Research Methods Workshops (SWARM)

Successfully run over the last several summers and attracting participants from the US, Europe and the Far East, Coller's Summer Workshops in Advanced Research Methods (SWARM) are 3 to 4-day state-of-the-art methodological workshops designed for junior faculty and PhD students in business and management and related fields (the social and medical sciences). Each workshop consists of 30 contact hours, with transfer credit available.

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SWARM provides its participants with a hands-on setting for following the latest advances in statistical analysis, keeping up to date with available applications and improving their technique. Taught by scholars at the forefront of methodology design from the Coller School of Management, SWARM workshops are offered in several key sets of advanced research methods: advanced regression, structural equation modeling and multi-level modeling.

Next Workshop

SWARM 2019 will be held in June & July 2019. It will consist of 3 separate workshops, each focusing on a specific type of statistical modeling.

1^st - Advanced Regression Analysis, Dr. Dana Vashdi,: 23,24, and 25 June 2019

Topics: Moderation, Mediation, Moderated Mediation, Logistic Regression ( Binary Dependent Variable), Poisson Regression, ( Count Dependent Variable)

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2^nd- Mplus Prof. Mo Wang : 26,27, and 28 June 2019

Lectures:

Mo Wang, Ph.D. ,Lanzilotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair Editor, Work, Aging and Retirement, Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Psychology
Director, Human Resource Research Center, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida

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3^rd- Multilevel Research Analysis by Prof. Gilad Chen: 1, 2, and 3 July 2019

Lecture: Gilad Chen, Ph.D., Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Applied Psychology

Topics: Random Coefficient Models – HLM, rWG, ICC; Cross-level Effects, Cross-level Moderation; Growth Models

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Academic Participants

Ph.D. students in any area of business administration (e.g., Organizational Studies, Strategy, Management, Marketing and Consumer Behavior) with some background in multivariate statistical analysis
Junior Faculty in schools of business administration, or any social science discipline
Ph.D. students in any of the Social Sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, social work, economics, political science)
Physicians and other medical sciences researchers

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Contact Us

Ms. Rachel Tahar,

Workshop Administrator

Email: racheltahar@tauex.tau.ac.il

Phone: +972-3640-8513