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Courses 2023
Substance Use Disorders: Critical Views on Interventions and Recovery
top courseSubstance 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...
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...
Decomposition Methods in the Social Sciences
Is the difference in wages between men and women (the gender wage gap) due to less labor market experience of women compared to men, or is it due to discrimination against women, f...
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...
Practical Introduction to Social Sustainability
Social sustainability is an aspect of sustainable development that is at the same time connected to multiple academic disciplines and to everyone’s everyday life and is thus releva...
Social Traumas Living With Us
A unique opportunity awaits students of Budapest Summer University of 2023 on Social Traumas Living with Us — to learn about the depth and gravity of social traumas, their transgen...
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...
Designing Successful Strategies for NGOs
top courseGain 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...
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...
Social Change in a Digital Age
Digital 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...
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...
Youth, Drugs and Alcohol: Social Science Approaches
top courseIn many countries, alcohol and other drug use is widespread, particularly among young people. These substances are used as part of various social activities, on weekends in bars, n...
Understanding and Preventing Crime
top courseThis module introduces students to the study of crime and its prevention. It begins by considering the challenges with how we define and measure crime, and the implications thes...
Multimodal Interaction in Professional Contexts
online courseThe aim of the course is to develop interaction skills with a special focus on linguistic accessibility. The aim is to give an introduction on how to facilitate communication and p...
Latent Class Analysis
Latent class analysis is the name social scientists originally gave to the study of “mixtures of Bernoulli models” - the search for hidden groups in categorical data. Since then, t...
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...
Coming to Your Senses: Sensory Learning Beyond the Classroom
What do all researchers and professionals have in common? They are expert observers. Their work involves attuning and developing their skills of observation and sharpening their se...
Comparative Social Research with Multi-Group SEM
Determining whether people in certain countries, or at different time points score differently in measurements of interest, or whether constructs relate differently to each other a...
Reimagining Global Justice within and through the University
What does it mean to be a scholar committed to the pursuit of global justice through, for example, combatting climate change, rising economic inequality, and racial and gendered vi...
Multilingualism and Beyond in the European context
Almost all language practices are multilingual in their nature since they include different languages, language varieties, genres, styles, so-called dialects, etc. In a highly glob...
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...
Evaluation, Education and Social Inequality
top courseAlthough it appears that Denmark has increasing inequality and educational problems, the social science community has failed to mobilize in response. Social scientists have instead...
Consumer Neuroscience and Neurobusiness
This summer course will give you an overview of the crescent field of consumer neuroscience. Moreover, we will explore the applications of neurosciences in different fields such as...
Europe, Migration, Refugees
Please note: Registration, prices and all information on FUBiS summer courses 2023 will be online in December 2022 on our website. Don’t miss out: students who register early can...
Contemporary Issues in Autism
online coursethis online course, designed and delivered with support from autistic people and their families, critically appraises different perspectives and approaches for understanding autism...
Global London: Contemporary Urbanism, Culture and Space
top courseThis course will use London to explore how contemporary cities are being theorized, experienced and understood. Consideration will be given to how cities are conceptualised in and...
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...
Global Challenges I: The SDGs Relevance for the Social Sciences
We live in a new era when ideas, technologies, people, and diseases cross borders at a speed that was unseen before. It creates new opportunities as well as new risks. That is why...
How the Brain Works and What Can Go Wrong
top courseThe brain is an amazing object which controls human lives – it is a complex inter- connection of neurons which store our memories and knowledge and has a complex brain chemistry....
Your Image Matters - Workshop
Communication is the centre of human interaction. Often, communication is seen as a verbal process alone. However, we are extremely visual beings. We have a sophisticated perceptio...
Citizen Science
How can citizen science contribute to solving societal challenges and transforming science? What are the potentials of citizen science for increased dialogue between science and s...
Understanding and Countering Radicalisation and Terrorism
top courseThis module will provide an introduction to the phenomena of radicalisation and terrorism; including key definitions, causal accounts, empirical trends, past and present manifestat...
Media and Crime
online courseThis course will introduce you to current debates concerning crime and the media. You will explore how crime news is constructed rather than being purely factual, and delve into to...
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...
Twentieth Century Berlin: People, Places, Words
Don’t miss out: students who register early can take advantage of the early bird discount on the program fee! This course is about Berlin, the city that was at the epicenter of...
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...
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...
Holocaust Testimonies and Their Afterlives
This two-week, 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...
