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Children at the Heart of Human Rights
Geneva 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...
Factorial Survey Design
The factorial survey design (“vignette analysis”) is a method that integrates multi-factorial experimental set-ups into surveys. Respondents are asked to evaluate hypothetical situ...
Designing, Implementing, and Analyzing Longitudinal Surveys
Longitudinal data are essential for understanding individual level change and are used in multiple social science fields such as sociology, psychology, economics, health and so on....
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...
Data Science: Introduction to Text Mining with R
top courseApplications of text mining are everywhere: social media, web search, advertising, emails, customer service, healthcare, marketing, etc. In this course, students will learn how to...
Data Science Techniques for Survey Researchers
A variety of digital data sources are providing new avenues for empirical social science research. In order to effectively utilize these data for answering substantive research que...
Causal Inference with Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)
online courseThis course offers an introduction into causal inference with directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). DAGs combine mathematical graph theory with statistical probability concepts and provi...
Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling using Mplus
top courseWe offer a 5-day course on how to perform basic SEM analyses using Mplus. The main objective of this course is to learn how to analyse several models with Mplus (e.g. path models,...
Introduction to Machine Learning
Workshop Contents and Objectives Machine learning is of ever greater importance in data science applications in academia, government, and industry. It is not just another set of...
Causal Analysis with Observational Data
Workshop Contents and Objectives Does smoking cause bad health? Does income inequality increase political extremism? Do schools increase inequality? Many questions of interest t...
Introduction to Conjoint Experiments
online courseLearn about the logic and basic notions of conjoint analysis (CJA), and how to apply these by looking at different applications of conjoint analysis within the field of behavioural...
You Think You Know Who You Are
Enneagram: a psychological character typology model The Enneagram describes a dynamic circle of nine personality types, characters qualities, and areas for improvement. This cover...
Designing and Implementing Web Surveys
Web surveys have emerged as one of the most popular methods of data collection. The facts that they can be quickly implemented and potentially at a low cost made them more and more...
Applied Panel Data Analysis
Workshop contents and objectives We introduce the properties of panel data as a special case of pooled cross-sectional data and discuss how to prepare panel data for panel analy...
Advanced Course on Using Mplus
top courseThis is a five-day course on structural equation modeling (SEM) using Mplus. If you already know how to analyse your data in Mplus but want to learn more about what you are actuall...
Using Social Network Analysis to Understand Data
Workshop Contents and Objectives Social network analysis is used to understand communities by investigating their structure. How individuals in communities are connected to one...
From Embeddings to LLMs: Advanced Text Analysis with Python
Basic “bag-of-words” methods of text analysis that rely on counting words or n-grams are limited in their ability to account for the complexity of natural language. This has implic...
Probabilities and Odds Ratios in Logistic Regression: What you can and what you can’t do Social Sciences
Following the debate in social science methodology about the ‘usefulness’ of Odds Ratio’s and Average Marginal Effects and many other quantities of interest when using Discrete Res...
Eye Tracking Research Toolbox
top courseThis course will allow you to explore key concepts in eye tracking research and help you integrate it in your study.Eye tracking is a powerful method to study the human mind and be...
(Eco)critical Sustainability
• What does it mean to think critically about sustainability? • What assumptions underlie environmental, social & economic sustainable development? • How human-centred are curren...
Political Ethnography: Method, Sensibility, Writing
online courseLearn the fundamentals of political ethnography, exploring methods, writing, research design, quality, and ethics, while gaining practical experience studying politics and power in...
Conducting a Grounded Theory Study
Workshop contents and objectives Grounded theory is a methodology used by social scientists to explore, describe, and understand social phenomena from the perspectives of those...
Python Programming for Social Scientists
online courseLearn to conduct data collection and complex data analysis with Python programming through hands-on exercises and practical tips and apply it to your Social Science research. Ne...
Introduction to Small Area Estimation
Large-scale sample surveys are not designed to produce reliable estimates for small population domains, e.g., geographical areas or population groups. This is because area sample s...
Early Childhood Research
top courseDynamics of Youth is a multidisciplinary platform that spans all departments of the university. Dynamics of Youth facilitates all researchers in the field of child development. The...
Mixed Methods Designs: Principles and Procedures
online courseLearn how to consolidate and enrich the mixed and multimethod skills of researchers, so that you may implement richer and more robust designs in your projects. Need to Know Y...
Advanced Skills for Research Data Management and Open Science in Social Sciences
Course contents and objectives The evolving landscape of research, publishing, and career trajectories presents both new opportunities and fresh challenges for those engaged in...
Arctic and Nordic Perspectives on Sustainable Development
This course explores sustainable development and its different dimensions (economic, social, environmental) in the Nordic countries in the Arctic utilizing multidisciplinary approa...
Developmental Psychopathology and Psychological Assessment in Childhood and Adolescence
top courseThis course provides students with theoretical knowledge on developmental psychopathology. Students acquire knowledge on most common problems in youth, age specific characteristics...
Survey Sampling and Weighting
This practical course will cover the process of probability sampling and weighting for (social science) survey data. This includes a) sampling techniques, b) methods of weighting s...
Applied Multivariate Analysis
top courseThe summer school course 'Applied Multivariate Analysis' offers hands-on experience using SPSS for the most frequently encountered multivariate statistical techniques in the social...
Open Science Bootcamp
top courseResearch standards in the social sciences are rapidly shifting and increasingly emphasise transparency and reproducibility. Yet early-career researchers still receive little practi...
Design Thinking for Research
Workshop Contents and Objectives The workshop in a nutshell This workshop is inspired by our course "Research as design" at Stanford University which also led to our book "Cr...
Quantitative Text Analysis and Machine Learning using R
online courseLearn to understand political science literatures using common quantitative text analysis approaches and how to interpret the results with the most common methods used by social sc...
Visual Conjoint Designs
online courseLearn to master visual conjoint designs, a crucial tool for social scientists, covering design, deployment, and analysis, in this comprehensive course. Conjoint designs have bec...
Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
online courseWorkshop Contents and Objectives The objective of this course is to show how structural equation modeling can be used to develop and/or test both measurement models (scales) and...
How to Forge Arguments in Writing Scientific Papers
Workshop contents and objectives Publishing scientific papers represents a core activity of researchers and, increasingly the career of young scholars is determined by their abi...
A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
top courseThis course describes the stages involved in Bayesian analysis: specifying the prior and data models, deriving inference, model checking and refinement. We discuss prior and poster...
Confronting Digital Capitalism
The spectre of digital capitalism is haunting the world. The challenges and problems posed by recent developments in digital technology - AI being just one of the most blatant exam...
Agent-Based Computational Modeling
Deliberate actions can lead to unintended and even undesired consequences. For example, cities may exhibit ethnic segregation in their neighborhoods, despite high levels of citizen...
Cross-national data: From questionnaire development to analysis
top courseFollowing a total survey error perspective, it will discuss the steps entailed in collecting and analyzing 3MC data. Participants will learn about specific 3MC challenges (e.g., bi...
Visual Analysis in Politics Research
online courseLearn how visual and nonverbal elements can be systematically analysed with visual techniques in your politics research, and pave the way to understanding and integrating multimoda...
Advanced Communication Skills: Between Persuasion and Empathy
top courseEffective communication is key for high performing professionals. If you want to bring your communication skills to the next level and work on your personal development, then this...
Survey Research: Design, Implementation and Data Processing
top courseChanges in technology and society strongly influence modern survey research. This course covers the essentials of modern survey methodology, organised by the Department of Methodol...
Introduction to Causal Inference and Causal Data Science
top courseHow can we learn about causal relations when randomized experiments are unethical, impossible or impractical to conduct? In this one-week in-person course, participants will learn...
Visual Data and Visual Methods in Social Sciences
Workshop contents and objectives The prevalence of visual elements in our daily lives, such as visual communication in digital and social media, advertising, corporate communica...
Geoeconomics, Statecraft and International Security
News cycles are replete with information about how China is weaponizing access to its market to obtain political concessions from other states, or how Russia aims at evading econom...
Using Participatory Research Methods in Political Science Research
online courseLearn to adeptly apply narrative, visual, and creative participatory research methods in your research, addressing ethical challenges and acquiring the tools for effective design a...
Advanced Skills for Research Data Management and Open Science in Social Sciences
online courseCourse contents and objectives The evolving landscape of research, publishing, and career trajectories presents both new opportunities and fresh challenges for those engaged in...
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Research Design and Application
Workshop Contents and Objectives This workshop provides participants with a thorough introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Since its inception (Ragin 1987), QC...
Urban Collaboratory: Constructing Learning Infrastructures
Viadrinicum is an annual summer school at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), devoted to the countries of the Eastern Partnership and the larger context of Centra...
Discourse Theory and Analysis
Workshop contents and objectives The aim of this workshop is to explore the practical application of discourse theory to the analysis of textual data. There are many different v...
Introduction to Machine Learning for Text Analysis with Python
The course will provide insights into the concepts, challenges and opportunities associated with data so large that traditional research methods (like manual content analysis) can...
Mixed Methods
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...
Web Data Collection with Python and R
The exponential increase in online and social media data offers unprecedented opportunities for advancing research across a variety of fields, both within academia and outside of i...
Advanced Social Network Analysis
Recent decades have witnessed substantial progress in the methods of analysis and statistical modeling of social networks. This includes models for the static network structure as...
Social Change in a Digital Age
blended courseDigital media has revolutionized how we communicate, organize, and act in society. Digitalization and its impact on different parts of social life is the starting point for this co...
Content Analysis and Natural Language Processing
Workshop contents and objectives The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with a practical hands-on, and theoretical understanding of new methods in the content analy...
Process Tracing Methods
online courseLearn about when process tracing can be used and how it can be applied most effectively. Experience the key aspects of process tracing through practical, hands-on advice and techni...
