Teaching
Workshop, Institut Barcelona de Estudis Internacionals, 2022
This course aimes at identifying how to iteratively implement quantitative and qualitative analysis with an emphasis on the key factors and causal mechanisms at work. It focuses on (1) ongoing methodological debates to analyse multiple ways of integrating quantitative and qualitative research; and (2) on practical implementation of mixed-methods research in ongoing and/or future projects. The course is helpful for students who consider pursuing a PhD and/or publishing their MA theses in academic journals using mixed-methods techniques.
Workshop, Institut Barcelona de Estudis Internacionals, 2021
This course provides students with an introduction to research design and methodology, with an emphasis on research techniques and analysis in the social sciences. It is intended as a broad introduction to the logic and practical skills required to understand social science research, including quantitative, qualitative and computational approaches. Basic tips for using research tools and resources aim at developing basic skills for academic research.
The course is specially targeted at students with little or no prior experience with social science research.
Workshop, Analista de dades per a l'anàlisi política i la gestió pública, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017
This course is an introduction to the analysis of social media data. It introduces key concepts on capturing, cleaning and analysing social media data and working with APIs with an emphasis on social network analysis and the opportunities and limitations of social media data. The course is based on applications following the tools of the rtweet and twitteR R packages. http://www.ub.edu/polexp/analista-de-dades/
Fifth edition 2017-2022
Workshop, Analista de dades per a l'anàlisi política i la gestió pública, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017
This course is an introduction to quantitative text analysis and its applications in social science research. It introduces key concepts with an applied case showing the use of Quanteda R package. It discusses preprocessing decisions and introduces the conceptual basis and applied examples for supervised and unsupervised models. http://www.ub.edu/polexp/analista-de-dades/
Fifth edition 2017-2022
# Teaching profile I have experience in teaching political behaviour with an emphasis on collective action, political attitudes, and public opinion; political sociology, concentrating mostly on organizations in politics; public policy with a focus on agenda dynamics; research methods, and applied statistics at the introductory and intermediate level on multiple subfields. I also teach computational methods for text and network analyses techniques as well as R language courses. I regularly teach short seminars on applied data science for multiple universities and research centres in social sciences, data journalism, entrepreneurship, or social activism. I am an accredited associate professor (AQU Agregat 2022) and (ANECA Contratado doctor 2021). I have authored two textbooks on applied statistical research (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). I have directed more than ten master’s theses and three of them have received merit awards as the best in their class. I have mentored eight research assistants who have performed excellently and have been motivated to continue with academic research or have continued their learning path on applied methods. I have served on three PhD committees, reviewed for seventeen international academic journals and I currently co-supervise a PhD thesis and serve as project evaluator for the Research Agency of the Ministry of Science and Innovation. I am a member of the Quality of Democracy research group, and of academic networks such as Comparative Interest Group Survey, Text Mining of Political and Legal Texts (COMPTEXT) and ECPR Standing Group on Political Methodology.
