Category Archives: Network Courses

HSU-HH: CfP Nachwuchsworkshop DStatG

Institution: Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg

Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Frahm
Prof. Dr. Karl Mösler
Prof. Dr. Yarema Okhrin
Prof. Dr. Philipp Sibbertsen
Prof. Dr. Axel Werwatz

Date: September 14-15, 2015

Place: Helmut–Schmidt-University Hamburg

Registration: For further information on the registration process see the link below.

Contents:
Der Workshop wird von der Deutschen Statistischen Gesellschaft veranstaltet. Er bietet Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden, »frischgebackenen« Doktorinnen und Doktoren sowie anderen jungen Statistikerinnen und Statistikern die Möglichkeit, ihre Forschungsarbeit in einem Vortrag vorzustellen und in einer kleinen Gruppe gemeinsam mit erfahrenen Hochschullehrern zu diskutieren.

Traditionell liegt der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt in der angewandten Statistik, insbesondere mit Anwendungen im Wirtschaftsbereich, jedoch sind auch Beiträge zur statistischen Theorie und Methodik sowie zu anderen Anwendungsbereichen willkommen.

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Universität Hamburg-Workshop: Philosophy of Science (1. Session: 07.09. – 09.09.15 /2. Session: 12.10. – 13.10.15)

Institution: University of Hamburg

Lecturer: Prof. Timothy M. Devinney (Leeds University Business School)

Date: September 07-09 & October 12-13, 2015

Place: University of Hamburg

Language of instruction: English

Registration: For further information on the registration process, please see this link.

Contents: Many variables of interest to social, political and behavioral scientists are non-contin

This course is concerned with the nature of social science inquiry. It is intended for students in  the  business  and  management  disciplines  and  those  early  in  their  masters and  doctoral research program. The course will take the form of a seminar. Students will be pre-assigned readings and will lead the discussion. The course is broken into four sections:

  1. an introductory overview to the philosophy of science,
  2. a review of epistemology (the nature and scope of knowledge),
  3. a review of ontology (the what can be said to exist), and
  4. specific applications to the major disciplinary areas.

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Universität Hamburg-Workshop: Categorical Data Analysis (22.06. – 25.06.2015)

Institution: University of Hamburg

Lecturer: Shawna N. Smith, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, USA)

Date: June 22-25, 2015

Place: University of Hamburg

Language of instruction: English

Registration: For further information on the registration process, please see this link.

Contents: Many variables of interest to social, political and behavioral scientists are non-continuous, either through nature or through measurement. Outcomes like vote choice, social class, condom use, and/or number of Facebook friends necessarily violate key assumptions of the simple linear regression framework and require other model estimation strategies. Although advances in software have made estimation of these models trivial, model non-linearities make post-estimation interpretation difficult and require investigators to make choices about which aspects of the data space best represent underlying social dynamics.

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Universität Hamburg-Workshop: The economics of biomedical innovation (02.06.2015)

Institution: University of Hamburg

Lecturer: Prof. Frank Lichtenberg, Professor of Business, Columbia University

Date: June 02, 2015

Place: University of Hamburg

Language of instruction: English

Registration: For further information on the registration process, please see this link.

Contents: There is considerable debate about the social returns to biomedical research and innovation. The primary purpose of this course is to discuss econometric methods for evaluating the overall impact of biomedical innovation — much of which is embodied in new products and procedures — on longevity and health. We will consider analyses based upon a variety of research designs, medical innovation measures, health outcome measures, and populations. We will also analyze the impact of various public policies on biomedical innovation.

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HSU-Workshop: Einführung in die Meta-Analyse (19.-20.11.2015)

Institution: Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Martin Eisend, Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Date: November 19-20, 2015

Place: Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Holstenhofweg 85, 22043 Hamburg

Language of instruction: German

Registration: For further information on the registration process, please see this link.

Contents:

Metaanalysen integrieren empirische Befunde mehrerer Untersuchungen zu einer bestimmten Fragestellung und analysieren die Variabilität dieser Befunde. Damit bieten sie Wissenschaftlern und Wissenschaftlerinnen eine Möglichkeit, bisherige Forschungsergebnisse quantitativ zu integrieren und zu bewerten und sich somit einen Überblick über die empirische Forschung zu einer Fragestellung zu verschaffen. Sie helfen Wissenschaftlern und Wissenschaftlerinnen auch bei der Erklärung und Interpretation von unterschiedlichen und zum Teil gegensätzlichen Befunden in der bisherigen Forschung. Durch ihre generalisierenden Befunde unterstützt die Metaanalyse auch Praktiker bei der Entscheidungsfindung. Aufgrund der stark zunehmenden Anzahl von empirischen Untersuchungen in vielen Disziplinen der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung kommt die Metaanalyse in diesen Bereichen zunehmend zum Einsatz.

