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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Industrial Applications: Modelling Aircraft Icing
top courseThis module is in the interdisciplinary field of icing in relation to aircraft. Ultimately, this course will draw from mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering to provide st...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Advanced Survey Design
top courseThis 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...
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...
The Sustainable City: An Integrated Perspective
online courseThis summer school approaches the sustainable city from a profoundly interdisciplinary perspective - bridging natural sciences, urban technology and social sciences and humanities....
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...
Open Science & LMER
The replication crisis in social sciences denotes that findings in behavioral science often cannot be replicated, making it one of the most impactful events. The Open Science movem...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Contemporary Conflict Analysis: Actors, Issues & Technologies of 21st Century Warfare
top courseThis 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...
Service Design for Innovation - IED Barcelona
top courseEveryday 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Data Science: Multiple Imputation in Practice
top 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...
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...
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...
Managing and Analyzing Data in Social Science
You will be introduced to concepts, terminology and methods relevant to handling data and spatial information in R and QGIS. At course end, you will have a toolbox of scripts enabl...
Global Challenges - Sustainable Futures
The course introduces students to the politics, governance and ethics of sustainability. The key challenges of our time are global by nature. However, the current system of global...
Social Policies in the European Union: Trends and Challenges
top courseBARCELONA 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...
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...
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...
Conflict Resolution and Mediation Skills
top courseThis 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...
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...
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...
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...
Practical Introduction to Social Sustainability
blended courseSocial 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...
(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...
Teaching through English in an international classroom: CLIL and EMI
top courseA 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Difficult Settings: Preparing for Fieldwork
"This course can help you write an explicit fieldwork plan and enhance your capability of carrying out qualitative research in practice. Most qualitative research methods courses o...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Coaching Skills for Young Leaders
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Europe, Migration, Refugees
Regarding transnational migration, the EU promotes a political reasoning between processes of consolidation and necessary conflict, between sovereignty and shared responsibility, b...
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...
Social Traumas Living With Us
This summer school program was initiated and designed by ELTE FSS’s Social Traumas Research Group. The series of lectures and seminars will focus on the special types of social tra...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Critical Sociological Theories of Knowledge, Education and Modernity
This module presents critical sociological theories as a foundation for the analysis of knowledge, education and modernity. It focusses on ideologies within school and education, a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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.
Cybercrime and Cyber-Security
The use of computer technologies is instrumental for everyday life. Just as computer technologies, devices and networking have been expanded, cybercrime has increased too. Cybercri...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
CityLAB VIII: Creating Healthy Cities: an Integrated Approach
Cities are often unhealthy places to live, with inhabitants being exposed to air pollution, poor housing, lack of green and blue spaces, and overcrowding, often with large social,...
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...
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...
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.
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
LANDac Annual Summer School "Land Governance for Development"
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Social City Design
Get to know everything about social innovation and human centered design in the city context! We will be thinking and doing on superdiversity, creative storytelling, citizen dr...
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...
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 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...
Genders and Diversities: Old Questions, Persisting Challenges, Future Opportunities (Online)
online courseThis course will introduce students to the broad and vibrating field of gender and diversity studies, crossing disciplinary boundaries and reflecting on contemporary global issues...
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...
Modeling the Dynamics of Intensive Longitudinal Data
top courseThis 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...
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...
An Introduction to Developmental Neuropsychology
In this course, students will be introduced to the innovative and ’mind-blowing’ field of developmental neuropsychology. The anatomy of the brain and relevant brain functions wi...
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...
Twentieth Century Berlin: People, Places, Words
This course is about Berlin, the city that was at the epicenter of the defining catastrophes of the twentieth century, including the First World War, the horror of the Nazi era tha...
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...
Globalization, Change of Values and Communication
Are you interested in developing successful communication strategies in international contexts? Do you want to understand the process of globalization in the context of Economy, Cu...
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...
A Taste of Social Sciences
Our course in social sciences will give you a taste of four exciting subjects on offer at Warwick delivered across the Pre-University Summer School. Teaching includes Law, Educatio...
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...
Talk at Work
This 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...
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...
