Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops

🚀 Need fast, practical skills?
Short online courses at #KOMEX2026 (19–20 Feb): R, Python, ggplot2, Systematic Reviews, Survey Design, ML, NVivo, LLMs.

Register → afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/view/kome...

Organized by @uni-konstanz.de in collab. with @methodsnet.bsky.social & @excinequality.bsky.social

YouTube video by Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops Student Voices: Why KOMEX Works (Networking, Feedback, Hands-On)

💌Student voices on KOMEX:
• dissertation feedback you can use tomorrow
• hands-on sessions
• easy networking in small cohorts at @uni-konstanz.de

📽️Check out the feedback from our alumni.

Secure your spot at #KOMEX2026: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

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If you’re preparing a review or survey this term:

Systematic Literature Reviews (short, online) or Survey Design (short, online) → Survey Experiments (main, onsite)

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If you work with text/networks/data at scale:

Intro to Python (short) → 2) AI-assisted Text Analysis (compact, online) → 3) Intro to Computational Social Science (main, online)

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Working with case studies this year?
Try Intro QCA (online) + Case Study Design (onsite, Konstanz) or Advanced QCA (online).
Hands-on, small groups → afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/view/kome...

Build your path:
R/Python (2-day online) → your main/compact course in Feb (ECTS, small cohorts).
Tracks: Quant • Comp/ML • Set-theoretic • Qual/Case.
Seats limited. Register → afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/view/kome...

#KOMEX2026 runs in small cohorts and many courses cap seats to keep sessions hands-on.
Pick your track (quant • computational • set-theoretic • qualitative) and lock your place and secure the early bird rate.

Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/kon...

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🖥️ New to R? Our 2-day online intro course at #KOMEX2026 covers coding basics, data wrangling, visualizations, & regression – no prior experience needed.

📅 Feb 19–20 | €180 early bird | 1 ECTS
👨‍🏫 Taught by @kovarek.bsky.social @ @eui-eu.bsky.social

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✅ Minimum prep for Advanced QCA at #KOMEX2026:
• Basic R skills → Intro to R: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
• QCA basics (calibration/necessity/SA) → Intro to QCA: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
Pick your pathway and join us.

Ready to push QCA past the basics?

Enhanced standard analysis, principled counterfactuals, robustness/sensitivity, clustering, theory evaluation + QCA×ProcessTracing. In R with modern toolchains.

👩‍🏫 @nenaoana.bsky.social

Online | 23–27 Feb, 2026| €440

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⬇️Februari 2026⬇️

Taking a hands-on approach, this five-day online course introduces you to the essentials of Process Tracing and develops both the theoretical understanding and the practical skills to set-up and conduct a full-fledged PT-study.

Early bird registration still possible.

🔍How do you prove what happened in between cause and outcome?

Join our 5-day online Intro to Causal Process Tracing and learn to design a mechanism-based case study at #KOMEX2026.

Instructor: @hildevanmeegdenburg.com
23–27 Feb 2026
€440 early bird

🔗 Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

🚨 One day left to apply for our post-doc position at @uni-konstanz.de & @excinequality.bsky.social

Don't miss your chance to join a great team!

🐍 Want to learn Python from scratch?

Join our Intro to Python course at #KOMEX2026, designed for newbies.

📅 Feb 19–20 (online)
🧪 Learn Jupyter, web scraping, pandas, visualizations & more
🎓 1 ECTS | 💰 180 EUR (early-bird rate)
👩‍🏫 Taught by Rebeka O'Szabo

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Want to run causal experiments… with surveys?
Learn factorial designs, conjoint, vignettes + R programming in the Survey Experiments course at #KOMEX2026 w/ Dr Mozer & Prof. Hinz.

📅 Feb 23–27, 2026
📍 @uni-konstanz.de, Germany
🎓 4 ECTS

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👥🔗 Ready to see the invisible connections in your data?

Join us at #KOMEX2026 for Social Network Analysis in R with @termehs.bsky.social. Learn to analyze & model networks using R, from centrality & clusters to ERGMs & models.

📍 @uni-konstanz.de
🗓️ Feb 23–27

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Post-doctoral researcher – KOMEX director Deadline: November 15, 2025

📢 Only 1 week left!
We’re hiring a postdoc at KOMEX, @uni-konstanz.de & @excinequality.bsky.social.

