Institute for Social Science Research to Host Online Summer Methodology Workshop Series
The UMass Amherst Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) will be presenting a series of online summer methodology workshops throughout June and July. The numerous multi-day workshops will provide registrants with education in various tools and methods used in social science research, under the instruction of faculty members and researchers across the university’s schools and colleges.
ISSR provides resources and support for faculty and student researchers across campus who use social science methods, seek to take part in collaborative and interdisciplinary research, do publicly engaged research or seek external funding for research.
More information about the events listed below, as well as registration links for each, can be found at https://www.umass.edu/issr/all-workshops. Any questions regarding the events can be emailed to issr@issr.umass.edu.
June 8-10
Qualitative Research Design and Methods
Instructor: Ezekiel Kimball, associate dean for operations and planning and associate professor of higher education in the College of Education
June 15-16
Introduction to R: Data Management
Instructor: Hsin Fei Tu, methodology consultant at ISSR and a PhD student in sociology
June 15-17
Getting Started with Bayesian Statistics
Instructors: Andrew Cohen, professor of psychological & brain sciences, Justin Gross, associate professor of political science and Jeff Starns, professor of psychological and brain sciences
June 15-19
Photovoice: Visual Elicitation Meets Participatory Action Research
Instructors: Krista Harper, professor of anthropology, and Brittni Howard,PhD student in Anthropology
June 18-19
Introduction to Python and Web Scraping
Instructor: Hsin Fei Tu, methodology consultant at ISSR and a PhD student in sociology
June 23-25
Causal Inference with Graphical Models
Instructor: David Jensen, professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences and associate director of the Computational Social Science Institute
June 23-25
Introduction to NVivo 12 for Windows: Uploading, Coding and Analyzing Qualitative Data
Instructor: Eric Griffith, research methods consultant at ISSR and PhD student in anthropology
June 29-July 1
Making Evaluation Work for Social Scientists
Instructors: Kelly Giles, doctoral student in sociology, and Elisa Martinez, PhD candidate in sociology
June 29-July 1
Instructor: Quinnehtukqut McLamore, PhD Student in psychological & brain sciences
July 6-17
Critical Narrative Research and Intervention: Digital Storytelling
Instructors: Aline Gubrium, associate professor of health promotion and policy in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, and Alice Fiddian-Green, assistant professor of health promotion at Springfield College
July 6-8
Instructor: Douglas Rice, assistant professor of Political Science
July 6-8
Introduction to Qualitative Interviewing
Instructor: Chrystal A. George Mwangi, assistant professor of higher education in the College of Education
July 13-15
Getting Started with Social Network Analysis
Instructor: Kevin L. Young, associate professor of political science