PhD course guide
2022-2023
Welcome to our 2022-2023 course guide!
You can look into our offer of courses and workshops in the academic year 2022-2023 in the following ways:
- On the left you find a list of all our courses in alphabetical order.
- Below you can find the courses already somewhat categorised based on what they are primarily about.
Please note that, on the course pages, you will be able to fill out a notifcation form if a course is already full or if you missed an enrolment deadline. We will then notify you if you can take the place of someone who cancelled his or her attendance or when the course will be offered again another time.
Methodology and philosophy of science
Qualitative data collection and/or analysis:
- Action-oriented research for social change
- Discourse analysis
- Ethnography
- Philosophical methods
- Qualitative coding and analysis of textual data with ATLAS.ti
- Qualitative data analysis with Grounded Theory
- Qualitative interview techniques
- Quantitative and qualitative text analysis with MATLAB
- The focus group method
Quantitative methods / big data:
- Brush up your SPSS skills
- Data analysis with R
- Digital research methods for textual data
- Geographical Information Systems
- Large-scale register data for quantitative social research
- MATLAB: data skills & tools for the social sciences
- Multilevel modelling
- Quantitative and qualitative text analysis with MATLAB
- SICSS-ODISSEI Summer school on computational social science
- Structural equation modelling
- Survey design
Mixing / regarding both qualitative and quantitative methods:
- Brush up your research design
- Mixed method research: How to combine diverse quantitative and qualitative methods
- Q-methodology
- Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)
Analysis of literature:
- Doing the systematic literature review
- Searching and managing your literature
- Visual exploration of scientific literature with VOSviewer
Other:
Professional skills
Organizing your work:
- Data carpentry for social sciences and humanities
- How to manage your PhD project
- Making your research proposal work for you
- Responsible research data management (RDM)
- Safety and security for fieldwork research
- Share your work via the Open Science Framework
- Shut up and write!
Impact:
- Communicating your research: lessons from Bitescience
- Making your research count: impact in times of information overload
- Maximise your visibility as a researcher
Presenting:
Publishing:
Miscellaneous: