Engage your Politics and IR students meaningfully and creatively with statistics.
In this webinar, join Matthew Loveless, author of the newly published statistics textbook “Political Analysis” as he addresses how statistics can answer these questions and more, and discusses the best ways to engage your students with political analysis and stats.
Matthew will share his 20 years+ experience and provide insights into helping your students learn statistical techniques in Politics and IR more effectively. He will discuss how topical and intuitive statistics’ instruction leads to a more positive, meaningful, and longer-lasting student experience – that both you and your students will appreciate.
Tuesday 27th June at 9.30am PDT / 5.30pm BST / 6.30pm CET
The webinar will include:
A presentation by Matthew Loveless on:
Meeting students’ needs, assuaging their fears, and moving them towards success.
Overcoming instructors’ challenges: attracting, engaging, retaining students, and delivering great results.
Discussion and interview with fellow stats lecturer, Chiara Binelli.
Interactive Q&A session.
Please email any questions you’d like to ask the presenters in advance to market@sagepub.co.uk or tweet them to @SAGECQPolitics.
About the panelists
Matthew Loveless is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna (Italy). He is also co-founder of the Center for Research and Social Progress (CeRSP). He has taught quantitative methods to undergraduate and graduate students since 2003. He has held multiple academic positions in the US, the UK, and across Europe. His research interests include in the field of Political Behavior in Europe, particularly as it relates to how individuals perceive and make sense of politics (recent examples focusing on political attitudes include International Political Science Review, Political Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy). Recent publications also include co-authored work that incorporate party competition with recent publications in Government and Opposition, Electoral Studies, and the Journal of Common Market Studies. He lives with his family in Italy.
Chiara Binelli received her PhD in Economics from University College London. She is Co-Director of the Center for Research and Social Progress and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna. She has been Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Assistant Professor at the University of Southampton, Visiting Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Nuffield College, Research Scholar and Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She has worked on returns to schooling, economic and social inequality, youth unemployment, and climate change’s perceptions, pro-environmental actions and support for green policies. She is currently working on research projects merging Data Science and Economics, and on the social impact of artificial intelligence.