Course outline

The course is organized around 3-hour sessions (15:15-18:30) that walk you through different research topics and methods. 

The structure of each session is the following. I provide an overview of a particular topic and its methods (e.g., experiments) and present and submit for discussion with the class applied research paper examples.

Week 1   -   30 Sept: Introduction (1h30) & 1 Oct: Social Biology (3h)

Week 2   - 8 Oct.: Qualitative & Mixed Approaches

Week 3   - 15 Oct.: Experiments

Week 4   - 29 Oct.: Mechanisms

Week 5   - 5 Nov.: Patterns & Big Data

Week 6   - 12 Nov.: Networks

Week 7   -  26 Nov.: Historical approaches

Week 8   - 9 Dec.: Social ecology (1h30)