INTUNE WINTER SCHOOL ON MULTILEVEL MODELING IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
Pompeu Fabra University -Barcelona
11-14 January 2009
Deadline: 15 November 2008
Website: www.intune.it
The winter school is intended for PhD students and young scholars interested in multilevel modelling family of techniques. The
school will be limited to 30 participants: 20 participants from the IntUne Consortium and 10 participants that are not involved in the IntUne research, but interested in the topic of the school.
The winter school is hosted by the Department of Political Science, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Tuition and accommodation costs will be covered for all participants. Travel expenses will be reimbursed up to 250€ for the IntUne researchers only, while the external participants will have to provide for their own travel expenses.
The Winter School “Multilevel Modelling in Political Science” wants to offer a practical introduction to issues related to Multilevel Modelling, an increasingly used family of techniques whose application can be quite diverse and complex. For this reason, the Winter School would like to cover, in practical and problem-solving ways, several issues that are relevant when using these techniques, such as OLS and Multilevel models; Interaction, lack of degrees of freedom, time and space in HLM; HLM in nonlinear models; and the available software programmes. At the same time, the school aims to socialize and motivate young researchers to work together in an interdisciplinary environment, paying attention to both the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the work in these fields.
The Winter School will assume participants have a working knowledge of OLS and its assumptions and are familiar with non linear
models (probit, logit, tobit, etc.).
The application should include a Curriculum Vitae, a brief motivation letter, one reference letter directly sent by referees and the
application form. You may download the application form here. Please submit applications by email to Angela Movileanu at movileanu@unisi.it.
The deadline for submission is 15 November 2008. The successful applicants will be notified by 15 December 2008.
