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Call for Contributions to the GESIS Symposium “Advances in Scale Development in the Social Sciences: Issues of Comparability”
by Menold, Natalja 30 May '17

30 May '17

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, ich möchte Sie auf einen Cfp aufmerksam machen (siehe unten und im Anhang). Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Natalja Menold PD Dr. Natalja Menold Wissenschaftliche Teamleiterin GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Umfragedesign und Methodik (SDM) B2,15 D-68159 Mannheim Tel.: 0621 / 1246 286 Fax: 0621 / 1246 100 Mail: natalja.menold(a)gesis.org<mailto:natalja.menold@gesis.org> ================================================================================= Public Call for Contributions to the GESIS Symposium “Advances in Scale Development in the Social Sciences: Issues of Comparability” GESIS, Mannheim, Tuesday 14 – Wednesday 15 November 2017 Aims and Scope: GESIS provides a unique venue for interdisciplinary expert meetings and symposia, to which we warmly invite you. This year’s two-day symposium on Advances in Scale Development will focus on how to deal with comparability issues. The topics range from assessing conceptual issues (i.e. functional and structural equivalence) to ensuring validity throughout the whole process of scale development. Key experts bridging different disciplines (e.g., social sciences, psychology, sociology) will give talks and present cutting-edge advances, exchange ideas about standards of the field and agree on shared views about best practices. In the course of the expert meeting there will be room for round-table discussions of the different positions with the aim to arrive at a blueprint for future best practices. The following topics might be discussed: the role of external linkages (ie. nomological network of meaning) for ensuring comparability of measurements, structural equivalence, measurement invariance with different approaches, the role of translations, and cognitive pretesting to ensure comparability, etc. Papers on theoretical approaches, critical treatises, empirical studies, and best practice approaches can be submitted. Innovative contributions in early developmental stages are also welcome. We are happy to welcome Jon Krosnick (Standford, USA), Fons van de Vijver (Tilburg, Netherlands), Gerard Saucier (Oregon, USA), Michael Eid (Berlin), Matthias Ziegler (Berlin), Johnny Fontaine (Ghent, Belgium), Eldad Davidov (Cologne), Klaus Boehnke (Bremen), Jaak Billiet (Leuven, Belgium), Matthias von Davier (Philadelphia, USA), Ana Villar (London, UK) and Kristen Miller (Washington, USA) who all have agreed to give talks and participate. The meeting and informal get-togethers provide ample opportunity to critically review ways to handle issues of comparability, to identify challenges in current scale development practice, and to discover possible remedies. We expect valuable contributions that are likely to shape survey research. The organizers will invite all contributors to internationally publish the conference outcomes, e.g., as a book or part of a book series. GESIS invites interested researchers to attend the meeting. The presentations should be comparatively short (10 minutes) allowing enough room for discussions. Authors interested in contributing to the GESIS symposium should submit their proposal (max. 350 words) to expert-meeting(a)gesis.org<mailto:expert-meeting@gesis.org> Accepted and registered contributors will be invited to share – on a voluntary basis - and circulate their presentations among symposiums participants prior to the symposium, as a preparation and basis for effective discussions. Important dates: Deadline for abstract submission: July 31, 2017 Decision: September 01, 2017 Registration (latest): October 01, 2017 Voluntary submission of presentations for circulation: October 30, 2017 Information about Registration: Accepted contributions will be eligible to register for the Expert Meeting. Detailed information about the registration process will be sent in due time. The financial contribution towards the expenses (e.g. coffee breaks, snacks, drinks and lunches) is €50,00. We look forward to welcoming you in Mannheim. More information on traveling and accommodation can be found at: http://www.gesis.org/en/institute/address-journey/locationmannheim/

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Stellenausschreibung, Universität Bielefeld
by Andreas Pöge 29 May '17

29 May '17

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, im Namen von Thomas Faist leite ich hiermit die Stellenausschreibung für eine Postdoc-Stelle weiter. Schöne Grüße Andreas Pöge -- Priv.-Doz. Dr. Andreas Pöge Akademischer Oberrat Universität Bielefeld Fakultät für Soziologie Postfach 10 01 31 33501 Bielefeld Tel.: 0521 106-3850 andreas.poege(a)uni-bielefeld.de --

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Many SEM courses at ECPR Methods School, in Budapest (3 days left)
by Jochen Mayerl 29 May '17

