Winter School in Methods and Techniques

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Kicking off ECPR's 50th Anniversary year, the Winter School 2020 completed its sixth and final instalment at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, offering 415 scholars a unique opportunity to advance their methodological skills.

This year's event featured an impressive 50 courses – including some new ones – all delivered by expert Instructors, and supported by dedicated Teaching Assistants:

• Three FREE, lecture style early-morning courses – a Maths Refresher, Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences, and a new course on Visualisation of Information
• 16 two-day Short courses, including new additions Synthetic Control Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation and Introduction to Conjoint Experiments
• 30 five-day Main courses, including new additions Analyticism and Pragmatism in Social Science and Tools for the Analysis of Complex Social Systems: An Introduction 
• Three five-day Advanced Workshops
• Seasoned Scholar Workshops

The exciting plenary programme facilitated valuable networking opportunities, putting our participants in touch with people who share their research interests. This Winter School also saw the return of our popular Methods Café, along with lunchtime debates on hot topics in the discipline.

Our Winter School complements its sister event, the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques.