Oxford Spring School 2026
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