November 2018 - Methoden - mailman.uni-konstanz.de

Promotionsstelle in Mannheim / PhD Position in Mannheim
by Pforr, Klaus 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, anbei eine Stellenausschreibung für eine Promotionsstelle für Interessierte an kleinräumigen Kontextdaten bei GESIS in Mannheim. https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/job/9602/Wissenschaftli… Mit freundlichen Grüßen *** Dear colleagues, please find attached a job advertisement for a PhD position for people interested in small-area context data at GESIS in Mannheim. https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/job/9602/Research-Assoc… Best regards Dr. 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 --------------------------------------------------

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Stellenausschreibung wiss. Mitab. an der TU Chemnitz
by jochen.mayerl＠sowi.uni-kl.de 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, ich würde mich freuen, wenn Sie die beigefügte Ausschreibung einer Stelle als wiss. MitarbeiterIN an der Professur für Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Empirische Sozialforschung an der TU Chemnitz geeignete Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten (gerne auch Absolventinnen/Absolventen) weiterleiten könnten. Vorsicht: Die Stellenausschreibung endet bereits diese Woche Freitag. Besten Dank und freundliche Grüße, Jochen Mayerl -- Prof. Dr. Jochen Mayerl Chemnitz University of Technology Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences Institute for Sociology Chair of Sociology with a focus on Empirical Social Research Thüringer Weg 9 D-09126 Chemnitz Germany Jochen.Mayerl(a)soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de Secretary's Office: + 49 (0)371 531-32483

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Fwd: Stellenausschreibung / Job advertisement (Wiss-20)
by Schneider, Silke 09 Nov '18

09 Nov '18

Anbei eine Ausschreibung für eine Promotionsstelle bei der Zeitschrift Historical Social Research (HSR) in Köln mit der Bitte um Verbreitung. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Silke Schneider Von: Barmann, Julia Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2018 14:32 An: _gesis-gesamt Betreff: Stellenausschreibung / Job advertisement (Wiss-20) ***English below*** Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, anbei eine Stellenausschreibung, in deutscher Version, für die Abteilung Wissenstransfer am Standort Köln. DE: https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/job/9457/Wissenschaftli… *** Dear colleagues, please find attached a job advertisement for the Knowledge Transfer department in our location in Cologne in english version. EN: https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/job/9457/Wissenschaftli… Best regards Julia Barmann [gesis-logo-new-50-50] Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften Team Personal Julia Barmann Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 50667 Köln Tel: 0221 47694-120<tel:0221%2047694-120> julia.barmann(a)gesis.org<mailto:julia.barmann@gesis.org> www.gesis.org<http://www.gesis.org/>

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ESRA 2019 CfA, Session "Database lookups for socio-demographics in surveys"
by Schneider, Silke 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Call for Abstracts The 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association will take place 15th-19th July 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia. We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the session "Database lookups for socio-demographics in surveys<https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/sessionCategories?sess=30>". Please submit an abstract<https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/register> (max. 300 words) to the session of your choice via the ESRA conference management system by 18th November 2018. To submit an abstract you must login to your ESRA account (or create a new account if you do not already have one) and then follow the instructions provided. Please note that it is only possible to submit two abstracts as the first author/presenter. The conference theme is 'Highlighting the contribution of survey research in the changing data environment.' We welcome submissions related to this theme, or in any other area of survey methodology or substantive area of survey research. We encourage proposals from researchers with a variety of backgrounds, including academic research, official statistics, commercial research, and government social research. All abstracts will be reviewed by the session organisers and the ESRA Conference Committee. Decisions will be communicated by the end of January 2019. Please note that, if accepted, your abstract may be assigned to a different session than the one you submit it to. Don't miss the opportunity to be part of the ESRA 2019 programme! Submit an abstract today! -- Dr. Silke Schneider GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften Survey Design and Methodology Postfach: 12 21 55; 68072 Mannheim Tel: 0621/1246-249 Email: silke.schneider(a)gesis.org www.gesis.org

