Liebe Kolleg:innen,
ich möchte Sie gerne auf den folgenden Call for Item Submission im GESIS Panel Population Sample hinweisen.
Mit dem aktuellen Call for Item Submission: Perspectives on Europe werden sog. Short Submissions (≈1 Min Survey Zeit, längsschnittliche Wiederholungen sind möglich) eingeladen. Der Call greift die 10. EU-Parlamentswahlen auf und Einreichungen können sich auf Themen wie politische Einstellungen und Partizipation, Wahlverhalten, oder politisches Krisenbewusstsein und Zugehörigkeitsgefühl beziehen. Submission Deadline ist der 18. Februar.
Das GESIS Panel Population Sample erhebt Quer- und Längsschnittdaten in einem Mixed-Mode-Panel. Die probabilistische Stichprobe umfasst ca. 5.000 Personen, die alle drei Monate zu verschiedenen Themen befragt werden. Forschende haben die Möglichkeit Items zur Datenerhebung einzureichen, und so hoch-qualitative Daten kostenfrei zu erheben. Die GESIS Panel Daten umfassen bisher knapp 50 Wellen.
Darüber hinaus möchte ich Sie darauf aufmerksam machen, dass Itemeinreichungen ohne vorgegebene thematische Schwerpunktsetzung auch unabhängig des Calls laufend möglich sind. Informieren Sie sich dazu gerne auf der Webseite des GESIS Panels<https://www.gesis.org/en/gesis-panel/gesis-panel-home>.
Beste Grüße
Bernd Weiß
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Dr. Bernd Weiß | Head of Team GESIS Panel
http://berndweiss.net/
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
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Dear list members,
Please find below a reminder for the Special Issue CfP “Advances in survey sampling with social media advertisements”. Please note that the deadline for extended abstracts has been extended to February 9, 2024. Full papers will be due in Fall 2024.
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Call for Papers: Special Issue in International Journal of Social Research Methodology<https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tsrm20>
Advances in survey sampling with social media advertisements
Guest editors: Steffen Pötzschke<https://www.gesis.org/en/institute/staff/person/steffen.poetzschke>a, Michael Zoorob<https://michaelzoorob.com/about/>b, Bernd Weiß<https://www.gesis.org/en/institute/staff/person/bernd.weiss>a
aGESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Science , bMeta Platforms
We invite paper submissions on “Advances in survey sampling with social media advertisements” for a tentatively approved special issue in the International Journal of Social Research Methodology<https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tsrm20> (IJSRM).
Survey sampling with social media advertisements was virtually non-existent a decade ago, but it has been increasingly adopted in recent years, especially for otherwise hard-to-reach populations. The increasing use of the approach warrants a more systematic review of its methodological particularities, advantages, disadvantages, and challenges; as well as practical and theoretical knowledge sharing of best practices using this method.
Submissions to the issue will either (a) describe empirical research that samples via social media advertising and sheds light on relevant methodological questions or (b) make novel theoretical or methodological contributions. Please note that the call is not limited to research using a specific social media platform.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
● Discussion of suitable/innovative use cases (e.g., surveying otherwise hard-to-reach populations),
● Comparing social media recruited samples to external benchmarks or to one another,
● Strategies for measuring and mitigating bias,
● Influence of different features of ad campaigns – such as campaign optimization strategies, campaign length, audience targeting, ad placements, text, and images/video – on the cost and sample composition of social media recruited samples,
● Use of AI-based optimization features (such as lookalike audiences and automated A/B testing) and their impact on the survey process and sample composition,
● Use of advertisements in combination with chatbots, messenger services or survey apps,
● Role and impact of the design decisions taken regarding features comparable to “classic” survey design elements (e.g., wording of advertisements in their function as survey invitation),
● Impact and management of other contextual factors – such as user comments on advertisements, the advertiser’s identity or timing of the survey,
● Ethical and data privacy considerations, and
● Insights from social media survey sampling about social media platform algorithms or survey research methods more broadly.
Please submit extended abstracts (a maximum of 1000 words), along with co-authors and affiliations, to ad-sampling-si(a)gesis.org<mailto:ad-sampling-si@gesis.org> by February 9, 2024. We anticipate providing feedback on acceptance in Spring 2024. Please note that full papers will have to be submitted in Fall 2024 (see timeline below).
