Past Events

The “Methods in Action Series” course “Pitfalls and Potentialities of Probabilistic Graphical Models” is organized by Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti, Sapienza University of Rome, and will take place on online platform on  8, 11  and 15 May 2023.   Download ->  LEAFLET...

Presenter: Patrick Painsi, University of Graz   Discussant: Tatiana Fumasoli, UCL   Abstract Purpose: This paper aims to evaluate the effect various forms of institutional autonomy on higher education (HE) institutions success at three primary mission objectives of HE institutions (graduates, research, knowledge exchange). The...

Presenter:  Dmitriy Fedotov, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto, Canada   Discussant: Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo, University of Manchester   Abstract Both national governments and international statistical agencies have to deal with the challenge of receiving precise and credible data...

The “Methods in Action Series” course “Classifying Higher Education Institutions using Latent Class Analysis” is organized by USI, Università della Svizzera Italiana and will take place on online platform on  8, 14  and 20 March 2023.   Download ->  LEAFLET OF THE COURSE Download ->  APPLICATION FORM...

The RISIS Data Science Winter School on Tools and methods for analysing complex Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) systems: A gentle introduction to Network Science (NS), Spatial Models (SM) and Machine Learning (ML)  is organized by Research Institute of  Sustainable Economic Growth (CNR-IRCrES)  and will take place...

Presenter:  Lucio Morettini, IRCRES-CNR, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth of National Research Council of Italy.   Discussant: Marek Kwiek, UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy, University of Poznan   Abstract Academic career progression is highly gender biased in favor of males,...

Presenter:  Benedetto Lepori, Institute of Communication and Public Policy, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland   Discussant: Wolfgang Glänzel, KU Leuven   Abstract This paper compares two measures of organizational size of Higher Education Institutions widely used in the literature: the number of Academic Personnel...

RISIS tool demonstration events have the goal of presenting and practicing potentially useful tools for work with RISIS and related datasets, such as tools for name matching and geocoding. They have a strong practical character and must include practical activities for participants (guided). Matching and...

Presenter:  Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany   Discussant: Chiara Franzoni, PoliMi   Abstract An increasing number of literature focus on scholarly mobility among countries worldwide. Many studies look at specific national cases. But, contrasting the movement of scholars "within" sub-national...

  The Online Training on Machine Learning using Stata with applications to RISIS datasets  is organized by IRCrES, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth of the National Research Council of Italy and will take place on online platform on 23 November 2022. Deadline for request of participation: 14th of...