Decision, Persuation, and Negotiation
Like it or not, we have to make numerous decisions every day, and most of our decisions concern how to persuade, how to negotiate, and how to exert influence on other people. Being...
Working with Concepts
online courseLearn to use 'formation' and 'elucidation' as ways to think about and work with concepts in your research in social science enterprise. Need to Know There is no prior knowled...
Foundations of Multiculturalism
blended courseCan, and should, a democratic society treat all its members as equals? Should it recognize their specific cultural identities? Is political recognition of ethnicity, religion, or g...
Survey Research: Statistical Analysis and Estimation
top courseThe course is based on a total survey error perspective and discusses the major sources of survey error. Participants will be presented with tools for detection and adjustment of s...
Automated Image and Video Data Analysis
online courseSocial scientists have long argued that images play a crucial role in shaping and reflecting political life. This role is heightened by the bombardment of images that people experi...
Introduction to R
R is one of the most popular programming languages in data science, statistics, and other quantitative sciences, with a growing number of users and organizations using it. It is a...
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...
Web Scraping and Data Mining with R
Workshop contents and objectives The widespread accessibility of the internet and the ongoing digitisation of information has transformed how people communicate and share knowle...
Ethnographic Methods
Workshop Contents and Objectives Ethnographic methods are increasingly being used in diverse and creative ways in both long-term and short-term studies across the social science...
Mixed-Mode Surveys
online courseDue to decreasing response rates around the world, survey designers must explore new ways of recruiting respondents for their surveys. One popular option is to offer different mode...
Introduction to Computational Social Science with R
online courseThe Digital Revolution has produced unprecedented amounts of data that are relevant for researchers in the social sciences, from online surveys to social media user data, travel an...
Introduction to Computational Social Science with Python
online courseThe Digital Revolution has produced unprecedented amounts of data that are relevant for researchers in the social sciences, from online surveys to social media user data, travel an...
Creating Groups from Data. Cluster Analysis and Latent Class Analysis
Workshop Contents and Objectives In this course, you will learn how to create groups from data. For example, you might want to detect different types of web users based on a set...
Bayesian Modelling
Workshop contents and objectives Bayesian statistics has experienced a surge in popularity over the last few decades, primarily due to the computational advancements that have m...
Qualitative Research Designs
Workshop Contents and Objectives At its core, a research design is a basic strategy that guides the research process, from data collection, analysis, interpretation and discussi...
Introduction to Questionnaire Design
Designing questions and questionnaires is broadly described as an important step when planning a survey. However, the advice provided on how to phrase individual questions and resp...
Migration and Gender: Legal, Sociolinguistic and Literary Perspectives
The Summer School on Migration and Gender: Legal, Sociolinguistic and Literary Perspectives offers an interdisciplinary approach to the ways in which migration intersects with gend...
Multivariate Methods for Social Researchers
Workshop Contents and Objectives The focus of this workshop is to introduce tools dealing with many variables (multivariate analysis): building models with several variables and...
Summer School Biotech Training
Join the Biotech Academy in Rome for an intense week of high-performance, highly professional Biotech education at the Università della Tuscia, Viterbo. The Second Edition of the S...
Causal Inference Using Survey Data
This course will introduce you to the concepts and methods of causal inference and causal modeling in the social sciences. It will highlight the relevance of research design, analy...
Introduction to Survey Design
This course gives an introductory overview of the design and implementation of surveys from the initial planning phase to the data preparation as a final step. Topics include surve...
The Politics of Popular Culture
Though often dismissed as “just a bit of fun” (Way, 2021), popular culture’s role in influencing and reflecting broader political developments is finally starting to receive the ac...
Introduction to Social Network Analysis
Social network analysis focuses on the analysis of relations between nodes. Network analysis can be used to model relationships between individuals (e.g., friendship, co-authorship...
How to do Political Philosophy: Methods and Methodology
online courseLearn fundamental inferential statistical techniques in political science research to critically evaluate findings, conduct your research, and interpret statistical results effecti...
Courses 2025
Twentieth Century Berlin: People, Places, Words
Please note: The complete course program and online registration form for Term I 2025 will be available on the FUBiS website from August 2024. This course is about Berlin, the c...
Using Participatory Research Methods in Political Science Research
online courseLearn to adeptly apply narrative, visual, and creative participatory research methods in your research, addressing ethical challenges and acquiring the tools for effective design a...
Introduction to NVivo
online courseDiscover NVivo and learn to manage, code, and analyse qualitative data for academic research, public policy, and non-profit organisations in this introductory course. Need to Kn...
Citizen Science
What does it mean to open science to public participation? How does Citizen Science enable us to practice diversity in knowledge production? How can it challenge our notions of exp...
Europe, Diversity, and the Question of Identity
The past years have seen the EU facing a lot of criticism from various sides and a plethora of challenges threaten the community - internally and externally - and what held its soc...
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Courses 2024
Borders, Security and the Common European Perspective. Fundamental Rights, Free Movement and the Migration Crisis
EU citizens enjoy many freedoms and a high level of protection through, among other things, individual, political, economic and social rights, protection of personal data, anti-dis...
The Circular City: Towards a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem
Due 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...
Polarisation: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Societal Polarisation
top course blended courseAround the world, political and societal discourse is suffering from an increasingly polarised public sphere. Polarisation occurs when the ‘middle’ is lost, and society divides int...
Data Science: Programming with Python
top coursePython has become the dominant programming language used in data science. This course offers an introduction to computational thinking about data-related problems and the implement...
Comparing Countries with Multivariate Statistical Techniques
online courseLearn key statistical techniques for cross-national data analysis, including 'country effect' in multivariate methods, comparing regression estimates, and exploring factorial analy...
Cybersecurity Risk Management
This 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 in Society
top courseThis summer school aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the connection between gender and society. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore various trends and...
How Democracies Emerge and Survive
This 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...
Research Methods in Education: Hands on Experience
The course, “Research Methods in Education: Hands on Experience” is designed to equip education professionals with essential skills in research, evaluation, and innovation. In rece...
Developing Across Differences: Moving Past The Past
top course“I feel discriminated against. Help me.” “There are tensions in our team around racial issues; what should I as the group leader do?” “What are unconscious biases? And why should w...
Making Sense of Political Narratives
online course"Learn more about political narratives, focusing on methodology, epistemology, and analysis. Need to know This class is open to anyone who wants to learn more about political n...
Understanding and Countering Radicalisation and Terrorism
This module provides students with an introduction to the phenomena of radicalisation and terrorism, including key definitions, causal accounts, empirical trends, past and present...
Structural Equation Modeling in R using lavaan (E-Learning Course)
top course online courseParticipants will learn how to interact with the lavaan software and how to run common types of structural equation models (e.g. path models, confirmatory factor analyses, latent r...
Things That Matter
top course blended course“Things that Matter” addresses the tension between the materiality of sources and their digitization. The Summer School maps the possibilities and challenges posed by the digital...
Data Science: Multiple Imputation in Practice (Hybrid)
top course blended courseThis 4-day course teaches you the basics in solving your own missing data problems appropriately. Participants will learn how to form imputation models, how to combine data sets, h...
Mobilizing the Feminist Imaginary: Arts-based Research Approaches and Creative Activism
This course offers a multi-perspectival overview of feminist praxis and its interrelationship with arts-based research approaches. It introduces participants to a variety of invest...
The Science of Fulfillment
top course online courseThis unique experience combines scientific knowledge with introspection and fosters a deep connection with nature, enabling you to align your passions not only with your academic p...
Advanced Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society
During 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...
Data Science: Network Science
top courseHow can networks help us understand and predict social systems? How to find important individuals and communities? How to predict unobserved connections between genes? How to learn...
Disruptive Imagination and Resistance in Europe and the Americas: State – Society – Religion
As challenges and crises multiply, a sense of resignation and helplessness spreads. Climate change, war, inequality, poverty, hunger, and pandemics pose existential threats to our...
Data Science: Machine Learning with Python
top courseThis Machine Learning with Python course will give you all the tools you need to get started or advance your knowledge on machine learning with Python. The course has a strongly...
Global Challenges - Sustainable Futures
Don’t miss out: students who register early can take advantage of the early bird discount on the program fee! The course introduces students to the politics, governance and ethi...
Queering Demography: A Critical Overview of Demographic Studies and Methods
blended courseThis course aims to explore demographic techniques and their impact from a queer perspective. Throughout the course, we will introduce concepts and definitions related to queer stu...
Understanding and Preventing Crime
This 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 these h...
Statistical Methods for Causal Inference
There is great interest among students and practitioners today to understand the causal mechanisms underlying major events. Identifying cause-and-effect relationships is important...
Multilevel Modelling
online course"Learn how to specify, estimate and interpret multilevel models, ranging from simple two-level random intercept models to more complex ones (including three-level, logistic or long...
Web Data Opp Research Workshop
Workshop Focus: The expansion of the Internet and the development of a range of new active and passive measurement tools, particularly on mobile devices, present exciting opport...
Developing Across Differences: DEI & Key Tools To Support a Sustainable, Measurable Impact
top courseThe Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Benchmarks (GDEIB) are the gold standard for organisations that are serious about benefiting from DEI efforts. Rather than “check box” quic...
Gamification Workshop
Gamification 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...
Developing Across Differences: Building Intercultural Viability in Organizations
top courseThe whole is more than the sum of its parts. In its positive sense, that maxim describes the synergistic potential of organizations to combine unity and diversity into innovation....
Interviews as Method of Data Collection in Times of Polarisation
online course"Gain a deep understanding of interviewing as a data collection method by developing your skills in designing interview protocols, dealing with the practicalities of conducting int...
Global Diversity Management
The program highlights the importance of understanding and applying workplace diversity towards sustainability. It is strongly committed to an applied approach in order to match th...
