Category Archives: IRWS Courses 2009

Courses during the International Research Workshop 2009

Writing a Research Proposal

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Ulrike Pospiech (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Marion Hartung (Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces)

Date: 07.10.2009, 09:00 a.m. – 17:30 p.m.

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 15

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 3 CP for participating in the whole IRWS 2009

Language of instruction: German

Contents:

Doing a PhD begins with writing a research proposal, which explains a project of academic or scientific research. The proposal shall give information about the form and procedures for research.

The workshop gives answers to the following questions:

  • Which are the parts of a research proposal?
  • How to prepare the different parts?
  • How to formulate the hypothesis?
  • How to write clearly and well structured?
  • How to convince others, that an actual research can begin?

Step by step we will take a view on strategies to navigate the hazards of writing research proposals, which is one of the most difficult as well as unavoidable requirements of graduate study.

You have to register for the 3rd International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Structural Equation Modeling with Amos

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Volker Müller-Benedict and Katja Galen-Spanier (University of Flensburg)

Date: 07.10.2009, 09:00 a.m. – 17:30 p.m.

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 3 CP for participating in the whole IRWS 2009

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

Contents:

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a statistical methodology that takes a confirmatory approach to the analysis of a strucutral theory bearing on some phenomenon. Typically, the structural relations can be modeled pictorially to enable a clearer conceptualization of the theory under study. The course introduces into the basic concepts of SEM and into the program package AMOS, which is widely used to graph and to analyze strucutral models. Data of different social areas will be used as examples.

Preconditions: Basic knowledge of SPSS

You have to register for the 3rd International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Handling Missing Data

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Martin Spieß (University of Hamburg & SOEP at the DIW Berlin)

Date: 07.10.2009, 09:00 a.m. – 17:30 p.m.

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 30

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 3 CP for participating in the whole IRWS 2009

Language of instruction: English

Contents:

Most surveys are affected by missing data. Depending on the mechanism that led to the observed pattern of missing and observed data, inferences based on the observed part of the data set using standard analysis tools may be severely biased. Thus, in the first part of the lecture, the missing mechanisms leading to data that are missing completely at random (MCAR), missing at random (MAR) or not missing at random (NMAR) will be discussed. In the second part, we will look at different methods to compensate for missing units and missing items. The emphasis in this part is on weighting to compenaste for unit nonresponse and multiple imputation to compensate for item nonresponse.

You have to register for the 3rd International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Network Analysis

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Mark Trappmann (Institute for Employment Research) and Anja Iseke (University of Paderborn)
NB! There will be offered two parallel courses with the same contents!

Date: 07.10.2009, 09:00 a.m. – 17:30 p.m.

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 50 (25 per course)

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 3 CP for participating in the whole IRWS 2009

Language of instruction: English and German

Contents:
This course will familiarize students with basic concepts in social network analysis. Topics include handling network data, introduction to network analysis software (UCINET and Netdraw), centrality and prestige in networks, subgroup analysis, and roles and positions. This is an applied course that will require students to test and analyze social networks of employees in a high-tech organization and friendship networks among freshmen.

You have to register for the 3rd International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Case Studies

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: N.N.

Date:
05.10.2009, 14:00 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.
06.10.2009, 14:00 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.
08.10.2009, 14:00 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: n.s.

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 3 CP for participating in the whole IRWS 2009

Language of instruction: n.s.

Contents: n.s.

You have to register for the 3rd International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Data Analysis with Stata (Beginners)

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Tobias Gramlich (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Date:
05.10.2009, 14:00 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.
06.10.2009, 14:00 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.
08.10.2009, 14:00 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 15

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 3 CP for participating in the whole IRWS 2009

Language of instruction: English (German)

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 3rd International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Analysing Panel Data

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Torben Dall-Schmidt & Peter Sandholdt Jensen (tbc)

Date:
08.10.2009, 14:00 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: n.s.

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 3 CP for participating in the whole IRWS 2009

Language of instruction: n.s.

Contents: n.s.

You have to register for the 3rd International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Introduction to the SOEP

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Elke Holst (SOEP at DIW) and Andrea Schäfer (University of Bremen)

Date:
05.10.2009, 14:00 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.
06.10.2009, 14:00 p.m. – 17:30 p.m.

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: n.s.

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 3 CP for participating in the whole IRWS 2009

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 2007, there were nearly 11,000 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 (intergenerational analysis, life course research, sibling estimates, 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 3rd International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Qualitative Inquiry and Content Analysis with MAXQDA

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Heiko Grunenberg (Leuphana University Lüneburg)

Date:
08.10.2009, 09:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
09.10.2009, 09:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 12

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 3 CP for participating in the whole IRWS 2009

Language of instruction: German (English)

Contents:

MAXqda is a software to analyse 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 could 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 preperation and import of texts, basic analysis strategies and creation of codes, memos and variables. After this, we will focus on anaylsis strategies, simple and complex text retrivals. At the end, we will take a short excusion into the world of the quantitative content analyses of counting and numbers.

You have to register for the 3rd International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Introduction to Qualitative Interview Methods

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Ralph Kattenbach (University of Hamburg)

Date:
05.10.2009, 09:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
06.10.2009, 09:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: English (German)

Credit Points: 3 CP for participating in the whole IRWS 2009

Language of instruction: n.s.

Contents:

Qualitative research methods have gained more and more importance and acceptance in social sciences. Especially expert interviews, group discussions and observations are applicable for behaviour oriented research questions on individual-, group-, and organisational level. The workshop will be aligned to the individual needs with regard to their own qualitative projects or interests. Sampling, theoretical background, interview techniques, transcription and data-preparations for analyses are main topics to be concerned within the two sessions.

You have to register for the 3rd International Research Workshop to participate in this course.