Please note that IJSRM has a two-stage submission process for Special Issues<https://files.taylorandfrancis.com/TSRM_SpecialIssue_Guidelines.pdf>. After an initial review and expression of interest in the Special Issue proposal, the journal’s editors have invited us to submit a Stage 2 proposal.
Reviewing process
The Special Issue will apply a multi-stage reviewing process. First, the submission of an extended abstract (maximum of 1,000 words) is required. These extended abstracts are mandatory and serve as a basis for the guest editors to decide on the inclusion of individual papers in the Stage 2 submission to the journal. After the positive review of the Special Issue Stage 2 submission by the journal’s editors, authors are invited to submit a full paper which will be subject to peer-review with at least two experts in the field.
Timeline (revised)
* October 25, 2023: Call for Papers issued
* New Deadline - February 9, 2024: Extended abstracts due
* February 26, 2024: Authors are informed by SI editors about inclusion of their abstract in Stage 2 submission to the journal
* March 1, 2024: SI editors submit Stage 2 SI proposal to journal (including the extended abstracts of all selected papers)
* Spring 2024: Upon final acceptance of the Special Issue, authors receive feedback on their paper proposals and an invitation to submit a full paper. Full papers will be due for submission six months after this date.
Please direct any questions to ad-sampling-si(a)gesis.or<mailto:ad-sampling-si@gesis.org>g<mailto:ad-sampling-si@gesis.org>
Find this CfP online: https://www.gesis.org/en/gesis-panel/gesis-panel-home/calls
Liebe Kolleg*innen in der Methoden-Sektion,
das diesjährige Spring Seminar ist beinahe ausgebucht. In Woche 2 und 3 gibt es jeweils noch einige wenige Plätze. Wie immer gilt: First come, first served!
Programm, Termine und Links zu weiteren Infos und der Registrierung auf unseren Seiten: Siehe unten.
Viele Grüße,
Sebastian
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Dear colleagues,
There are just few places left in two of three courses at this year's GESIS Spring Seminar! There is no registration deadline; places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Spring Seminar offers high-quality training in state-of-the-art techniques in quantitative data analysis taught by leading experts in the field. It is designed for advanced graduate or PhD students, post-docs, as well as junior and senior researchers. In 2024, all courses will deal with "Recent Developments in Longitudinal Data Analysis" in the social sciences and beyond.
Extensive hands-on exercises and tutorials complement lectures in each course. The Spring Seminar will take place onsite at GESIS Cologne, Germany, from 26 February to 15 March 2024.
For registration and detailed course descriptions, please visit www.gesis.org/springseminar<http://www.gesis.org/springseminar>.
GESIS Spring Seminar 2024 Program:
Week 1 (26 February - 01 March) [fully booked; we are operating a waiting list]
Modern Longitudinal Analysis Using R<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x0CA8F929E23A4BB2…>
Alexandru Cernat, Nick Shryane
Week 2 (04 - 08 March) [few places left]
Recent Developments in Difference-in Differences Estimation<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x0CA8F929E23A4BB2…>
Scott Cunningham
Week 3 (11 - 15 March) [few places left]
Causal Machine Learning for Cross-sectional and Panel Data<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x0CA8F929E23A4BB2…>
Martin Spindler, Jannis Kück
Courses must be booked separately - whether you wish to attend one, two, or all three. There is no registration deadline, but places are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Thanks to our cooperation with the Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics, and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne, enrolled doctoral students can obtain three ECTS credit points<https://www.gesis.org/en/gesis-training/what-we-offer/spring-seminar-cuttin…> per one-week course.
For workshops (onsite or online) on related and other social science research methods, please visit www.gesis.org/workshops<http://www.gesis.org/workshops>.
We would appreciate you forwarding this announcement to other potentially interested parties.
Thank you, and best wishes,
Your GESIS Training team
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GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
email: training(a)gesis.org<mailto:training@gesis.org>
web: www.gesis.org/training<http://www.gesis.org/training>
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facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GESISTraining
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Dr. Sebastian E. Wenz
Senior Researcher
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Phone: +49 221-47694-159
www.gesis.org/training<http://www.gesis.org/training>
Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
2024 startet unsere großangelegte Panelstudie GLEN (German Longitudinal Environmental Study) als ein von der DFG gefördertes Langzeitprojekt. Ziel des Kooperationsprojekts der Universität Kaiserslautern, der Universität Leipzig und der LMU München ist die Erhebung hochwertiger Längsschnittdaten zu Umweltverhalten, Umwelteinstellungen, Akzeptanz politischer Maßnahmen und Umweltungleichheit. Wir planen die Daten nutzerfreundlich aufbereitet als Scientific-Use-File der wissenschaftlichen Fachöffentlichkeit bereitzustellen. Mit GLEN wollen wir die Sozialwissenschaften als festen Bestandteil in die Klima- und Umweltforschung integrieren und damit den „Faktor Mensch“ bei Fragen des Umwelt- und Klimaschutzes ins Zentrum rücken.
