The Graduate School of Social and Behavioural Sciences in collaboration with the Department of Methodology and Statistics and researchers in the field of Methodology and/or Statistics of the other Institutes provides training courses for PhD candidates and other researchers.

Programme Winter School 2026

Course title	Dates	Deadline
Multilevel and Longitudinal Data Analysis (advanced)	26 and 30 January 2026	12 January 2026
Statistical Learning and Prediction	27 and 28 January 2026	6 January 2026
Qualitative Methods for Social Scientists	27, 28 and 29 January 2026	13 january 2026
An introduction to Bayesian statistics	12 and 13 January 2026	2 January 2026

 

Programme Summer School 2026

Course Title	Dates	Deadline
R introduction a 3 day course	TBA	TBA
Meta-analysis a 2 day course	TBA	TBA
Statistical Analysis of fMRI data a 2 day course	TBA	TBA
Qualitative Interviewing a 3 day course	TBA	TBA

 

Fees

Target group	One day	Two days	Three days
PhD candidates FSW Leiden	FREE	FREE	FREE
Staff FSW Leiden	€355	€475	€585
PhD candidates other Leiden faculties	€255	€370	€490
Staff other Leiden faculties and externals	€530	€705	€880