29 May '17

Dear Colleagues It is not too late to register for the European Consortium for Political Research Summer School in Methods and Techniques hosted by Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (July 27 - Aug 12) With many SEM related (and other including qualitative) courses on offer, and held at Budapest, the European capital with all that a European capital has to offer but without the price tag, this is a methods school you really should check out. Launched as a methods school for political scientists but grew into an interdisciplinary and multi-method event. Reasonable course prices with additional deep discounts for ECPR member institutions. (Check here if your institution is a member. You may be surprised: https://ecpr.eu/Membership/CurrentMembers.aspx ) Online registrations end June 1 so make sure you register this month if you wish to take a course. (Afterwards, manual processing fee will be applied.) Several SEM related courses only need 1-2 people to ensure they are going to run. These include: Introduction to Mplus. July 27 - 29 https://tinyurl.com/yaddxsdz Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling July 31 - Aug 11 https://tinyurl.com/ycvhqu47 Multilevel Structural Equation Modelling July 31 - Aug 4 https://tinyurl.com/ya3febfr Advanced Structural Equation Modelling Aug 7 - 11 https://tinyurl.com/y83utx8h Hope you will check these, and the rest of the courses out at https://ecpr.eu/Events/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=116 Feel free to forward this note. Thanks and Cheers, L -- Levente (Levi) Littvay, Associate Professor Department of Political Science / Political Behavior Research Group (PolBeRG) Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary Academic Convener, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Methods School Facebook: littvay / Twitter: @littvay / Skype: littvay / Google: littvay Recent Publications: Zoltán Fazekas and Levente Littvay (2015) “The importance of context in the genetic transmission of US party identification” Political Psychology 36(4). BK Thege, L Littvay, DL Tarnoki, AD Tarnoki (2017) Genetic and Environmental Effects on Eudaimonic and Hedonic Well-Being: Evidence from a Post Communist Culture. Current Psychology

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PhD studentship on ‘Online surveys and mobile device use in a digital age’
by Weiss, Bernd 29 May '17

29 May '17

FYI Bernd Weiß From: Durrant G. [mailto:G.Durrant@soton.ac.uk] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2017 11:18 AM To: Weiss, Bernd; Gummer, Tobias Subject: RE: information on online surveys Lieber Bernd und Tobias, We are advertising a PhD studentship on ‘Online surveys and mobile device use in a digital age’ with myself, Patrick Sturgis and Olga Maslovskaya as supervisors. Advert is attached and can be found here https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=878417CC . The annual stipend is £14553 plus payment of programme fees. Closing Date is Wednesday 28 June 2017. Please could you advertise as widely as possible, in particular within GESIS? Please could you let me know that you have received this email? Very many thanks. Best wishes Gabi **************************************************************** Prof Gabriele Durrant Professor in Social Statistics and Survey Methodology Deputy Director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods Director of Training of the ESRC Administrative Data Research Centre for England Department of Social Statistics and Demography School of Social Sciences B58, R4039 Tel: 0044 (0)23 80 595 481 Website: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/demography/about/staff/gbd.page

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ASI-Workshop im Rahmen der Herbsttagung
by Tobias Wolbring 22 May '17

22 May '17

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, ergänzend zu dem CfP zur Herbsttagung wollte ich noch auf einen Workshop der ASI zum Thema "Herausforderungen und Potentiale bei der Rekrutierung von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund in Befragungsstudien" aufmerksam machen, der im Vorfeld der Herbsttagung am RKI Berlin angeboten wird. Beste Grüße Tobias Wolbring -- Prof. Dr. Tobias Wolbring Assistant Professor of Sociology with a specialization in Longitudinal Data Analysis School for Social Sciences University of Mannheim A5, 6 D-68131 Mannheim Office: +49 621 181 1974 wolbring(a)uni-mannheim.de http://wolbring.uni-mannheim.de/

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CfP: Herbsttagung ASI Methodensektion
by Tobias Wolbring 22 May '17

22 May '17

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, anbei sende ich den CfP für die kommende Tagung der Methodensektion am 10./11. November am Robert-Koch-Institut Berlin. Die Konferenz wird gemeinsam mit der ASI organisiert und stellt das Thema "Qualitätssicherung sozialwissenschaftlicher Erhebungsinstrumente" in den Mittelpunkt. Mit besten Grüßen Tobias Wolbring --- Prof. Dr. Tobias Wolbring Assistant Professor of Sociology with a specialization in Longitudinal Data Analysis School for Social Sciences University of Mannheim A5, 6 D-68131 Mannheim Office: +49 621 181 1974 wolbring(a)uni-mannheim.de http://wolbring.uni-mannheim.de/

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Reminder: Registration for IC2S2 2017 is open - early bird rates available until May 25
by Weller, Katrin 19 May '17