Social Science Switch
online courseThis online programme will bring together people from a variety of scientific disciplines, giving them the tools and perspectives to enhance their study, research and work by inclu...
The Power of Strengths and Well-being for Realising Humanity's Potential
Explore the philosophical and practical foundations of strengths, well-being and other areas associated with positive psychological phenomena, including love; gratitude; time persp...
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...
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. Both phenomena are crimes that affect...
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...
Behavioral Economics and Psychology
The Summer School on Behavioral Economics and Psychology brings to students of various backgrounds the state-of-art research on behavioral aspects of decision-making and experiment...
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...
The Politics of Popular Culture
This course provides an overview of the methodological tools required to assess a diverse range of research questions related to politics and popular culture, including Critical Di...
Foundations of Multiculturalism
Can, 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...
An Introduction to Environmental and Wildlife Crime
online coursethis accredited course introduces environmental crime and wildlife crime and how justice systems deal with and respond to current threats to the environment and non-human nature. T...
Europe, Migration, Refugees
Please note: Registration, prices and all information on FUBiS summer courses 2023 will be online in December 2022 on our website. Don’t miss out: students who register early can...
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...
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...
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...
Cybersecurity Risk Management
top courseThis module introduces the students to the aspects of how risk management methods are applied to improve cyber security. Firstly, it provides an overview of threats from cybercrime...
Arts, Activism & Social Justice
Are you a future community leader with a passion for social justice and activism? Do you want to learn from activists and change-makers working in the UK’s thriving arts and volunt...
Climate Change and Sustainability in Practice
top courseThere are more than 750 million people living on islands, from the densely populated urban centres of the Philippines and Hawaii’s to the atolls and archipelagos of the Caribbean,...
Birth and Death of Democracy?
top courseThe 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...
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...
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...
Population Health and Well-Being Consequences of Demographic Changes
Health and well-being consequences of demographic change are key challenges for research and innovation as they concern citizens’ health and have enormous economic implications and...
Modern Statistical Computing in R
Over the recent years, R has become the leading software tool for statistical computing and graphics. The software is greatly enhanced by numerous contributed packages submitted by...
The Rise of China and Its Implications For World Politics
The rise of China and its implications for world politics This course aims to provide a critical examination of key issues and processes related to the politics and international...
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...
Past courses
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....
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...
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...
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...
Research-Creation: Merging the Critical and the Creative
online courseThis course invites students to rethink and re-evaluate the standard methods of thinking, knowing, and doing within academia. We will highlight artistic practise as a path to resea...
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...
Courses 2022
Data Science: Statistical Programming with R
This 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...
Transparency International School on Integrity
online 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...
Sustainability Activism
blended course"Sustainability Activism" on topics such as climate change, human rights and environmental protection have long been part of global change making processes across the world. This S...
Birth and Death of Democracy?
top courseThe 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...
Game Theory
This course in designed as a brief introduction to individual decision making. Its main objective is to provide the students with game theory techniques that can be useful to face...
Data Science: Data Analysis
The 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...
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...
Quantitative Methods for Social Researchers
This workshop introduces students to quantitative research methods commonly used for the collection and analysis of social science data. Participants will learn how to distinguish...
Global Citizenship Education
UNESCO defines global citizenship as a “sense of belonging to a broader community and common humanity”. Global citizenship education, in this context, concerns learning to recogniz...
Political Language: Analyzing State-‘Created’ Categories
top courseResidents meet the state indirectly, cradle-to-grave, via registration forms and their category language. This course explores comparative, state-driven category-making and categor...
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...
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Research Design and Application
This workshop gives a thorough introduction to the method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), with an emphasis on research design and practical application. Since its incept...
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...
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...
Text Analysis with Python
This course introduces the basic concepts of text analysis in Python. In this course, participants will learn how to apply text mining methods on text data and analyse them in a pi...
Regression 1: Linear Regression
top courseThis 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...
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...
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...
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...
Panel Data Analysis
top courseThis 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 Survey Design
This course gives an overview of the design and implementation of surveys from the initial planning phase to the data preparation as a final step. Topics include survey mode assess...
Multi-Method in Pactice: Pluralist Case Study Designs
top courseIn 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...
How to Forge Arguments in Writing (social sciences) Scientific Papers
Workshop objectives and contents Publishing scientific papers represents a core activity of researchers and, increasingly the career of young scholars is determined by their abi...
Coaching Skills for Young Leaders
Are 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...
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 Machine Learning for Social Sciences
top courseThis 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...
Multi-Level Regression Analysis of Cross-Sectional and Panel Data with R
top courseThe 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...
