***Apologies for cross-posting*** Dear colleagues, We are excited to announce the program of the GESIS Spring Seminar 2022 and the GESIS Workshops for the first half of 2022. Due to the pandemic, all our courses will be held online until April 2022 or longer. For registration and detailed course descriptions, please visit www.gesis.org/training<http://www.gesis.org/training> GESIS Spring Seminar 2022: "Simulation Techniques in the Social Sciences" From 07 - 25 March 2022, the 2nd Virtual GESIS Spring Seminar offers three online classes on different simulation techniques used in the social sciences. The lectures in each course are complemented by extensive hands-on exercises and tutorials with applications to both simulated and real-world data. All courses are held in English. Week 1 (07 - 11 Mar): Agent-based Modeling<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x31F174CB35894D999B7C398404594AFD&subID=0xBF81A8E92A68407FACFCC3AF23B76A2C&lang=de_DE&lang=en_US> in the Social Sciences Prof. Dr. Andreas Flache; Carlos de Matos Fernandes; Tanzhe Tang Week 2 (14 - 18 Mar): Policy Modeling<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x31F174CB35894D999B7C398404594AFD&subID=0x7F7282EF9FA246288A33241E2996C48C&lang=de_DE&lang=en_US> Prof. Dr. Petra Ahrweiler; Dr. Corinna Elsenbroich Week 3 (21 - 25 Mar): Using Simulation Studies to Evaluate Statistical Methods<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x31F174CB35894D999B7C398404594AFD&subID=0xAC89D953F1FA461EA1DBBC6B0A8E704D&lang=en_US> Dr. Tim P. Morris; Dr. Matteo Quartagno Courses will be held online (via Zoom) and must be booked separately - whether you wish to attend one, two, or all of them. There is no registration deadline, but places are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Thanks to our cooperation with the Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne, enrolled doctoral students can obtain three ECTS credit points<https://www.gesis.org/en/gesis-training/what-we-offer/spring-seminar-cutting-edge-methods/ects-credits> per one-week course. For detailed information on the Spring Seminar 2022 visit www.gesis.org/springseminar <https://www.gesis.org/springseminar> GESIS Workshops in English 02 - 04 Feb Introduction to R for Quantitative Social Science<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xAA72A87865CC455D928D910773D87AC5> (Online) Dr. Adrian Stanciu; Dr. Ranjit Singh 04 Feb, 18 Feb, 04 Mar, 18 Mar Research Design in the Social Sciences<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x286AFE8CC1F44D7F919CEB59B99BB547> (Online) Prof. Dr. Lea Ellwardt 16 - 18 Feb Applied Multiple Imputation<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xF76737AA77DE460F8901F3E2A8CB83E6> (Online) Dr. Kristian Kleinke 21 - 22 Feb Automatic Sampling and Analysis of YouTube Data<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x9BF8CE59341441148D9191B9CB54CA75> (Online) Dr. Johannes Breuer; Julian Kohne; Dr. Rohangis Mohseni 04 - 05 Apr Causal Mediation Analysis<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x0027C3224B2B49F1BA2E737B0C2431D0> (Mannheim) Dr. Michael Kühhirt 03 - 06 May Applied Data Visualization<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xA289B6B7BFCC4A60AAAF5B188B3BA71E> (Online) Dr. Paul C. Bauer 04 - 06 May Introduction to Event History Analysis<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x2216AEF597EB4976B2743C3CA61AF217&lang=en_US> (Mannheim) Prof. Dr. Jan Skopek 17 - 19 May Egocentric Networks: Theory, Methods, and Applications<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x41EC3FAAB4EE4AB89D814C3207D4EAF5> (Mannheim) Dr. Lydia Repke 23 - 24 May Data Management, Advanced Programming and Automation using Stata<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xFA9D7E9331744118AA5A38D291A95616> (Mannheim) Daniel Bela 23 - 24 Jun Comparative Research with Confirmatory Factor Analysis/SEM<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x2C4E7FC447E64105A40A205E0CC0CC5D> (Köln) PD Dr. Daniel Seddig 27 Jun Linking Twitter & Survey Data<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x43BF9C02B2F144178FBC82E82ECB5961> (Online) Dr. Johannes Breuer; Dr. Libby Bishop; Prof. Dr. Luke Sloan GESIS Workshops in German 07 - 09 Mar Fragebogenentwicklung und -pretesting<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x822C6DDE21FB423F83858614E65C36A9> (Online) Dr. Cornelia Neuert; Dr. Timo Lenzner; Dr. Silke Schneider 15 - 18 Mar Einführung in die logistische Regression<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x2F59545D2C81489598203979D8A6D6F8> (Online) Dr. Hannes Kröger 28 - 29 Mar Einführung in die Programmierung von Websurveys<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x2F59545D2C81489598203979D8A6D6F8> (Online) Jan Marquardt; Frauke Riebe 30 - 31 Mar Einführung in die Analyse von Mehrebenen-Strukturgleichungsmodellen mit Mplus<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x482476C5B4704E9F928CA234AC886B5E> (Online) Prof. Dr. Elmar Schlüter 28 - 29 Apr Einführung in uni- und bivariate Datenanalyse<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x98152AFDCA9046F08B50D3636393143F> (Köln) Dr. Lisa Schmid; Theresa Nutz 29 Jun - 01 Jul Grundlagen und aktuelle Debatten der Regressionsanalyse<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x4140518281AF4153B4876ED1C3F93123&lang=de_DE> (Köln) Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel; Dr. Jonas Voßemer We would appreciate forwarding this announcement to other potentially interested parties. Thank you and best wishes, Your GESIS Training Team --- GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences email: training@gesis.org<mailto:training@gesis.org> web: www.gesis.org/training<http://www.gesis.org/trainingspringseminar> twitter: https://twitter.com/gesistraining facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GESISTraining