Spotting trends is easy. Drawing credible inference is the real challenge.

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Check out the @essexsummerschool.bsky.social' courses on qualitative research design and analysis?

4️⃣ two-week courses on qualitative and mixed methods, preparing for fieldwork, and text & talk analysis
2️⃣ intensive (full-day, one week) on intervewing and ethnography

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Explore and understand social media and text data using computational and simulation based methods in R. Check out Christopher Fariss' course in the first session of the @essexsummerschool.bsky.social.

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Want a stronger foundation in data science with R?

Build programming skills and learn practical approaches for working with large-scale datasets, including social media, and classifying text and images.

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Explore the @essexsummerschool.bsky.social's courses covering geospatial data, mapping and visualisation, and spatial econometric modelling.

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Is there a gender gap in satisfaction with monetary policy? @carogarriga.bsky.social examines attitudes towards the Bank of England, finding a small, but statistically significant, gender gap. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/csFA8X0

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Applied research design: from idea to proposal.

@allybphd.bsky.social's new course focuses on the needs of those applying to graduate programs or working on their PhD prospectus. This July, in the first session of the @essexsummerschool.bsky.social

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Bayesian methods: from intro to advanced.

This year, the @essexsummerschool.bsky.social offers a full sequence of Bayesian methods, including two *new* courses on measurement.

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Looking for an online course that helps you get started with text analysis this summer?

Build foundational skills for quantitative work with text, from cleaning and structuring text to modelling and interpretation.

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Using speeches, news, or open-ended survey responses in your research?

Explore our text analysis courses, from preprocessing and modelling to LLM-assisted coding, multimodal language data, and deep learning.

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@mdigiuseppe.bsky.social and I have a new piece out in @poqjournal.bsky.social where we use LLMs and Bayes/brms to estimate pairwise comparisons and latent scores.

Want to sharpen your skills in discourse analysis this summer?

Learn how to apply poststructuralist discourse theory in empirical and theoretical research, and develop an approach you can use for your own project or proposal.

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The full range of methods for #policy #analysis and #evaluation at the @essexsummerschool.bsky.social: from collecting, managing & visualizing data, to studying policy impact with causal inference tools.

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Getting ready for your methods courses at the ESS or heading to grad school? Want to feel confident and not overwhelmed by the maths behind the methods?

Check the @essexsummerschool.bsky.social one-week courses on maths and coding foundations (R or Python)

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Getting ready for the Essex Summer School 2026?

Our pre-sessionals help you start strong with coding foundations in R and Python (mornings) and maths skills in linear algebra and calculus (afternoons), all online.

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Check @rjbeecham.bsky.social 's Data visualization with R course at the @essexsummerschool.bsky.social merschool.bsky.social in session 1.

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Ivor Crewe buikding, Colchester campus

🌿A great setting for high-quality methods training this summer

At the Essex Summer School, combine rigorous methods training with a green, open campus designed for focus and exchange

🌍An international and interdisciplinary community
📊Advanced methods
🌱Space to think, away from day-to-day demands

New to quantitative methods software or switching tools?

Get started with practical training in R, Stata, and Python across three ESS courses, from core concepts to applied analysis.

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This week!

Thurs, March 12
3pm in NTC 3.06: Women's Day: Research on Gender & Politics
5:30pm in EBS 1.1: British Politics in Transition, with Councillor Paul Dundas
Friday, March 13
10:30am in CTC 2.01: Africa in Transition, with Lord Oates
1pm in 4.722: War in Iran panel discussion

Join us!

Planning to conduct interviews for your next research project?

This course offers hands-on qualitative interviewing practice, from building and testing an interview guide to handling sensitive topics and interviews with elite participants.

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Working with complex data and want stronger machine learning skills?

Explore our courses, covering prediction and validation, tree-based methods for tabular data, deep learning for text and vision, and ML for treatment effect estimation.

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Daffodils with a foggy background in the University of Essex's campus

A foggy campus, fresh daffodils, and the quiet start of a busy season ahead. 🌼

Summer may feel far away, but preparations for the 59th Essex Summer School are already underway. Before long, these paths will be welcoming our next cohort of participants.

Paper w/ @carogarriga.bsky.social: Academia’s Class Problem. PoliSci is dominated by the upper middle class / people with parents who went to university – unlike society as a whole.
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The @essexsummerschool.bsky.social celebrates the women who shape the ESS today, those who paved the way for women in methods, and the new generations we are training to lead the future of social science data analysis.
#IWD2026

Want practical AI skills for social science research?

Explore our courses on AI methods, covering research design, generative models, text analysis with LLM-assisted coding, and deep learning.

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Using surveys for your next research project?

These ESS courses strengthen your survey research skills from start to finish, from questionnaire design and sampling to scaling and survey experiments.

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🎓 Q-Step Scholarship
👩‍🎓 Teaching Assistantships
📊 Data skill courses & more in the last @essexsummerschool.bsky.social neswletter

Close neighbours often behave similarities - but why?

Spatial econometrics explores how economic, social, and political actors influence one another.

Learn to detect, model, and estimate geographic, economic, and strategic interdependencies.

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📝 New to discourse analysis?
🎓 Already working with discourse theory?

We’ve got you covered.

This summer, we offer four courses designed to apply discourse theory to real-world research, from foundations to advanced advanced discourse theory.

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Want to measure hard-to-observe concepts more rigorously?

Learn how to build flexible measurement strategies, from factor analysis and IRT to Bayesian latent traits and text-as-measurement with LLMs.

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