19 May '17

***Apologies for any cross-posting*** IC2S2 2017 – 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science July 10-13, 2017 Cologne, Germany Web: https://ic2s2.org Twitter: #IC2S2 / @IC2S2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1859606284258118/ --------------------------------------- Dear colleague, if you have not done so already we would like to kindly remind you that registering for the 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2017) at early bird rates is possible until May 25. Late registration will be open until June 22. You can register here: https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/registration.html You can find an overview of accepted talks and posters at: https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/accepted_talks.html https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/accepted_posters.html We look forward to seeing you in Cologne! Kind regards, the IC2S2 Organizing Team (IC2S2(a)gesis.org<mailto:IC2S2@gesis.org>) -------------------------------------- Keynote Speakers: -------------------------------------- This year the conference will feature keynotes by the following distinguished experts from different research areas in Computational Social Science: - Ulrik Brandes, University of Konstanz - Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University - Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation - Emily Falk, University of Pennsylvania - Justin Grimmer, Stanford University - Jeff Hancock, Stanford University - Ágnes Horvát, Northwestern University - Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge - María Pereda, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Daniel Romero, University of Michigan - Matt Taddy, Microsoft Research & University of Chicago - Milena Tsvetkova, London School of Economics and Political Science - Dashun Wang, Northwestern University -------------------------------------- Tutorials: -------------------------------------- On the pre-conference day (July 10) there will be the following tutorials: - A Practical Introduction to Spatial Datasets and Urban Applications (Bruno Gonçalves, Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas) - Topic modeling European political debates with the EUSpeech dataset (Tatjana Scheffler, Damian Trilling, Cornelius Puschmann) - Social Media for Health Research (Ingmar Weber, Yelena Mejova) - Discovering and Mitigating Algorithmic Discrimination (Sara Hajian, Carlos Castillo) - Introduction to GIS using Google Maps and Google Earth (Toni Rouhana) - A Practical Introduction to Latent Semantic Analysis for Text (Jacob Miller, David Gefen, Jorge Fresneda) - Computational Sociolinguistics (Dong Nguyen) - Crowdcomputing and Citizen Science for Large-Scale Experimentst (Snehalkumar ‘Neil’ S. Gaikwad, Sohan Dsouza, Oana Vuculescu, Andrew Mao, Iyad Rahwan) - Digital Demographys (Ingmar Weber, Bogdan State) - A brief introduction to Exponential Random Graph Models for social networks (András Vörös) See details and abstracts at: https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/tutorials.html -------------------------------------- Registration: -------------------------------------- Please visit our website for all information and for registering: https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/registration.html Early bird tickets will be available until May 25, 2017. Registration will be open until June 22, 2017. .

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job advertisement: Team leader Survey Operations at GESIS in Mannheim
by Pforr, Klaus 18 May '17

18 May '17

Dear colleagues, We are seeking a leader for our team Survey Operations at GESIS in Mannheim. http://www.gesis.org/en/institute/jobs-at-gesis/job-details/article/leader-… I would appreciate if you could forward this job offer on to anybody who might be interested. Apologies for cross-posting. Kind regards Klaus Pforr -------------------------------------------------- Dr. Klaus Pforr GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences B2,4 P.O. Box 122155 D - 68072 Mannheim Tel: +49 621 1246 231 Fax: +49 621 1246 100 E-Mail: klaus.pforr(a)gesis.org<mailto:klaus.pforr@gesis.org> --------------------------------------------------

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Final call: Methods School, Singapore, June 19-30, 2017
by Tobias Hofmann 17 May '17

17 May '17

6th Annual IPSA-NUS Summer School for Social Science Research Methods at the National University of Singapore, June 19-30, 2017 This year's Methods School offers a wide variety of quantitative, qualitative, and formal methods courses ( http://methods-school.nus.edu.sg/courses.html) taught by highly experienced faculty, incl.: Case Study Analysis (Cameron Thies, ASU) Data Visualization (Bear Braumoeller, Ohio State) Discourse Analysis (Terrell Carver, Bristol) Experimental Methods (Jennifer Jerit, Stony Brook) Game Theory (Justin Fox, WUSTL) Network Analysis (Adam Henry, Arizona) Qualitative Data Analysis (Marie-Helene Pare, UOC) Quantitative Text Analysis (Inaki Sargazazu, Texas Tech) Regression Analysis (Brian Pollins, Ohio State) Time Series and Spatial Analysis (Jude Hays, Pitt) All courses provide participants with rigorous, hands-on training in state-of-the-art research methods at a fraction of the price of similar methods training programs. For more information on the various Methods School courses and instructors, registration fees, and more, visit our website ( http://methods-school.nus.edu.sg) or contact us at methods-school(a)nus.edu.sg. Please share this announcement with any colleagues, students, and friends that might be interested in the Methods School. Best regards, Your IPSA-NUS Methods School team -- IPSA-NUS Methods School National University of Singapore AS1, #04-10, 11 Arts Link Singapore 117573 methods-school(a)nus.edu.sg http://methods-school.nus.edu.sg Like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/MethodsSchool Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MethodsSchool

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Stellenausschreibung, Universität Luxemburg, 100%, 3 Jahre
by Tobias Wolbring 10 May '17

10 May '17

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, zunächst einmal möchte ich mich für die Spam-Mails entschuldigen, die Sie gestern über den Methodenverteiler (und damit verbunden Stefanie Eiflers und meine Email) erhalten haben. Offenbar wurde das Passwort geknackt. Ich habe dieses nun neu gesetzt und hoffe, dass dieses Ärgernis damit behoben ist. Anbei finden Sie zudem eine Ausschreibung für eine Promotionsstelle an der Universität Luxemburg (100%, 3 Jahre) in einem Projekt zu Jugendarbeitslosigkeit und Einstellungsverhalten von Arbeitgebern. Beste Grüße Tobias Wolbring --- Prof. Dr. Tobias Wolbring Assistant Professor of Sociology with a specialization in Longitudinal Data Analysis School for Social Sciences University of Mannheim A5, 6 D-68131 Mannheim Office: +49 621 181 1974 wolbring(a)uni-mannheim.de http://wolbring.uni-mannheim.de/

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