2025 Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research: Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies, Trento (Italy), 22-24 October 2025
The Department of Sociology and Social Research is happy to announce that the 6th edition of the Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research (TN-Square) will take place from October 22nd to October 24th, 2025 (3 days).
The focus of this edition deals with employment, work trajectories and social inequality. Applied sessions will be devoted to studying the intergenerational implications of non-standard parental work arrangements, and the measurement of life course and employment complexity via decomposition. Speakers will be Annette Fasang (WZB Berlin), Nhat An Trihn (DSPI Oxford/WZB Berlin), Alexi Gugushvili (University of Oslo), Johan Westerman and Roujman Shahbazian (SOFI/Uppsala/Oxford). The school is addressed to PhD students, post-docs, and early-stage researchers. The official language is English.
Application deadline: 25 August 2025
For more information: https://event.unitn.it/tn-square/
GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2025, 01-26 September 2025
The GESIS Fall Seminar 2025 takes place from 01 to 26 September and offers a variety of introductory and advanced courses in computational social science methods. Some courses are held in-person in Mannheim, others online – and keep an eye out for our blended learning format! The Fall Seminar targets researchers who want to collect and analyze data from the web, social media, or digital text archives. All courses feature an interactive mix of lectures and hands-on exercises, giving participants the opportunity to apply these methods to data.
Course topics: Introduction to Computational Social Science with R and Python, Web Data Collection with R and Python, Introduction to Machine Learning for Text Analysis with Python, Computer Vision for Image and Video Data Analysis, Advanced Methods for Social Network Analysis, From Embeddings to LLMs: Advanced Text Analysis with Python, Agent-Based Computational Modeling, Causal Machine Learning.
For more information: https://www.gesis.org/en/gesis-training/what-we-offer/fall-seminar-in-computational-social-science
Call for Papers: Effects of Spatial mobility on Subjective Well-being, Special Issue in Social Indicators Research
Organisers: Nicolai Netz (DZWH) and Nico Stawarz (BiB)
Spatial mobility is an integral part of individual lives. Therefore, previous research has explored the manifold consequences of spatial mobility for individual life courses. In doing so, it has focussed on outcomes such as the occupational position and wages. However, as human behaviour usually aims to improve quality of life in a broader sense, we advocate a stronger focus on subjective well-being in research on spatial mobility. Accordingly, the special issue aims to provide an overview of the current state of research on how spatial mobility influences subjective well-being. It showcases new theoretical avenues, methodological designs, and empirical analyses of the effects of spatial mobility on subjective well-being. Focussing on different forms of spatial mobility (e.g., internal and international migration, commuting, and virtual mobility).
Submission deadline: 1 October 2025
For more information, see: https://link.springer.com/collections/cgciggfggj
NEPS-Call for Modules 2024 – AI-based systems in educational contexts: Use, knowledge, trust
Proposals for the collection of (educationally relevant) motives for use and knowledge about AI systems can be submitted as part of the thematic ‘NEPS Call for Modules 2024’. In addition, the questions can also relate to trust in AI systems in educational contexts.
Deadline for submission of proposals: 30 October 2025 – More information