Workshop: Designing Surveys

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In this workshop, Dr. Aylin Aydin-Cakir will guide students through the process of designing a survey tailored to a specific research purpose. Participants will begin by exploring the key issues of conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement and will learn how to develop valid and reliable survey questions. The workshop will also introduce participants to different types of survey and sampling methods enabling them to select approaches that best align with their research objectives. In addition, it will address key issues in questionnaire design and cover techniques for testing and improving the quality of questionnaires.

LEVEL: Basic

METHOD: Quantitative

ABOUT THE LECTURER: Dr. Aylin Aydin-Cakir is Assistant Professor of Law, Politics and Quantitative Methods at Erasmus Law School. Prior to joining Erasmus, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yeditepe University, Turkey (2014-2020). Between 2021 and 2023, she worked as a Senior Lecturer in the Political Science program at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research interests focus on law and politics, comparative political institutions and public opinion in public institutions. Methodologically, her research leverages several quantative approaches including observational data, experiments as well as other causal inference designs. Her studies are published in various journals such as the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP); Political Research Quarterly; International Political Science Review; Law&Society Review; Democratization; International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON); International Review of Law and Economics; and Global Constitutionalism.

PREREQUISITES: You need to register and have a ticket for the full PhD Days- no partial tickets are possible. You can register here.