Workshops and Professionalization

Past Events

Workshops and Professionalization

Mining Spatial Data from Texts: Techniques and Applications

Workshops and Professionalization

"Text-as-Data" Workshop

Workshops and Professionalization

Workshop on Reproducible Research/Version Control/Git.

Workshops and Professionalization

DSCoV Workshop: R and Spatial Analysis

Workshops and Professionalization

How extreme weather events impact our health and well-being

Workshops and Professionalization

A Spatial Data Science Workflow to Analyze and Visualize Human Mobility and Flow Data

Workshops and Professionalization

IRB Basics

Workshops and Professionalization

Grants Workshop

Workshops and Professionalization

Federal Statistical Research Data Center Seminar

Workshops and Professionalization

Bravo Center Workshop on the Economics of Algorithms

Workshops and Professionalization

Introduction to Stata

This virtual workshop will provide an introduction to Stata.

Workshops and Professionalization

PSTC NSF Dissertation Proposal Workshops

This workshop offers support to students seeking dissertation funding through discussions of the pre-award processes and necessary proposal components for the Economics and Cultural Anthropology DDRIG programs, respectively.

Workshops and Professionalization

Presentation Skills Workshop

Zohar Frank, PhD Candidate, Theater Arts and Performance Studies, Brown

In this workshop, participants will discuss the basics of effective communication and learn presentation and public speaking skills.

Workshops and Professionalization

Getting Started with Python and Data Science Workshop Series – Day 3

This three-part workshop series offers beginners with no programming experience immersive practice in Python and data analytics.

Workshops and Professionalization

Getting Started with Python and Data Science Workshop – Day 2

This three-part workshop series offers beginners with no programming experience immersive practice in Python and data analytics.

Workshops and Professionalization

Getting Started with Python and Data Science Workshop – Day 1

This three-part workshop series offers beginners with no programming experience immersive practice in Python and data analytics.

Workshops and Professionalization

External funding opportunities and application processes

This Zoom workshop is for predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees interested in learning more about external funding opportunities.

Workshops and Professionalization

Introduction to Social Sequence Analysis

Benjamin Cornwell, Associate Professor of Sociology, Cornell University

This workshop provides a general introduction to some of the main approaches to sequence analysis and examples of their applications in the social sciences.

Workshops and Professionalization

Python and Data Science Workshop

Guixing Wei, Senior GIS and Spatial Analyst, Brown University

Learn to use Pandas and NumPy packages to perform data manipulation with Python. Basic understanding of Python and Jupyter notebook is required.

Workshops and Professionalization

Academic Writing Tips talk

Tips and principles for clear and effective academic writing.

Workshops and Professionalization

IRB Basics

Learn about the IRB process and when a review is needed.

Workshops and Professionalization

Getting Started with Python and Data Science - Day 2

Learn the basics of Python and data analytics in an immersive 2-day workshop.

Workshops and Professionalization

Getting Started with Python and Data Science - Day 1

Learn the basics of Python and data analytics in an immersive 2-day workshop.

Workshops and Professionalization

IRB Basics

Jacqueline Kobac Galligan, Sr. IRB Manager, Brown University

Learn about the IRB process and when an IRB review is needed.

Workshops and Professionalization

Presentation Skills for the Job Market

Zohar Frank, PhD Candidate, Theater Arts and Peformance Studies, Brown University

This workshop will provide you with the necessary tools to turn your research project into a successful presentation.

Workshops and Professionalization

Python and Data Science Workshop

Guixing Wei, Senior GIS and Spatial Analyst, Brown University

Learn to use Pandas and NumPy packages to perform data manipulation with Python. Basic understanding of Python and Jupyter notebook is required.

Workshops and Professionalization

Getting Started with Python and Data Science Workshop - Part II

PSTC is hosting a Getting Started with Python and Data Science workshop.

The Getting Started with Python and Data Science workshop is an introductory two-day workshop that aims to provide participants with an immersive practice on Python and data analytics.

Workshops and Professionalization

Getting Started with Python and Data Science Workshop - Part I

PSTC is hosting a Getting Started with Python and Data Science workshop.

The Getting Started with Python and Data Science workshop is an introductory two-day workshop that aims to provide participants with an immersive practice on Python and data analytics.

Workshops and Professionalization

Communication and Cross-Border Ties in Central American Migration to the U.S.

Lynnette Arnold, Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology, Brown University

The Interdisciplinary Migration Working Group is a monthly gathering for faculty and students whose work examines issues of international and internal migration.

Workshops and Professionalization

Immigrant Graduate Students and Professional Degree Holders

Kevin Escudero, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University

The Interdisciplinary Migration Working Group is a monthly gathering for faculty and students whose work examines issues of international and internal migration.

