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Qualitative Methods: From Research Question to Study Design

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Dr. Anna Brake (Augsburg University)

Date:

30.09.2013, 09:00 – 12:30
01.10.2013, 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

Contents:

Methodological rigor is of vital importance for the success of an qualitative research project. Research question, methodological approach of data collection and strategies of (verbal) data analysis have to be well matched in order to ensure a compelling overall research process. The workshop aims at providing the opportunity to discuss these issues critically in the light of the participant’s own dissertation projects. It addresses Ph.D. students who seek further clarification for their methodological rationale in their qualitative study regarding sampling procedure, interview techniques, approaches for data analysis and others. Thus, we will not debate on general issues of methodological importance, but focus on the methodologically demanding topics the participants are facing within their own qualitative study.

Participants are kindly asked to submit a research abstract no later than two weeks before the beginning of the workshop to Anna Brake.

You have to register for the 7th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Data Analysis with R

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Marco Lehmann (University of Hamburg)

Date:

30.09.2013, 09:00 – 12:30
01.10.2013, 09:00 – 12:30
02.10.2013, 09:00 – 12:30
03.10.2013, 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:

The course introduces the programming language R used for statistical analyses. The beginning of each lecture comes with a demonstration of programming and statistical functions that will be elaborated in the course of study. The students will then practice with many statistical examples. In addition to statistical functions the course will introduce the definition of R as a programming language and its syntax rules. Students will further learn to use R’s scripting capabilities.

Literatur

Wollschläger, Daniel (2012). Grundlagen der Datenauswertung mit R (2. Aufl.). Berlin: Springer.

You have to register for the 7th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Data Analysis with Stata

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Tobias Gramlich (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Date:

30.09.2013, 09:00 – 12:30
01.10.2013, 09:00 – 12:30
02.10.2013, 09:00 – 12:30
04.10.2013, 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 7th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

GESIS: Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists

“Please find enclosed the link to detailed information about the course ‘Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists’.
The course will be given at GESIS in Cologne, Germany by Dr. Martin Elff on September 23–27, 2013.

The seminar is designed to help bridging the gap between school-level mathematics and mathematical knowledge needed to understand advanced statistical data reduction techniques in depth. You will be introduced to (or invited to ‘revisit’) essentials of e.g. the algebra of vectors and matrices, solving linear equations etc. and then arrive at understanding the mathematical background of derivatives of matrix and vector functions, the geometry of linear regression and principal components.

At the same time, you will learn the mathematical notation of the procedures and you will develop skills in applying R, a free software package for data analysis, statistical computation and graphical presentation. As a byproduct, you learn how to use R in the context of your research interests. R has a constantly growing number of ready-made modules for a wide range of statistical and graphical applications (currently more than 3790).

A detailed description of the course is available at: http://www.gesis.org/en/events/mathematical-tools/“

PT-DLR: Good English for Successful Proposals – Tipps für eine erfolgreiche Antragstellung in englischer Sprache

Beschreibung des Seminars des DLR:

In diesem Seminar lernen die Teilnehmer/innen Texte in englischer Sprache für Anträge im 7. EU-Forschungsrahmenprogramm oder dem Folgeprogramm Horizont 2020 zu verfassen. Die Seminarsprache ist englisch. Für das Seminar wird eine Teilnahmegebühr erhoben.

Nähere Informationen zum Seminar finden sie unter folgendem Link:

http://www.dlr.de/pt/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-8205/14064_read-35673/

GESIS Workshops im Sommer 2013

Upcoming GESIS workshops in 2013

GESIS Workshops are short courses of one to three days, providing training relevant to all phases of the research data cycle and more. GESIS is continuously working on an interesting compilation of training courses, and added some new workshops to our program since our last newsletter. By the way, their website http://www.gesis.org/en/events/gesis-workshops/ gets updated on a regular basis. So it is worth having a look from time to time. The full list of workshops (including the ones held in German) is available at www.gesis.org/workshops.

VHB-ProDok: Kurs “Vignettenstudien” (06.-09.11.2013)

Vom 06. bis 09.  November 2013 findet in Gießen ein

VHB Kurs zum Thema
“Vignettenstudien”

statt. Der Kurs wird von PD Dr. Jennifer Kunz (Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Main)geleitet. Er verfolgt das Ziel, den Teilnehmern grundlegendes Wissen über die Gestaltung und Anwendung von Vignettenstudien zu vermitteln. Die Zahl der Teilnehmer ist auf 20 begrenzt. Die Teilnahmegebühr beträgt EUR 600 Euro. Anmeldungen werden bis zum 10.08.2013 an doktorandenprogramm(at)vhbonline(dot)org erbeten.

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VHB-ProDok: Kurs “Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung” (23.-26.09.2013)

Vom 23. bis 26. September 2013 findet in Paderborn ein

VHB Kurs zum Thema
“Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung”

statt. Der Kurs wird von Prof. Dr. René Fahr und Dipl.-Wirt.-Info. Behnud Djawadi (Universität Paderborn) geleitet. Die Veranstaltung möchte vor allem Lust und Neugierde auf experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung wecken und das Handwerkzeug vermitteln, um die Möglichkeiten eines (Labor-) Experimentes für eigene Promotionsvorhaben zu erkunden. Die Zahl der Teilnehmer ist auf 20 begrenzt. Die Teilnahmegebühr beträgt EUR 600 Euro. Anmeldungen werden bis zum 28.08.2013 an doktorandenprogramm(at)vhbonline(dot)org erbeten.

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VHB-ProDok: Kurs “Analytical Accounting” (03.-06.09.2013)

Vom 03. bis 06. September 2013 findet in Frankfurt am Main ein

VHB Kurs zum Thema
“Analytical Accounting”

statt. Der Kurs wird von Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ralf Ewert (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz) geleitet. Er behandelt methodische Grundlagen und wichtige Modellstrukturen, die in der analytischen Forschung im Management Accounting, Financial Accounting und Auditing verwendet werden. Die Zahl der Teilnehmer ist auf 20 begrenzt. Die Teilnahmegebühr beträgt EUR 600 Euro. Anmeldungen werden bis zum 05.08.2013 an doktorandenprogramm(at)vhbonline(dot)org erbeten.

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