Demnächst suchen wir für den Standort Kaiserslautern eine:n wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin oder Mitarbeiter (m/w/d) als Postdoc im Bereich Regionalisierung / Georeferenzierte Daten.
https://www.b-ite.com/recruitingmanager/job-postings/share/zF7VQTLy7oCUmpDS…
Die Ausschreibefrist wurde verlängert!
Viele Grüße,
Henning Best
* German version below/Deutsche Version weiter unten *
Our online series "Meet the Experts" starts the new year with a new season on "Knowledge technologies for the Social Sciences: Access to Social Science Data and Services"!
We start by investigating social scientists' information-seeking behavior and data needs, which form the basis for suitable search infrastructures and knowledge graphs to make social science data and information findable, accessible, and reusable. Building on this, we show what opportunities and challenges emerge from the adoption of technological advances in the social sciences, such as large language models and novel data sources mined from the Web. We will conclude with a presentation on the automatic extraction of scientific information from scholarly texts, which helps to improve search and understanding of research information and their dependencies.
Here are the dates of the one-hour online talks (on Thursdays, 1-2 pm):
· 18.01.2024: Understanding the information-seeking behavior of social scientists (Dr. Dagmar Kern)
· 15.02.2024: Five ways to turn your dataset into click bait (Dr. Brigitte Mathiak)
· 14.03.2024: Searching the social sciences with GESIS Search (Dr. Daniel Hienert)
· 11.04.2024: How knowledge graphs can help you to share research data and information (Dr. Benjamin Zapilko & Debanjali Biswas)
· 16.05.2024: Opportunities and challenges of Large Language Models for the social sciences (Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov & Dr. Hajira Jabeen)
· 13.06.2024: Preserving and analysing large-scale Twitter data (Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov)
· 11.07.2024: Introduction to scholarly information extraction (Wolfgang Otto, Dr. Lu Gan, Dr. Saurav Karmakar, & Dr. Philipp Mayr)
After the presentation, our experts will be available for further discussion and to answer questions.
You can find the registration and further information about the talks here: https://www.gesis.org/en/services/sharing-knowledge/meet-the-experts
We are looking forward to seeing you at the talks!
Cornelia Neuert, on behalf of the GESIS Meet-the-Expert team
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Deutsch
Unsere Online-Reihe “Meet the Experts“ startet mit einer neuen Staffel zu „Knowledge technologies for the Social Sciences: Access to Social Science Data and Services“ ins neue Jahr!
Wir beginnen mit der Untersuchung des Informationssuchverhaltens und der Datenbedürfnisse von Sozialwissenschaftler*innen, die die Grundlage für geeignete Suchinfrastrukturen und Wissensgraphen bilden, um sozialwissenschaftliche Daten und Informationen auffindbar, zugänglich und wiederverwendbar zu machen. Darauf aufbauend zeigen wir, welche Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen sich aus der Übernahme technologischer Fortschritte in den Sozialwissenschaften ergeben, wie z. B. große Sprachmodelle und neuartige Datenquellen aus dem Web. Abschließend wird die automatische Extraktion wissenschaftlicher Informationen aus wissenschaftlichen Texten vorgestellt, die dazu beiträgt, die Suche und das Verständnis von Forschungsinformationen zu verbessern.
Termine der jeweils einstündigen englischsprachigen Online-Vorträge (donnerstags, 13:00 – 14:00 Uhr):
· 18.01.2024: Understanding the information-seeking behavior of social scientists (Dr. Dagmar Kern)
· 15.02.2024: Five ways to turn your dataset into click bait (Dr. Brigitte Mathiak)
· 14.03.2024: Searching the social sciences with GESIS Search (Dr. Daniel Hienert)
· 11.04.2024: How knowledge graphs can help you to share research data and information (Dr. Benjamin Zapilko & Debanjali Biswas)
· 16.05.2024: Opportunities and challenges of Large Language Models for the social sciences (Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov & Dr. Hajira Jabeen)
· 13.06.2024: Preserving and analysing large-scale Twitter data (Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov)
· 11.07.2024: Introduction to scholarly information extraction (Wolfgang Otto, Dr. Lu Gan, Dr. Saurav Karmakar, & Dr. Philipp Mayr)
Nach einem Vortrag zu dem jeweiligen Thema stehen Ihnen unsere Expert*innen jeweils für Fragen und Diskussion zur Verfügung.
