Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bootcamp: Ethnography and Design

Are 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...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Research-Creation: Merging the Critical and the Creative

This 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...

Aarhus, Denmark

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...

Aarhus, Denmark

Evaluation, Education and Social Inequality

Although it appears that Denmark has increasing inequality and educational problems, the social science community has failed to mobilize in response. Social scientists have instead...

Berlin, Germany

Self-Leadership & Empowerment in the 21st Century

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...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Challenges of Food and Nutrition Security

Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) is again on top of the global agenda due to the war in Ukraine. To understand the editorial comments and claimed effects of the war, students need...

Berlin, Germany

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...

Berlin, Germany

Global Challenges - Sustainable Futures

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...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Migration and Integration: Refugees, Rights & Realities

This 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...

Berlin, Germany

Twentieth Century Berlin: People, Places, Words

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...

Budapest, Hungary

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...

Budapest, Hungary

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...

Cartagena, Spain

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...

Berlin, Germany

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...

Berlin, Germany

Genders and Diversities: Old Questions, Persisting Challenges, Future Opportunities (Online)

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...

Aarhus, Denmark

Youth, Drugs and Alcohol: Social Science Approaches

In 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...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Key Topics in Urban Studies

This 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....

Seggau Castle, Leibnitz, Austria

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...

Berlin, Germany

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...

Tallinn, Estonia

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...

Turin, Italy

Technology, Digital Innovation, and Society

In 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...

Barcelona, Spain

Service Design for Innovation - IED Barcelona

Everyday we are active users of different kinds of services from the very second we wake up to the second we fall asleep: when we go to the office, to school, to the supermarket or...

Nottingham, United Kingdom

An Introduction to Environmental and Wildlife Crime

This 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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

Statistics with SPSS for Social Scientists

Workshop 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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

London/Online, United Kingdom

Narrative Studies Winter School

The 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...

Barcelona, Spain

Longitudinal Panel Models with Structural Equations

Panel 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...

Barcelona, Spain

Multilevel 1 - Introduction to multilevel models

The course introduces the concepts of multilevel analysis, whose main aim is to model the relationships between and within groups. Typical situations include individuals clustered...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Cologne, Germany

Data Science Techniques for Survey Researchers

A 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...

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Text Mining and Qualitative Data Visualisation Using R

This 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...

Cluny, France

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...

Cologne, Germany

Introduction to Stata for Data Management and Analysis

This 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...

Barcelona, Spain

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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.

Cologne, Germany

Introduction to R for Data Analysis

The 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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

İstanbul, Turkey

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...

Oslo, Norway

Peace Research

The course provides a general introduction to this interdisciplinary field with an empirical focus. This is combined with more detailed study of selected areas and themes. Major to...

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Introduction to Machine Learning

Machine learning methods involve methods that deal with multivariate data, learning hidden structures and prediction. In particular within prediction methods, classification is a s...

Liverpool, United Kingdom

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...

Barcelona, Spain

Structural Equation Modeling

Structural 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...

London, United Kingdom

Gender Studies Winter School

Study in London this winter! Spend an amazing week learning about gender across different disciplines – literature and culture, philosophy and sociology, media and communication...

Turku, Finland

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...

Barcelona, Spain

Machine Learning for Social Sciences

This course provides an introduction to supervised statistical learning techniques such as decision trees, random forests and boosting and discusses their potential application in...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Copenhagen, Denmark

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...

Geneva, Switzerland

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...

Palermo, Italy

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Tallinn, Estonia

Digital Innovation for Civic Engagement Projects

Digital 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...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Girona, Spain

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...

Turin, Italy

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

Introduction to R and Rstudio

This 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...

Mannheim, Germany

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Lesvos, Greece

Images of Migration at the Southern Border. Geography & Communication for Social Change

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES - Department of Geography & Department of Cultural Technology and Communication 4 Jul 2022 to 28 Jul 2022 Lesvos Programme structure 1. Communicati...

Oslo, Norway

Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries

The course gives an introduction to the Nordic context and an overview of how the concept and implementation of gender equality has developed and is currently practiced in the Nord...

Oslo, Norway

Latin America in the New Global Resource Politics

This digital course consists of lectures and seminars during the first week of the summer session, with a take home exam the following week. In this course you will learn about Lat...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

Introduction to Stata

Stata 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...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Barcelona, Spain

Questionnaire design

In 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...

Copenhagen, Denmark

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Venice, Italy

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...

Kaunas, Lithuania

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.

Geneva, Switzerland

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Epidemics and Social Science: a Holistic Approach

The 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...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Cologne, Germany

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...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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...

Barcelona, Spain

Introduction to Regression Analysis

Regression 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...

