In 2021 we celebrate the 10th birthday of the GESIS Summer School. It will take place from 28 July – 20 August 2021. In its anniversary year, it will be held again online as a virtual summer school for the second time since it was established in 2012. 14 courses are scheduled, among them 4 short courses and 10 one-week courses. Seven courses are new or have been completely redesigned: “Using Directed Acyclic Graphs for Causal & Statistical Inference”, “(Non-) Probability Samples in the Social Sciences”, “A (Short) Course on (Short) Scale Development”, “Mixed-Methods and Multimethod Research”, “Collecting and Analyzing Longitudinal Social Network Data”, “Pretesting Survey Questions”, and “Design and Implementation of Web Surveys”.
Below, you can find an overview of this year's courses:
Short Courses (28 - 30 July):
Introduction to Stata for Data Management and Analysis
Nils Jungmann, Anne-Kathrin Stroppe (GESIS, Germany)
Using Directed Acyclic Graphs for Causal & Statistical Inference
Julian Schuessler (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Pretesting Survey Questions
Dr. Cornelia Neuert, Dr. Timo Lenzner (GESIS, Germany)
Week 1 (02 - 06 August):
Introduction to Survey Design
Prof. Dr. Bella Struminskaya (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands), Dr. Ulrich Krieger (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Questionnaire Design
Prof. Dr. Marek Fuchs (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Introduction to R for Data Analysis
Dr. Johannes Breuer, Dr. Stefan Jünger (GESIS, Germany)
Survey Sampling and Weighting
Dr. Simon Kühne (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Week 2 (09 - 13 August):
Statistical Analysis of Incomplete Data
Dr. Florian Meinfelder, Angelina Hammon (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Design and Implementation of Web Surveys
Prof. Dr. Christopher Antoun (University of Maryland, United States), Prof. Dr. Frederick Conrad (University of Michigan, United States), Prof. Dr. Florian Keusch (University of Mannheim, Germany and University of Maryland, United States)
(Non-)Probability Samples in the Social Sciences
Dr. Carina Cornesse (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Designing, Implementing, and Analyzing Longitudinal Surveys
Dr. Tarek Al Baghal (University of Essex, United Kingdom), Dr. Alexandru Cernat (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Week 3 (16 - 20 August):
A (Short) Course on (Short) Scale Development
Dr. Clemens Lechner (GESIS, Germany)
Mixed Methods and Multimethod Research
Prof. Dr. Ingo Rohlfing (University of Cologne, Germany)
Collecting and Analyzing Longitudinal Social Network Data
Dr. Lars Leszczensky, Dr. Sebastian Pink (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Scholarships, ECTS Credits, & More
Scholarships
(fee waivers) are available to Summer School participants sponsored by the
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
. Application deadline is 25 April 2021 – apply now!
Thanks to our cooperation with the
Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences
at the University of Mannheim, participants can obtain a certificate acknowledging a workload worth 4 ECTS credit points per one-week course.
Register now! You will find the full program, detailed course descriptions, and more information
here
.