The GESIS Summer School 2024 is scheduled from 24 July to 16 August 2024. Some courses will be conducted onsite in Cologne, while others will be held online.
Join lecturers and attendees from diverse backgrounds and locations worldwide, both in-person and virtually, to participate in Europe's leading summer school in survey methodology, research design, and data collection.
Below, you'll find an outline of this year's courses:
Week 0 (24–26 July) – Short Courses
Introduction to R for Data Analysis [24–25 July]
Jan Schwalbach (GESIS), Dennis Abel (GESIS)
Developing, Translating, and Pretesting Questionnaires for Cross-cultural Surveys
Dorothée Behr (GESIS), Cornelia Neuert (GESIS), Lydia Repke (GESIS)
Introduction to Stata for Data Management & Analysis
Mazlum Karatas (GESIS), Lynn-Malou Lutz (GESIS)
Week 1 (29 July–02 August)
Factorial Survey Design
Katrin Auspurg (LMU Munich), Carsten Sauer (Bielefeld University), Alisia Bauer (LMU Munich)
Introduction to Questionnaire Design
Marek Fuchs (Darmstadt University of Technology)
Designing and Implementing Web Surveys
Melanie Revilla (IBEI)
Causal Inference with Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) [31 July–02 August]
Paul Hünermund (Copenhagen Business School)
Week 2 (05–09 August)
Causal Inference Using Survey Data
Heinz Leitgöb (Leipzig University), Tobias Wolbring (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Survey Sampling and Weighting
Simon Kühne (Bielefeld University)
Designing, Implementing, and Analyzing Longitudinal Surveys
Tarek Al Baghal (University of Essex), Alexandru Cernat (University of Manchester)
Mixed-Mode Surveys [07–09 August]
Henning Silber (GESIS), Sven Stadtmüller (HAWK Göttingen), Peter Schmidt (University of Giessen), Yannick Diehl (University of Marburg)
Week 3 (12–16 August)
Introduction to Survey Design
Bella Struminskaya (University of Utrecht), Peter Lugtig (University of Utrecht)
Data Science Techniques for Survey Researchers
Anna-Carolina Haensch (LMU Munich and University of Maryland)
Introduction to Small Area Estimation
Angelo Moretti (University of Utrecht)
Applied Multiple Imputation
Ferdinand Geißler (Humboldt-University Berlin), Jan Paul Heisig (WZB Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin)
Scholarships, ECTS Credits, & More
The deadline to apply for one of four scholarships sponsored by the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) has passed.
Thanks to our cooperation with the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Mannheim,
participants can obtain a certificate acknowledging a workload worth 4 ECTS credit points per one-week course.
More information is available here.
While there is no registration deadline, availability is limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. You will find the full program, detailed course descriptions, and more information here.