Summer School “Methods in Language Sciences”

Host Institution: Ghent University
Website: https://www.mils.ugent.be/

Dates: 14-Jul-2025 - 18-Jul-2025
Location: Ghent, Belgium

Minimum Education Level: Master

Focus: The Summer School offers 11 multi-day modules on various topics, covering both quantitative and qualitative methods:

- Introduction to R
- Advanced data analysis with R
- Natural Language Processing with Python
- PRAAT
- ELAN and FLEx
- Eye-tracking
- Survey design
- Linguistic ethnography
- Bayesian data analysis
- Multivariate data analysis with R
- Introduction to statistics with R

Each module involves 15 contact hours. Because the modules are partly held in parallel sessions, participants choose one or two modules to follow. See program to find out which modules can be combined.

Description:

Top quality research requires outstanding methodological skills. That is why the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication of Ghent University will jointly organize a Summer School on “Methods in Language Sciences” on 14-18 July 2025. The summer school caters to (junior and senior) researchers from various scientific disciplines such as e.g. linguistics, translation and interpreting studies, psycholinguistics and language acquisition research, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics and pragmatics, linguistic ethnography etc. This is your opportunity to take your methodological skills for research in (applied) linguistics, translation or interpreting studies to the next level.

Tuition: €300 / €400
Tuition Explanation: 1 course: €300
2 courses: €400

This also includes coffee breaks (morning and/or afternoon, depending on your curriculum) and lunch (incl. drinks).

(The summer school is free of charge for PhD-students and post-docs affiliated with UGent, since their registration is sponsored by the Doctoral School. This includes coffee breaks (morning and/or afternoon, depending on your curriculum) and lunch (incl. drinks).)

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Registration Open until 30-Jun-2025

Contact Person: Ludovic De Cuypere
Email: [email protected]

Apply on the web: https://www.mils.ugent.be/registration/

Registration Instructions:
For registration and payment go to: https://www.mils.ugent.be/registration/