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...
Migrant Inclusion Policies and Practice
top courseThis 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...
Teaching through English in an international classroom: CLIL and EMI
A professional development course for teachers and lecturers working through English who would like to improve their CLIL/EMI* methodology skills. Participants will develop and imp...
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...
International Development Studies
online courseThe course provides a multidisciplinary analysis of global poverty and of development on global, national and local levels. A thematic approach is applied. Country comparisons are...
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...
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...
Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution
blended courseThe course will address environmental and natural resource conflicts that are familiar and topical for the course participants. These cases provide a real-world context for the cou...
Introduction to R for Data Analysis
online courseThe open source software package R is free of charge and offers standard data analysis procedures as well as a comprehensive repertoire of highly specialized processes and procedur...
Qualitative Expert Interviews
top courseThis 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...
Data Science: Introduction to Text Mining with R
Applications 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: Multiple Imputation in Practice
This 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...
Data Science: Applied Text Mining
This 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...
Qualitative Analyses of Interview Data
This workshop focuses on main types of analyses of qualitative interview data from in-depth interviews, including grounded theory, content analysis, thematic analysis, narrative an...
Introduction to Data Science with R and Rstudio for the Social Sciences
top courseWhether 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...
Collecting Web Data with R
top courseThe 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...
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...
Advanced Qualitative Data Analysis
top courseThis 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...
Network Science
How 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...
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...
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...
Multilevel Modelling
Populations commonly exhibit complex structure with many levels, so that patients (level 1) are assigned to clinics (level 2); while individuals (1) may ‘learn’ their behaviour in...
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...
Social Science Measurement: Designs, Models, and Strategies
top courseThe course focuses on applying qualitative and quantitative research design and measurement models to achieve valid measurement, and on strategies for when measurement problems can...
Digital Technologies in Qualitative Data Collection
top courseThis course teaches you to use digital technologies in qualitative data collection, addressing core methodological, logistic, technological and ethical issues when designing such a...
Advanced Course on Using Mplus
This 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...
Inferential Network Analysis
top courseThis 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 Modelling in Mplus
If you expect to work with the software Mplus, this course can help you to get started! This course is a compact 1-day workshop introducing Mplus. We will focus on preparing data...
How Democracies Emerge and Survive
online courseThis course introduces the academic study of how democracies emerge, sustain, and break down. Following the optimism of the so-called third wave in the 1980s and 1990s, democracy i...
Process Tracing Methods in Practice
top courseThis 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...
Survey Research: Statistical Analysis and Estimation
The 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...
Creating Groups from DatCluster Analysis and Latent Class Analysis
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 of variables that contain inform...
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...
Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
top courseThis 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...
Conflict Resolution and Mediation Skills
This course provides you with a challenging introduction to conflict resolution and mediation skills. The focus of the course is to familiarize you with the backgrounds of human co...
Introduction to R
This workshop will introduce students to the R statistical programming language. R is a completely free and open-source programming language and environment for statistical analysi...
Epidemics and Social Science: a Holistic Approach
online courseThe Ebola outbreak in West Africa (2014-2016) was a turning point for the role of the social sciences in disease outbreak control. The emergency response was led by a biomedical ap...
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...
Introduction to Stata for Data Management and Analysis
online courseThis online short 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...
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...
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...
Understanding and Preventing Youth Suicide and Suicidal Behavior
top courseIn several western countries, youths’ mental health has decreased, and their suicide rate has risen over the past decade. The loss of young people brings lifelong sorrow to their f...
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...
Migrants, Human Rights, Democracy
The Summer School, organized by the Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement, continues the conversation on displaced lives and vulnerability in the Euro-Me...
Questionnaire Design
Designing questions and questionnaires is broadly described as an important step when planning a survey. However, little advice is provided on how to phrase individual questions an...
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...
Interpretive Research Methods
top courseA 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...
Peer Relations and Interactions in Childhood and Adolescence
top courseThis 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...
Time: Human Views on the Progress of Existence
The concept of time is deeply ingrained within the human mind. We experience the passage of time innately, and feel a natural difference between the past, the present, and the futu...
A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
This 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...
The Art and Adventure of Leadership
top courseThis 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...
Contemporary Conflict Analysis: Actors, Issues & Technologies of 21st Century Warfare
This course equips scholars and professionals alike with cutting-edge knowledge and transferable skills for mapping, analysing and responding to warfare in the 21st century. T...
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...
