The 9th GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology will take place from 29 July to 21 August 2020. For the first time since it was established in 2012, the GESIS Summer School will take place online as a virtual summer school. 11 courses are scheduled, among them 3 short courses and 8 one-week courses. New and redesigned courses include “Research Designs and Causal Inference”, “Applied Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”, and “Mixed Methods and Multimethod Research”.
Join lecturers and participants from all over the world and from many different fields in meeting online to take part in Europe's leading summer school in survey methodology, research design, and data collection.
Don’t miss the opportunity to master advanced techniques of data collection and statistical data analyses with renowned international experts in our live real time seminars via Zoom!
Below, you can find an overview of this year's courses:
Week 0 (29 - 31 July):
Introduction to Stata for Data Analysis
Nils Jungmann, Anne-Kathrin Stroppe (GESIS, Germany)
Research Designs and Causal Inference
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Eifler, Dr. Heinz Leitgöb (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany)
Week 1 (03 - 07 August):
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)
Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists: A Refresher Course with R
Prof. Dr. Oleg Nenadic (Nord University Bodø, Norway)
Week 2 (10 - 14 August):
Introduction to Survey Design
Prof. Dr. Bella Struminskaya (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands), Dr. Ulrich Krieger (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Applied Multiple Imputation
Dr. Ferdinand Geißler (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany), Dr. Jan Paul Heisig (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany)
Applied Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Short Course)
Dr. Jessica Daikeler (GESIS, Germany), Sonila Dardha (University of London, United Kingdom)
Week 3 (17 - 21 August):
Survey Sampling and Weighting
Dr. Simon Kühne (Bielefeld University, Germany), Jannes Jacobsen (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Designing, Implementing, and Analyzing Longitudinal Surveys
Dr. Tarek Al Baghal (University of Essex, United Kingdom), Dr. Alexandru Cernat (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Mixed Methods and Multimethod Research
Prof. Dr. Ingo Rohlfing (University of Cologne, Germany)
ECTS Credits & More
Thanks to our cooperation with the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Mannheim, participants can obtain a certificate acknowledging a workload worth 4 ECTS credit points per one-week course (24hrs or 30hrs).
Participants in courses with 24 hours of classes per week are asked to submit a paper of 6000 words. Participants in courses with 30 hours of classes per week are asked to submit a paper of 5000 words.
Registration deadline is 08 July 2020.
Register now! Even if a course is fully booked, it is worth to sign in the waiting list. You will find more information here.