Structural Equation Modelling: An introduction
online course"Immerse yourself in the world of Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and by doing so you will learn about the foundation of this approach, how to specify, estimate, interpret and...
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...
Introduction to Multilevel Analysis
top courseThis course will teach you the theoretical basics of multilevel modelling and some important methodological and statistical issues. You will also learn how to analyse multilevel da...
Urban Changemakers
Cities such as Amsterdam are commonly densely populated and heterogeneous. The melting pot of cultures and varied backgrounds of city residents create the vibrant urban spaces that...
Thrive in a Shifting World: Mastering Self-Leadership
top course online courseAuthentic self-leadership is indispensable in today's rapidly evolving world, where personal integrity and effective decision-making are paramount. In this course, you will delve i...
Data Science: Statistical Programming with R
top courseThis course offers an elaborate introduction to statistical programming with R. Students learn to operate R, form pipelines for data analysis, make high quality graphics, fit, asse...
Developing, Translating, and Pretesting Questionnaires for Cross-Cultural Surveys
online courseThis course introduces you to cross-cultural research, and notably to what it means to produce comparable multilingual questionnaires that ensure data quality, comparability, and u...
Planning the Cycling City
This 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...
European Social Policy
Social policy influences every aspect of our lives. It influences our choices when or if we have children; who will take care of them; when we will retire; where we will live when...
SuRe - Sustainable and Resilient Societies
top courseThe fragility of social systems and their underlying institutional foundations being widely recognized, makes resilience an urgent item in the research agenda of contemporary socia...
A Taste of Science and Engineering
Our course in social sciences will give you a taste of five exciting subjects on offer at Warwick delivered across the Pre-University Summer School. Teaching includes Law, Educatio...
Citizenship and the Politics of Contention
This Summer School aims to deepen students' knowledge about citizenship and the politics of contention and to strengthen their engagement with research questions and their capacity...
Regression Analysis II - Linear Models
The goal is to develop an applied and intuitive (not purely theoretical or mathematical) understanding of the topics and procedures, so that participants can use them in their own...
Introduction to R
online course"Learn how to approach the most common analysis tasks in R with confidence, from exporting your results from R to writing an academic paper or report using Rmarkdown. Need to kn...
Contested Diversity, Antiracism(s) and Transformative Change – Theories, Methods and Practices from International Perspectives
Social movements and anti-racist actors have been criticizing power hierarchies which privilege some (combination of) identities over others for many years. In particular the recen...
Walkscapes: Revitalization of the Dutch Countryside
top courseCan walking be a radical activity? The interdisciplinary summer school Walkscapes sets out in the Dutch countryside, and challenges walking as a radical research practice to thi...
The European Union as a Global Power of Values: The Role of Enlargement in the Promotion of its Values
blended courseThe Summer School entitled “THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A GLOBAL POWER Of VALUES: THE ROLE OF ENLARGEMENT IN THE PROMOTION OF ITS VALUES ” and the time of the June 2024 aims to highlight...
The Regenerative City
top courseRegeneration is quickly becoming a trend in farming, finance, ecology, urban development and social change. For cities and living (eco)systems to thrive they require the capacity t...
Machine Learning Methods for Political Science
online course"Learn about what constitutes 'Machine Learning', the varying model types and how to construct and run different methods using social scientific data-sets. Need to know Student...
Feeding the Billions: Challenges and Innovation in Food and Water Security
There are 7.8 billion people to feed today, and this number is expected to increase to about 10 billion by 2050. More food is needed, and more food means more water for crops and l...
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a research approach consisting of both an analytical technique and a conceptual perspective for researchers interested in studying configu...
Developing Across Differences: Applying Neuroscience
top courseApplied Neuroscience and Brain Organisational Neuroscience are new disciplines, made possible only with recent technological innovations that offer scholars and practitioners new a...
Data Science: Applied Text Mining
top courseThis course introduces the basic and advanced concepts and ideas in text mining and natural language processing. In this course, students will learn how to apply text mining method...
Service Design for Innovation
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...
Structural Equation Models
1. Introduction to latent variable models, measurement error, path diagrams. 2. Estimation, identification, interpretation of model parameters. 3. Scaling and interpreta...
Migration Summer School: Women in International Migration
The presence of women in migration flows is not a new element, as females have always been an important component of international migration. “Women in International Migration: Ad...
Cybercrime and Cyber-Security
The use of computer technologies is essential for everyday life. BUT just as computer technologies, devices and networking have been expanded, cybercrime has expanded too. With...
Online Behavioral Research
The Internet is revolutionizing how empirical research is conducted across the social sciences. Without the need for intermediaries, individual researchers can now conduct large-sc...
Substance Use Disorders: Critical Views on Interventions and Recovery
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are the third most costly mental health disorders in high-income countries. These costs are related to greater health problems and/or increasing disa...
Crime Investigations
This course will introduce you to crime investigation techniques such as statement taking for victim and witnesses, evidence gathering at crime scenes and the subsequent management...
Land Governance and the Politics of Fair Transitions
top courseWelcome to the LANDac (the Netherlands Land Academy) Annual Summer School “Land Governance for Development”. Large-scale acquisition of land in the Global South has received a grea...
Global Mental Health and Human Rights: Perspectives on Environmental, Gender and Economic Racism
Mental health and human rights are closely intertwined. Mental well-being is linked to peace and equity, yet marginalized individuals are often blamed for their struggles. It's t...
Mental Health, Youth and Society
With unprecedented levels of mental distress and addiction reported globally, recent events exposed fissures within our social and health care systems. Behavioral health, focused o...
Interpretive Research Methods
online course"You will gain a practical understanding of the typical steps of an interpretive research process – from how to formulate an interpretive research question to how to present and do...
Introduction to R for Data Analysis
The open-source software package R is free of charge and offers a variety of standard data analysis procedures as well as a comprehensive repertoire of highly specialized processes...
Survey Design
online courseLearn to independently plan, design, and conduct surveys, gaining essential knowledge and skills in research design, sampling, measurement techniques, questionnaire design, survey...
Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries
The 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 Moral Organization
Scandals in public and private organizations are an everyday occurrence. Money laundering by banks, sexual abuse by employees of NGO's, the marketing of unsafe products, are just a...
Analyzing Panel Data
Analysts increasingly find themselves presented with data that vary both over cross-sectional units and across time. Such panel data provides unique and valuable opportunities to a...
Qualitative Methods in Research
The objective of this course is to introduce students to qualitative methods in research that have been used in Demography. The specific goals of the course are to: First, introduc...
Developing Across Differences: Collaborative DEI
top courseCollaborative DEI—internally across all elements of the organisation and externally with customers and other stakeholders—serves two mutually reinforcing purposes that allow organi...
Gender Equality and Diversity in Academia
online courseLed by a consortium of European universities, the Redesigning Equality and Scientific Excellence Together (RESET) project aims to place gender equality and diversity at the heart o...
The Local Impact of Global Migration
In this module we examine the consequences of migration in an urban context. We look at images, pictures, food, architecture and all other traces of migration in the city. We will...
Key Topics in Urban Studies
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....
Social Network Analysis
online course"Learn how to conduct applied social network analysis in various social scientific disciplines and practices, while gaining an understanding of theory-driven research questions wit...
SPSS for Statistical Data Analysis
online courseCourse content: This course contains the following topics: Chapter 1: Getting started (March 2-3 2024) -- Installing (trial version) and opening SPSS -- SPSS Data, Outp...
Fundamentals of Coaching
top courseWhether you're a newbie or just curious, this course is designed for you. Dive into the coaching essentials, learn hands-on, and set off on the path to becoming a certified coach....
Applying Open-source LLMs in Social and Behavioral Sciences
The course introduces the use of open-source large language models (LLMs) from the Hugging Face ecosystem for research in the behavioral and social sciences. In short lectures, par...
Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis
online course"Learn the basics of qualitative comparative analysis and how to apply it in your research project. Need to know Prior knowledge of social science methodology would be helpful fo...
New Media and the Digitalisation of Everyday Life
The topic of digital media in the context of modern society is ever-evolving. We often wonder how new media shape our social world, how it affects us at an individual level, how di...
Developing Across Differences: Addressing Hot Global Issues Locally
top courseIncreasingly, global events spark divisive local reactions — even, in some cases, provoking violence — far away from their places of origin. Explore this troubling “spillover effec...
Introduction to Stata for Data Management and Analysis
online courseThe 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 wish to refres...
Comprehensive Introduction to Research Methodology and Design
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...
Understanding and Preventing Suicide and Suicidal Behavior
top courseThis summer school will inspire you to learn more about this tragedy called suicide- that many people suffer from. We accomplish this through interactive lectures, and workshops f...
How the Brain Works and What Can Go Wrong
The 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. H...
Black Humanities
Join Bristol’s world-leading Centre for Black Humanities as we examine the histories, creative production and intellectual legacies of Africa and its diasporas that weave through c...
Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence in Conflict: Achievements, Challenges and Ways Forward
All around the world, numerous men, women, boys and girls suffer the harsh consequences of human trafficking and sexual violence in conflict. Thousands of people are forced into se...
Death Distribution Methods to Estimate Mortality in Limited Data Contexts
In recent decades, the quality of mortality data in developing countries has improved significantly. However, even today, studies that seek to produce mortality estimates for the r...
European Economic Integration – Opportunity or Threat for the Future of Europe?
online courseThe last decades have been characterized by successive crises on the European continent (financial, immigration, health, energy, etc.). The challenges of each crisis create turbule...
Open Science: What, Why, and How?
The goal of scientific research is to accumulate knowledge. Researchers generate hypotheses and collect data to investigate whether or not empirical observations are consistent wit...
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...
Mindfulness and Compassion-based Interventions
As 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...
Transnationalism in Contemporary Society
This multidisciplinary course delves into the intricate realm of transnationalism, exploring its practices and strategies for intervention. Tailored for students specialising in or...
