Summer School 2025

The Summer School for Women in Political Methodology was held at the University of Bremen in 2025.

Organizers of the 2025 summer school
Prof. Dr. Theresa Gessler, Prof. Dr. Sophia Hunger, Prof. Dr. Denise Traber, Sophia Roppertz, MA.

Administrative support: Jelena Hoffmann

Sunday, 20 July 2025
16:30–18:00 Keynote Lecture, Prof. Melissa Sands
18:30–21:00 Joint Dinner

Monday, 21 July 2025
09:00–12:30 Functions and Programming in R, Allison Koh, PhD
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–17:00 Introduction to Python, Allison Koh, PhD

Tuesday, 22 July 2025
09:00-12:30 Advanced Graphics in R, Prof. Dr. Melanie Sauter
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Web-Scraping and Automated Data Collection, Dr. Rebecca Kittel

Wednesday, 23 July 2025
09:00-12:30 Introduction to Text-as-Data, Dr. Fabienne Lind
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Word Embeddings, Dr. Fabienne Lind

Thursday, 24 July 2025
09:00-12:30 Free Morning
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Hackathon Part I
18:30-21:00 Joint Dinner with female professors from the University of Bremen

Friday, 25 July 2025
09:00-12:30 Large Language Models and their application in Social Science Research, Dr. Indira Sen
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Large Language Models and their application in Social Science Research, Dr. Indira Sen

Saturday, 26 July 2025
10:00-16:00 Hackathon Part II
  Departure of participants