Workshops and Professionalization

Research Poster Best Practices

Patrick Rashleigh, Data Visualization Coordinator at the Center for Digital Scholarship

This poster design session will focus on the best practices for creating research posters, followed by a Q&A.

Workshops and Professionalization

Entanglements: Transnational Families and Nation-States Across Five Continents

Gail Mummert, Visiting Scholar, PSTC

The Interdisciplinary Migration Working Group is a monthly gathering for faculty and students whose work examines issues of international and internal migration.

Workshops and Professionalization

The Hiring Prospects of Undocumented Latinos

Nicole Kreisberg, PSTC predoctoral trainee in sociology

The Interdisciplinary Migration Working Group is a monthly gathering for faculty and students whose work examines issues of international and internal migration.

Workshops and Professionalization

Getting to know the Brown Institutional Review Board (IRB): Procedures and Processes

Ita Irizarry, Senior IRB Manager, and Christiana Provencal, QA/QI Administrator

This training will provide basic information and guidance regarding the preparation, submission, and IRB review and approval for research protocols involving human subjects.

Workshops and Professionalization

Flight in and from Cities: Displacement due to Criminal Violence in Medellín, Colombia, and across Latin America

Jerome Marston, PSTC Trainee in Political Science

Marston will discuss his research on forced displacement and its after-effects.

Workshops and Professionalization

Interdisciplinary Migration Working Group

Bryan Moorefield, PSTC Predoctoral Trainee in Anthropology, and Rui Carvalho, PSTC Predoctoral Trainee in Sociology

Bryan Moorefield, PSTC Predoctoral Trainee in Anthropology, and Rui Carvalho, PSTC Predoctoral Trainee in Sociology

Workshops and Professionalization

Interdisciplinary Migration Working Group

Kevin Escudero, American and Ethnic Studies, and Almita Miranda, CSREA

Workshops and Professionalization

PAA Preview Communications Workshop, Part 2

A workshop featuring research that will be presented at PAA by Trainees Jamie Hansen-Lewis, Hilary Barker, and Esha Sraboni.

Workshops and Professionalization

PAA Preview Communications Workshop, Part 1

A workshop featuring research that will be presented at PAA by Trainees Ben Bellman, Marcia P. Jimenez, and Brianna Osetinsky.

Workshops and Professionalization

Interdisciplinary Migration Working Group

Yun Zhou, PSTC Postdoctoral Research Associate, and Lynette Arnold, Anthropology

Workshops and Professionalization

Meditation Break: Mind Yourself

Elizabeth Maynard, Yoga Instructor

Learn meditation and specific techniques to help calm the mind and disrupt consuming thought patterns.

Workshops and Professionalization

Best Practices for Human Subjects

Ita Irizarry and Jackie Kocab Galligan, IRB Managers

Workshops and Professionalization

Human Research Protections Program (HRPP) open hours

CANCELED

Workshops and Professionalization

Interdisciplinary Migration Working Group

Jerome Marston, PSTC Predoctoral Trainee in Political Science

Workshops and Professionalization

Best Practices for Human Subjects Research

Brown's Office of Research Integrity representatives

Workshops and Professionalization

Interdisciplinary Migration Working Group

Benjamin Bellman, PSTC Predoctoral Trainee in Sociology

Workshops and Professionalization

Maximizing Twitter

John Murphy, Social media specialist, Brown University

Workshops and Professionalization

GIS Institute

Two-week course offered by the PSTC's Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4)

Workshops and Professionalization

Finding Yourself in the Field: A Panel Discussion

Panelists include PSTC faculty and predoctoral trainees

Workshops and Professionalization

The Research Pitch, Part 2

Workshops and Professionalization

Interdisciplinary Migration Working Group

Discussion of Joanna Dreby's Everyday Illegal and Peggy Levitt and B. Nadya Jaworsky's "Transnational Migration Studies: Past Developments and Future Trends."

Workshops and Professionalization

The Research Pitch, Part 1

Workshops and Professionalization

IRB Workshop

Representatives from the University's Office of Research Integrity (IRB) Human Research Protections Program (HRPP)

Workshops and Professionalization

Communications Series, Part 2: Interviewing

Panel includes representatives from the career lab, Jessaca Leinaweaver (Anthropology), David Weil (Economics), Michael White (Sociology)

Workshops and Professionalization

Communications Series, Part 1: Interdisciplinary Communication

Workshops and Professionalization

PSTC Module: Collecting and Analyzing Digital Trace Data

Chris Bail, Douglas and Ellen Lowey Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Duke University

Workshops and Professionalization

R Tutorial

Benjamin Bellman, PSTC predoctoral trainee in Sociology

Workshops and Professionalization

Terra Populus Project Workshop: Integrating Population and Environment Data

Workshops and Professionalization

Introduction to Web Scraping with R for the Social Sciences

Yi Qi, Senior GIS and Spatial Analyst for S4 and the PSTC