Data Science: Data Analysis
top courseThe course Data science: Data Analysis offers a range of techniques and algorithms from statistics, machine learning and data mining to make predictions about future events and to...
Introduction to Conjoint Experiments
online course"Learn about the logic and basic notions of conjoint analysis (CJA), and how to apply these by looking at different applications of conjoint analysis within the field of behavioura...
Women's Right Protection: a Pathway to International and European Mechanisms Against Discrimination
This course aims at studying the main International and European Law mechanisms in place to protect different forms of discrimination on grounds of gender and sexual orientation, d...
Comparative Historical Analysis
online courseLearn key aspects of Comparative Historical Analysis, including process tracing, path dependency, case selection, periodisation, and project design. Need to Know No particula...
Advanced Multilevel Analysis
top courseThis three day course will teach you advanced topics in multilevel modelling. The three-day course builds upon the contents of the other summer school course “Introduction to multi...
Social Traumas Living With Us
A unique opportunity awaits students of ELTE Summer University of 2024 on Social Traumas Living with Us — to learn about the depth and gravity of social traumas, their transgenerat...
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, and Society
Students will learn the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence and understand the implications of these techniques in creative processes, and in society as a whole. During the cou...
Creating Change: Integrating Narrative Research And Storytelling Practice
top courseStorytelling pervades all spheres of life: people write their own autobiography, social media enable to share your story, art works tell a story, organizations search for their cor...
Developing Across Differences: Culturally Adaptive Coaching & Mentoring
top courseCulture matters for leaders — of all sorts — to more effectively support and offer appropriate guidance to those they interact with. Coaching and mentoring models can have been pro...
Regression for Publishing
This course builds directly upon the foundations laid in Regression II, with a focus on successfully applying linear and generalized linear regression models. After a brief review...
Well-being Masterclass: Discovering and Applying the Science of Positive Psychology
Explore the philosophical and practical foundations of strengths, well-being and other areas associated with positive psychological phenomena, including love; gratitude; time persp...
Migrant Inclusion: Policies, Practices in the Age of Digitalization
This multidisciplinary course will provide you with insight into relevant issues on the topic of migrant inclusion across three domains: economic inclusion, social inclusion, and m...
Europe, Migration, Refugees
Don’t miss out: students who register early can take advantage of the early bird discount on the program fee! Regarding transnational migration, the EU promotes a political reas...
Climate Change and Sustainability in Practice
There 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,...
International Development Studies
The 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...
Transformational Coaching
top courseAre you a student or a young professional and do you want to acquire or deepen your coaching skills? Then this Summer School is for you. This course will teach you the empathic coa...
Social Indicators: Theory and Applications
This course aims to give a broad overview of some of the most popular indicators used in social science research, both from a theoretical and a practical perspective. It will span...
Transnational Childhoods in Europe
Families that are geographically dispersed due to economic or forced migration; families in which a member works abroad almost continuously; families in which a (mostly) young pers...
Developing Across Differences: Brain Science and Working Across Diversity
top courseDo your stakeholders question the relevance and evidence behind diversity, biases, and change? This one-day course provides an introduction to the latest insights from neuroscience...
Network Analysis - Statistical Analysis of Social Network Data
Prerequisite knowledge for the course includes the fundamentals of probability and statistics, especially hypothesis testing and regression analysis. This intermediate level cours...
Case Study Methods
blended courseThe central goal of the seminar is to enable students to create and critique methodologically sophisticated case study research designs in the social sciences. To do so, the semina...
Quantitative Text Analysis and Machine Learning Using R
online course"Learn to understand political science literatures using common quantitative text analysis approaches and how to interpret the results with the most common methods used by social s...
Intercultural Competence for Professionals
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...
Foundations and Research Methods in Social Epidemiology
blended courseSocial epidemiology is the branch of epidemiology concerned with the way that social structures, institutions and relationships influence health. It focuses on the social forces th...
Applications of Focus Groups
online courseEnhance your focus group research by achieving an appropriate group composition and gaining a clear understanding of how to use focus groups as a qualitative method. Need to Kno...
Multilevel Modelling
online course"Learn how to specify, estimate and interpret multilevel models, ranging from simple two-level random intercept models to more complex ones (including three-level, logistic or long...
Developing Across Differences: Reducing Cross-Cultural Tensions In Groups
top courseThis two-day, techniques-focused course is designed for those seeking to lower tensions and improve cooperation and performance when working with diverse (national culture, age, ge...
Global Health, Drugs, Policy and Power
The summer school will address a number of important questions at the heart of international drug policy discussions today. The course will include lectures, case studies, mock deb...
Mixed Methods Designs: Principles and Procedures
online course"Learn how to consolidate and enrich the mixed and multimethod skills of researchers, so that you may implement richer and more robust designs in your projects. Need to know Yo...
Process Tracing Methods
online course"Learn about when process tracing can be used and how it can be applied most effectively. Experience the key aspects of process tracing through practical, hands-on advice and techn...
Meaningful Leadership for a Better World
top courseDo you have ideas for a better world and are you serious about realizing them? Do you want to be part of a community that shares this ambition no matter what? And would you like to...
Unlock Your Dream Career
top course online courseHarmonizing Your Passions and Purpose: Crafting Your Ikigai Career Journey Are you at the end of your studies and are you struggling with what is next? Do you feel like you have...
Developing Across Differences: (De)Polarising Dialogue
top courseIn the workplace, classroom and on our streets, everyday interactions increasingly provoke angry divisiveness. Red lines are drawn and redrawn between “Them” and “Us”, making civil...
An Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods
top courseIn this summer course, you will receive an introduction to qualitative research methods. We will discuss the philosophical grounds of qualitative research and indicate how to check...
Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling with R
This intermediate level 5-day course presents the highly popular methodology of multilevel modeling (MLM) across the social, behavioral, educational, life, biomedical, marketing, a...
Serious and Organised Crime
Serious and Organised Crime (SOC) has become a significant concern and appears to be on the increase globally. Within this course we explore the motivations, activities and structu...
Creative Writing: From Inspiration to Craft
Unlock your creativity: Join our immersive creative writing course and embark on a transformative literary journey. Dive into the art of storytelling and hone your skills in crafti...
Measuring Citizen’s Digital Behaviours Using Web Trackers and Data Donations
blended courseThe expansion of the Internet, together with the capabilities of modern connected devices, result in a plethora of data that promise fascinating opportunities to understand individ...
Introduction to Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (Pls-Sem) Using Stata
PLS-SEM, also referred to as partial least squares path modelling, is an alternative approach to SEM which is being increasingly used in social sciences, psychology, business admin...
Bootcamp: Ethnography and Design
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...
Futuring for Sustainability: Anxiety, Backlash, and the Political
top courseWhat we do in the present is profoundly influenced by our expectations of our futures. The annual Sustainable Futures Summer School (formerly known as 'Futuring for Sustainability'...
Global London: Contemporary Urbanism, Culture and Space
This 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...
Panel Data Analysis
online course"Learn a wide range of panel data methods estimated with Ordinary Least Squares Regression and how to apply these to substantive research questions for dependent variables that are...
The Fundamentals of Human Rights
This 3 week 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...
Science as a Cultural Human Right
The important role played by science and technology and the potential for dual use makes it imperative to assess scientific research and its products not only on their scientific,...
Peace Research
The 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...
Introduction to Social Network Analysis
online courseLearn social network analysis for political research, mastering key concepts, methods, and practical applications using R. Need to Know Prior knowledge of R and statistical m...
Transparent Research and Open Science
The course addresses central aspects of good research practice and invites you to think about your own methods and academic habits. We discuss what qualifies as “good” research pra...
Europe, Migration, Refugees
Don’t miss out: students who register early can take advantage of the early bird discount on the program fee! Regarding transnational migration, the EU promotes a political reas...
Female Leadership in the Digital Age
Innovative and enriching, inspiring and engaging, the School for Female Leadership in the Digital Age offers a unique opportunity. Students: - Are positioned at the intersectio...
Developing Across Differences: Designing Inclusive, Intercultural Organisations
top courseOrganisations continue to realise the strategic benefits and social relevance of embracing diversity and inclusiveness within their operations. In our long experience, sustainable...
Transformative Research Unlocked
Guided by the central question, "What is my role as a researcher in just sustainability transitions?", this school goes beyond traditional academic boundaries to address this cruci...
Going Beyond Conventional Web Surveys
blended courseWeb surveys have emerged as a highly popular method for data collection, characterized by their speed of implementation and cost-effectiveness. Their prominence has further acceler...
Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Environments
online courseLearn how to plan, prepare and conduct field research in particularly challenging environments, such as closed/authoritarian political settings and conflict/post-conflict/post-war...
Migration and Integration: Refugees, Rights & Realities
online courseThis two-week online winter course will look at legal, political and human ramifications of displacement around the world. In our online international classroom, we will discuss th...
Qualitative Research Methods & Data Analysis
Qualitative Research Methods and Data Analysis presents strategies for analyzing and making sense of qualitative data. Both descriptive and interpretive qualitative studies will be...
Media and Crime
This course will introduce you to current debates concerning crime and the media. We explore how crime news is constructed rather than being purely factual and delve into topics li...
Platformization, Digital Disinformation and Non-Democratic Politics: Belarus in Comparative Perspective
The promise of the Internet to foster democratic bottom-up participation of civil society in political decision-making processes has been widely questioned at least since the Arab...
Developing Across Differences: Expanding the Repertoire
top courseThis one-day workshop will help you expand and enhance the set of experiential activities you use for intercultural- and/or diversity-focused trainings, whether you work with profe...
The Rise of China and Its Implications For World Politics
This course aims to provide a thorough analysis of the important issues and processes related to China’s politics and international relations. It focuses on developments that have...