Design the Future
top courseThe 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Rethinking EU's Enlargement From Western Balkans to Eastern Neighbourhood
The course will concentrate on the European Union and its future enlargement in Western Balkans and Eastern Neighbourhood. Past years have brought Europe several new challenges tie...
Courses 2023
Ethics in a Global Context
blended courseThe Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE under the patronage of UNESCO, 9 - 14 June 2022 The application periode has been extended until 31.03.2022. • D...
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Courses 2022
An Introduction to Environmental and Wildlife Crime
online courseThis course provides an introduction to environmental crime and wildlife crime and how justice systems deal with and respond to current threats to the environment and non-human nat...
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...
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...
Understanding and Preventing Youth Suicide and Suicidal Behavior
In 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Migration, Integration, and Social Networks
The nexus between international migration and social networks is crucial in understanding different phases of migration experience. It is well-established that personal links to pr...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gamification/Design of Serious Games
online courseSerious games and gamification are different things – serious games are designed to achieve some serious goal, gamification is the use of game elements in a non-game context and no...
Feminist Peace and Security Studies: The Gendered Continuum of Peace-War
online courseThis course focuses on the adjacent fields of Feminist Peace Studies and Feminist Security Studies, which explore issues of peace/ war/ conflict/ security from a variety of feminis...
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...
Intercultural Competence for Students
online course'Developing intercultural competence is a core capability in the 21st century and involves cultural self-awareness, understanding the experiences of people from diverse communities...
Intercultural Competence
Do 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Europe, Migration, Refugees
Regarding transnational migration, the EU promotes a political reasoning between processes of consolidation and necessary conflict, between sovereignty and shared responsibility, b...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Intercultural Competence for Students
'Developing intercultural competence is a core capability in the 21st century and involves cultural self-awareness, understanding the experiences of people from diverse communities...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Self-Leadership & Empowerment in the 21st Century
How can you develop strong self-leadership and empower yourself for the challenges of the 21st century? Given the complexities of our globally-interconnected world (VUCA) and the m...
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...
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...
Courses 2021
Oral History Workshop
online courseThe workshop is designed for students, young scholars independent researchers and history, culture and tradition enthusiasts who would like to improve their academic skills, introd...
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...
Introduction to R/RStudio for Social Scientist
online courseAs quantitative data becomes more accessible, researchers are turning to software that can do more and is free to access. The first part of the course will walk you through the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
How to Conduct a Meta-Analysis Using Open-Science Software
online courseWith the increasing use of alternative software packages like R in data analysis, now is the time to learn their ins and outs. The large number of active programmers creating R pac...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
Sport and Exercise Sciences
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. Summer School of Sport and Exercise Sciences provides a cross-cultural learning experience in the area...
The 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2020
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gerontological Nursing
online courseGeneral course description: -gerontological nursing -interaction with an individual with memory disorders -geriatrics -special issues in nutrition -the contents involve fami...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Intensive course on anti-corruption
Transparency International School on Integrity is an annual state-of-the-art anti-corruption and accountability training for future leaders. The upcoming School will take place dur...
Speculative and Critical Design – Special Programs Think Tank
We invite you to take part in a rare opportunity to serve in the Special Programs Think Tank to envision and create hypothetical “special programs” that Estonia’s government might...
Questionnaires for Cross-Cultural Surveys
Cross-cultural surveys are increasingly being set up in numerous disciplines and around the globe. They allow testing for the generality of hypotheses across cultures and systemati...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
top courseWe 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Innovation in Social Design
We offer a 5-day practical, inspiring and engaging summer school in the context of Social Design. Product, service and system designers (from local and international agencies), soc...
Economy & Society Summer School
Residential summer school, run by UCC, WIT, focusing on 'economic' questions in the broadest sense.
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
An introduction to Latent Class Analysis Using Mplus
This workshop will involve a mixture of interactive lecture-type sessions and practical examples using real-life epidemiological datasets in Mplus.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Utopia Europe I
The participants of the summer school, organized by the Hans Farmont foundation, are invited to spend time with young people from Europe on a ten-day sailing trip in Greece. On the...
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...
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...
An Introduction to Latent Variable Modelling using Mplus
This short-course provides an introduction to latent variable modelling – an ever increasingly used approach in the behavioural and social sciences.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...