Methods Center

Chairs: Uwe Schimank and Adalbert Wilhelm
Coordinator: Özen Odag

A unique and fundamental feature of BIGSSS is the Methods Center. A broad spectrum of expertise in methods and methodology is represented here. Foci of the par­ticipating faculty from Jacobs and UB encompass fields such as non-parametric statistics and sampling strategies (Klaus Boehnke), panel and time-series analysis (Hilke Brock­mann), multi-level structural equation modeling (Uwe Engel), survival analysis (Jo­hannes Huinink), qualitative methods and triangulation (Margrit Schreier), graphical statistical analysis and data mining (Adalbert Wilhelm), qualitative and mixed methods (Özen Odag), qualitative content analysis (Andreas Witzel) and macro-quantitative and qualitative political-science methods and methodology (Bernhard Kittel, Herbert Obinger). All members of the Methods Center faculty have published extensively both methodical and substantive scientific work, documenting an emphasis on the inextricable intertwining of methods and substance in social-science research and training.