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Einladung zur Einreichung von Abstracts für zwei Sessions bei der ESRA Konferenz 2019 in Zagreb
by Aschauer Wolfgang 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Geschätzte KollegInnen, Wir möchten gerne - wie viele andere KollegInnen - unsere Sessions auf der ESA Konferenz eingehend bewerben, die in Zagreb von 15. Bis 19. Juli stattfindet. Die Deadline für Abstrakteinreichungen ist bereits am 18. November. Die erste Session beschäftigt sich mit methodologischen Herausforderungen bei Flüchtlingsstudien, die zweite Session mit sensitiven Fragen. Bitte reichen Sie Ihr Abstract (maximal 300 Wörter) über das ESRA-System ein. Sie müssen sich dafür auf der Homepage der ESRA einloggen und den weiteren Instruktionen folgen: (https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/call_for_abstracts ). Wir freuen uns über zahlreiche Einreichungen, unten sind die näheren Beschreibungen der Sessions enthalten. Mit besten Grüßen, Wolfgang Aschauer Assoz.-Prof. MMag. Dr. Wolfgang Aschauer Coordinator of ESA RN 21 (Quantitative Methods) Department of Political Science and Sociology Division Sociology and Cultural Science University of Salzburg Rudolfskai 42 5020 Salzburg e-mail: wolfgang.aschauer(a)sbg.ac.at Web: www.uni-salzburg.at/soziologie/aschauer Methodological challenges in current surveys on refugees - total survey error estimations Coordinator 1 Professor Wolfgang Aschauer (University Salzburg) Coordinator 2 Professor Martin Weichbold (University Salzburg) Coordinator 3 Dr Alexander Seymer (University Salzburg) Session Details With respect to contemporary dynamics of the refugee "crisis" in Europe (e.g. challenges for integration and social cohesion or impacts on the welfare system or security issues) there is need for specific studies on refugees. As a consequence large-scale studies on asylum seekers are conducted in several European countries to shed light on their qualifications and on their labor market integration, on attitudinal and behavioral dynamics and on their long-term process of acculturation. In this session we want to encourage our potential speakers to specifically focus on methodological challenges in these ongoing surveys from a total survey error perspective. This concept tries to capture various forms of biases during the whole survey process and aims for calculating sampling errors, measurement errors or specification errors. Concerning sampling we are confronted with mobile and often undocumented populations where the claim of representativeness is hard to fulfill (selection errors). Concerning questionnaire development the issue of language barriers and the use of sensitive questions has to be taken into account. Overall, the issue of cross-cultural equivalence is particularly relevant because the survey participants come from diverse countries of origin and are often not used to Western survey conceptions. (specification errors). During fieldwork potential mode effects, certain interviewer characteristics or classical measurement errors (such as social desirability or cultural response styles) demand further attention (measurement errors). We also have to consider ethical barriers because asylum seekers are often still in a state of emergency and have potentially undergone traumatic experiences. Thus for this session we are seeking for contributions which try to estimate the quality of the surveys precisely focusing on certain levels of bias. Also mixed-methods studies are highly welcome which highlight certain potentials as well as limits when it comes to quantitative studies with refugees. The findings should contribute to an enhanced knowledge how to carry out surveys among asylum seekers, especially in the current European context. Sensitive questions in surveys - What are sensitive topics? Coordinator 1 Dr Kathrin Gärtner (University of Applied Science Wiener Neustadt) Coordinator 2 Professor Wolfgang Aschauer (University Salzburg) Coordinator 3 Professor Martin Weichbold (University Salzburg) Session Details Gaining valid information about sensitive topics is an issue for survey research since its beginning. Over the years different methods have been developed and tested to encourage participants to respond in such surveys (avoiding unit nonresponse), to answer sensitive questions (avoiding item non-reponse) and to give honest answers (avoiding bias caused by false or socially desirable answers). Those methods include sampling strategies, framing and formulating items so that potentially problematic answers seem "normal", enhancing the perceived privacy and also randomized response techniques that enable at least estimates for aggregates. However, as all those methods come with potential drawbacks, it seems reasonable to ascertain as precisely as possible in which cases such methods are really needed, i.e. which topics and items have to be considered sensitive. Besides classical examples such as sexual behavior, drugs, criminal and ethical problems and attitudes involving suicide and abortion, we also know from cross-national surveys that widely-used indicators such as income are highly sensitive and missing rates vary across countries. We also want to point out that people of various ethnic backgrounds, age groups or attitudinal characteristics may differ in what topics people consider sensitive. For this session, we particularly encourage submissions on findings about what topics are sensitive topics in which populations. We welcome studies using classical methods to detect sensitive questions and their impacts such as described above but we particularly aim for new concepts and new methods how to identify the sensitivity of questions among different societal or cultural groups.

