ECPR Winter School

Gain advanced understanding and applied skills in conducting qualitative content analysis, thematic analysis, cross-case analysis and grounded theory using NVivo.

Gain advanced understanding and applied skills in conducting qualitative content analysis, thematic analysis, cross-case analysis and grounded theory using NVivo.

Get introduced to regression analysis using R, and learn how to use a variety of data and models to show when and how regression can be useful, in policy analysis and other contexts.

Get a grasp on all key elements of comparative case studies and process tracing, and learn how to implement a sound case study.

Get a grasp on all key elements of comparative case studies and process tracing, and learn how to implement a sound case study.

Learn how different statistical methods treat the 'country effect', and how statistical models, scaling techniques and data reduction methods test for the 'invariance' of the relationship between variables across countries.

Learn how to deploy the Critical Discourse Analysis / Discourse-Historical Approach in your own analysis of contemporary political discourse.

Learn to make sophisticated arguments, analyse others' arguments in new ways, and even contemplate making your own contributions to the growing ‘methodological’ literature in the future.

Gain a practical understanding of the typical steps of an interpretive research process – from how to formulate an interpretive research question to how to present and document interpretive analyses.

Gain knowledge and skills needed to use the Bayesian approach to diverse kinds of research topics, and learn how to use specific tools for Bayesian analysis.

Learn the basic inferential statistical techniques used in political science research, so that you can progress to more advanced techniques.

Get introduced to NVivo and learn how to manage, code and analyse qualitative data in the context of academic research, public policy and for not-for-profit organisations.

Learn how to approach the most common analysis tasks in R with confidence, from exporting your results from R to writing an academic paper or report using Rmarkdown.

Learn to work with various sizes of data using R and gain insights from that data, through basic machine learning techniques and coding tutorials.

Learn more about political narratives, focusing on methodology, epistemology, and analysis.

Get a grasp on concepts and assumptions of social science methodology using digital technologies. You'll learn how to design and collect qualitative data online and address potential problems using digital technologies.

Learn a wide range of panel data methods estimated with Ordinary Least Squares regression and how to apply these to substantive research questions for dependent variables that are continuous.

Learn how to conduct data collection and complex data analysis with hands-on exercises and practical tips to help you start your journey in the world of Python.

Get a solid foundation and applied skills in the basic NVivo features for planning, conducting and reporting qualitative data analysis in your research.

Get a solid foundation and applied skills in the basic NVivo features for planning, conducting and reporting qualitative data analysis in your research.

Learn how to conduct applied social network analysis in various social scientific disciplines and practices, while gaining an understanding of theory-driven research questions with scalable computational tools and empirical data.

Learn how to design surveys for various outcomes, target groups and constructs, by drawing on the Total Survey Error framework.

Learn how visual and nonverbal elements can be systematically analysed with visual techniques in your politics research.