Exploring (Non)Racial Amsterdam
In activist movements and public controversies around racist exclusion, differences between people are explicitly racialised. Yet, these - important - appeals to social justice exi...
Sampling and Weighting in Survey Statistics
online courseMethods to analyze data taught in introductory statistics and econometric courses often rely on the assumption that the data are collected in a simple random sampling process. Howe...
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...
Talk at Work
top courseThis course in applied conversation analysis introduces students to the rules of talk-in-interaction and explores how these rules are used in professional settings. In the first pa...
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...
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...
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...
Data Science: Programming with Python
Python 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...
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...
Advanced Communication Skills: Between Persuasion and Empathy
Effective 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...
Machine Learning - What Is It Good For?
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...
Cook your own survey: The basics of survey methodology and evaluation
top courseSurveys 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...
Advanced Applied Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
top courseThis 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...
Multi-Method Research: Techniques and Applications
top courseThis 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...
Modeling the Dynamics of Intensive Longitudinal Data
This is a four-day course on how to study dynamics in intensive longitudinal data, such as ambulatory assessments (AA), experience sampling method (ESM) data, ecological momentary...
Causal Inference in the Social Sciences
top courseThis 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...
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...
Children at the Heart of Human Rights
online courseGeneva has long been one of the world’s capitals of international law and the headquarters of international institutions dedicated to human rights. This inspiring context naturally...
Visual Data and Visual Methods in Social Sciences
The pervasiveness of visuals in everyday life (e.g., visual forms of communication in digital and social media, in advertising and corporate communication, in video games) not only...
Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling
The primary objective of this course is to provide participants with a proper understanding and the practical skills necessary for applying advanced techniques in structural equati...
LANDac Annual Summer School "Land Governance for Development"
Welcome 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...
Longitudinal Data Collection with the Diary Research App: DearScholar
top courseThis 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...
The Fundamentals of Human Rights
online courseThis digital course consists of lectures and seminars during the first three weeks of the summer session, with a take home exam the following week.The course offers an introduction...
Text Mining and Qualitative Data Visualisation Using R
online courseThis 1/2-day course will explore basic test visualisation using tidytext package to: - Learn how to clean qualitative data, calculate and visualise word frequencies - Create a...
Introduction to Multilevel Analysis
This 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...
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....
Global Health, Drugs, Policy and Power
The Summer School “Drugs, Drug Use, Drug Policy and Health” will be organised by the Institute of Global Health and partners (Graduate Institute of International and Development St...
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...
Introduction to Python
If you are looking for a powerful programing language you should learn Python, a language with a simple syntax, and a powerful set of libraries. It is easy for beginners to learn P...
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 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...
Introduction to Inferential Statistics: the class you need before regression
top courseThis 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 Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
top courseSocial computers are popping up everywhere. This course will provide background, tips and tricks, as well as brainstorm the ethics of this evolving field.
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 Survey Design
This course in ‘advanced survey design’ takes students beyond the introductory courses and will discuss the state of the art in both the design and the analysis of survey data. We...
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...
Design and Implementation of Web Surveys
online courseThis online course introduces students to the design and implementation of online survey data collection instruments. The course is both hands-on and conceptual. It begins by discu...
Content Analysis and Natural Language Processing
online courseWorkshop contents and objectives The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with a practical hands-on and theoretical understanding of new methods in content analysis m...
Causal Analysis with Cross-Sectional Data
Does smoking cause bad health? Does income inequality increase political extremism? Do schools increase inequality? Many questions of interest to social scientists are causal. A wi...
The Art and Science of Qualitative Analysis
online courseThe aim of this workshop is to examine different aspects of non-numeric data analysis techniques, including: variations, possibilities, and limits of qualitative data analysis; ass...
The Norwegian Welfare State
online courseThis course presents the historical background, development and present-day challenges of the Norwegian welfare state. It examines the role of values and norms in shaping the servi...
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 to R and Rstudio
online courseThis module is an introduction to the programming language R for students with little or no experience in this language. The goal is to provide the minimal computational foundation...
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...
Psychology of Communication
The module will examine theory and research related to the psychology of communication. A range of communication types will be considered; these include intentional and unintention...
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...
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...
Data Science Techniques for Survey Researchers
online courseA variety of digital data sources are providing new avenues for empirical social science research. To effectively utilize these data for answering substantive research questions, a...
Doing Intersectional Quantitative Research
top courseIntersectionality 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...
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.
Applied Social Network Analysis
top courseThis 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...
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...
