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Research Data and Methods Workshop Series

Workshop series by CRC 1252 - Prominence in Language at the University of Cologne.

Workshops on research methodology, data management, and academic practices for graduate students, postdocs, and researchers.

Current Workshop Series (Winter 2025-26)

The winter 2025-26 series focuses on programming skills, modern methodology, and research infrastructure:

  • Programming Skills: R basics and Python development
  • Modern Methodology: Online experiments and Bayesian analysis
  • Research Infrastructure: Data archiving and reproducibility

View Winter 2025-26 Schedule →

Available Workshops

Core Research Skills

  1. Good Academic Practice - Academic integrity, research ethics, and responsible conduct
  2. Research Data Management - Organizing, storing, and preserving research data
  3. Ethics Approval - Ethics approval process and human subjects research requirements
  4. Literature Management - Reference management tools (Zotero) and citation techniques
  5. Annotation & Corpus Tools - Tools for corpus linguistics and text annotation
  6. Preregistration - Preregistering research studies for transparency and reproducibility

Programming & Technical Skills (Winter 2025-26 Series)

  1. Coding in R - Basics - Introduction to R programming for research applications
  2. Online Experiments - Designing and implementing online experiments
  3. Archiving Session - Long-term data preservation, standards, and UoC repository usage
  4. Coding in Python/VSCode and LLMs - Python setup, core libraries, Git integration, and LLM-assisted coding
  5. Bayesian Regression Models - Bayesian regression in R with priors, checking, and interpretation
  6. Computational Reproducibility using R - Reproducible workflows with R Markdown/Quarto, renv, and pipelines

View the complete workshop catalog for detailed information about each session.

Current schedule: See Winter 2025-26 schedule for dates and registration.

CRC 1252 Retreat Resources

Materials from our July 2025 Retreat on Large Language Models and AI-assisted research methods.

Workshop presentations from structured group discussions on NLP using Large Language Models:

  • Prompt Engineering - Nils Reiter
  • Corpus Generation - Job Schepens
  • Automatic Annotation - Ziyue Liu
  • LLM-Assisted Coding - Philip Georgis
  • Plenary Session - Job Schepens & Nils Reiter

View all retreat materials →

Archived Workshops

Summer 2025 Series

The summer 2025 workshop series has been completed. Materials are still available:

  • Good Academic Practice (May 7, 2025)
  • Research Data Management (May 21, 2025)
  • Ethics Approval (June 4, 2025)
  • Literature Management (June 18, 2025)
  • Annotation & Corpus Tools (July 2, 2025)
  • Preregistration (July 16, 2025)

View complete summer 2025 materials and schedule →

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Additional Information

CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" research initiative, University of Cologne.