This workshop is offered in cooperation with BAGGS

Short Outline

The qualitative interview is one of the most popular methods of qualitative research. It is used in a broad range of studies from extensive single case reconstructions to mixed methods re-search integrating findings from quantitative and qualitative approaches. Due to its flexibility and the different ways of structuring interview conversations the qualitative interview can be applied in many contexts and with very diverse groups of interview partners.

The workshop offers an introduction to methodological and practical aspects of qualitative in-terviewing and provides the basis for choosing between techniques and designing the appro-priate approach for different contexts and research questions.
An online follow-up will provide the opportunity to discuss practical aspects and challenges en-countered by participants in the course of preparing, doing and processing qualitative inter-views in the frame of their own research.
 

Topics covered:
- Methodological aspects and research questions
- Pros and cons of interviewing & comparison of techniques
- Prior knowledge & interview guide
- Communication strategies & interview process
- Processing qualitative interviews
- Ethical aspects

Target group:

The workshop is open to anyone interested in qualitative interviewing. In order to fine-tune the agenda, registered participants will be invited in advance to provide information about their
motivation to attend the workshop, their experience with qualitative (interview) research and their interests in particular aspects of qualitative interviewing. Please answer the questions of this questionaire(14.8 KB, 1 Seite) when registering.

Date & Time:

Friday, 24 April 2026, 09.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. (s.t.) + Online Follow-Up (date tbd. with course participants)

Place: FG1/00.06, Feldkirchenstraße 21, 96052 Bamberg
 

Work units: 8 AE 

Registration: To register, please send an email to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de by Monday, March 30, 2026. Registration is mandatory. The number of participants is limited to 16.

About the Trainer
Herwig Reiter is an empirical sociologist who received his PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence/Italy. He works at the German Youth Institute in the Department of Social Monitoring and Methodology in the field of qualitative research meth-ods training and consulting. Together with Andreas Witzel he published about the Problem-centred Interview.

This workshop is offered in cooperation with BAGGS and LIfBi.

Short Outline
 

Over the last few years, git has established itself as the de facto standard for version control. It’s being used in many fields beyond just computer science and has become a requirement for many jobs. Git enables easy collaboration on projects and allows traveling through time, to bet-ter understand and potentially revert changes if the need arises.
In this workshop participants will familiarize themselves with the basics of git and will learn to tips, tricks and best practices for using git using practical tasks and examples from the social sciences.
 Topics covered:
- Installation and configuration of git
- Benefits of using version control
- Using git via command line and graphical user interfaces
- Tracking local changes in git
- Collaborating via git and GitHub

Prerequisites
Participants are expected to…
- …bring their own laptops to the workshop to take part in the interactive tasks.
- …install git, Sourcetree and Visual Studio Code on their machines ahead of time (if problems are encountered, we’ll resolve them at the beginning of the workshop, but please try to install all).
o Git: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-GitLink
o Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
o Sourcetree: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ (optional, used only briefly)
- …create an account at GitHub.
o Link: https://github.com/
- …set up authentication with GitHub
o Link to a guide for setup via SSH: https://lmu-osc.github.io/Introduction-RStudio-Git-GitHub/SSH.html
o If you encounter errors here, this is perfectly fine and we’ll address them during the course.

Target group:

The workshop is open to anyone regardless of whether they have already used version control in the past or this is their very first encounter with git.

Date & Time: Wednesday 1st of July 2026, 09.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. (s.t.)

Place: BAGSS, Feldkirchenstraße 21, 96050 Bamberg, Room FG1/00.06

Work units: 8 AE 

Registration: To register, please send an email to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de by Monday, June 01, 2026. Registration is mandatory. The number of participants is limited to 16.

About the Trainer
Jan Simson is a trained IT specialist, psychologist and behavioral data scientist. He received his PhD in Statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and regularly teaches both be-ginner and advances git courses for students and professionals.