Die Anmeldung und weitere Informationen zu den Vorträgen finden Sie hier: https://www.gesis.org/angebot/wissen-vermitteln/meet-the-experts
Wir freuen uns, Sie begrüßen zu können!
Cornelia Neuert
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Dr. Cornelia Neuert
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Survey Design & Methodology | Questionnaire Design & Evaluation
P.O. Box 12 21 55 | 68072 Mannheim |Germany
Phone: +49 (0)621 1246-225 | Fax: +49 (0)621 1246-100
Email: cornelia.neuert(a)gesis.org<mailto:cornelia.neuert@gesis.org>
www.gesis.org<http://www.gesis.org/>
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Dear colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to the upcoming RECSM Winter Methods School in Barcelona (Spain) from March 11 to 19, 2024.
RECSM Winter Methods School consists of three courses focusing on web surveys, digital data tracking and electoral analysis. It is followed by a workshop event bringing together the latest research on the challenges of using new data types in online survey studies.
The courses are open to academics and non-academics and will be held online and on-site.
The registration deadline is March 4, 2024.
Best regards
Jan
German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)
Lange Laube 12 | 30159 Hannover | www.dzhw.eu<https://www.dzhw.eu/> | Germany
Prof. Dr. Jan Karem Höhne
Head of CS3 Lab for Computational Survey and Social Science
Leibniz University Hannover
German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)
Research Area 4: Research Infrastructure and Methods
Tel. +49 511 450670-458
Fax +49 511 450670-960
www.jkhoehne.eu<http://www.jkhoehne.eu/>
Upcoming and most recent publications:
- Höhne, J.K., Kern, C., Gavras, K. & Schlosser, S. (2023). The sound of respondents: predicting respondents' level of interest in questions with voice data in smartphone surveys. Quality and Quantity. DOI: 10.1007/s11135-023-01776-8
- Höhne, J.K., Krebs, D., & Kühnel, S.M. (2023). Investigating direction effects in rating scales with five and seven points in a probability-based online panel. Survey Research Methods, 17, 193-204. DOI: 10.18148/srm/2023.v17i2.8006
- Höhne, J.K., Ziller, C., & Lenzner, T. (2023). Investigating respondents' willingness to participate in video-based web surveys. International Journal of Market Research. DOI: 10.1177/14707853231198788
Visit us also on Twitter [X] <https://twitter.com/dzhw_info> & Linkedin [X] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/dzhw-gmbh>
Registration court: Amtsgericht Hannover | HRB 210251
Chairman of the supervisory board: Ministerialdirigent Peter Greisler
Scientific Director: Prof. Dr. Monika Jungbauer-Gans
VAT No. DE291239300 | TAX ID No. 25/206/21502
Werte Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
wir möchten Sie auf die Session "Studying immigrants using the ESS: Methodological challenges, empirical consequences" auf der ESS Conference 2024 in Lissabon aufmerksam machen, die Antje Röder und ich gemeinsam organisieren. Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Vortragsangebote!
Beste Grüße
Stephanie Müssig und Antje Röder
Studying immigrants using the ESS: Methodological challenges, empirical consequences, ESS Conference 2024 in Lisbon
Since its release, scholars from various disciplines all around the world use the ESS as source for research on persons with immigrant background. An important reason for its popularity among immigrant researchers is its bi-annual repetition and the regular participation of many Western European countries that both allow to combine data of several rounds and/or countries, resulting in a decent number of respondents with immigrant background. This circumvents the problem of small numbers that researchers usually face when using population survey data for studying immigrants. Moreover, its broad range of questions on (political) attitudes and behaviour is extra-ordinary for a multi-themed population survey, making the ESS often the only data source for studying these topics on immigrants or groups that mainly are of immigrant background, such as Muslims.
