Connectionists: Complex Human Data Summer School, Melbourne Australia, Dec 9 - 14

[Charles Kemp]

Researchers from psychology and other disciplines are increasingly relying
on computational analyses of large data sets to draw conclusions about
human behaviour. This kind of research requires skills that are not often
taught as part of the psychology curriculum, and the Melbourne School of
Psychological Sciences is therefore pleased to announce the first annual
Complex Human Data summer school.

The school is designed for advanced undergraduates and first-year PhD
students, and aims to give attendees the key skills they need to collect
complex data, model the data, and evaluate their models. Participants from
industry are also welcome.  The program includes both lectures and
laptop-based sessions which provide hands-on experience of the
computational tools and approaches to be covered.

Dates: December 9 - 14, 2018

Location: The University of Melbourne, Australia

Topics will include:

    - Programming in R (the main language for the summer school)
    - Best practices for running online studies
    - Reproducibility and Open Science
    - GitHub
    - Probabilistic models of cognition
    - Experience sampling
    - Exploratory data analysis
    - Bayesian data analysis
    - Generalised linear models

Organisers:

    - Simon Dennis
    - Charles Kemp
    - Danielle Navarro
    - Amy Perfors

Other faculty members from the Complex Human Data Hub at Melbourne will
also be involved.

Required background:

Participants are expected to have an interest in psychology and some
experience with computer programming. The school is designed both for
psychology students with an interest in computational approaches and
students from computer science (or technical disciplines) with an interest
in psychology.  Although we expect that many participants will be graduate
students, a subset of the available slots will be reserved for advanced
undergraduates.

Cost:

Registration is free for undergraduates and graduate students and $2500
for industry participants. Scholarships will be available to help with
transport and accommodation costs.

How to apply:

Please submit
- A short CV
- A statement of up to 500 words describing your background, your
interests, and what you hope to get out of the summer school
- For applicants from outside Melbourne, a short statement of financial
need explaining why a scholarship would be especially helpful (optional)

Applications should be sent to chdsummerschool at gmail.com before October
15th, 2018. Applicants from outside Melbourne will be automatically
considered for scholarships regardless of whether they submit statements of
financial need, but such statements may be helpful if there are more
applications than support available.

Website:

https://psychologicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/research/chdh/news-and-events/complex-human-data-summer-school
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