Oxford Spring School 2026

Speaker
Spyros Kosmidis, Marnie Howlett, Tom Robinson, Kalina Zheko, Maksim Zubok, Noah Bacine, Nelson Ruiz, Michal Ovadek
Event date
23 Mar 2026 to 27 Mar 2026
Event time
9:30 - 17:00
Venue
Department of Politics and International Relations
Manor Road Building
Manor Road
Oxford
OX1 3UQ
Event type
Courses and workshops
Event cost
In-person: £1,075 (£1,935 for two courses); online: £625 (£1,125 for two courses))
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Required

This renowned social science methods course will take place from Monday 23 March to Friday 27 March 2026, in both in-person and online formats.

Our week-long programme offers graduate students and researchers a unique opportunity to learn cutting-edge methods in social science. Oxford Spring School 2026 consists of eight courses, which will be taught over five days. Four of the courses will run concurrently in the mornings (09:30-12:30) and four courses will run concurrently in the afternoons (14:00-17:00).

The full list of course options for 2026 are:

Morning Courses:

  • Qualitative Methods: Interviews & Fieldwork
  • Machine Learning
  • Causal Inference 1: Social Science Experiments
  • Text Analysis

Afternoon Courses:

  • Data Analysis for the Social Sciences
  • Large Language Models
  • Advanced Qualitative Methods
  • Causal Inference 2: Design Based Approaches