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)
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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…
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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/>
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!
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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
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.
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.
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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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Call for presentations and abstract submissions General Online Research
conference (GOR 19) 6 to 8 March 2019, Cologne, Germany.
Are you working on research on web and mobile Web survey methodology,
online market research, Big Data and data science, or politics and
online communication? Then submit your abstract to GOR, the
international conference on online research. Join us in beautiful
Cologne, conveniently accessible from Frankfurt International Airport by
train within one hour.
Deadlines for abstract submissions:
15 November 2018 (presentations for Tracks A, B, C and GOR Thesis Award
2019 competition),
3 December 2018 (presentations for GOR Best Practice Award 2019
competition) and
24 January 2019 (posters and GOR Poster Award 2019 competition)
Submissions at https://www.gor.de/gor19/
Further information at https://www.gor.de/
Long version of the call: https://www.gor.de/about/call-for-papers.html
Topics: Internet Surveys, Mobile Web, and Online Research Methodology,
Big Data and Data Science, Politics and Online Communication, Online
Market Research
All submissions relevant to online research are welcome. Presentations
in the past years covered a broad range of topics, be it online and
mobile web surveys or research concerning the Internet or social aspects
of the Web, big data and data science, and research on politics and
communication. Since 1997, GOR has been attended by more than 300
researchers and other professionals each year who want to stay on top of
new developments and best practices for their work in business and academia.
This year’s conference seeks submissions in:
Internet Surveys, Mobile Web, and Online Research Methodology (Track A)
Big Data and Data Science (Track B)
Politics and Communication (Track C)
The programme committee invites presenters from academia, business,
official statistics, government agencies, and other sectors to submit
their work for presentation. Submissions will be accepted on the basis
of a double-blind peer review process.
We look forward to receiving your abstract submission.
You can find the complete call for papers and further information at
https://www.gor.de/.
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Florian Keusch
on behalf of the programme committee
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Florian Keusch
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Methodology
University of Mannheim
A5, 6 (Entrance C)
Room C213, 2nd floor
68159 Mannheim, Germany
+49 (0)621 - 181 3214
f.keusch(a)uni-mannheim.de
floriankeusch.weebly.com
Von: Ulrike Schuette <schuet(a)uni-hildesheim.de>
Gesendet: Montag, 29. Oktober 2018 15:42
An: Wolbring, Tobias <tobias.wolbring(a)fau.de>
Betreff: CfP - Videografie in der Lehrer_innenbildung
Sehr geehrter Herr Prof. Wolbring,
das Centrum für Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung (CeLeB) der Universität Hildesheim richtet vom 29. - 30. März 2019 eine Tagung mit dem Titel „Videografie in der Lehrer_innenbildung. Aktuelle Zugänge, Herausforderungen und Potentiale“ aus, die die Frage in den Fokus rückt, wie die Arbeit am Videomaterial in der (universitären) Lehrer_innenbildung vollzogen wird (https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/celeb-fruehjahrstagung-videografie/).
Anbei erhalten Sie den Call for Papers sowie die Abstract-Formatvorlage mit der Bitte um Weiterleitung in Ihrer Sektion: Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung.
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Beitragseinreichungen, die noch bis zum 16. Dezember 2018 möglich sind.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Im Namen des Tagungsteams
Dr. Ulrike Schütte
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Dr. Ulrike Schütte
Geschäftsführende Abteilungsleitung
Abt. 2: Forschung und wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs
CeLeB (Centrum für Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung)
Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
Universitätsplatz 1
Raum N 421
31141 Hildesheim
Tel.: 05121-883-92376
Email:schuet@uni-hildesheim.de<mailto:Email:schuet@uni-hildesheim.de>
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Dear colleagues,
We would like to friendly remind you of the upcoming deadline (1st November) for the Call for Abstracts for the Symposium “Fieldwork Monitoring Strategies for Interviewer-Administered Surveys” taking place on 23-24 January 2019 at the University of Mannheim (organized by GESIS). The symposium provides a platform for scientific exchange on various aspects of fieldwork monitoring, in particular for researchers planning to submit an article for the related Special Issue in Survey Methods: Insights from the Field (SMIF)<https://surveyinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Special-Issue_Fieldwo…>. In addition to scientific presentations, the symposium features two keynotes by James Wagner (University of Michigan) and Annette Scherpenzeel (SHARE, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging).
Please visit www.gesis.org/symposium-fieldmonitoring<http://www.gesis.org/symposium-fieldmonitoring> for detailed information on the Symposium.
We invite presentations that address the following aspects:
* discuss key performance indicators of fieldwork monitoring
* discuss fieldwork monitoring strategies
* discuss measures and interventions during data collection
* discuss the applicability of responsive design strategies
* discuss visualization and error detection strategies
* give best practice advice based on field monitoring strategies of large-scale surveys
How to submit an abstract:
We encourage proposals from researchers from a variety of backgrounds. Abstracts (max. 500 words) or full papers should be submitted via email to symposium-fieldmonitoring(a)gesis.org by 1 November 2018. Please provide the title of the (working) paper, author names, and affiliations with your abstract. You will receive acceptance notification by 15 November 2018.
We are looking forward to your submissions and welcoming you in Mannheim,
Katharina Meitinger & Henning Silber
Dear colleagues,
we would like to draw your attention to the job announcement below.
Full Professor (W3) in Methods of Empirical Social Research (tenured).
The position is available as of April 2019 or based on mutual agreement.