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ESRA Konferenz 2019 - Call for Abstracts für die Session "Using Surveys for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Challenges and Solutions"
by Wiebke Breustedt 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, anbei sende ich Ihnen einen Call for Abstracts für die ESRA Konferenz 2019 für eine Session zum Thema „Using Surveys for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Challenges and Solutions <https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/sessionCategories?sess=75>“. Die Konferenz findet vom 15. bis 19.7.2019 in Zagreb statt. Der Call richtet sich insbesondere an Personen, die an der Schnittstelle zwischen Umfragedatenerhebung und Verwendung von Umfrageergebnissen für die Qualitätsentwicklung an Hochschulen arbeiten. Einreichungsfrist für die Abstracts (max. 300 Wörter) ist der 18.11.2018. Die Einreichung der Abstracts erfolgt über die Webseite der ESRA: https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/register <https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/register> Gerne können Sie die E-Mail auch an interessierte Kolleginnen und Kollegen weiterleiten! Beste Grüße Wiebke Breustedt Call for Abstracts für die Session zum Thema "Using Surveys for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Challenges and Solutions“ Session Coordinators: Wiebke Breustedt, M.A.; Anna Ebert, M.A. (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Zentrum für Hochschulqualitätsentwicklung) The increasing availability of accessible and affordable survey tools provides ample opportunities to gather data on individuals’ subjective perspective. More and more, such data are used as evidence in practical fields of application including quality assurance in higher education. In post-Bologna Europe, the newly revised European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ESG) emphasize the importance of data including survey data from students and staff as they help stakeholders at all levels to make informed decisions (ENQA et al. 2015, Standard 1.7). Social scientists who collect and analyze data for quality assurance purposes at institutions of higher education face a triple challenge: to collect valid and reliable survey data (Ansmann & Seyfried 2018), to coordinate the questionnaires with evaluators within the quality assurance departments (Ganseuer & Pistor 2016) and to ensure the practical applicability of the results (Rousseau 2006). Striking a balance between scientific rigor and practical utility concerns the entire survey lifecycle (Survey Research Center 2016). Issues include, but are not limited to the following: • Questionnaire design: Which concepts should be measured? Who should be involved in the questionnaire design process and how? • Data collection: How to ensure data validity despite limited financial and human resources as well as data protection requirements? • Data analysis: Who is the target audience? How to analyze the data to be useful for quality assurance while adhering to principles of good scientific practice? How to strike a balance between data protection requirements and loss of information? • Application: How to increase the acceptance and application of the results by decision-makers? We welcome papers from researchers and evaluation practitioners working at the interface between data collection and application for quality assurance in higher education. Ideally, the papers describe examples of good practice that address the aforementioned issues. Bibliographie Ansmann, M. & Seyfried, M. (2018): Qualitätsmanagement als Treiber einer evidenzbasierten Qualitätsentwicklung von Studium und Lehre? Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, 13(1), 233-252. ENQA et al. (2015): Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG). Brussels, BE. Ganseuer, C. & Pistor, P. (2016). Auf dem Weg zur Qualitätskultur? Interne Qualitätsmanagementsysteme: Internationale Tendenzen und Nationale Entwicklungsfelder. Wissenschaftsmanagement, 5, 37-41. Rousseau, D. (2006): Is there such a thing as evidence based management? Academy of Management Review, 31(2), 256–269. Survey Research Center. (2016). Guidelines for Best Practice in Cross-Cultural Surveys. Ann Arbor, MI. --- Wiebke Breustedt, M.A. Projektleitung UDE-Panel Universität Duisburg-Essen Zentrum für Hochschulqualitätsentwicklung (ZHQE) Keetmanstr. 3-9 Raum SK 314 47058 Duisburg Telefon: 0203 379 7016 Fax: 0203 379 2210 Web: https://panel.uni-due.de <https://panel.uni-due.de/> https://www.uni-due.de/zhqe/team.php#breustedt <https://www.uni-due.de/zhqe/team.php#breustedt>

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