The Hans Schadee Research Methods Center is based in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento and was established as a result of an award from the Excellence programme (MIUR grant which started in 2019).

Its objective is to foster the advancement, dissemination, and use of state-of-the-art research methods to answer social science problems. It aims to bring together members with specific expertise, as well as enrich methodological skills by inviting internationally renowned research methods scholars with complementary expertise.

Coordinator

Management committee

Objectives

  • Improve the quality of research by "enabling" the knowledge and innovative use of social research methods. 
  • Provide high-quality and specialized training for academics, including PhD student and more senior academics.
  • Encourage collaboration and exchange of ideas related to social research methods by organizing seminars and by inviting top scholars.
  • Ensure/Promote grounded and high-quality research methods training for Bachelor and Master students. 
  • Organize methods-related international events on social science research methods. 
  • Provide service to the broader community, e.g., by offering training to members of government and non-governmental organizations. 

Events

Annual Lectures

25 September 2025

1st. Annual Lecture: Analyzing Linked Life Courses via Sequence Analysis: Three Empirical Examples 
Tim F. Liao (University of Illinois)

Workshops/Seminars/Schools

6-7 November 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for social sciences research and teaching
Andres Karjus, Tallin University

8-9 May 2025

Age-Period-Cohort (APC) Analysis Old Controversies and New Solutions
Juho Härkönen and Jos Van Leeuwen (European University Institute)

2022-2025 (recurring event)

he Methods clinic
Chiara Basssetti (University of Trento)

2-3 May 2024

Assessing the impact of social determinants. Population Attributable Fraction and the G-estimation
Siddartha Aradhya (Stockholm University Demography Unit) and Conor MacDonald (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm)

20 June 2023

ForMoRe Workshop: Formalization, Modellization, and Representation of Social Pattern Analyses

12-15 June 2023

Summer School: Ethnography of Migration
In collaboration with Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science

11-12 May 2023

From Data to Knowledge: Workshop on data visualization
Juan Galeano (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics)

3 November 2022

Marginal odds ratios: What they are, how to compute them and why sociologists might want to use them
Kristian Bernt Karlson (University of Copenhagen)

17 October 2022

Methods of Historical Research
Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA)

6-7 October 2022

Factorial Survey Design
Andreas Damelang (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

22-24 June 2022

Two-mode network analysis
Martin Everett (University of Manchester)

30 May 2022

Measuring human behavior at scale, opportunities and challenges 
Jürgen Pfeffer (Technical University of Munich)

5-6 May 2022

Modern causal analysis
Michael Gebel (University of Bamberg)

23 March 2022

Beyond Compliance. Embedded ethics in social research
Kimberly Strom (UNC School of Social Work)

16-18 March 2022

Correspondence analysis
Joerg Blasius (University of Bonn)