Holocaust Testimonies and Their Afterlives
This nine-day, intensive summer course will investigate the genealogy of the era of the witness, focusing on the emergence of Holocaust testimony as the model for eyewitness docume...
Qualitative Data Analysis
online course"Gain a solid foundation and applied skills in the basic NVivo features for planning, conducting and reporting qualitative data analysis in your research. Need to know A basic...
Game Theory
This course in designed as a brief introduction to individual decision making. Its main objective is to provide the students with basic game theory techniques that can be useful to...
The Norwegian Welfare State
This 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...
Rhetoric Recrafted
top courseAre you surprised by your neighbour Karen's political support for the corrupted politician? Do you think Chad, your childhood friend, would really be happier if we all stuck to two...
Global Issues (Social, Economic, Environmental)
The goal of the course is to raise awareness of global issues that concern modern societies. The course is divided into two parts: The first part outlines how international economi...
Developing Across Differences: Intersections
top courseIn this ‘advanced beginner’ course, we explore intersections between Intercultural communication, Diversity, equity & inclusion and Global learning. Using expert inputs, discussion...
Courses 2023
Doing Intersectional Quantitative Research
Intersectionality studies draw attention to the interrelatedness of inequalities or power hierarchies along social dimensions, and it is often associated with qualitative research....
Big Data: Collecting Web Data with R
The increasing availability of large amounts of online data enables new types of research in the social sciences. This course equips participants with the R programming skills nece...
Concepts and Conceptualization: Building Blocks of Social Science
Concepts are fundamental building blocks of social science research. However, they are also contested, difficult to construct, and subject to change. This course provides participa...
R for Advanced Users
This course aims to sharpen R skills and provide materials for R users who are keen to learn R beyond the basics. We will cover how to write and work efficiently, build better func...
Qualitative Data Analysis: Concepts and Techniques
The course covers foundational topics of qualitative data analysis and trains participants, hands-on, to perform two popular data analytic techniques: thematic analysis and quali...
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.
An Introduction to Latent Variable Modelling
This short-course provides an introduction to latent variable modelling – an ever increasingly used approach in the behavioural and social sciences.
Python Programming for Social Scientists
online courseLearn how to conduct data collection and complex data analysis with hands-on exercises and practical tips to help you start your journey in the world of Python. Need to know...
Introduction to Conjoint Experiments
online courseLearn about the logic and basic notions of conjoint analysis (CJA), and how to apply these by looking at different applications of conjoint analysis within the field of behavioural...
Together Apart - Sailing Europe
We offer time and space for an open exchange of ideas. The participants of the summer school, organized by the Hans and Marlene Farmont Foundation, are invited to spend time with y...
Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis
online courseLearn the basics of qualitative comparative analysis and how to apply it in your research project. Need to know Prior knowledge of social science methodology would be helpful...
Open Science
The goal of scientific research is to accumulate knowledge. Researchers generate hypotheses and collect data in order to investigate whether or not empirical observations are consi...
Qualitative Data Analysis: Research Designs and Practices
This course guides researchers in situating and implementing their own qualitative data work within comparable case and process tracing strategies as two powerful research design...
Quantitative Text Analysis and Machine Learning Using R
online courseLearn to understand political science literatures using common quantitative text analysis approaches and how to interpret the results with the most common methods used by social sc...
Visual Analysis in Politics Research
online courseLearn how visual and nonverbal elements can be systematically analysed with visual techniques in your politics research. Need to know You will need a basic understanding of c...
Online Qualitative Data Collection: Methods, Technology and Ethics
online courseGet a grasp on concepts and assumptions of social science methodology using digital technologies. You'll learn how to design and collect qualitative data online and address potenti...
Introduction to R/Open Science Practices
This 2-day course will introduce participants to important open science practices in the social sciences including the pre-registration of study hypotheses, experimental design and...
Digitalization in Fields of Social Work and Health Promotion
In this year´s International Summer School we examine how the fast development of Digitalization affects the fields of social work and health education and how these working fields...
Applied Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
“Non-reproducible single occurrences are of no significance to Science.” - Popper (1956). With this quotation, Karl Popper already named in 1956 a highly relevant issue in science...
Pluralist case study designs for qualitative research
In this course, we will move beyond well accepted qualitative case study design templates (namely positivistic, interpretivist and critical realist templates) to develop and use a...
Introduction to Text as Data
Facing the massive volumes of text data that are available in digital format and valuing their potential, over recent years social scientists have increasingly turned to methods...
Survey and Questionnaire Design
Surveys are among the most popular methods of data collection as they are supposedly straightforward to run. However, in practice, designing survey collecting good quality data is...
Torun Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Program
THUS is an opportunity for students interested in Humanities and Social Sciences to participate in a 4-week-long summer research project in one of the following areas: Ancient Hist...
Regression 2: Logistic Regression and General Linear Models: Binary, Ordered, Multinomial and Count Outcomes
Social scientists are often confronted with outcome variables that are not linear, such as binary, or ordinal survey items, or event counts. The aim of this course is to make stu...
Complexity Methods for Behavioral Science: A Toolbox for Studying Change
This course will discuss techniques that allow for the study of human behaviour from the perspective of the Complexity Sciences, specifically, Complex Adaptive Systems. Contrary to...
Applied evaluation research design and methods
In an ever more complex world, evaluation plays a crucial role in making better informed decisions (e.g. public policy decisions, decisions when running a programme or project for...
Hard-to-Reach: Applied Research Methods with Hidden, Marginal and Excluded Populations
ocussing on Hard-to-Reach populations, the course provides an introduction to research methods in conducting research, both qualitative and quantitative, on marginal, hidden and ex...
Creative Psychotherapy
This course introduces Creative Psychotherapy (CP) to those seeking a deeper understanding of human nature, and experience how creativity enriches and enhances our knowledge, perce...
Panel Data Analysis
This course provides a general survey of the various panel data methods with an emphasis on causal inference. You get to practice these methods with popular statistical software S...
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...
Ethnography and Fieldwork
Examining and understanding human behavior, including how social, organizational, administrative and political processes play out in different arenas, is a key concern for many soc...
From Dragons to Transformers and the Olympics: Popular Culture and World Politics
The course explores the relationship between popular culture and world politics in three ways. First, it considers popular culture as a reflection of political and societal process...
Discourse Network Analysis
Discourse Network Analysis is a methodological toolbox for measuring and analyzing policy debates and their development over time. At its core, the software Discourse Network Analy...
Designing Successful Strategies for NGOs
Gain a deeper insight into strategic management within a specific not-for-profit sector (NGO). This course provides examples of good practice by combining classical lectures, semin...
Comparative Historical Analysis: Using History to Enrich Social Inquiry
This course offers guidance to scholars exploring macro-historical questions and looking to Comparative Historical Analysis to better understand the methodological implications of...
Visual Thinking for (PhD) Researchers
Workshop Contents and Objectives The overall aim of this workshop is to help participants enhance their thinking and communication skills through the use of visual thinking, such...
Migration and Gender: Legal, Sociolinguistic and Literary Perspectives
The Summer School on Migration and Gender: Legal, Sociolinguistic and Literary Perspectives offers an interdisciplinary approach to the ways in which migration intersects with gend...
Global Public Life
blended courseThe inaugral Theory, Culture & Society Summer School provides a unique opportunity to join a community of scholars for an intensive study & cultural programme. Participants will be...
Aesthetic, Anti-aesthetics, Anaesthetics: Art Through the Senses
The course is organised around the traditional division of the senses into sight, sound, touch, smell and taste. It begins by examining the ways in which senses have been hierarchi...
Advanced Questionnaire Design
Surveys provide key information regarding attitudes and behaviors of the general population as well as in specific subgroups. Reliable and valid survey data relies, amongst others,...
Qualitative Interviewing - Experts
The Qualitative Interviewing – experts course equips you with critical knowledge and advanced practical skills.A unique feature of the course is its emphasis on application of know...
Analytical Pragmatism: An Introduction to Relational Social Science
The purpose of this course is to help you “unlearn” some of the default lessons about the conduct of social-scientific inquiry. This field is namely dominated by neopostivism and s...
Multilevel Regression Analysis with R
The course covers multilevel regression analysis with R for two types of data; individuals nested within social contexts (e.g. cross-national surveys), and repeated observations fr...
Ethnographic Methods: From Fieldwork to Textwork
What happens after fieldwork? How do we get from data generated using ethnographic methods to written accounts that are not only academically robust, but also meaningful? In this c...
Interpretive Research Methods
This course introduces approaches from narrative methods to discourse analysis and the typical steps of the research process -from how to formulate interpretive research question...
Introduction to Machine Learning for Social Sciences
Participants will learn the fundamentals of machine learning as a data analysis approach for social sciences, and will have an overview of the most common and versatile classes of...
Applied Social Network Analysis
Social scientists have never been more relevant than they are today - for the present and the future. With the increasing availability of data, the fast paced professionalization o...
Research and Social Change Residential Workshop
Co-production is increasingly used to address issues of inequality across a range of academic fields such as health, disability studies, human geography, sociology, social policy,...
Visual Analysis & Contentious Politics
Studies on online political communication, participation and mobilisation increasingly integrate visual materials among relevant data for the understanding of contentious politics....
Rethinking Comparison: Reinventing How and Why to Do Comparative Research
How should we design non-controlled comparative research? The goal of this module is to introduce students to logics of comparative inquiry available to scholars beyond the already...
Introduction to Data Science with R and Rstudio for the Social Sciences
Whether you are a social scientist, a business analysist or a data journalist, analysing data is key to greater understanding of the world around us. Whether it’s understanding pol...
Assessing and Mitigating Privacy Risks in the Internet of Things
The interdisciplinary summerschool on privacy provides an intensive one week academic post-graduate programme teaching privacy from a technical, legal and social perspective.
