Ph.D. Network

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Heiko Grunenberg (Leuphana University Lüneburg)

Date:

06.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30
07.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English/German (depending on participants)

Contents:

MAXqda is a software to analyze textual data in a qualitative (but also quantitative) way. The course provides a basic introduction into the logic of the program and its broad possibilities. The goal is to enable you to use this tool accordingly to your own method of analysis. For this reason, everybody can practice our working-steps at an own Computer. We will start at the very beginning and learn about the basic features of the program such as preparation and import of texts, basic analysis strategies and creation of codes, memos and variables. After this, we will focus on analysis strategies, simple and complex text retrievals. At the end, we will take a short excursion into the quantitative content analysis of counting and numbers.

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Tobias Gramlich (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Date:

03.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30
04.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30
06.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30
07.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English/German (depending on participants)

Contents:

Stata is a statistical program package widely used (not only) in the social and economical sciences; it is used for data management, statistical graphics and analysis of quantitative data. Statistical concepts will not be part of the course, so participants should have some very basic knowledge of statistics. The course should enable participants to prepare their data for analysis, perform adequate analysis using a statistical computer program and to document these tasks to keep them reproducible.

For Beginners with No or Very Little Knowledge of the Program!

Course Topics cover:

• “What You Type is What You Get”: Basic stata Command syntax
• Getting (and Understanding) Help within stata: stata Bulit-in Help System
• Basic Data Management: Load and Save stata Datasets, Generate and Manipulate Variables, Describe and Label Data and Variables, Perform Basic uni- and bivariate Analyses, Change the Structure of your Data
• Basic stata Graphics: Scatterplot, Histogram, Bar Chart
• Working with “Do-” and “Log-” Files

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Lasse Cronqvist (University of Trier)

Date:

03.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30
04.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30
06.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 24

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: German

Contents:

Configurational Comparative Methods (CCM) are increasingly in social science research. The workshop will introduce to these methods mainly on focusing on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). We will first introduce the conceptional basics of QCA and then looking at different refinements. Various applications of CCM will be studied and the software used for QCA will be introduced. Finally, current developments in CCM research are briefly presented.

The software introduced in this course is only available for Windows OS:
Tool for Small-N Analysis – Tosmana – http://www.tosmana.net/

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Elke Holst (SOEP at DIW) and Anne Busch (Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) & SOEP at DIW)

Date:

03.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30
04.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 25

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English

Contents:

The Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is a longitudinal study of private households in Germany. The panel provides information on all household members and was started in 1984. In 2009, there were almost 12,000 households, and more than 20,000 persons sampled. Some of the many topics include household composition, occupational biographies, employment, earnings, health, well being, integration, values, lifestyles, and personality. The course gives an overview of the data structure and the research designs facilitated by longitudinal household studies that go beyond conventional surveys (household analysis, intergenerational analysis, life course research, etc.). In hands-on sessions using Stata, the course provides an applied introduction into the data retrieval, the construction of longitudinal data files, and illustrates some exemplary analyses.

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Verena Brenner (Self-Employed Trainer) & Tatjana Reiber (HSU Hamburg)

Date: 05.10.2011, 09:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: German

Contents:

Although independence and personal initiative are considered key competencies in academia, teaching at university level does often amount to the transfer of knowledge from an expert (the lecturer) to a passively absorbing audience (the students). Participants of this course will get to know various activating methods and teaching strategies, which encourage students to study autonomously and self-determined. A strong focus will be set on the appropriate use of these methods: for which objectives, in which course context and for which target group can a method be applied? Furthermore, participants will have time and opportunity to practice the instruction of several methods.

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Toben Dall Schmidt, Nisar Ahmad (SDU Sonderburg/Denmark) – tbc

Date: 06.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 25

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English

Contents:

Panel data has become popular due to their very specific structure and associated advantages. This module will introduce these basic structures and offer some first insights into the different standard estimation methods available to use panel data for analysis – the most two most common being the fixed effects models and the random effects models. In terms of advantages, the module will offer a discussion of the properties of panel data in allowing for unobservable heterogeneity, but it will also point to some of the caveats of using panel data, e.g. attrition problem in survey data. A final issue in the module will be testing procedures to allow for a selection between different estimation methods for panel data. The module will therefore offer a basic introduction into the essence of panel data analysis.

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Neuer Partner für das deutsch-dänische Doktoranden-Netzwerk. Nach der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität und den Hochschulen in Hamburg, Flensburg, Lüneburg und Sonderborg/Odense (Dänemark) sind nun auch das GESIS- Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften in Mannheim sowie die Technische Hochschule Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH) dem Netzwerk beigetreten. Damit wächst der Verbund der Promovenden der human-, sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten im Norden weiter. Das erste große Treffen ist im Oktober bei einem Workshop in Sonderborg und Flensburg.

Mit 89 Doktoranden aus Deutschland, Dänemark, aber auch aus Österreich, Frankreich und der Schweiz bildet der Forschungs-Workshop vom 3. bis zum 8. Oktober 2010 die Plattform für ein erstes großes Netzwerk-Treffen. Er wird von einem Team um den Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Wenzel Matiaske von der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg organisiert und findet an den Hochschulen in Flensburg und im dänischen Sonderburg statt. Dort werden den Teilnehmer neue Erkenntnisse über die Erhebung und Auswertung qualitativer und quantitativer vermittelt.

Das Doktoranden-Netzwerk war im Februar 2010 auf Initiative von Prof. Wenzel Matiaske mit den Partnerfakultäten der Universitäten Hamburg, Flensburg, Lüneburg und Sonderburg sowie dem DIW in Berlin und dem IAB in Nürnberg mit dem Ziel gegründet worden, die Doktoranden-Ausbildung deutlich zu verbessern. Vorausgegangen waren Klagen über eine mangelnde Qualität und eine fehlende Struktur in der Ausbildung.

Derzeit werden bereits weitere Partner für das Netzwerk gesucht. Der Initiator und derzeitige Koordinator, Prof. Dr. Wenzel Matiaske, möchte den Verbund bis Ende 2012 zum „Collegium Mare Balticum“ auf den gesamten Ostseeraum ausweiten.

Dear colleagues!

Thank you for your interest in our International Research Workshop! This year event is fully booked. We are not able to accept any further registrations. For those who are interested in next years workshop please use the “Post abonnieren” to recieve news about the IRWS 2011.

Yours sincerely,
Workshop Organisers

The IRWS 2010 is almost fully booked. Only the following course combination are available:

• Data Analysis with R
• Introduction to the SOEP/Analysing Panel Data OR Qualitative Comparative Analysis
• Network Analysis OR Teching Skills

Please contact the workshop organizers at irws@hsu-hh.de if you want to participate in the workshop.

The courses at the IRWS have at the moment the following number of participants:

Morning Lectures

• Data Analysis with Stata (Beginners): 21 (fully booked)
• Data Analysis with R: 16
• Qualitative (Expert) Interview/MaxQDA: 23 (fully booked)
• Questionnaire Design: 23 (fully booked)

Afternoon Lectures

• Introduction to the SOEP/Analysing Panel Data: 27
• Data Analysis with Stata (Intermediates): 21 (fully booked)
• Case Study Research/MaxQDA: 25 (fully booked)
• Qualitative Comparative Analysis: 11

Alsion Lectures

• Network Analysis: 18
• Multilevel Modeling: 26 (fully booked)
• Teching Skills: 16
• SEM with AMOS: 24 (fully booked)

(last updated: 02.08.2010)

The workshop folder including the workshop programme is available now (Workshop Folder; pdf, 545 KB). Please forward this message to whom might be interested!

4th International Research Workshop – “Methods for Ph.D.”
October 3-8, 2010
Akademie Sankelmark, Flensburg (Germany)
University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg (Denmark)

For the fourth time Ph.D. students in the field of Social Sciences and Economics have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and experience in research on empirical data, including SOEP. The workshop language will be English. Interested parties from all countries are invited. The workshop is especially for those who need training in the process of choosing a topic, grounding the research idea in theory, as well as in gathering and analyzing data and presenting results in scientific contexts.

The workshop tackles these steps of Ph.D. research projects:

• gathering data through (un)structured interviews and analyzing standardized survey data (e.g., SOEP),
• using the computer for content analysis and as a statistical tool,
• writing a report and making presentations.

These steps will strengthen the cooperation in empirical research to boost and streamline ones project. For more information about the programme, see:
http://hermes.hsu-hh.de/doctoralstudy/?page_id=26

It is possible to obtain credits for the workshop under the European Credit Transfer System.

The workshop fee is 380 Euro. This includes all lectures, meals, and accommodations during the workshop (October 3-8, 2010). For more information about the registration procedure, see:
http://hermes.hsu-hh.de/doctoralstudy/?page_id=28

Organizers of the Workshop are: Helmut-Schmidt University – University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, University of Flensburg, the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the DIW Berlin, University of Southern Denmark Campus Soenderborg, Leuphana University Lüneburg, University of Hamburg – Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and Faculty of Education Psychology and Human Movement.

For more information, see:
http://www.phd-network.eu/