The Local Impact of Global Migration
In this module we examine the consequences of migration in an urban context. We look at images, pictures, cartoons, architecture and all other traces of migration in the city. We w...
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...
Comparative Historical Analysis: How to Use History in Social Inquiry
top courseThis 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...
Fake News, Fake Science and Critical Thinking. What Should I Believe?
online courseThis module aims to give students an increased awareness of how fake news and fake science is spread on social media, as well as a grounding in critical new digital techniques for...
Applied Panel Data Analysis
Panel data are repeated measures of a large number of units, e.g., individuals or companies. Such longitudinal data is typically collected through surveys, but panel data can also...
Using Social Network Analysis to Understand Data
Social network analysis is used to understand communities by investigating their structure. How individuals in communities are connected to one another can influence information fl...
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 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...
Missing Data in R
Missing data are ubiquitous in nearly every data analytic enterprise. Simple ad-hoc techniques for dealing with missing values such as deleting incomplete cases or replacing missin...
Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
Workshop 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 c...
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...
Design Thinking for Research
Participants will have the opportunity to apply design thinking tools and methods to their own research projects, creating prototypes of their research papers, understanding the im...
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...
Designing, Implementing, and Analyzing Longitudinal Surveys
The course will provide an overview of those aspects of survey design, implementation, and analysis that are unique to longitudinal surveys or that have distinct features in the lo...
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...
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...
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...
Sometimes Crime IS the Rational Choice
top courseWhy 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...
Structural Equation Modeling
top courseThis 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...
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...
(Non-)Probability Samples in the Social Sciences
online courseThe main objective of the course is to provide students with a full overview of the history, theoretical foundations, critical arguments, and accumulated empirical evidence surroun...
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...
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...
Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling using Mplus
We 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,...
Comparative Research Designs
top courseThis 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...
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...
Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis
top courseThis 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...
Advanced Multilevel Analysis
This 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...
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...
Crash Course in R
blended courseCEBEX Winter School on Behavioral Sciences dates back to 2019. You can choose from two crash courses for beginners (Crash Course in Behavioral Economics and Crash Course in R)....
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...
Applied Multivariate Analysis
The summer school course 'Applied Multivariate Analysis' offers hands-on experience using SPSS for the most frequently encountered multivariate statistical techniques in the social...
Introduction to Stata
online courseStata is a statistical software widely used in economics and social science. Its strength are the combination of user-friendliness and strength in statistical analysis. In this two...
Survey and Questionnaire Design
top courseThis 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...
Intercultural Competence
top courseDo you want to help others develop their intercultural competence? “How can we develop in ourselves and others the necessary mastery and concomitant humility required to be effe...
Introduction to Qualitative Research Designs
At its core, a research design is a basic strategy that guides the research process, from data collection, analysis, interpretation and discussion of results. But it is much more t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Regression 2: Logistic Regression and General Linear Models
top courseSocial 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
top courseThis 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...
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...
Statistics with SPSS for Social Scientists
online courseWorkshop contents and objectives You should attend this workshop if you have no or not much skills with basic statistics and statistical packages, especially if you attend anoth...
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...
Liverpool, Memory and the Media
The media is an influential part of our history and modern environment. This interdisciplinary module will encourage students to explore media representations of significant even...
Applied Multiple Imputation
Missing 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...
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...
Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries
online courseThe course gives an introduction to the Nordic context and an overview of how the concept and implementation of gender equality has developed and is currently practiced in the Nord...
Discourse Network Analysis
top courseThis 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 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...
Regression in R
Linear regression is one of the most ubiquitous statistical methods. Most statistical techniques can be viewed as either special cases of linear regression (e.g., t-tests, ANOVA) o...
Creative Psychotherapy
The course introduces Creative Psychotherapy to those seeking a deeper understanding of the dynamics of creativity, psyche and human behaviour. During this course students will lea...
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...
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...
Developmental Psychopathology and Psychological Assessment in Childhood and Adolescence
This course provides students with theoretical knowledge on developmental psychopathology. Students acquire knowledge on most common problems in youth, age specific characteristics...
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 a...
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...
Discourse Theory and Analysis
The aim of this workshop is to explore the practical application of discourse theory to the analysis of textual data. There are many different versions of discourse analysis; this...
Serious Games for Analysing and Supporting Complex Decision-Making
top courseIn 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...
Introduction to Process Tracing
top courseThis 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
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 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...
Peace Research
online courseThe course provides a general introduction to this interdisciplinary field with an empirical focus. This is combined with more detailed study of selected areas and themes. Major to...
