[Commlist] Call for participation: HSE Summer School in Experimental Methods & Simulations in Social and Cognitive Science

*Call for applications*
Summer School in Experimental Methods and Simulations for Social and 
Cognitive Sciences (EMS-SCS)
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Online/St. Petersburg, Russia, July 13-22 2021
Deadline for applications: May 16, 2021

*EMS-SCS
*On July 13-22 2021, the Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics 
<https://scila.hse.ru/en/> housed at the St. Petersburg campus of the 
Higher School of Economics will host an international summer school in 
experimental methods and simulation for social and cognitive sciences. 
The Summer School will be held in a mixed, online/offline format, 
designed to provide a full learning experience for students attending 
virtually and physically alike.
The school will bring together a strong international lineup of 
academics with a track record of excellence in experimentation and 
agent-based modeling (ABM) in fields as diverse as cognitive and social 
psychology, sociology, media studies, and psycholinguistics. The program 
will include courses and workshops aiming at both enhancing students’ 
conceptual understanding of the foundations of experimental research, 
and equipping them with hands-on experience in designing and executing 
experiments of their own.

*Instructors and courses*
● Meghan Sanders, Associate Professor and Director of Media Effects Lab 
at Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University.
A virtual course on online experiments, with a focus on entertainment 
media and marketing.

● Reinhold Kliegl, Senior Professor at the Division of Training and 
Movement Science, former chair of the Division of Cognitive Psychology, 
University of Potsdam.
Guest lecture on the opportunities and limitations of eye-tracking 
research of reading and attention.

● Elena Gorbunova, Director, Laboratory for Cognitive Psychology of 
Digital Interface Users, HSE, Moscow.
An introduction to experiments with a focus on psychology, and a 
workshop on online experimental software.

● Martin Lukac, LSE Fellow in Computational Social Science in the 
Methodology Department at the London School of Economics.
An online workshop on simulated experiments – agent-based modeling.

● Svetlana Alexeeva, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Cognitive 
Studies, St.Petersburg State University.
An offline workshop on eye-tracking experiments.

● Amalia Álvarez Benjumea, Senior Research Fellow at Max Planck 
Institute for research on collective goods.
A virtual course on natural and field experiments in social contexts.

*Eligibility*
The program is aimed at scholars from a broad range of social and 
cognitive sciences who are looking to acquire knowledge and skills in 
experimental research.
Participation requires fluency in English, the working language of the 
School, and a command of basic principles of quantitative social science 
research.
We welcome academic and industry research professionals at any career 
stage. Applications from doctoral students will also be considered.

Please note that hands-on workshops may have individual coding 
prerequisites. Participation in the (offline-only) eye tracker tutorial 
requires proficiency with R,
and those taking the O-Tree online tutorial are expected to be familiar 
with Python. The course schedule will be optimized to accommodate 
learners located in
the time zones spanning London to Beijing. Please consult the schedule 
in order to determine the feasibility of attendance considering your 
location.

*Fees and travel*
Information about participation fees, along with application 
instructions and travel-related details you can find on the School 
website <https://hse-scila.github.io/ems-scs-2021/>.

*Contact info*
(emsscs2021 /at/ gmail.com) 
<https://e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=(mailto%3aemsscs2021 /at/ gmail.com)>


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