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Dear colleagues,

We are excited to announce the program of the GESIS Spring Seminar 2022 and the GESIS Workshops for the first half of 2022. Due to the pandemic, we offer our courses only online until April.

For registration and detailed course descriptions, please visit *www.gesis.org/training* http://www.gesis.org/training *GESIS Spring Seminar 2022: “Simulation Techniques in the Social Sciences”*

From 07 – 25 March 2022, the 2nd Virtual GESIS Spring Seminar offers three

online classes on different simulation techniques used in the social sciences. The lectures in each course are complemented by extensive hands-on exercises and tutorials with applications to both simulated and real-world data. All courses are held in English.

*Week 1 (07 *– *11 Mar):*

*Agent-based Modeling* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x31F174CB35894D999B7C398404594AFD&subID=0xBF81A8E92A68407FACFCC3AF23B76A2C&lang=de_DE&lang=en_US* in the Social Sciences*

Prof. Dr. Andreas Flache; Carlos de Matos Fernandes; Tanzhe Tang

*Week 2 (14 *– *18 Mar):*

*Policy Modeling* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x31F174CB35894D999B7C398404594AFD&subID=0x7F7282EF9FA246288A33241E2996C48C&lang=de_DE&lang=en_US

Prof. Dr. Petra Ahrweiler; Dr. Corinna Elsenbroich

*Week 3 (21 *– *25 Mar):*

*Using Simulation Studies to Evaluate Statistical Methods* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x31F174CB35894D999B7C398404594AFD&subID=0xAC89D953F1FA461EA1DBBC6B0A8E704D&lang=en_US

Dr. Tim P. Morris; Dr. Matteo Quartagno

Courses will be held *online* (via Zoom) and must be booked separately – whether you wish to attend one, two, or all of them. 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-cutting-edge-methods/ects-credits per one-week course. For detailed information on the Spring Seminar 2022 visit *www.gesis.org/springseminar* https://www.gesis.org/springseminar

*GESIS Workshops in English*

02 – 04 Feb *Introduction to R for Quantitative Social Science* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xAA72A87865CC455D928D910773D87AC5 (Online)

Dr. Adrian Stanciu; Dr. Ranjit Singh

04 Feb, 18 Feb, 04 Mar, 18 Mar *Research Design in the Social Sciences* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x286AFE8CC1F44D7F919CEB59B99BB547 (Online)

Prof. Dr. Lea Ellwardt

16 – 18 Feb *Applied Multiple Imputation* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xF76737AA77DE460F8901F3E2A8CB83E6 (Online)

Dr. Kristian Kleinke

21 – 22 Feb *Automatic Sampling and Analysis of YouTube Data* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x9BF8CE59341441148D9191B9CB54CA75 (Online)

Dr. Johannes Breuer; Julian Kohne; Dr. Rohangis Mohseni

04 – 05 Apr *Causal Mediation Analysis* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x0027C3224B2B49F1BA2E737B0C2431D0 (Mannheim)

Dr. Michael Kühhirt

03 – 06 May *Applied Data Visualization* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xA289B6B7BFCC4A60AAAF5B188B3BA71E (Online)

Dr. Paul C. Bauer

04 – 06 May *Introduction to Event History Analysis* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x2216AEF597EB4976B2743C3CA61AF217&lang=en_US (Mannheim)

Prof. Dr. Jan Skopek

17 – 19 May *Egocentric Networks: Theory, Methods, and Applications* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x41EC3FAAB4EE4AB89D814C3207D4EAF5 (Mannheim)

Dr. Lydia Repke

23 – 24 May *Data Management, Advanced Programming and Automation using Stata* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xFA9D7E9331744118AA5A38D291A95616 (Mannheim)

Daniel Bela

23 – 24 Jun *Comparative Research with Confirmatory Factor Analysis/SEM* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x2C4E7FC447E64105A40A205E0CC0CC5D (Köln)

PD Dr. Daniel Seddig

27 Jun *Linking Twitter & Survey Data* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x43BF9C02B2F144178FBC82E82ECB5961 (Online)

Dr. Johannes Breuer; Dr. Libby Bishop; Prof. Dr. Luke Sloan

*GESIS Workshops in German*

07 – 09 Mar *Fragebogenentwicklung und -pretesting* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x822C6DDE21FB423F83858614E65C36A9 (Online)

Dr. Cornelia Neuert; Dr. Timo Lenzner; Dr. Silke Schneider

15 – 18 Mar *Einführung in die logistische Regression* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x2F59545D2C81489598203979D8A6D6F8 (Online)

Dr. Hannes Kröger

28 – 29 Mar *Einführung in die Programmierung von Websurveys* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x2F59545D2C81489598203979D8A6D6F8 (Online)

Jan Marquardt; Frauke Riebe

30 – 31 Mar *Einführung in die Analyse von Mehrebenen-Strukturgleichungsmodellen mit Mplus* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x482476C5B4704E9F928CA234AC886B5E (Online)

Prof. Dr. Elmar Schlüter

28 – 29 Apr *Einführung in uni- und bivariate Datenanalyse* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x98152AFDCA9046F08B50D3636393143F (Köln)

Dr. Lisa Schmid; Theresa Nutz

29 Jun – 01 Jul *Grundlagen und aktuelle Debatten der Regressionsanalyse* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x4140518281AF4153B4876ED1C3F93123&lang=de_DE (Köln)

Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel; Dr. Jonas Voßemer

We would appreciate forwarding this announcement to other potentially interested parties.

Thank you and best wishes,

Your GESIS Training Team

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