Latin America in the New Global Resource Politics
online courseThis digital course consists of lectures and seminars during the first week of the summer session, with a take home exam the following week. In this course you will learn about Lat...
Introduction to R
top courseThis 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...
Survey Research: Design, Implementation and Data Processing
Changes in technology and society strongly influence modern survey research. This course covers the essentials of modern survey methodology, organised by the Department of Methodol...
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...
Courses 2021
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sport and Exercise Sciences
top courseDue 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...
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...
(Short) Scale Development
online courseAdequate measurement of its key concepts is a prerequisite for any successful science. Survey-based research in the social and behavioural sciences is no exception. Especially when...
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...
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...
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...
Futuring for Sustainability
What we do in the present is profoundly influenced by our expectations of our futures. The annual 'Futuring for Sustainability Summer School' is an interactive course, held from 13...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mixed-Methods and Multimethod Research
online courseThis course deals with mixed-methods and multimethod research (MMR) in the social sciences. We will discuss the broader understanding of combining qualitative and quantitative meth...
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....
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...
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...
Statistical Analysis of Incomplete Data
online courseThis course provides an introduction to the theory and application of Multiple Imputation (MI) (Rubin 1987) which has become a very popular way for handling missing data, because i...
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...
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...
Psychodiagnostics: Theory and Skills Training
online courseThis summer, Utrecht University offers you an online 'bridging' course in psychodiagnostics, in order to overcome deficiencies in psychodiagnostics and assessment for entering the...
Pre-university Honours Programme: Sustainable Cities
online courseThis programme introduces high-school students to sustainability within urban studies, and more specifically, within the context of the cities in which we live. We live in a crucia...
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 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...
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...
Migration Summer School
online courseMigration Summer School (MIGSS) on "Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic" has been carefully designed and developed to provide participants w...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Key Topics in Urban Studies
online courseThis two-week online course will introduce participants to the field of Urban Studies through a series of lectures from a team of experts on key topics in the multidisciplinary stu...
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...
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...
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...
Global Trends in Demographics and Migration
online courseGlobal trends in Demographics and Migration is a two-week summer course that examines developments in global and regional changes in the population composition (declining birth rat...
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...
Birth and Death of Democracy?
top course 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...
Pretesting Survey Questions
online courseThe course covers the basic elements of evaluating questionnaires and highlights the general importance of carrying out (cognitive) pretests before fielding a questionnaire. This i...
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...
Mplus: How to Get Started?
online courseIf you expect to work with the software Mplus, this course can help you to get started! This course is a compact 1-day workshop on using Mplus to get you started. We will focus on...
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...
Introduction to Mindfulness and Compassion
online courseThis two-week online winter course will introduce participants to the science of contemplative practices including mindfulness and compassion within emotion regulation framework. I...
Survey Sampling and Weighting
online courseThis practical course will cover the process of probability sampling, weighting and estimation. This includes a) methods of sample selection, b) methods of weighting including desi...
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...
Courses 2020
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 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Eye Tracking Research Toolbox
Eye tracking is a powerful method to study the human mind and behavior. This course will allow you to explore key concepts in eye tracking research and help you integrate it in you...
Qualitative Data Analysis
top courseThis 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Multidisciplinary Online Course
online courseThis summer programme can be customized to fit your needs. Built of modules that can be combined to create the credit value and schedule of your choosing, you can join us in Amster...
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...
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...
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...
Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists: A Refresher Course with R
online courseThis course aims to refresh mathematical concepts which are required for the understanding and the application of recent developments in empirical research methodology. The course...
Survey Methodology
The Barcelona Summer School in Survey Methodology is a two-week intensive program covering diverse topics on survey methodology and advanced statistical analysis of survey data. Pa...
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...
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...
Research Designs and Causal Inference
online courseSocial scientists are frequently interested in drawing causal inferences. Typical research interests refer to the analysis of the causes of social phenomena and the mechanisms cons...
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)...
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...
Global and Regional Migration Governance
Learn about migration governance from leading international organizations and experts Gain an interdisciplinary perspective Network with experts working in the field...
Gerontological Nursing
online courseGeneral course description: -gerontological nursing -interaction with an individual with memory disorders -geriatrics -special issues in nutrition -the contents involve fami...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Theory and Practice of Bayesian Hypothesis Testing: A JASP Workshop
The main purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with key Bayesian concepts in hypothesis testing. Concrete examples illustrate how to compute, report, and interpre...
Courses 2019
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...