EMPAS Colloquium

Lectures winter semester 2014/15 until summer semester 2013.

15.12.2014Lecture

Mein, dein oder unser Problem? Eine Analyse der Folgen der Arbeitslosigkeit für Partnerschaften

Dr. des. Friederike Esche (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Place:
Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology, Unicom
Room: 2200
Mary-Somerville-Straße 9
28359 Bremen
Time:
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Lecture Series:
EMPAS Colloquium
Semester:
WiSe 2014/15

21.07.2014Lecture

Investigation of research misconduct and its implications for research in general

Prof. Dr. M.A.L.M. (Marcel) Van Assen (Tilburg University)
Place:
Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology, FVG
Room: W0060
Wiener Straße / Ecke Celsius Straße
28359 Bremen
Time:
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Lecture Series:
EMPAS Colloquium
Semester:
SoSe 2014

Social psychology has recently gained considerable attention in the mass media - not only because of its findings but also because of research fraud. In the Netherlands the highly respected Social Psychologist Diederik Stapel admitted to invent data that were subsequently used for publication in the leading Journals in the discipline as well as in “Science”. Likewise in the Netherlands the work of Jens Förster (formerly Jacobs University Bremen) has been subject to investigation.

On behalf of the 'Committee Levelt' I examined 46 papers of Stapel and six dissertations to detect evidence of fraud and questionable research practices. I will present the framework of the investigation and some procedures that were particularly useful in the Stapel case, but were also helpful in other cases. The framework and procedures boil down to finding inconsistencies in the pairs 'research materials-data', 'research materials-article', 'data-article', or detecting extremely unlikely patterns in the data. The framework and procedure is illustrated with some examples of the Stapel case; the Förster case is discussed as well.

I will focus on the implications of my research misconduct investigation for (i) investigations of research misconduct in general, (ii) incentives and behavior of scientists, (iii) researchers' (mis)understanding of statistics.

Place:
Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology, FVG
Room: W0060
Wiener Straße / Ecke Celsius Straße
28359 Bremen
Time:
4:15 p.m.
Lecture Series:
EMPAS Colloquium
Semester:
WiSe 2013/14

Place:
Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology, FVG
Room: W0060
Wiener Straße / Ecke Celsius Straße
28359 Bremen
Time:
4:15 p.m.
Lecture Series:
EMPAS Colloquium
Semester:
WiSe 2013/14

04.12.2013Lecture

Intergenerational Transmission of Demographic Patterns

Cees Elzinga (VU University Amsterdam)
Place:
Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology, FVG
Room: W0060
Wiener Straße / Ecke Celsius Straße
28359 Bremen
Time:
4:15 p.m.
Lecture Series:
EMPAS Colloquium
Semester:
WiSe 2013/14

Place:
Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology, FVG
Room: W0060
Wiener Straße / Ecke Celsius Straße
28359 Bremen
Time:
4:15 p.m.
Cooperation:
Forschergruppe "Migration, Residential Mobility and Urban Structure (MIGREMUS)", Universität Bremen
Lecture Series:
EMPAS Colloquium
Semester:
SoSe 2013

12.06.2013Lecture

Das PPSM Access Panel. Aufbau und Ertrag für die Mittelschichtforschung

Prof. Dr. Uwe Engel (University of Bremen)
Place:
Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology, FVG
Room: W0060
Wiener Straße / Ecke Celsius Straße
28359 Bremen
Time:
4:15 p.m.
Lecture Series:
EMPAS Colloquium
Semester:
SoSe 2013

22.05.2013Lecture

Steuerung komplexer Systeme

Prof. Dr. Johannes Weyer (TU Dortmund University)
Place:
Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology, FVG
Room: W0060
Wiener Straße / Ecke Celsius Straße
28359 Bremen
Time:
4:15 p.m.
Lecture Series:
EMPAS Colloquium
Semester:
SoSe 2013