Almería, Spain

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...

Cologne, Germany

Mixed-Mode Surveys

Due 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...

Oslo, Norway

The Fundamentals of Human Rights

This 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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Maastricht, Netherlands

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...

Mannheim, Germany

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...

Split, Croatia

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....

Nottingham, United Kingdom

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...

Mannheim, Germany

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...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Comprehensive Introduction to Research Methodology and Design

This 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...

Barcelona, Spain

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Barcelona, Spain

Probability sampling methods

Applied 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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Tartu, Estonia

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Maastricht, Netherlands

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...

Mannheim, Germany

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

The Art and Science of Qualitative Analysis

The 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...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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...

Enschede, Netherlands

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...

Barcelona, Spain

Survey experiments

This 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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Liverpool, United Kingdom

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Social Network Analysis

This workshop examines the theoretical and statistical analysis of social networks from an interdisciplinary perspective. Participants learn about the nature, structures, and dynam...

Barcelona, Spain

Causal Inference

What 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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Groningen, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Survey Analysis and Missing data in R

Representative sample surveys are key to social science whether for employment numbers or studying attitudes towards the environment. To achieve representativeness we need to con...

Cologne, Germany

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...

Geneva, Switzerland

Sustainability Activism

"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...

Cologne, Germany

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...

Mannheim, Germany

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...

Würzburg, Germany

Unravelling Sociological Theory

»Discourse«, »network«, »co-operative action« or »post-ideology« are terms students of sociology and social sciences frequently find themselves confronted with nowadays. Terms that...

Porto, Portugal

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...

Cortona, Italy

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Joensuu, Finland

Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution

The 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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Barcelona, Spain

Introduction R

R 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...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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...

Cologne, Germany

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Geneva, Switzerland

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...

İstanbul, Turkey

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...

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Introduction to R/RStudio for Social Scientists

As 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...

Barcelona, Spain

Multilevel 2 - Analyzing Comparative Longitudinal Survey Data Using Multilevel Models

Many 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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Barcelona, Spain

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...

Mannheim, Germany

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...

Vienna/Belgrade/Athens, Austria

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...

Cologne, Germany

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...

Barcelona, Spain

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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,...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Oinousses, Greece

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

Content Analysis and Natural Language Processing

Workshop contents and objectives The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with a practical hands-on and theoretical understanding of new methods in content analysis m...

Tallinn, Estonia

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Oslo, Norway

How Democracies Emerge and Survive

This course introduces the academic study of how democracies emerge, sustain, and break down. Following the optimism of the so-called third wave in the 1980s and 1990s, democracy i...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Venice, Italy

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Tartu, Estonia

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Barcelona, Spain

Introduction to STATA

This 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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Torino, Italy

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...

Barcelona, Spain

Big Data: Computational Analysis of Text

This 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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Barcelona, Spain

Introduction to Python

Python 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...

Cologne, Germany

Design and Implementation of Web Surveys

This 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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Vilnius, Lithuania

Transparency International School on Integrity

Transparency 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...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Mannheim, Germany

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Cologne, Germany

(Non-)Probability Samples in the Social Sciences

The 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...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Social Science Switch

This 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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Cologne, Germany

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...

Lugano, Switzerland

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Venezia, Italy

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...

Mannheim, Germany

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...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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...

Lesvos, Greece

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...

Geneva, Switzerland

Children at the Heart of Human Rights

Geneva has long been one of the world’s capitals of international law and the headquarters of international institutions dedicated to human rights. This inspiring context naturally...

The Hague, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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...

Munich, Germany

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...

Tartu, Estonia

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...

Oxford, United Kingdom

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...

Schaarbeek - Brussels, Belgium

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...

Barcelona, Spain

Social Networks

Network Analysis is a rapidly growing field among quantitative social sciences. Networks permeate everyday life and contemporary social phenomena are increasingly represented as ne...

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Copenhagen, Denmark

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...

Warwick/Coventry, United Kingdom

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...

Barcelona, Spain

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...

Mannheim, Germany

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Barcelona, Spain

Quantitative methods in social research

This course is designed to introduce applied researchers to and help them become familiar with quantitative methodologies in emprical social research. The introductory methods cour...

Cologne, Germany

Sampling and Weighting in Survey Statistics

Methods 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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Utrecht, Netherlands

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...

Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro

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...

Aarhus, Denmark

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...

Cologne, Germany

Using Directed Acyclic Graphs for Causal & Statistical Inference

This 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...

Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland

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...

Nijmegen, Netherlands

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...

Tallinn, Estonia

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...

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Fake News, Fake Science and Critical Thinking. What Should I Believe?