Diversity Initiative

We are excited to announce a new initiative to promote quantitative skills among incoming graduate students from underrepresented groups.

Scholarships will be awarded so that incoming graduate students can attend courses in the 2018 ICPSR Summer Program before they begin their graduate work in the fall. The scholarships provide registration fee waivers to the Summer Program's four-week sessions in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Support for travel, lodging, and incidental expenses is also provided.

For more information about the initiative, contact Summer Program Director Saundra Schneider at saundras@umich.edu.

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Statement from ICPSR Director Margaret Levenstein

January 15, 2018
ICPSR is strongly committed to an inclusive Summer Program that encourages learning and professional collaboration. The Summer Program has trained generations of diverse social scientists. I am extremely proud of the positive contributions the Summer Program has made to the careers of thousands of female social scientists. Behavior that undermines the participation and growth of women, people of color, or other marginalized or underrepresented groups undermines scholarly research and intellectual exchange, and will not be tolerated by ICPSR and its Summer Program. ICPSR is committed to the highest standards of professional conduct and to due process and fairness to individuals.
Sincerely,

Margaret C. Levenstein
Director, ICPSR

Letter from the Summer Program Director

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2018 ICPSR SUMMER PROGRAM IS NOW OPEN!
The 2018 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research is offering over 80 courses on a broad range of methodologies and techniques that are relevant for research in the social, behavioral, and health sciences.

Courses in the 2018 ICPSR Summer Program are broken down into two formats: Those offered during the four-week sessions and those offered as short workshops. 

Four-week Sessions. We will offer two four-week sessions in Ann Arbor, Michigan on the University of Michigan campus. The first four-week session runs from June 25 to July 20, 2018; the second four-week session from July 23 to August 17, 2018. Participants can register for one or both of these sessions. Registration in a four-week session enables you to take any of the workshops and lectures offered during that session. These courses provide introductory, intermediate, and advanced instruction in almost every area of methodology. Our workshops range from those covering basic skills (e.g., “Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis”) to those focused on cutting-edge topics (e.g., “Advanced Bayesian Modeling”), with plenty of others in between (e.g., “Regression Analysis: Linear Models,” “Network Analysis,” and “Time Series Analysis.”). This summer, we are also offering two new workshops in the four-week sessions: “Social Choice Theory” and “Meta Analysis.” In addition, there is an evening lecture series open to all four-week participants that covers various analytical tools and professional socialization topics.

Short Workshops. The 2018 Summer Program will also offer over 40 “stand-alone” two- to five-day workshops. These are intensive sessions held in Ann Arbor, and other locations in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The short workshops start in early May and run through mid-August. The short workshops are further subdivided into two sets: Statistical workshops and substantive workshops. This summer, the short statistical workshops will cover a broad range of quantitative and qualitative topics, including Bayesian analysis, network analysis, machine learning techniques, structural equation models, hierarchical models, longitudinal analysis, process tracing, qualitative comparative analysis, and mixed methods.  The short substantive workshops in 2018 will cover topics like, “Secondary Data Analysis and the National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP), “Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Data User Workshop,” and “Data Curation for Disability and Rehabilitation Outcomes Research.”

Please check out the 2018 ICPSR Summer Program schedule for a complete listing of this year’s courses in both the four-week sessions and the short workshops. If you have any questions or would like to be added to our mailing list for updates about the 2018 Summer Program, send an email to sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu. We also invite you to watch this recorded webinar introducing the Summer Program, our courses, scholarships, and visitor information about Ann Arbor. And of course, feel free to contact the ICPSR Summer Program directly.

We know you will find the ICPSR Summer Program to be a tremendous experience, providing unparalleled methodological training in a one-of-a-kind professional instructional environment. We hope you will join us this summer!

Sincerely,

Saundra K. Schneider
Director, ICPSR Summer Program

Learn more about our four-week courses from the instructors who teach them!

Curious about assignments, prerequisites, or course goals for one of our four-week courses? Visit our library of course description videos, where you’ll find interviews with our four-week instructors. In these videos, our instructors provide a detailed overview of what you can expect to learn and do in their courses.

John Poe, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kentucky, discusses his four-week workshop "Multilevel Models II: Advanced Topics."

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Cooperation between the ICPSR Summer Program and the Global School in Empirical Research Methods

The ICPSR Summer Program is pleased to announce its cooperation with the Global School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM) at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Both the ICPSR Summer Program and GSERM share a common goal: To provide the methodological skills and instruction that facilitate high-caliber research and analysis on critical problems, events, and behaviors. The cooperation between the two programs is evidence of the important role that methodological training plays in social science research, teaching, and practice around the world.

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EITM Certification

Participants in the four-week sessions of the 2013 ICPSR Summer Program can receive certification in formal modeling and statistical analysis for subsequent participation in the Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) program. Details are available on the EITM website.

2011 ICPSR Summer Program

The 2011 ICPSR Summer Program is now history. And, it was a great success! Our first five-day workshop began on June 6 and our last five-day workshops ended on August 19. The two four-week sessions ran from June 20 through July 15, and from July 18 through August 12.

• The 2011 ICPSR Summer Program had a record-shattering total of 890 participants.
• Our faculty consisted of 84 instructors and 43 teaching assistants.
• We offered a total of 65 courses on a wide variety of methodological and substantive topics.
• The Hubert M. Blalock Lecture Series presented 12 sets of lectures on advanced statistical methods and on various issues in professional development.

Registration for the 2011 ICPSR Summer Program is now open!

Participants can enroll in the ICPSR Summer Program, register for classes, and pay fees through our online Portal. The first four-week session of the 2011 ICPSR Summer Program will run from June 20, 2011 through July 15, 2011. The second four-week session will run from July 18, 2011 through August 12, 2011. Additional Summer Program classes (in shorter three, four, and five-day formats) will be offered from the beginning of June through the end of August, in a variety of locations across the country as well as in Ann Arbor.

2011 Political Networks Conference

The Fourth Annual Political Networks Conference and Workshops will be held June 14-18, 2011 at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. A number of fellowships are available for conference attendees who also attend the ICPSR Summer Program workshop on "Advanced Network Analysis." Additional information is available.

2010 ICPSR Summer Program

The 2010 ICPSR Summer Program is now history. And, it was a great success! Our first five-day workshop began on June 7 and our last five-day workshops ended on August 20. The two fourweek sessions ran from June 21 through July 16, and from July 19 through August 13.

• The 2010 ICPSR Summer Program had a record-breaking total of 838 participants.
• Our faculty consisted of 93 instructors and 42 teaching assistants.
• We offered a total of 61 courses on a wide variety of methodological and substantive topics.
• The Hubert M. Blalock Lecture Series presented 11 sets of lectures on advanced statistical methods and on various issues in professional development.

2011 ICPSR Summer Program

We have already started planning for the 2011 Summer Program. Preliminary information is available.