The University of Cologne is one of Germany’s leading research universities and part of the Excellence Initiative. Its Faculty of Management, Economics, and Social Sciences is consistently ranked among the top schools in research and teaching. The Faculty counts more than
100 professors and 250 researchers. The Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology (ISS) was established in 1919 as the first of its kind in Germany and has developed a strong tradition in theory-based empirical research ever since.
Candidates should have a strong background in quantitative methods and statistics. A focus on the analysis of longitudinal data and modern methods of causal inference is particularly welcome. A substantial track record of research published in leading journals and an active research program are expected. Successful candidates will contribute to the Key Research Profile Area Demography and Social Inequality. International experience, such as a Ph.D. from a leading international university or other long-term international teaching or research experience is highly appreciated.
Successful applicants should demonstrate excellent teaching skills and contribute to the ongoing development of the faculty’s teaching program.
Candidates will offer courses in German and English at B.Sc. and M.Sc.
levels and participate in the Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences (CGS).
Applicants will be hired in accordance with § 36 of the University Law of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia.
The University of Cologne is committed to increase the share of women in research and teaching. Applications of women are specifically invited.
In the case of equal qualifications, competence and specific achievements, women will be considered on preferential terms within the framework of the legal possibilities. The University of Cologne is an equal opportunity employer in compliance with the German disabilities laws. Persons with disabilities are therefore strongly encouraged to apply.
The application should consist of the following documents: cover letter, curriculum vitae, list of publications, list of courses taught, proof of qualifications. Applications should be submitted via the Academic Job Portal of the University of Cologne (https://berufungen.uni-koeln.de) no later than November 26th, 2018 addressing the Dean of the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences. For further information, please contact Professor Karsten Hank (hank(a)wiso.uni-koeln.de) and visit the website of the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology at http://www.iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de/.
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Prof. Dr. Eldad Davidov
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Dear colleagues,
we would like to draw your attention to the call for abstracts for our session “Lessons learned from studies on refugees” at the 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, 15th-19th July 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia.
Details of our session can be found on the conference website: https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/sessionCategories?sess=47 :
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Due to the increasing refugees’ movements over the world and the increasing influx of refugees into Western countries (especially Europe), many studies on refugees have been conducted or started.
These studies range from narrow topics on specific groups and/or their situations at specific times or places, their motivations or reasons to flee their countries, to large-scale surveys that are either newly started or that try to integrate refugee populations into their existing samples.
Studies on refugees face special problems due to the specific (legal, economic, social, medical etc.) conditions refugees are living in, e.g. conducting interviews in crowded places like group accommodations, ethical challenges of the researcher as a non-intervening observer, misunderstandings of the aims of the researchers to the interviewed refugee. But for all that it is crucial to interview refugees adequately, if one aims to gain meaningful results.
Therefore, in this session, we want to discuss possible solutions or research strategies that were applied to deal with these special conditions and challenges of studies on refugees. We are especially interested in experiences made by applying these strategies, so that researchers can learn from each others' trails and errors during their work with/on refugees. This session concentrates on solutions that can be implemented in or transferred to quantitative-empirical studies.
We invite contributions from researchers who report how they dealt with specific problems and how these survey technics worked in practice. Possible thematic foci can be:
- Translation and multi-language-instruments
- Handling of left- vs. right-aligned languages (e.g. in the presentation to the interviewee)
- Questioning illiterate persons (e.g. audio-supported interviewing)
- Interviewer effects (e.g.: cultural challenges due to the gender of interviewer and interviewee; native speaking vs. non-native speaking interviewers)
- Conducting interviews in group accommodations
- High mobility (e.g. use of special communication channels like social media)
- Social desirability
- Construct validity (e.g. cultural differences, systematic response bias, established scales vs. simple language items)
- Consideration of traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Furthermore, we appreciate contributions, which analyze, how different survey techniques may influence research results.
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Abstracts of max. 300 words can be submitted until November 18, 2018 via the online submission system: https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/register
Please feel free to forward this call to any interested scholars.
Best wishes,
Christoph Homuth, Gisela Will, Roman Auriga
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Dr. Christoph Homuth
ReGES – Refugees in the German Educational System
Telefon: +49 951 863-3483
Fax: +49 951 863-3411
E-Mail: christoph.homuth(a)lifbi.de<mailto:christoph.homuth@lifbi.de>
LIfBi – Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe e.V.
Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories
Abteilung: Bildungsentscheidungen und -prozesse, Migration, Bildungsrenditen | Department: Educational Decisions and Processes, Migration, Educational Returns
Wilhemsplatz 3
96047 Bamberg
Germany
www.lifbi.de<http://www.lifbi.de>
[cid:3BB60273-9B06-46B7-88FB-5A18A8EF2B93@uni-bamberg.de]
Call for Papers
Session: Factorial Surveys - Methods and Applications
Organizer: Stefanie Eifler, Herrman Dülmer & Lena Verneuer
Dear Colleagues,
we would like to draw your attention to the call for papers for our session 'Factorial Surveys - Methods and Applications' at the 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association in Zagreb next July.
Attached you find all information in detail on our session and the submission of abstracts.
If you have any question, please feel free to contact us:
Stefanie Eifler:stefanie.eifler@ku.de
Herrmann Dülmer:hduelmer@uni-koeln.de
Lena Verneuer:lena.verneuer@uni-bielefeld.de
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Dr. phil. Lena M. Verneuer
Research Assistant
Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
University of Bielefeld
Faculty of Sociology
Universitätsstraße 25
33615 Bielefeld
office: X-D2-210
phone: +49521-106 3849
fax: +49521-106 89020
homepage: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/soz/personen/verneuer/