Der Kurs wendet sich an Nachwuchswissenschaftler und Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen, die sich mit der Methode der Metaanalyse vertraut machen möchten und lernen möchten, wie man diese erfolgreich einsetzt und verwendet. Nach Besuch des Kurses sind die Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnen in der Lage…

  • selbstständig Metaanalysen zu einer von Ihnen gewählten Fragestellung durchzuführen, beginnend von der Literaturrecherche über die Kodierung von Studien bis hin zur softwaregestützten Auswertung der Daten;
  • unterschiedliche Metaanalysen in der Fachliteratur im Hinblick auf die ver-wendeten Methoden zu unterscheiden, einzuordnen und zu beurteilen;
  • der inhaltlichen und methodischen Diskussion zur Metaanalyse zu folgen.

Der Kurs setzt grundlegende Kenntnisse in Statistik und multivariater Datenanalyse voraus. Insbesondere sollten die Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnen mit Test-verfahren und regressionsanalytischen Techniken vertraut sein; erwünscht ist auch ein Grundverständnis von Strukturgleichungsmodellen.

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GIGA-Workshop: Causal Case Studies: Comparing, Matching, Tracing (01.-02.06.2015)

Institution: GIGA Doctoral Programme

Lecturer: Prof. Derek Beach PhD, Aarhus

Date: June 01-02, 2015

Place: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 in Hamburg

Language of instruction: English

Registration: Participants need to register until May 10 via the GIGA website.

Contents: The aim of this course is to provide students with a set of methodological tools that enable the use of case study methods in your own research. A constant theme throughout the course will be on debating the strengths and limitations of different small-n methods, illustrating the types and scopes of inferences that are possible, and whether and how they can be nested into mixed-methods research designs, focusing on how these issues play out in the context of your own research.

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GIGA-Workshop: Triangulation of Qualitative and Quantitative Research (28.-29.05.2015)

Institution: GIGA Doctoral Programme

Lecturer: Prof. Nigel Fielding PhD, Surrey

Date: May 28-29, 2015

Place: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 in Hamburg

Language of instruction: English

Registration: Participants need to register until May 10 via the GIGA website.

Contents: The workshop aims to introduce students to the dynamic development of social science approaches to the inter-relation and integration of qualitative and quantitative research. Tracing the movement from the classic formulations of triangulation for convergent validation to the contemporary approach of triangulation for analytic density, the workshop will feature a range of research examples and extended exemplars of triangulation in practice. It will also feature the role of information technologies in supporting and facilitating mixed methods research.

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GIGA-Workshop: Interpretive Methods (21.-22.05.2015)

Institution: GIGA Doctoral Programme

Lecturer: Dr. Lauren Wilcox, Cambridge

Date: May 21-22, 2015

Place: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 in Hamburg

Language of instruction: English

Registration: Participants need to register until May 10 via the GIGA website.

Contents: Interpretive methodologies are centered upon the meaning-making practices of actors and are key research strategies of social constructivist perspectives on global politics, broadly construed. While there is some overlap between qualitative research methods and interpretive methods, these two terms are not synonymous. There is not a single interpretivist methodology; rather, interpretive methodologies may include case study analysis, ethnography, participant observation, grounded theory, genealogy, discourse analysis, feminist analysis, and more. This course provides an introduction to interpretivism as a genre of research methodologies that share an emphasis on the socially constructed nature of meaning and knowledge, discusses a variety of different kinds of interpretivist methodologies including feminism, constructivism and critical theory and more recent advances, and provides a forum for discussing issues of research design, quality criteria (how do we know the author’s claims should be trusted?) and selection of material.

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GIGA-Workshop: Event History Analysis (07.-08.05.2015)

Institution: GIGA Doctoral Programme

Lecturer: Dr. Aya Kachi, Zürich

Date: May 7-8, 2015

Place: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 in Hamburg

Language of instruction: English

Registration: Participants need to register until April 10 via the GIGA website.

Contents: Event history analysis—some people call it “duration analysis” or “survival analysis”— is a class of statistical methods that is becoming increasingly popular in the social sciences. In many situations in the social sciences, we are interested in analyzing the occurrence and timing of events. Some dictatorships are terminated more quickly than others. Some government coalitions or international agreements collapse sooner than others. Similarly some treaty negotiations and conflicts last longer than others. Some countries adopt new regulations much before other countries. In these political processes, we are often interested in identifying whether and to what extent various political economic factors determine the timing of events. The simplest way to analyze such a relationship is to look at correlations between the duration of a certain political state (e.g. a regime being authoritarian) and a number of structural factors that are suspected to determine the duration (e.g. the level of economic development).

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GIGA-Workshop: Research Designs and Research Questions (27.-28.04.2015)

Institution: GIGA Doctoral Programme

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Heike Klüver, Bamberg

Date: April 27-28, 2015

Place: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 in Hamburg

Language of instruction: English

Registration: Participants need to register until April 10 via the GIGA website.

Contents: This course will introduce PhD students to the fundamentals of crafting a research design in the Social Sciences. A well-thought and carefully designed research plan is the key to a good dissertation. The research design specifies how you are going to carry out your research project and, particularly, how to use empirical evidence to answer your research question. This course is designed to introduce students to the core issues involved in developing a sound research design.

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