Dealing with missing data in regression models
Most researchers in the social and behavioural sciences have encountered the problem of missing data: It seriously complicates the statistical analysis of data, and simply ignoring...
Propagandas: How Human Beliefs Are Controlled
Summary More and more present in our daily lives, propaganda has been shaping societies and controlling people's behaviors for centuries. This course intends to explain how propag...
Survey Experiments
This course will use published examples of experimental research to demonstrate a variety of ways to leverage survey experiments for testing social science theories. The course wil...
Arts & Science in Urban Context
The international Summer School’s goal is to develop and foster interdisciplinary exchange between students, researchers and teaching staff on the future of urbanity. With a focus...
Economy & Society Summer School
A week-long doctoral symposium bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines to discuss fresh perspectives on ‘economic’ themes; the market, the state, production, consumptio...
Summer School on Forced Migration and Asylum
The Summer School, organised by two organisations active on the frontline of reception and integration of asylum seekers and supported by several public and private partners workin...
Leadership and Governance for Sustainable Tourism
Leadership and Governance for Sustainable Tourism is a 3 days High Level event, co-organized by the Foundation for European Sustainable Tourism (FEST) and the European Travel Commi...
Humanitarian Action
The International Summer School will familiarize with the fascinating, but demanding field of international humanitarian action and the manifold problems associated with reducing h...
ActionxChange
Action x Change is part of the Short Programs Area, which aims to spread the values and mission of UWC through enriching and transformative experiences of short duration. Action...
Bayesian Modelling
The purpose of the course is to provide the participant with the tools to be able to do data analysis through Bayesian inference. At the end of the course, the participant must be...
Psychological Competency
The School consists of theoretical and practical classes. It will help the Attendees to reveal all strong, weak and positive parts of their characters. It will teach how beneficial...
World in Transition and Central European Transformation: Lessons Learnt
The program provides a broad understanding of state transformation issues in general and from the practical experience of the Czech Republic and its Central European neighbours dra...
Annual anti-corruption and accountability training for future leaders
Applications are now accepted for the 8th Transparency International School on Integrity , an annual state-of-the-art anti-corruption and accountability training for future leaders...
Emotional Intelligence under Stress: Useful, Unnecessary, or Irrelevant?
Emotional intelligence is potentially helpful in reducing stress for some individuals, but unnecessary or irrelevant for others. This training course is based on the Mayer and Salo...
Politics and Aesthetics of the Common: cultural performances and public sphere
The proposed international interdisciplinary workshop is organized by the Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in partnership with the Palacký Univers...
Preparing Data for Re-use: A Practical Guide to Processing and Documenting your Data for Sharing
Re-use of research data becomes increasingly important in social science research. Not only is replicability of research data and research findings considered an integral part of g...
Latent Trait and L. Class Analysis for Cross-national Surveys
Latent variable models are a broad family of models that can be used to capture abstract concepts by means of multiple indicators. Social scientists know them best in the form of f...
Placemaking and Experience Design
Do you want to know more about destination marketing, learn what’s going on in the attraction theme park world and have unique insights in how to create experiences? This is your c...
Migration and Europe: borders, mobility and the future of the EU
This Summer Course is a joint effort of Middlesex University, the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is planned to take place in London from the...
Assessing Measurement Quality
Measurement instruments-questions, items, or tests-have been used in the social sciences to measure concepts of interest. A sufficient quality of the measurement instruments is cru...
Development Policy
The program offers: classes that cover the main areas of development policy guest lectures on selected issues of development policy excursions (for example to governmental ins...
An interdisciplinary approach of transport, climate change and wellbeing
In the context of the recent multidimensional crisis that has affected most of the countries in the world, the current challenge consists in making economic growth and development...
Exile and Memory – Interdisciplinary Perspectives
In 2017 Marie Jahoda Summer School invites young scholars working on the issue of exile and memory. The aim of the summer school is to establish an environment for intellectually o...
Migration in Europe
The main focus of this section is migration within the European community, a topic that has been deemphasized by the refugee crisis. We would like to analyze the problem from the v...
Attraction and Theme Park Management
During the second part of our summer school programme you'll learn what’s going on in the attraction theme park world! In two days you will learn to understand the market and d...
Energy Security Summer School
This years’ topic is Energy Infrastructure and Policy Repercussions. The summer school is open to undergraduate and graduate students of International Relations, Political Science,...
Experience Design
In the last part of our summer school programme we''ll give you unique insights in the world of Imagineering! In three days you'll learn about: How can an organisation turn ’cust...
Critical Thinking
"In every social system, there is a specific set of rules and possible actions. A constant exception from them is a mysterious variable scientists haven’t fully understood yet: hum...
Intercultural Competencies
Focusing on psychological aspects of intercultural competencies, this course fosters the understanding from both theoretical and practical perspectives. At first you will gain a ge...
Probability Sampling Methods
This is an applied statistical methods course that focuses on the design of probability samples to be used for data collection. Sample designs are driven by analytic goals of an in...
Effective Leadership & Communication Through Awareness of Body Language & Non-Verbal Communication
This workshop will improve your communication and relationships with others when leading, supported by more awarness of your nonverbal- communication behavior. You will learn to us...
Social Justice and Political Thought
This course will cover issues such as structural inequality in economy, work and work relations, the relationship of Western to non-Western cultures, the interrelationship of racis...
Nordic Welfare Model and Social Services in Transition
The course introduces the welfare state and especially the Nordic welfare state from historical and present day perspective.
What is the creative act? : The Sea, Retreat
Concept We dive into the main theme which holds it all together, just as it at the same time puts all in flux. The Sea: taciturn, surging, immanent, open, smooth, with different...
Radical Definitions: State-Society-Religion
Students will deal with the relevance and effect on global affairs of Europe/EU (emphasis on South Eastern Europe) and beyond by attending the offered morning and evening lectures,...
Biopower and Semiotics of the Body
The University of Tartu and the Higher School of Economics, Moscow invite graduate, post-graduate and PhD students to apply for the winter school “Biopower and Semiotics of the Bod...
Theodor Herzl Joint Summer Seminar
Masaryk University will organize a seminar for the selection of Israeli and Central European doctorate students (10 in total) in Telč in July 2017 (TBC). More information on offic...
The Challenge of Diversity: The Jewish Experience in Central Europe and Israel
This five week course will trace the 1000-year historical trajectory of European Jewry in Central and Eastern Europe – the core being the current Czech Republic (Bohemia, Moravia,...
Structural Equation Modeling for Longitudinal and Panel Data
The course will expand on the course “Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling: Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Mplus” and show how to apply the SEM approach to longitudinal...
International School on Energy Systems (ISES) 2017
The energy infrastructure of a country provides a fundamental means for societal development and economic growth. At the same time, resource depletion, environmental pollution and...
Implementing high-quality web surveys
The course deals with the challenge of using the World Wide Web for survey data collection. Web surveys are technically easy to implement; however, the understanding of underlying...
Knowledge-based Society
In this section we will to discover how technological development influences our society. During the four days we will to learn about the effects that technology has on our lives w...
Model-based Neuroscience
Tthe fourth Model-Based Neuroscience Summer School will be hosted at the University of Amsterdam. The summer school will provide students with hands-on experience in both cognit...
A New Era for Greek Hospitality
Globalization and the current economic conditions have changed the international setting for the hospitality industry. This multidimensional programme guides participants through t...
Practical Multilevel Modelling
The course focuses on the two-level linear model as a template to illustrate issues of specification, estimation and inference. The main ideas are illustrated through case studies....
Human Evolution
This course looks at morality from the perspective of our minds. Are we born with some sort of moral compass, or is morality purely cultural and learnt? How do we judge what is goo...
Work Smart, Win Time: study skills HBO
The contents of this course focus on cognitive skills that make and keep studying challenging and appealing. The contents of this course: In this course the following points wi...
Behavioral Public Policy
Behavioral sciences encompass aspects of many disciplines such as economics, psychology, sociology, political science, anthropology, and those aspects of biology that deal with hum...
Panel data modelling
This is an introduction to longitudinal data analysis on an applied level using Stata. The focus of the course is on data management and analyzing micro panel data.
The Political Anthropology of Subversion: On a secret technique of transformation
IPA SUMMER SCHOOL 2017 The Political Anthropology of Subversion: On a secret technique of transformation The 2017 IPASS Summer School on “Subversion” will examine ancient,...
Creative and Innovative Thinking through Body Movement, Creativity and Arts
For Creativity and Innovative thinking our mind and body need to work together closely. In 5 days, participants will experience how this synthesis can influence and develop creati...
Analysing Comparative Longitudinal Survey Data Using Multilevel Models
We will begin by considering the structure of CLSD, and then what fixed effects and random effects (multilevel) models each reveal about the variation between and within groups in...
Preparing Global Leaders Institute
Preparing Global Leaders Institute is one of the four international leadership schools of the Washington-based Preparing Global Leaders Foundation. For six years, we have trained d...
URBAN POVERTY. The praxis of planning in unequal cities
This summer school is an opportunity for opening research to issues of poverty and inequality in our cities. It will take advantage from the collaboration of experts in different...