🧠✨Great team, exciting project, and beautiful surroundings.

Apply by November 15!

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📋 Want to design better surveys?
Our Introduction to Survey Design course (Feb 19–20) covers sampling, bias, and questionnaire design, from theory to application.

👩‍🏫 Taught by @nenaoana.bsky.social
💻 Online | €180 early bird

Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
@methodsnet.bsky.social

🖥️ New to R? Our 2-day online intro course at #KOMEX2026 covers coding basics, data wrangling, visualizations, & regression – no prior experience needed.

📅 Feb 19–20 | €180 early bird | 1 ECTS
👨‍🏫 Taught by @kovarek.bsky.social @ @eui-eu.bsky.social

🔗 afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

🚉 Thinking of a winter methods retreat?

Join #KOMEX2026 in-person in Konstanz this February:

🌊 Learn, grow, and network by the shores of Lake Constance at @uni-konstanz.de

🧠 4 ECTS | 💸 €440 early bird | 🏛️ In-person

Learn more & join: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/view/kome...

@methodsnet.bsky.social

💬 What does it mean to think interpretively?

Explore meaning-making, subjectivity, and context in our #komex2026 Interpretive Methods course (23–27 Feb).

💻 Online | €440 early bird

Taught by @mathildececchini.bsky.social & @amalietrangbaek.bsky.social

Join: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

I'm excited to teach my course on longitudinal data & analysis in the context of #KOMEX2026 again.

For me, the first iteration of this earlier this year was a lot of nerdy 🤓 fun, and the participants agreed - even anonymously in the evals 😜

Let me know if you have any questions!
More info ⬇️

Want to make your data speak?

Join us online for Learning Data Viz in R! A 2-day #komex course on mastering ggplot2.

📈 Hands-on, research-focused, taught by Massimiliano Canzi from @uni-konstanz.de
📊 Turn tables into insight.

19–20 Feb 2026
€180 early bird

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Learn how to use #Rstats to estimate treatment effects & forecast outcomes using ML w/ @causalhuber.bsky.social at #KOMEX2026.

📍 Online | 🗓 19–20 February 2026
🎓 Earn 1 ECTS | 💶 250 EUR (180 EUR early bird)

Register: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

@methodsnet.bsky.social

Learn how to analyze panel & repeated cross-sectional data w/ @na-wehl.bsky.social at #KOMEX2026.

Join “Hands-on Intro to Longitudinal & Panel Data Analysis”. Apply fixed/random effects & hybrid models using your own data.

📍Konstanz | 🗓️ 23–27 Feb
💻 R & Stata

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Looking to add QCA to your methods toolkit?

Join the #KOMEX2026 Introduction to QCA using R
📅 23–27 Feb 2026 | 💻 Online | 💶 €440 early bird | 🎓 4 ECTS

Learn how to model causal complexity w/ @nenaoana.bsky.social & Barbora Valik.

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@methodsnet.bsky.social

Looking to level up your systematic review skills?

Join our #KOMEX2026 course by Dr Liliana Abreu @uni-konstanz.de and learn to formulate review Qs, appraise quality, and use ASreview for AI-supported screening.

📅 19–20 Feb
💻 Online
€180 early bird
Sign up: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

Cannot wait to run this gig again in Feb 2026!

Methods are literately 🔑 for solid data collection. How to do ethnography ethically and creatively?

Happy to share my fieldwork in Rwanda & new thoughts on creative art approach as I am still on the learning curve 🧗🏻‍♀️🗻

Msg if you got any questions 🙋🏻‍♀️

You’ll learn how to:
🔹 Navigate ethics & positionality
🔹 Work with “ordinary people” as research participants
🔹 Build a sustainable fieldwork plan
🔹 Reflect on power and knowledge production

📅 23–27 Feb 2026 | 💻 Online | 4 ECTS

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Interested in authoritarian, post-conflict, or surveilled settings?

📍 Join “Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts” #KOMEX2026 online course by @catherineowen.bsky.social & @xiananj.bsky.social.

Learn creative, experimental, and decolonial ethnogr. methods: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...