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9th Winter School Highlights 14 – 21 February 2020
415 183 76%
Participants Institutions First-timers
People
30 16 3
Main Short Advanced
Courses Courses Courses Workshops
Winter School 3
Free Morning
10
Methods Café
2
Hot Lunchtime
in numbers
Add-ons Courses Tables Debates
85% 9 in 10 7 in 10
Would Found their Plan to attend
recommend course useful again in the
Feedback their course next year
6 2.5K 24
ECPR Winter Participants in Local
School events 6 years organising
BAGSS
hosted team members
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As the sixth and final instalment of the Winter
School in Bamberg drew to a close, we asked
Thomas Saalfeld of the Bamberg Graduate
School of Social Sciences to reflect on his
experience as a Local Academic Convenor and
on what hosting brought to his institution.
A word from the host
When was your first experience What did you enjoy most about
of the ECPR Methods School? organising the Winter School?
My very first experience was the first Winter The most enjoyable part was the work with
School we hosted in Bamberg. I was familiar the Academic Convenors and the ECPR
with the Methods Schools and knew a Events Team. It was wonderful to welcome
number of scholars that founded it, but I so many promising young scholars in our
had not had any immediate exposure to it. School. Not least, it brought many great
colleagues – some of them good friends –
What interested you back to Bamberg as course Instructors.
in hosting the Winter School? Interaction with the Instructors certainly
expanded my horizon as far as advanced
When we applied to host the Winter School, methods are concerned.
we felt that it would enhance our profile as
an international institution for the study What do you feel hosting the
and application of empirical research Winter School has brought
methods in the social and human sciences. to the Bamberg Graduate
At the time, we were a fledgling School. School of Social Sciences?
Being a small city, Bamberg is not
well-known on the international academic It brought a number of things to the
map – despite the prominence of some of Bamberg Graduate School of Social
its social scientists in the past. For example, Sciences. I have already mentioned
Ulrich Beck, Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Ursula international visibility and a clear orientation
Hoffmann-Lange and some others had been of our own work on the good practice we
professors at Bamberg. But we wanted to could observe in methods teaching during
demonstrate that we are a the Winter School. It also enhanced our
place that does not rest on such laurels. experience with the organisation of large
international educational events from the
We also hoped that the Winter School most general academic concept down to
would provide opportunities for our doctoral the details of local implementation.
fellows not just by bringing a wealth of
first-rate courses to Bamberg but also by What advice can you
"Hosting the Winter School helped to
giving them the chance to serve as teaching offer future hosts?
assistants.
put Bamberg on the map and expanded
Hosting a Methods School is a serious the opportunities for many of our
Was the experience what commitment. Support from the ECPR Events doctoral fellows. Also, some
you had expected it to be? Team and the Academic Convenors is very collaborations with leading scholars
professional indeed. But don’t and institutions have developed as
Yes, I feel the Winter School helped to put underestimate the resources and goodwill Bamberg doctoral fellows and
Bamberg on the map and expanded the you need to generate within your institution. academics used the contacts they made
opportunities for many of our doctoral There will be unexpected events that
during the Winter School events.”
fellows. Also, collaboration with leading threaten to throw things off course, but
scholars and institutions have developed as overall, it has been a rewarding experience.
Bamberg doctoral fellows and academics – Thomas Saalfeld, Bamberg
used the contacts they made during the Graduate School of Social Sciences,
Winter School events. ECPR Winter School Local Academic
Convenor 2015–2020
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What our
participants say
about the An invaluable experience,
Winter School
learning and workshopping
with the scholar who literally
wrote the book on the
methodology that I'm using
in my dissertation project.
It was a real
pleasure to be
there and in
an inspiring
environment.
Very useful
The organisation was courses and
excellent, especially the good lecturers.
possibility to attend the Keep on doing
Methods Café as well this fantastic job!
as other free courses.
This is a great added
value to the overall
great programme.
Thank you
for the week,
it's been
inspiring!
The ECPR Winter School
is a great experience. The
Instructors are very good,
the environment is
enjoyable, and the ECPR
staff are very helpful.
What our
participants
say about the
courses
ecpr.eu | Winter School 2020 Highlights
Synthetic Control Methods for Policy
Introduction to Process Tracing, taught Impact Evaluation, taught by
by Hilde Van Meegdenburg Bruno Castanho Silva
"Today, process tracing methods are "It was a great pleasure to take part in
exceptionally popular among political this course. This is a short course, and
scientists. Yet few engage them in a quite intense, but it gives you a solid
comprehensive, critical manner. Hilde benchmark on how to apply Synthetic
van Meegdenburg’s course does just that" Control Method directly to your own
research. Highly recommended!"
– Moritz Graefrath, University of Notre
Dame – Paulina Lenik, University College
London
Tools for the Analysis of Complex Introduction to Qualitative
Systems, taught by Lasse Gerrits Interpretive Methods, taught by
Marie Østergaard Møller
"For those new to systems thinking, this "I'm not exaggerating when I say this is
course is excellent. It takes you through the most useful course I have done so far
the history of the theories in the field, in academia. Marie is an outstanding
and allows you to work with the teacher and the material she covers really
programmes that systems research made me think differently about my
uses to make sense of non-linear, research. I would highly recommend
emergent structures that policymakers anyone who is starting out designing
want to grasp and influence." their research to take this course!"
– Melanie van Driel, Copernicus – Liam O'Farrell, University of
Institute of Sustainable Development Iceland
Focus Groups – From Qualitative
Visualisation of Information, taught
Data Generation to Analysis, taught
by Martin Mölder (FREE course)
by Virginie Van Ingelgom
"When I signed up for the Winter
"This is a hands-on course that helps
Methods School, I didn’t realise I would
you think through important steps of
also get to attend ‘free’ courses! But after
your focus group design. Virginie Van
having seen one offered on data
Ingelgom is fantastic, gives you
visualisation in R, it was clear I had to go.
individual feedback and makes sure
Even though Martin’s course was less
that all PhDs leave the Winter School
than an hour each morning, it really
with concrete ideas for their project.
helped me to design better plots and
I highly recommend this course!"
convey information more effectively."
– Judith de Jong, University of
– Markus Gastinger, University of
Amsterdam
Salzburg
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