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ESS 2024 is now over and we want to thank everyone – the instructors, participants, staff and everyone else who made it another successful year. We will return in summer 2025 for our 58th summer school and so please ensure you are signed up to our mailing list to hear when we launch.
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ESS provides not only world leading social science research methods training, but also opportunity to socialise with your fellow participants from all around the world.
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The course was great, really enjoyed it and felt I got a lot out of it – the combination of the theoretical and the methodological steps have provided me with tools for the PhD and required a renewed and deeper exploration of discourse analysis, giving me a lot to think about for the road ahead. […]
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