Developing Across Differences: Experiential Perspective-taking
top courseUsing The Anne Frank House’s Memory Walk methodology, this course supports early-career (and all) practitioners in strengthening their abilities to facilitate transformative perspe...
Metodi quantitativi per la previsione sociale
L’Italian Institute for the Future organizza quest’estate la seconda edizione della Summer School in Futures Studies dedicata all’apprendimento e alla sperimentazione di alcuni dei...
Transparency International School on Integrity 2023
blended courseTransparency International School on Integrity is an annual state-of-the-art anti-corruption and accountability training for future leaders. The School exposes its participants to...
Introduction to Machine Learning with R and R Studio
Due to the further digitization of society in general, digital data have become available in large quantities (Big Data). Because Big Data (many observations) is also often high-di...
Mapping Violences
The theme of the 2023 edition: "Mapping violences" The Summer School programme will the commitments of EHESS since its foundation: critical thinking, inter-disciplinarity and in...
Facilitating Group Model Building to Support the Sustainable Development Goals
This course will focus on developing facilitator skills to guide a stakeholder group toward a shared model of a complex problem related to the Sustainable Development Goals with Gr...
Europe, Migration, Refugees
In the last decade, EU experienced unprecedented migration movements. EU’s response has been shaped by distinguishing between “deserving refugees” and “undeserving economic migrant...
Ethics in a Global Context
The LSUE’s global dialog focuses on topics such as the ethics of human rights, gender justice, economic, financial and corporate ethics, the ethics of digitization, automation, r...
Mixed Methods Designs: Principles and Procedures
online courseLearn how to consolidate and enrich the mixed and multimethod skills of researchers, so that you may implement richer and more robust designs in your projects. Need to know Y...
Introduction to Regression and Inferential Statistics
Regression is the most commonly used statistical technique in the social sciences and the foundation of more advanced approaches. In this course we study regression and its necessa...
Psychology of Decision Making
This course is an exploration of making every day and long-term decisions through the lens of social science. We will examine why people make the decisions they do and practical, r...
Critical Theory & Critical Sustainability Engagements: Anthropological Perspectives
Critical theoretical and activist engagements on topics such as human rights, gender violence, global pandemics, coloniality, racism and environmental sustainability are hot topics...
Advanced Text Analysis
The course covers advanced methods for quantitative text analysis. Lectures and coding sessions would provide students with an overview of tools and techniques to apply these meth...
An introduction to Latent Class Analysis
This workshop will involve a mixture of interactive lecture-type sessions and practical examples using real-life epidemiological datasets in Mplus.
Structural Equation Modelling
In this course we cover a variety of models with observed and latent variables. We show the possibilities of SEM in an intuitive manner, without neglecting the complexities of SEM.
Political Geography
This course will examine the ever-evolving relationships between space, people and power – or territory, nation and state. Over the past 350 years the territorial nation-state has...
Introduction to R
The goal of this course is to provide an accessible entry into the world of R, preparing participants to approach the most common analysis tasks using R, including data cleaning,...
Multi-Method Research in Theory and Practice
This course teaches early career researchers how to combine two or more different methodological approaches in their empirical projects. We will cover traditional and novel approac...
Comparative Research Designs
This course enables you to develop a robust comparative research design from A to Z: thinking comparatively, ‘casing’, case selection strategies, data collection/management and dat...
European Limits : Culture, Identity, Society
It is clear that the serious crises that Europe has been experiencing since 2008 have multiple causes, and that the difficulty of overcoming them is largely due to the defects in t...
Introduction to Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA)
This course will teach you the fundamentals of Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) and help you design your first NCA research project.
Process Tracing Methods (Two week course)
Process tracing is a case-based method for learning about how things work within cases. This two-week course provides a practical, hands-on introduction to process tracing. In th...
Advanced Structural Equation Modelling
In this workshop we move beyond SEM basics and truly dive into the flexibility of these models including advanced topics, longitudinal, and multilevel data structures.
Introduction to R
online courseLearn how to approach the most common analysis tasks in R with confidence, from exporting your results from R to writing an academic paper or report using Rmarkdown. Need to kno...
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; Maintenance, Differentiation and Uses for Regenerative Medicine
This course is designed for both junior and senior scientists who would like to acquire some knowledge on maintenance, expansion and characterization of induced pluripotent stem ce...
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Performing Basics and Advanced Analyses using R (Two week course)
Qualitative Comparative Analysis models causal complexity by analyzing necessary or sufficient conditions for an outcome. This course introduces both the nuts and bolts of QCA, a...
Leadership Through the Ages
This course is focused on dissidents, sages, and resistors who wrought change within Bohemia, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.
Conflict, Challenge and Change: State - Society - Religion
The call for GUSEGG 2023 is OPEN! The Graz International Summer School Seggau (GUSEGG) is a 2-weeks international academic program inviting motivated and interested students from a...
EU Enlargement in Western Balkans and the New Institutional Culture
blended courseThe Summer School entitled "EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans and the New Institutional Culture – Interdisciplinary approaches", which will be held in July 2023 at the premises...
Together Apart - Sailing Europe
We offer time and space for an open exchange of ideas. The participants of the summer school, organized by the Hans and Marlene Farmont Foundation, are invited to spend time with y...
Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
The TUM School of Management – consistently top in the rankings of business schools in Germany for its outstanding teaching and research activities – invites you to be part of its...
Qualitative Data Analysis
online courseGain a solid foundation and applied skills in the basic NVivo features for planning, conducting and reporting qualitative data analysis in your research. Need to know A basic...
Inferential Network Analysis
Inferential Network Analysis introduces statistical methods for analysing networks. Networks, or graphs, are sets of nodes and their connecting ties. Networks are used to model a w...
Developing Across Differences: Advanced Techniques
top courseThis participant-centered course is designed for experienced professionals to peer-share, enhance your existing techniques, and add approaches to your toolbox. Over two days, disco...
Critical Discourse Analysis: Texts, Contexts and Power
This course is for anyone interested in analysing how language is used (and abused) in different socio-political contexts. You will learn how to analyse texts, how to interpret you...
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...
Working with Concepts
online courseLearn to use 'formation' and 'elucidation' as ways to think about and work with concepts in your research in social science enterprise. Need to know No prerequisite knowledge...
The Local Impact of Global Migration
In this module we examine the consequences of migration in an urban context. We look at images, pictures, food, architecture and all other traces of migration in the city. We will...
Multiscale Modeling and its Applications
top courseMultiscale modeling is a powerful approach to studying complex systems in various fields such as biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. It involves using multiple models at...
Learning City. Beyond the Classroom
Viadrinicum is an annual summer school at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), devoted to the countries of the Eastern Partnership, and the larger context of Centr...
Crises and Corruption, Fiscal and Tax Consequences for the European citizen
online courseThe last decades have been characterized by successive crises on the European continent (financial, immigration, health, energy, etc.). The challenges of each crisis create turbule...
Using Participatory Research Methods in Political Science Research
online courseLearn how to use appropriate participatory research methods within your research-project process. Need to know No prior experience in participatory research methods is requir...
Migrants, Human Rights, Democracy
The Summer School, organized by the Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement, focuses on displaced lives and vulnerability in the Euro-Mediterranean area, t...
Randomized Experimental Methods: Survey, Lab, Field and Conjoint Experiments
Experiments became a standard part of the methodological toolkit of social scientists, they are well-suited to facilitate true casual inferences. The course covers implementing, a...
Qualitative Data Analysis
online courseGain a solid foundation and applied skills in the basic NVivo features for planning, conducting and reporting qualitative data analysis in your research. Need to know A basic...
Feminist Peace and Security Studies: The Gendered Continuum of Peace-War
This 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...
The Sustainable City: An Integrated Perspective
This summer school approaches the sustainable city from a profoundly interdisciplinary perspective - bridging natural sciences, urban technology and social sciences and humanities....
Intercultural Differences: A Challenge & an Opportunity
Interbiz 2023: The Smart Move Co-organised by the University of Lille (largest French university and in the top 100 European most innovative universities of the Times Higher...
Getting Started with R: An Introduction to Data Analysis
In this “hands-on” interactive course participants are introduced to data analytics using the statistical program R. The aim is to provide an accessible high-quality course for eve...
Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies
Eight weekly courses will introduce students to cognitive approaches to the study of multilectal mediated communication and will offer insights from Translation & Interpreting Stud...
Collecting and Analyzing Longitudinal Social Network Data
Many social scientists are interested in understanding how social networks emerge and/or how they shape individual behavior. These questions of network formation (“selection”) and...
Advanced Survey Design
This course in 'advanced survey design' takes students beyond the introductory courses offered in BA and MA programs and will discuss current issues in one of the most important da...
Causal Inference with Natural Experiments: DiD, RDD, IV, & Matched Designs
This course covers research that draws causal conclusions about phenomena that were not randomised. Methods include matching, IV, discontinuity designs, and difference-in-differen...
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...
Gaming approaches for Analysing and Supporting Complex Decision-Making
Decision-making is often complex: interests of those involved can conflict and several options often compete for support and funding. In addition, decision-making needs to be sensi...
On War and Peace: How Tensions and Conflicts Cross Societies
Today we are living in a declared war in Europe. A devastating war. But have we ever lived in peace? How do 'wars' rage in various spheres of society (politics, religion, economics...
Cologne Summer School on Migration
blended courseThe program will tackle the topic of migration in its multifaceted aspects and effects with diverse disciplinary approaches from a global point of view. In Economics, Legal and Soc...
Interviews as Method of Data Collection in Times of Polarisation
online courseGain hands-on experience in designing and conducting interviews in your research, and learn to maximise and report your interview data appropriately. Need to know Any prior k...
Courses 2022
Quantitative methods in social research
blended courseThis course is designed to introduce applied researchers to and help them become familiar with quantitative methodologies in emprical social research. The introductory methods cour...
