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The Winter School takes place at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS), Feldkirchenstraße 21, 96052 Bamberg. The Winter School office is in the main foyer on the ground floor. Campus map.
Please note when you register on arrival you will need to pay a €10 deposit for an ID card which allows you to purchase food from the Mensa, printing and copying, library books. This is refundable anytime after you have finished using the card but by 16:00 Friday 10 March at the latest.
Note from the Academic Convenors
The purpose of the Academic Plenary Programme is to provide methodological ‘experiences’ alongside the course(s) you are attending. The ECPR Methods School not only strives to offer excellent training through specialised courses; it also aims to facilitate methodological cross-fertilisation and debates and to contribute to career and skill building. Do take advantage of these ‘side dishes’ besides your course(s)!
Profs. Benoît Rihoux, Derek Beach and Levente Littvay, Academic Convenors.
Thursday 2 March | |
14:00-16:00 | Registration Preparatory courses: WS office, main entrance, ground floor foyer, main building. |
Friday 3 March | |
10:00-13:00 | Registration Preparatory courses: WS office, main entrance, ground floor foyer, main building. |
13:00-15:00 15:30-17:00 |
Preparatory Courses (3.5 hours): Main building or computer labs. |
Saturday 4 March | |
09:30-11:30 12:30-14:30 |
Preparatory Courses (4 hours): Main building or computer labs. |
09:30-11:30 | Registration Main courses: WS office, main entrance, ground floor foyer, main building. |
Sunday 5 March | |
15:00-17:00 | Registration Main courses: WS office, main entrance, ground floor foyer, main building. |
17:05-18:20 | Welcome Plenary Session: Audimax, room F21/01.57, first floor, main building.
Welcome Addresses and Course Introductions |
18:30-19:25 | Course Taster Sessions The ‘Course Taster’ sessions cover four courses from the broad Winter School programme. The instructor of each course presents a 25 minute lecture on their course topic. This enables you to get a clearer picture of the core assumptions, goals and ‘toolbox’ within each course. There are two sessions running simultaneously, with two course tasters per session, and five minutes between each session to switch location if you wish to do so. |
18:30-18:55 |
Course Taster Session 1A: Room F21/01.35 first floor, main building. |
18:30-18:55 |
Course Taster Session 1B: Room F21/01.37, first floor, main building. |
19:00-19:25 |
Course Taster Session 2A: Room F21/01.37, first floor, main building. |
19:00-19:25 |
Course Taster Session 2B: Room F21/01.35, first floor, main building. |
19:30 | Welcome reception and refreshments: First floor foyer, main building. |
Monday 6 to Friday 10 March | |
09:00-12:30 14:00-17:30 |
Main courses: Main building or computer labs. Generally courses are taught either morning or afternoon. Please note some courses require you to work from your own laptops as lecture rooms do not include computers. Please check with your Instructor. |
Monday 6 March | |
08:00-09:00 | Late registration Main courses: Main entrance, ground floor foyer, main building.WS office, main entrance, ground floor foyer, main building. |
Tuesday 7 March | |
12:45-13:45 |
Brown Bag Lunch Sessions NB: Places are first come first served on a registration basis. Session 1 maximum 122 places and session 2 maximum 206 places. To pre-book your space on one of the sessions please email methodsschool@ecpr.eu. If you also wish to pre-book lunch you will need to complete a booking form (available in the Winter School office) and hand it in with your payment to the WSMT office before 10:30 Monday 6 March. Brown Bag Lunch Session 1: Room F21/01.35, first floor, main building In the past couple of years it seems as though an epidemic is spreading through the experimental sciences, especially in psychology and medicine. Large numbers of studies on well-established results could not be replicated. Around half of all published findings are not replicable and the implication for the credibility of research is enormous. Facing a true crisis, experimental researchers, including political scientists, came together to consider what went wrong and how they could fix it. The crisis itself, as well as the proposed solutions have far reaching implications going well beyond psychology and experimental research. Our brown bag will present the potential causes of the problem and the potential solutions proposed while considering the broader conversations and their implications for researchers. Brown Bag Lunch Session 2: Room F21/01.37, first floor, main building This brown bag discusses the methodological challenges in studying right-wing populism, elections and voting behavior across Europe and the US. What impact does declining political trust have for our ability to do survey research, or to engage in interpretive dialogues with actual voters? Do surveys even enable us to capture anti-elite sentiments? Or if they do to some extent, do they enable us to understand what is going on? How can we use interpretive research of perceptions held by individuals, or qualitative insights from studying small groups to shed light on broader dynamics? |
Wednesday 8 March | |
Thursday 9 March | |
12:45-13:45 |
Call for Presenters - 'Convince us' Sessions: Thursday 9 March 12:45-13:45 If you are registered for the Winter School and keen on getting feedback on your course, then join us for the ‘Convince us’ sessions on Thursday at lunch time! These are two parallel interactive workshops in which PhD researchers have the opportunity to present some of their work to an audience of participants and instructors and receive feedback. Each workshop has space for three presenters who will give a short oral presentation (max. 10-minutes each) of a draft paper that will have already been submitted. The paper can be a first draft of a journal article or a thesis chapter (max. 20 pages). We especially invite presentations on methodological issues, or focussing on the methodological aspects of the thesis. Discussions will take pace in a friendly and supportive atmosphere with the goal of helping the presenters straighten their argument. Interested? Then complete the application form and email to Lea Sgier and Kathrin Thomas by Friday 27 January 2017. The deadline for papers from the accepted presenters is Friday 3 March 2017. If you are unsure if your idea is suitable, contact Lea and Kathrin with any questions and they will get back to you. All participants are welcome to join the audience. No pre-registration is required. You may bring a cold lunch e.g. sandwich. The ECPR ‘Convince us’ sessions are endorsed and organised by the ECPR Standing Group on Political Methodology (SGPM) |
Friday 10 March | |
16:00 | Deadline for ID card refunds from WS office |
18:00 | Close of Winter School office |