What former participants say about the Summer School

On the evaluation form filled-in after the 2015 Summer School, the following question was asked:

• How do you describe your Summer School experience to a friend or colleague to motivate her or him to attend the Summer School in Lugano next year?

Here's a selection of their comments....

• A very work intensive week with complex tasks and with nice colleagues in the most beautiful town of Switzerland.
• Competent teachers, well organized, useful and easy to transfer to your work
• Excellent instructor, both competent and enthusiastic. Good group size. Friendly atmosphere.
• For someone using qualitative case studies, I would for sure advise this workshop. I can't tell for the rest of the courses..
• Good courses in which you learn a lot in one week on a beautiful location.
• Good opportunity for a Ph.D. student starting out in the social sciences
• Good opportunity to refresh statistics knowledge within one week
• Good resources that can be applied in everyday research
• Good teachers, nice surrounding, a lot of information in one week, sometimes to much information...
• Good teaching, good team spirit and nice location
• Great courses and lean organisation.
• Having a full immersion in a new method is very helpful to focus on the content. By attending the summerschool one also have the possibility to meet new People and so increase the Networking. A great Chance of this summer School was also that we had a Major expert of the method teaching it, so that he could answer question about our own Research.
• Having already had some background in SEM, I was a bit concerned that I wouldn't advance sufficiently. But this concern was needless. I found the week extremely useful
• I'd say that my experience is rather positive and encourage my friends and colleagues to attend the summer school in Lugano next year.
• If you already have your own data set, this Summer school offers very good courses in which you learn how to manage / analyse... Your data. furthermore it's a Great opportunity for networking and getting to know highly competent and interesting teachers
• Instructive, competent and helpful teachers, good infrastructure
• Interesting classes, good mixture between theory and practice.
• It i very useful but so exhausting.
• It is useful to attend and get inputs for further self-learning.
• it was very helpful
• It was very useful and helpful for my resarch. I would like to attend this school the next year and I will recomment it to my colleagues.
• It's worth the time. Intense and useful
• Meeting nice poeple
• Nice opportunity to meet collegues from other universities, to learn in detail specific subjects, to challenge your own research, and to be inspire!
• Strengthening essential research skills in a pleasant atmosphere
• Summer School experience is a great opportunity to extend your research network, to exchange your research ideas and to get better knowledge of the research methods you can use in your research project.
• The course I took was very good, I learned an incredible lot.
• The city of Lugano is a beautiful spot and makes the learning experience even better."
• The methods taught are very useful for the PhD and the atmosphere is great.
• The quality of the teaching is pretty good!
• There is a good trade-off between theroy and practice.
• Thanks to the small size of the group, there are many interactions between PhD students and the supervisor.
• The supervisor is really listening the students to answer their questions and thoughts."
• To deal with some topics in depth
• To open our mind to others research approaches or methods
• Very good quality of courses. I learned a lot and I would like to attend again next year.
• Very good Workshops, nice to meet other people
• Very helpful and useful
• Very high quality, recent references, adapted to participants' needs, many examples to understand the method
• Very interesting, but quite exhausting ;)
• Very useful for the work we do
• Very usefull because every single work is counting as unique; no preparation before but a lot during the week so we are in a good working process; good professional exchanges and good readings!
• You have a great variety of different courses. The location is really nice and it's a good opportunity to acquire new skills in a different environment.
• You learn a lot, have fun and meet new friends!
• You should really attend it, helps a lot to learn new skills and meet other interesting researchers