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...
Urban Housing in Central and Southeastern Europe
This Summer School focuses on recent developments in urban housing markets: how do financialisation, economic crisis and austerity policies impinge upon housing provision? How do t...
Social Networks
blended courseNetwork Analysis is a rapidly growing field among quantitative social sciences. Networks permeate everyday life and contemporary social phenomena are increasingly represented as ne...
Doing Intersectional Quantitative Research
Intersectionality appeals to many inequality scholars, but how to translate it to quantitative methods? Come discover answers based on the most recent literature and standard stati...
Refugee children and families in Europe - social work and counselling
Persecution, conflicts and human rights violations continue to force people to flee their homes and seek safety in Europe. Many families with children or unaccompanied minors risk...
Multi-Level Regression Analysis of Cross-Sectional and Panel Data with R
The course covers multi-level linear regression with R for two types of data; individuals nested within social contexts (e.g. cross-national surveys), and repeated observations fro...
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...
Multi-Method in Pactice: Pluralist Case Study Designs
In this course, we will move beyond well accepted qualitative case study templates (namely positivistic, interpretivist and critical realist templates) to develop and use a ‘bricol...
Introduction to Regression Analysis
blended courseRegression is one of the most commonly used method for quantitative analyses: it can be applied in almost any field for research purposes, for driving informed decisions or, more g...
Discourse Network Analysis
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Regression 1: Linear Regression
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
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...
Rare Diseases
The 8th Rare Disease 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 nov...
Survey and Questionnaire Design
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Science, Religion and Health
The primary focus of the summer school is to provide a strong theoretical and methodological basis for early-career researchers doing social scientific research on the entanglement...
Regression 2: Logistic Regression and General Linear Models
Social scientists are often confronted with outcome variables that are not linear, such as binary, or ordinal survey items, or event counts. The aim of this course is to make stude...
Complexity Methods for Behavioural Science: A Toolbox for Studying Change
This course will discuss analytic techniques that allow for the study of human behaviour from the perspective of the Complexity Sciences. Techniques include fluctuation analyses, n...
Panel Data Analysis
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Machine Learning for Social Sciences
blended courseThis course provides an introduction to supervised statistical learning techniques such as decision trees, random forests and boosting and discusses their potential application in...
Advanced Applied Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Structural Equation Modeling
blended courseStructural equation modeling (SEM) is a very general statistical technique, as it has regression analysis, path analysis, and factor analysis as special cases. It is also possible...
Interpretive Research Methods
A course that introduces approaches from narrative methods to discourse analysis and the typical steps of the research process - from how to formulate interpretive research questio...
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...
The Art and Adventure of Leadership
This survey course is designed to educate and inspire you about the art and adventure of leadership. You will analyse leadership research sets in a variety of settings, including s...
Comparative Research Designs
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Design the Future
The world is changing faster than ever. New advances in technology are shaping the ways we act as societies, raising new needs and problems. In the midst of these shifts, designers...
Advanced Qualitative Data Analysis
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Introduction to Machine Learning for Text Analysis with Python
The course will provide insights into the concepts, challenges, and opportunities associated with data so large that traditional research methods (like manual content analysis) can...
Probability sampling methods
blended courseApplied Sampling aims to provide a practical introduction to methods of survey sampling and estimation, and is the basis of survey statistical inference. Given the importance of s...
Using Directed Acyclic Graphs for Causal & Statistical Inference
online courseThis online short course uses causal graphs (or “directed acyclic graphs”, DAGs) as a remarkably simple, yet general and powerful framework to describe and discuss a large set of p...
Tools for Efficient Workflows, Smooth Collaboration and Optimized Research Outputs
How can we create efficient workflows and facilitate optimal collaboration in teams? How can we ensure that our research processes, our data collection, and our complex (Big) Data...
Questionnaire design
blended courseIn this course we will introduce participants to the development and testing of survey questions, the evaluation of their measurement quality, and correction for measurement errors...
Introduction to Data Science with R and Rstudio for the Social Sciences
Whether you are a social scientist, a business analysist or a data journalist, analysing data is key to greater understanding of the world around us. Whether it’s understanding pol...
Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Open Science and Open/FAIR Data for Early-Career Researchers
This course is part of a 5-day PhD Summer School programme During this course participants will discuss on open science, FAIR data. Theory and practice.
Multilevel 2 - Analyzing Comparative Longitudinal Survey Data Using Multilevel Models
blended courseMany surveys spanning multiple countries--or many regions within a single country--are now being fielded multiple times over the course of years or even decades. Examples include t...
Comparative Historical Analysis: How to Use History in Social Inquiry
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
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...
Process Tracing Methods in Practice
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Migrant Inclusion Policies and Practice
This multidisciplinary course will provide you with insight into relevant issues on the topic of migrant inclusion across three domains: economic inclusion, social inclusion, and m...
Minorities as Citizens
In 2022, the Annual Summer School on National Minorities in Border Regions will examine the participation of national minorities in political life. This topic encompasses a broad r...
Introduction to Inferential Statistics: the class you need before regression
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Introduction to Process Tracing
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Engaging Conflict: Prevention, Management and Resolution
The Engaging Conflict Summer School is designed to equip committed students, early-career researchers and professionals with advanced tools to critically understand conflict and ta...
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...
Serious Games for Analysing and Supporting Complex Decision-Making
In this course, you will explore the potential of serious gaming for analyzing real-world complex problems. You will learn what serious games are, how games can help decision makin...
Social Science Measurement: Designs, Models, and Strategies
The course focuses on applying qualitative and quantitative research design and measurement models to achieve valid measurement, and on strategies for when measurement problems can...
Qualitative Expert Interviews
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Political Language: Analyzing State-‘Created’ Categories
Residents meet the state indirectly, cradle-to-grave, via registration forms and their category language. This course explores comparative, state-driven category-making and categor...
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...
Data Driven Decision Making and Change Management in Organisations
This 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...
Multilevel 1 - Introduction to multilevel models
blended courseThe course introduces the concepts of multilevel analysis, whose main aim is to model the relationships between and within groups. Typical situations include individuals clustered...
Latin America in the New Global Resource Politics
This 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...
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...
Big Data: Computational Analysis of Text
blended courseThis workshop focuses on the application of the supervised and unsupervised texts analysis technique to real-time Twitter messages that can help social researchers to detect social...
Introduction to Computational Social Science with Python
The course provides an introduction to the basic computational tools, skills, and methods used in Computational Social Science using Python. Python is the most popular programming...
Survey experiments
blended courseThis short course will introduce students to the logics and practice of experimental research in Political Science. We will discuss the framework and assumptions used to think abou...
Network Analysis in R
The course provides an introduction to social network analysis, covering concepts, methods, and data analysis techniques. The focus lies on practical aspects and how to conduct soc...
Culture(s), Civilizations(s) and Europe(s)
The title of the Summer School (11-16.7.2022) is "Culture(s), Civilizations(s) and Europe(s)"". This summer school is organized by the Jean Monnet European Research Centre of th...
Peer Relations and Interactions in Childhood and Adolescence
This interactive course focuses on the role of peer relationships in child and adolescent development. Participants will gain extensive knowledge of past and current peer relations...
Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Technology, Digital Innovation, and Society
blended courseIn its third edition, the TOAfrica Summer School will address the theme of the social and cultural impact of digital technologies in Africa with an interdisciplinary approach in th...
Introduction to Python
blended coursePython is a versatile, multi-purpose, open-source programming language which has become one of the top choices for data engineering and advanced analytics. Due to its interactive n...
Solidarity: a European Challenge?
Europe has faced several crises in recent years: the financial crisis, the Euro crisis, the migration crisis, the climate crisis, the Brexit, the Covid pandemic, and now the war in...
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...
Multi-Method Research: Techniques and Applications
This course is designed to assist researchers in combining two or more different methodological approaches in empirical projects—so-called multi-method research (MMR)—in order to s...
Automated Image and Video Data Analysis with Python
Social scientists have long argued that images play a crucial role in shaping and reflecting political life. This role is heightened by the bombardment of images that people experi...
Social Movements in Contemporary Southeast Asia
The Department of Asian and North African Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Marco Polo Center for Global Europe-Asia Connections are pleased to offer a Summer Sch...
Images of Migration at the Southern Border. Geography & Communication for Social Change
blended courseSCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES - Department of Geography & Department of Cultural Technology and Communication 4 Jul 2022 to 28 Jul 2022 Lesvos Programme structure 1. Communicati...
Causal Inference
blended courseWhat is the effect of smoking on health? Does having an additional child increase the risk of poverty? Are development policies targeted on small firms effective in increasing inve...
Introduction to STATA
blended courseThis course is the very first introduction to STATA, one of the most powerful statistical software that allows conducting quantitative analyses and that is very popular among socia...
Digital Technologies in Qualitative Data Collection
This course teaches you to use digital technologies in qualitative data collection, addressing core methodological, logistic, technological and ethical issues when designing such a...
Visual Content Analysis on Social Media
The Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy) and the Europa-Universität Flensburg (Germany) invite applications for the 2022 Spring School on Visual Content Analysis on Social Me...
Longitudinal Data Collection with the Diary Research App: DearScholar
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Longitudinal Panel Models with Structural Equations
blended coursePanel data are gathered in designs that measure the same set of participants on multiple occasions, typically at regular intervals. Structural equation models (SEM) for panel data...
Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Social computers are popping up everywhere. This course will provide background, tips and tricks, as well as brainstorm the ethics of this evolving field.
Justchild Children, Sustainability and Social Justice
The Children, Sustainability and Social Justice Summer School aims to widen the perspective on sustainability, interrogating the role that children can and must have in projecting...
Introduction R
blended courseR is a free programming language designed to apply statistical analysis and produce data visualization. Among its endless capabilities, R is famous among statistical software for i...
