Summer 2018 ISSR Methodology Workshops

2018 Summer Methodology Workshops

ISSR announces the 2018 Summer Program

in Advanced Research Methods

organized by ISSR Research Methodologist Dr. Jessica Pearlman

Courses will be taught by specialists in their fields as part of ISSR's mission to promote excellence in social science research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and beyond. These short courses are designed to support the methods and training needs of students, academics, and professionals to enhance their education and research success.

This program of quantitative and qualitative courses takes place throughout the summer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Please join us, and pass this information along to graduate students, post-docs, faculty and fellow researchers within and beyond the Five Colleges.*

Fees are structured on a scale to encourage any who wish to attend.

We hope to see you this summer!

or click below for details on each workshop's goals and instructors,

and to register for individual workshops.

May 21 & 22 | 9 AM - 4 PM

Critical Narrative Research and Intervention: Digital Storytelling

Aline Gubrium & Alice Fiddian-Green

May 29 & 30 | 9 AM - 4 PM

Data Management in R

Matt Denny

May 31 & June 1 | 9 AM - 4 PM

Practical Web and Text Scraping

Matt Denny

June 4 - 6 | 9 AM - 2 PM

Qualitative Research Design and Methods

Chrystal G. Mwangi & Ezekiel Kimball

June 7 & 8 | 9 AM - 4 PM

Analyzing Categorical Data

Caroline Andrews & Brian Dillon

June 11 & 12 | 9 AM - 4 PM

Text-as-Data in R

Douglas Rice

June 14 & 15 | 9 AM - 2 PM

Introduction to Qualitative Interviewing

Chrystal G. Mwangi & Ezekiel Kimball

June 18 & 19 | 9 AM - 4 PM

Causal Inference with Graphical Models

David Jensen

July 9 - 11 | 9 AM - 1 PM

Organizing and Analyzing Qualitative Data with NVivo 11 for Windows

Eric Griffith & Ashley Carpenter

*The Five Colleges are: UMass Amherst, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College & Smith College.