We are happy to announce the GIGA Training Programme for this winter term. Check below a list of all the courses available.
An Introduction to Critical Discourse Studies: Texts, Contexts and Power
Date and time: 23-24 October 2024, 9: 00 – 17:00 (23.10) and 9:00 – 14:00 (24.10)
Place: GIGA, in...Read More »
Date and time: 1 Nov, 10 am – 5 pm and 2 Nov, 10 am – 4 pm
Place: GIGA, in person
Target group: Doctoral Researchers
Language: English
Description: This course will introduce the students to the main steps of research design in social sciences, from the formulation of the research...Read More »
Due to the coronavirus situation all courses will be offered online!
The following seminars are open to doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers at the GIGA and its partner institutions. Please note that other external participants are asked to pay a small course fee.
Target audience
Doctoral Students and Postdoctoral Researchers at GIGA and Partner Institutions
About the course
Compared to its share of the world’s population the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) accounts for percentages of global combat deaths, terrorist attacks, and refugees five to 11 times over. The underlying conflicts have economic...Read More »
Target audience
Doctoral Students and Postdoctoral Researchers at GIGA and Partner Institutions
About the course
Case studies are the backbone of social science. At the same time, we need a stronger and more rigorous methodological backbone to case study research to maintain the leverage that knowledge from this within-case and cross-case...Read More »
Target audience Doctoral Students and Postdoctoral Researchers at GIGA and Partner Institutions
About the course 2-hours introductory course aims at helping doctoral students to develop their knowledge and skills regarding research data management. The topics that will be introduced in this course are organized along the research cycle starting from proposal...Read More »
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
The following seminars are open to doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers at the GIGA and its partner institutions. Please note that other external participants are asked to pay a small course fee.
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 20354 Hamburg
The following seminars are open to doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers at the GIGA and its partner institutions. Please note that other external participants are asked to pay a small course fee.
The GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien is an independent social science research institute based in Hamburg. It analyses political, social and economic developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and links this knowledge to questions of global...Read More »
Please note that the title of thethird Workshop provided by the GIGA Information Centrechanged to “SowiDataNet – The New Repository to Share Quantitative Data At GIGA”. Due to organizational issues, the workshop has to be postponed to15 January 2019.
The GIGA Information Centre and a cooperating Partner offer four 1-hour workshops. Please find some more information below. Please note that the number of participants is limited.
Satisfy your grant requirements – Learn how to write a data management plan! (Birte Pfeiffer, 16/10/2018, 10-11 am)
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 20354 Hamburg
The following seminars are open to doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers at the GIGA and its partner institutions. Please note that other external participants are asked to pay a small course fee.
Course Description: This workshop provides an introduction into Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), a method based on set theory and Boolean algebra to uncover relations between explanatory conditions and an outcome in medium- to large-n datasets. We will discuss the set-theoretic and Boolean foundations of the method, its logic of inference and...Read More »
Course Description: This course aims to enable participants to produce high-quality plots based on raw data and/or model outputs using the R package “ggplot2” (1st day) and to teach principles of interactive data visualization with the R package “shiny” (2nd day). The first day will familiarize participants with the logic of...Read More »
Course Description: This seminar aims at introducing graduate students to grounded theory, a specific research strategy belonging to the large family of qualitative methods. In particular, the seminar 1) situates grounded theory in the history of qualitative methods and presents its two main traditions, objectivist and constructivist grounded theory; 2)...Read More »
Course Description: This course offers an introduction to the empirical study of the majority of political systems around the world. According to Freedom House, people live under unfree political conditions within 55 percent of countries worldwide and there has been a rising trend of declining political and civil rights within...Read More »
Course Description: This course aims to introduce doctoral students to the most widely used qualitative research technique – the interview. The course begins by outlining the sorts of research question that are best addressed through qualitative interviews, touching on debates about the nature of qualitative data. We then consider the...Read More »
Course Description: There is by now a broad consensus among scholars of Latin American regionalism (and other regionalisms) not to take the EU as the gold standard for regional integration and cooperation. The focus on Europe and Europe-focused integration theories led to into a blind alley. In the course, we...Read More »
Course Description: Process Tracing (PT) is a within-case method that focuses on tracing causal mechanisms – the actual ‘link’ between a trigger (X) and an outcome (Y). This workshop will introduce you to the essentials of this method, its main underlying assumptions and its applicability. We will discuss what causal...Read More »
Course Description: This course presents a research strategy for the selection of comparative cases from different regions in the field of postwar security sector reform (SSR). Key elements are the demilitarization, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants, reforms in the structure, mandate, accountability, and oversight of the armed forces and...Read More »
Course Description: The aim of the course is threefold: First, the students are going to learn the basic differences between Bayesian and Frequentist statistics. Second, they should be able to identify research questions and ideas that might benefit from a Bayesian approach. Third, they should be able to understand research conducted...Read More »
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
The following seminars are open to doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers at the GIGA and its partner institutions. Please note that other external participants are asked to pay a small course fee.
Institution: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Location:
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
The following seminars are open to doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers at the GIGA and its partner institutions. Please note that other external participants are asked to pay a...Read More »
The GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien is an independent social-science research institute based in Hamburg. It analyses political, social and economic developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and links them to questions of global significance. The...Read More »
Registration: Participants need to register online by filling in the registration form that is available on the website of the respective event (see below).
Course description:
Zotero is a free, open-source...Read More »
Registration: Participants need to register online by filling in the registration form that is available on the website of the respective event (see below).
Course description:
Being an academic...Read More »
Registration: Participants need to register online by filling in the registration form that is available on the website of the respective event (see below).
Course description:
Building on the introductory courses...Read More »
Registration: Participants need to register online by filling in the registration form that is available on the website of the respective event (see below).
Registration: Participants need to register online by filling in the registration form that is available on the website of the respective event (see below).
Course description:
This course will cover...Read More »
Registration: Participants need to register online by filling in the registration form that is available on the website of the respective event (see below).
Course description:
This seminar aims to introduce...Read More »
Registration: Participants need to register online by filling in the registration form that is available on the website of the respective event (see below).
Course description:
This course will introduce...Read More »
Registration: Participants need to register online by filling in the registration form that is available on the website of the respective event (see below).
Course description:
This first introductory seminar...Read More »
The GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien is an independent social-science research institute based in Hamburg. It analyses political, social and economic developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East and combines this analysis with innovative comparative research in...Read More »
The course starts with an overview of analysis approaches to qualitative data in order to provide the context for coding approaches that are mainly...Read More »
The workshop will introduce to principles, forms and techniques of interviewing in qualitative social research. It will discuss questions like: Why and for...Read More »
Topics such as welfare, sustainable development, good governance, innovation, culture and creativity, are so versatile that they cannot be captured by a single (existing)...Read More »
Day 1: Intro to linear and logistic regression
This first day of the seminar is meant as an introduction to regression analysis for social scientists...Read More »