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....
Applied Social Network Analysis
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Inferential Network Analysis
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
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...
Applied Statistics Using R
This course covers the following statistical methods: – Introduction to R Programming (Basic Calculations, Installing Packages, Vectors, Matrices, Lists, Data Frames) -Summar...
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...
Social Policies in the European Union: Trends and Challenges
BARCELONA SOCIAL SUMMER 2022: «SOCIAL POLICIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES» Monday 4th of July – Thursday 14th of July 2022 Pere Tarrés Faculty of Social Educat...
Introduction to Computational Social Science with R
The course will provide an overview of the methods used in the field of computational social science (CSS) and their real-world applications. It will include both theoretical expla...
Collecting Web Data with R
The increasing availability of large amounts of online data has transformed the social sciences. This course equips participants with the skills to gather and process online data f...
Machine Learning for Social Scientists
Machine learning is fashionable. But what is it and how can it be put to good use in the social sciences? This introductory course provides an overview of some of the most importan...
European Master's Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation
The EMA Programme is one of seven Regional Master’s Programmes organised by the Global Campus of Human Rights. It was created with the support of the European Union and 42 particip...
Migration and Gender: a Legal and Literary Perspective
The summer school on Migration and Gender offers a legal-literary approach to the ways in which migration influences gender. Gender is a constitutive element of migration and this...
Applied Research Methods with Hidden, Marginal and Excluded Populations
Focussing on Hard-to-Reach populations, the course provides an introduction to research methods in conducting research, both qualitative and quantitative, on marginal, hidden and e...
Structural Equation Modeling
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Sometimes Crime IS the Rational Choice
Why do people commit crime? Because there’s no death penalty? They’re psychopaths? The crime gene? What about video games!? Sometimes Crime IS the Rational Choice answers these que...
Big Data Management and Analytics
This course introduces systems and techniques for storing, querying, and working with datasets that are too large, too complex, or simply too inconvenient to work with on a single...
Deliberations in Deeply Divided Societies
This course examines deliberative models applied to divided societies. Looking at the case studies of Kosovo and Brazil, you will explore deliberative attitudes, democracy governan...
Introduction to R
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Causal Inference in the Social Sciences
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Cook your own survey: The basics of survey methodology and evaluation
Surveys and questionnaires are ubiquitous in many areas of both basic and applied research. While a psychologist may be interested in how participants in her research score on dif...
Cultures, Migrations, Borders - MigBord2022
Ninth International Postgraduate Summer School “Cultures, Migrations, Borders” Plomari, Lesvos, July 4 – 14, 2022. For the ninth year the Department of Social Anthropology and H...
Sociology and Contemporary Social Dynamics
Between the 4th and 9th of July 2022, the first International Summer School of the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto will take place, with the theme “Sociology and...
Adivasi Issues in Contemporary India: Identities, Resistance and Environment
In response to the growing interest in India in the era of globalisation, the Department of Culture, Politics and Society of the University of Turin is pleased to announce the 5th...
Introduction to Machine Learning for Social Sciences
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
Automated Web Data Collection with Python
The continuously growing importance of the internet for everyday life and the correspondingly increasing volume of digital behavioral data on the Web allows us to study human behav...
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...
Introduction to R/RStudio for Social Scientists
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 bas...
Automated Web Data Collection with R
The increasing availability of large amounts of data on the internet enables new lines of research in the social sciences. Although it has become easier to find data online that is...
Courses 2021
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Courses 2020
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gerontological Nursing
online courseGeneral course description: -gerontological nursing -interaction with an individual with memory disorders -geriatrics -special issues in nutrition -the contents involve fami...
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...
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...
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,...
Qualitative Data Analysis
This course is offered as part of the Radboud Summer School in Social Research Methods, in collaboration with MethodsNET (a global network that offers excellent training in social...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2019
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Economy & Society Summer School
Residential summer school, run by UCC, WIT, focusing on 'economic' questions in the broadest sense.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2018
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...
Gender and Space
Die Sommerschule vermittelt Studierenden und Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen feministische Theorien, Themen und Methoden an der Schnittstelle zwischen Geographie und Gender Studies....
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...
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...
StatisticAlps 2018
Uses for biomarkers in drug development and clinical care Kinds of validation (Analytical, Clinical, Medical utility) Analytical validation (Single analyte, Sequencing panels, Ge...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
Social Media Research Big Data
Citizens across the globe spend an increasing proportion of their daily lives online. Their activities leave behind granular, time-stamped footprints of human behavior and personal...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
European Integration and Energy Security
Yerevan State University as a part of the Jean Monnet Network "Developing European Studies in the Caucasus" (DESCnet) invites graduate (BA level) and post-graduate (MA level: stude...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2016
Chocolate, the sweet Belgian art
Chocolate is one of Belgian specialties amongst many others and also the most popular! Discover this yummy programme through various and different aspects – you will be also surpri...
Conceptions of Sustainability – and How They Shape Research
In science we encounter overwhelming diversity of sustainability conceptions. The international PhD Summer School ‘Research on Sustainable Development’ helps to find way through th...
Can you talk me into it?
**Ages 13 - 17** This workshop consists of different oral and written speech activities that involve “active construction of knowledge.” Students invent a product and then write a...
Exploring Who I am and How I can make a Difference
**Ages 13 - 17** Nobel Laureates of Peace - Change Starts with You! This workshop introduces youth to the lives and work of Nobel Peace Laureates in an interactive, hands-on form...
Social Protest and Social Movements in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Where do social movements come from? Who takes part in them? What are their aims? And what methods do historians and social scientist use for their scientific research? Under the s...
Transformation, Transgressions, and Trust in Europe and the Americas
The only consistency of today's world is change, often in many directions, unpredictable and triggered by self-determination on different levels, political and natural events, cult...
Economy & Society Summer School
Week long residential summer school hosted at a medieval castle in a beautiful rural setting. Staff from Ireland and International Visitors deliver plenaries, focused reading grou...
Clash! Brussels between the IN and the OUT situation in Belgium and Europe
Even if this is a small territory, Belgium is rich in terms of culture, community, diversity and linguistics. Also, considered as a Capital of Europe, Brussels has a particular pos...
The Body: from the Head to the Toe
Body and Health will have no secret for you thanks to our programme. As a matter of fact, Vrije Universiteit Brussel has a strong expertise on research about health and body. - Ho...
Opening the Black Box of Quality
Reflecting on and assessing the quality of scientific work is part and parcel of scholarly practice – whether in various work situations or the different stages of an academic care...
Responsible Capitalism: Strategy, Governance and Finance
The school is organized by Venice International University with the participation of professors from Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Columbia University, Henley Business School, IE...
IPSantarém Summer Course
The IPSantarém Summer Course 2016 includes 2 modules: - Portuguese Language and Culture - Portuguese History and Society The course also includes workshops on the fields of...
Energy Systems in Transition: Economic, Policy and Social Challenges
Topics of the course will be among others • Introduction to energy economy and energy policy • Renewable energy management • Policy risks in financing renewable energy projects...
Cultural Heritage and the Way of Saint James: Protection and Maximasing Potential
The CGU International Summer School is an initiative of the Compostela Group of Universities with the main purpose of carrying out academic activities to make the most of the uniqu...
Courses 2015
From Uber to Amazon Mechanical Turk: nontraditional labour markets driven by technological and organisational change
General information Technology is a powerful driver for change in the world of labour. The objective of the third edition of the InGRID winter school is to aggregate scholars an...
Elaborating a discrete-time dynamic microsimulation model with LIAM2, an open source development tool
General information The autumn school on ‘Elaborating and simulating a discrete-time dynamic microsimulation model with LIAM2, an open source development tool’, organised by the...
Emotional Learning and Memory in Health and Psychopathology
Internationally renowned speakers will provide a number of state of the art lectures on the acquisition, extinction, reconsolidation, and generalization of emotional memory. In add...
Expert workshop 'Quality of working life and economic performance: results from linked employer/employee surveys'
General information This expert workshop aims at giving insights into how linked employer/employee surveys can be used to understand the relationships between quality of working...
The Global Digital Workplace - New Ways of Working, New Forms of Labour
Two interrelated processes have transformed work and labour on a global scale: The wider reach of multinational corporations forming global value chains and the digitisation of inf...
Shifting Perspectives: Europe and the Americas
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,...
Methods for community research, action and change
The Italian Community Psychology Association (SIPCO) in collaboration with the European Community Psychology Association (ECPA) organizes the first edition of the International Sum...
Expert workshop: 'Minimum income protection in Europe ... and how to study it'
General information The occasion for the seminar is the approaching launch of a state-of-the-art tax-benefit hypothetical household tool (HHOT) based on EUROMOD. This new resear...
Seventh call for visiting grants 12 InGRID data centres offer access to data and expertise within the field of inclusive growth, poverty, living conditions, working conditions, vulnerable groups, social policy, ...
Apply for research visits to the data expertise centers of FP7 project InGRID What is offered? InGRID offers free-of-charge access to research infrastructures with data sets...
Courses 2014
Transformation and Change: Europe and Beyond
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,...
International Research Workshop
In detail the following courses will be offered: Parallel Courses in the morning (September 28-October 1): - Data Analysis with R - Data Analysis with Stata - Qualitative Res...
Emotional Intelligence for Inclusive Societies
The 1th International Summer School on Emotional Intelligence for Inclusive Societies is promoted by Dipartimento di Scienze Psicologiche, Pedagogiche e della Formazione, Universit...
Special Topics: Family Life
This is a study of family as a social institution. Attention will be given to the structure and function of the family in various cultures, the relationship of the family to other...
Courses 2011
Recent Advances in Poverty and Inequality Research
online courseThe ONLINE Winter School on ‘Recent advances in poverty and inequality research’, organised by the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), aims at advancing knowle...