At the same time, there are reasons for reservations regarding its authoritative use on immigrants. Although the ESS displays a strong awareness for the need of research on immigrants by including items that enable their identification among respondents, it is not an immigrant survey. There is no specific sampling strategy for immigrant groups, and the questionnaire is only presented in a limited set of languages- a major obstacle for the participation of new immigrants or of immigrants with little knowledge of these languages. For this reason, non-response among immigrants is probably higher than among other population groups and not at random, which is considered a severe challenge to obtain unbiased results.
Although these and other sources for potential biases are well known among scholars, they have been neither systematically investigated nor frequently addressed in publications using the ESS. Among the open questions are: how biased is immigrant data really, and to what extent are substantial results affected by this? How can we take this into account in our analyses and when interpreting the results?
We encourage contributions with methodological focus (with or without comparative approach) that, e.g.,
* take stock of the descriptive representation of immigrants in the ESS
* assess whether bias in descriptive representation leads to bias in the substantive results on attitudes and behaviour
* appraise how the transition to a self-completion survey aggravates or alleviates existing caveats regarding research of immigrants with the ESS, and how to solve potential problems and pitfalls
* address other methodological issues regarding research on immigrants with the ESS
* use ESS data to study immigrants in an innovative way to overcome methodological challenges.
We invite abstract submissions via the ESS management platform ConfTool (max. 500 words). For submissions, please click here.<https://www.conftool.net/ess2024/>
The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2024.
For more information about the conference and its sessions, please click here: 5th International European Social Survey (ESS) Conference<https://europeansocialsurvey.org/about/ess-conference/5th-international-ess…>
For questions regarding the session "Studying immigrants using the ESS", please contact the session convenors Stephanie Müssig<mailto:stephanie.muessig@fau.de> and Antje Röder<mailto:roeder@staff.uni-marburg.de>.
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Dr. Stephanie Müssig
Stv. Geschäftsführerin - FAU EZIRE
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
FAU Forschungszentrum Islam und Recht in Europa FAU EZIRE
Bohlenplatz 6 | 91054 Erlangen | Tel: +49 9131 85-26830 | Fax: +49 9131 85-26399
FAU Forschungszentrum FAU EZIRE<http://FAU%20Forschungszentrum%20FAU%20EZIRE> | www.ezire.fau.de/person/stephanie-muessig/<http://www.ezire.fau.de/person/stephanie-muessig/>
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Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming Data Donation Symposium 2024.
Where: University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
When: 30-31 May 2024
The symposium serves as a platform to discuss the ethical considerations, technological advancements, and real-world applications of data donation. It will feature keynote speeches, panel discussions, and interactive workshops, providing attendees with invaluable insights and networking opportunities.
Participation is free of charge.
Call for abstract submissions:
We invite researchers from various disciplines to share their experiences.
We are looking for presentations on the following topics:
- Research projects that use of data donation to answer scientific research questions across multiple domains
- Methodological challenges and best practices regarding data donation.
- Demonstrations of tools and infrastructures that can facilitate and/or complement data donation pipelines.
- Discussion of legal, ethical and normative considerations regarding data donation.
Abstract submission and the latest information: https://datadonation.eu/community/symposium-2024
Deadline for abstract submissions: 26 January 2024.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Laura Boeschoten at l.boeschoten(a)uu.nl or Bella Struminskaya at b.struminskaya(a)uu.nl.
Best regards,
Bella
on behalf of the organizing team
Bella Struminskaya | Associate professor
Department of Methodology and Statistics | Utrecht University
Postal address: PO Box 80140 | 3508 TC Utrecht | The Netherlands
Visiting address: Sjoerd Groenman building, room C116 | Padualaan 14 | Utrecht
Dear all,
If you know someone who is interested in a PhD position in our group at the LMU Munich starting next spring or summer, pls encourage them to apply.
The work is situated at the intersection of survey methodology and machine learning -- more specifically to improve questionnaire design and online data collection through the use of paradata (including bot detection, question difficulty etc.). The project combines laboratory experiments with in-field data collection.
We especially welcome applications from individuals with a survey methodology background, looking to deepen their knowledge of statistics and machine learning (and interest in software development).
The group includes researchers from many different fields, and we collaborate closely with colleagues from other institutions (with the EU and in the US), with practitioners and policy-makers.
Please find further information in the full job ad at
https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/a8e1eb6a1ad9c9e95cb73485bfa130faa099d6… .
Felix Henninger will be happy to answer questions about the poistion felix.henninger(a)stat.uni-muenchen.de .
Best,
Frauke