Beratungsstelle für empirische Forschung

Nachrichten aus dem Bereich Beratungsstelle für empirische Forschung :

  • April meeting Graduate Student Qualitative Methods Network
    The Graduate Student Qualitative Methods Network´s (GSQMN) next virtual gathering which will take place on April 12th, 22:00 CET. At this gathering, Jennifer Boyd, a doctoral candidate at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, will share her work on reconceptualizing agency with infants and toddlers.

    The purpose of the Graduate Student Qualitative Methods Network is to create spaces for graduate students to engage in methodological discussions, collaborations, and peer and faculty mentoring across institutions of higher education. This network will offer events where students can learn and share their qualitative research projects and methodological ideas.

    Graduate students and faculty interested in qualitative methods are welcome to join this conversation.
    You can register here:
    https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckd-qorjwoH9TkPVEGWVCLaib3tblvG29q .
  • Call for Papers Mixed Methods Research in Education
    On November 16 and 17 2023 the Joint Conference of the German Sociological Association’s (DGS) Section Education (Bildung und Erziehung), and DGS Working Groups Mixed Methods (in Sections Methods of Empirical Social Research and Qualitative Social Research) and Science and Higher Education Research will take place at the Leibniz University in Hannover. The title of the conference is "Mixed Methods Research in Education: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Research of
    Kindergarten, Schools, Higher and Further Education" and the conference language will be English.
    The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 14 2023. You can find more information here.
  • Research Data Management (RDM) Grants – Call for Applications
    For the second time, KonsortSWD awards funding to collaborate with a research data center to prepare your data and make it available to the scientific community for secondary use.

    The project funding supports the preparation and provision of relevant new qualitative and quantitative data corpora that are not yet available to the scientific community. The enrichment of existing data corpora by means of linking to additional data sources can also be funded if this significantly increases the analytical potential of data sources.

    You can find all the information about the call here.
  • Methods of coding qualitative data - virtual workshop
    This two-day workshop by Johnny Saldaña offers participants practical experiences with seven methods of coding qualitative data: in vivo, process, emotion, values, dramaturgical, causation, and axial coding. The workshop also reviews heuristic and analytic follow-up with codes and coding: analytic memos, categories, and diagrams. Manual (hard copy) coding with social media data will be emphasized with a discussion of available analytic software for future use. Workshop content is based on Johnny Saldaña’s The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (4th edition, 2021, Sage Publishing).
    The workshops will take place via the Zoom platform.

    The workshop will take place on July 11 - 12 2023 from 10:00 to 17:00 Eastern USA Time and costs $ 200,-.
    You can register here.
  • Design Strategy: How to Choose a Qualitative Research Design
    Research design is essentially a series of decision points. Each choice made at the design stage defines and clarifies the study’s direction. In qualitative research, methodologies provide a philosophical lens through with the researcher views the problem being investigated. Two researchers could start with the same problem, even the same question, and conduct it in a completely different way depending on the methodological choice. How do you decide which methodology fits your study?

    In this dialogue on Methodspace the importance of a strategic approach is discussed that stresses alignment with the purpose of the study. The discussants walk through this decision-making process and demonstrate how each choice lays the groundwork for the next.
  • Call for Papers Knowledge Societies 4th Conference of the Academy of Sociology
    The Academy of Sociology is a professional scientific association promoting analytical-empirical social science. The 4th Conference of the Academy of Sociology is hosted by the Institute of Educational Science and the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bern.

    The theme of the conference, which will take place in Bern/Switzerland on August 28-30, 2023, is "Knowledge Societies". In addition to relevant submissions on the conference theme, proposals on other topics of analytical-empirical research are also highly welcome (Open Sessions). Conference language is English. The detailed call for papers and submission guidelines are available here.

    The deadline for applications is 15.04.2023.
  • Call for Papers annual meeting: Methodische Voraussetzungen vergleichender Analysen: Total Comparability Error
    On 21 to 22 September 2023 the conjoint annual meeting 2023 of the DGS-section „Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung“ and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft sozialwissenschaftlicher Institute (ASI) will take place.

    The meeting will take place at the Technische Universität Dresden. Deadline for the submission is March 31, 2023. For more information on the meeting and how to submit, you can go to: https://www.asi-ev.org/aktivitaeten/asi_jahrestagung/2023 .
  • RECSM Winter Methods School
    The fourth edition of RECSM Winter Methods School (March 6-10, 2023) is comprised of three courses.

    The courses are open to academics (students, professors, individuals employed by colleges and universities, and other institutions of higher education) and non-academics (consultants and other practitioners from the private sector or national and international organizations) and will be held online and on-site.

    The courses are:

    Survey data harmonization across time and space. March 6-7. 8-hour course.
    Questionnaire design for cross-cultural survey research. March 8-10. 12-hour course.
    Social network analysis. March 9-10. 8-hour course.

    For more information and how to register, click here.
  • Lecture series All is Data?
    The last lecture of the lecture series All is Data? has been postponed and will take place on May 2nd 2023 and is titled "Zur Frage der Bedeutung von Forschungskulturen für das Teilen und Nachnutzen qualitativer Daten in der erziehungswissenschaftlichen Forschung". For more information click here.
  • Call for Papers Mixed Methods Research in Education
    On November 16 and 17 2023 the Joint Conference of the German Sociological Association’s (DGS) Section Education (Bildung und Erziehung), and DGS Working Groups Mixed Methods (in Sections Methods of Empirical Social Research and Qualitative Social Research) and Science and Higher Education Research will take place at the Leibniz University in Hannover. The title of the conference is "Mixed Methods Research in Education: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Research of Kindergarten, Schools, Higher and Further Education" and the conference language will be English.
    The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 14 2023. You can find more information here.

 

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

Herzlich willkommen bei der Beratungsstelle für empirische Forschung!

Forschungsmethodologie ist das Rückgrat aller wissenschaftlichen Forschungsprojekte. Ein solider methodischer Ansatz ist Voraussetzung für qualitativ hochwertige Wissenschaft, unabhängig von der theoretischen Ausrichtung oder dem praktischen Ziel und unabhängig davon, ob qualitative, quantitative oder Mixed-Methods-Strategien eingesetzt werden. Die Beratungsstelle für Empirische Forschung bietet sowohl Forschenden und Dozierenden als auch Studierenden der Humanwissenschaftlichen Fakultät Beratung an. Wir bieten maßgeschneiderte Beratung und Unterstützung in jeder Phase des Forschungsprozesses – gleichermaßen für quantitative Ansätze, qualitative Ansätze und Mixed-Methods-Ansätze.

Auch in der Lehre können wir Herausforderungen begegnen, wenn es darum geht, Studierenden forschungsmethodische Inhalte nahe zu bringen. Denn erfahrungsgemäß fällt es Studierenden nicht immer leicht, empirische Forschungsarbeit aufzunehmen und selbst zu betreiben.

Die Beratungsstellemacht es sich daher zur Aufgabe, Sie - die Forschenden und Lehrenden, aber auch Studenten - bei Ihrer Arbeit mit Angeboten zu empirischen Forschungsmethoden zu unterstützen.

 

 

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