ECPR Summer School in Research Methods and Techniques

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.

Learn about regression analysis using R with a focus on demonstrating its usefulness in policy analysis and other fields. You will learn to use various data and models to determine when and how regression can be applied effectively.

Gain an understanding of various Bayesian methods for answering research questions in quantitative social science, and learn how to apply them.

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 a number of state-of-the-art tools to establish causal relations in the social sciences, with a focus on intuition.

Acquire the skills to apply the Critical Discourse Analysis/Discourse-Historical Approach to analyze contemporary political discourse in your research.

Explore key theoretical principles and applications of data visualisation, learn about visual storytelling, and get practical tricks on how to get the most out of ggplot in R.

Grasp the foundations of experimental research in political science, with a focus on practical applications, and learn to apply design and randomisation strategies under different settings in your research.

Gain hands-on experience in designing and conducting interviews in your research, and learn to maximise and report your interview data appropriately.

Gain hands-on experience in designing and conducting interviews in your research, and learn to maximise and report your interview data appropriately.

Learn about the logic and basic notions of conjoint analysis (CJA), and how to apply these by looking at different applications of conjoint analysis within the field of behavioural sciences.

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

Discover NVivo and learn to manage, code, and analyse qualitative data for academic research, public policy, and non-profit organisations in this introductory course.

Learn the basics of qualitative comparative analysis and how to apply it in your research project.

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 how to consolidate and enrich the mixed and multimethod skills of researchers, so that you may implement richer and more robust designs in your projects.

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 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.

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

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

Learn to understand political science literatures using common quantitative text analysis approaches and how to interpret the results with the most common methods used by social scientists.

Learn to understand political science literatures using common quantitative text analysis approaches and how to interpret the results with the most common methods used by social scientists.

Learn how to use appropriate participatory research methods within your research-project process.

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

Learn to use 'formation' and 'elucidation' as ways to think about and work with concepts in your research in social science enterprise.