Geographical and georeferenced data are gaining increasing importance in social science research. For example, it is becoming more common to add geographical data related to the social or physical environment as contextual variables to social surveys or to aggregate social survey results at various geographical scales. Using geographical data in our research necessitates additional analytical […]

Every August since 2012, the Summer School in Survey Methodology usually takes place at GESIS in Cologne, Germany. Lecturers and participants from all over the world and from many different fields come to Cologne to take part in Europe’s leading summer school on survey methodology, research design, and data collection – recommended by the European Survey […]

The Summer School in Social Science Methods has been conceived for those who feel the need to refresh, deepen and widen their methodological knowledge and skills, whatever their professional situation: student, researcher or practitioner. Even in COVID-19 times, researchers should take care of improving your methodological skills: we guarantee the organization of the 26th Summer […]

Skills and competencies related to data literacy and data management are indispensable in today’s data-intensive research environment, both in STEM as well as in the humanities and social sciences. In recent years, there has been a significant shift in scientific communication towards open science, and many new approaches, tools and technologies have emerged, enabling a […]

Summary New Data Types in Data Management and Archiving workshop will focus on the management, archiving and access to new types of data, i.e. administrative, transactional and social media data. The program will consist of four presentations tackling various issues related to handling the new types of data in data repositories and sharing these data […]

Summary In this first workshop of the eRImote project, we will focus on remote training for RI users and staff, as well as exploring the impact of remote/digital service provision on user interaction and networking. The workshop consists of two 4-hour sessions split across 21/09 and 22/09 and take place virtually. Description We will explore […]

A clean environment and sustainability are of fundamental importance for human health and well-being. Therefore, we are organizing a timely data discovery event on Ecological consumption and production. There will be a brief introduction of the organizing data archive (ČSDA) and some of the data it contains regarding the environment and sustainability in a broader […]

Laboratorij za učenje i poučavanje Katedre za obrazovne znanosti Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Učiteljskog fakulteta organizira treći otvoreni online susret u formi meetup-a na kojem će sudionici razmijeniti iskustva o programima za provjeru statističkih podataka u znanstvenim radovima. Naglasak će biti na korištenju programa STATCHECK kao primjeru programa koji provjerava točnost i usklađenost statističkih podataka i […]

A major worldwide event providing an opportunity for strategic discussions about international cooperation in research infrastructure. A variety of experts and stakeholders discuss challenges and emerging trends, highlighting the essential role of research infrastructures.

Summary In this second workshop of the eRImote project, we will focus on Remote Operations of RI services (including quality management) and questions of Data and Access Security. The workshop will be taking place virtually on 24th October 1-5pm CEST and 25th October 2022 from 10am – 2pm CEST. Description We will explore the topics […]

Summary Want to ensure researchers share their FAIR data? The Austrian Social Science Data Archive, the Czech Social Science Data Archive, and UK Data Service are jointly organising an interactive train-the-trainer event to empower professional practitioners and support staff in ensuring researchers make their data available for re-use. Description We invite you to join us […]

The second DARIAH Innovation Forum will take place on 3 November, from 9:30 to 19:00 GMT in Dublin, Ireland (hybrid event). During this packed 1-day event panel presentations, a keynote and an innovation challenge will highlight DARIAH’s relations with traditional and digital industries.Scope The 2022 Innovation Forum will focus on the question of how a […]

Data gaps in migration research have many causes, including inconsistencies in the definitions and data collection methodology, lack of adequate statistics and lacking data on irregular migration. Mobile phone data, if properly used, can provide valuable insights about the mobility of people within a country, and for movements across the borders. The HumMingBird EU project […]

Scientific research and teaching are increasingly influenced by computational tools, methods and paradigms. The social sciences are no different, with many new forms of social data only available or practical through computational means (Kitchen, 2014). While social science research has always been marked by technological approaches to some degree, the field of computational social science […]

EDDI22 is organized jointly by CDSP , Center for Socio-Political Data, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and IDSC of IZA – International Data Service Center of the Institute for the Study of Labor.   The EDDI22 Conference website is at:   It will be hosted by Sciences Po in their buildings at Rue Saint-Peres, […]

This talk presents a linking approach that combines expert assessments on electoral integrity with survey data to study how electoral integrity affects the way in which election results translate into citizen attitudes towards the political system. It introduces a causal mechanism that links political losing to political trust via evaluations of electoral fairness: citizens who […]

Since 1986, the ISSP has provided high-quality data on attitudes and behaviors on important societal issues such as family, health, work, religion, the role of government, social inequality, the environment, national identity and citizenship, social networks, or leisure and sports. The newly launched ISSP User Conference Series is designed to provide a platform for the […]

CRRESS invites you to join our December webinar “Reproducibility and confidential or proprietary data: can it be done?“. Paulo Guimarães (Banco de Portugal, BPLIM), John Horton (MIT), Lars Vilhuber (Cornell University) compose the panel. Aleksandr Michuda (Cornell University) will moderate the session. The fourth panel of CRRESS, The Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics […]