University Teaching

University of Leeds                       Global Inequalities and Development​ 
(2019)                                            Lecture and seminar (M.A. students) on Sustainable Development Goals, School of Politics and International Studies,
                                                      University of Leeds, with Emma-Louise Anderson, Syllabus. 
University of Leeds                        Advanced Statistical Analysis
(2017-)                                           Two lectures/seminars (B.A. students) at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, with 
                                                       Jocelyn Evans. Syllabus.
University of Leeds                        Approaches to Analysis
(2016-2019)                                   Lecture/Seminar (B.A. students) at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, with
                                                       Emma-Louise Anderson. Syllabus. 
University of Leeds                        Analysing Data in Politics, Development and International Relations 
(2015-)                                           Lecture/Seminar (B.A. students) at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, with
                                                      Jocelyn Evans. Syllabus. 
University of Leeds                       Research Methods
(2015-2017)                                  Three lectures/seminars (M.A. students) at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds,
                                                      with Stuart McAnulla. Syllabus. 
Stockholm University                     Models of Social Change and Social Stability (Formal Modelling in Social Sciences)
(2014)                                            Lecture/Seminar (M.A. & Ph.D. students) at the Department of Sociology, Spring Term 2014, Syllabus. 
Bielefeld University                        Research seminar on political socialisation: Young people’s attitudes on the Middle-East 
(2009-2010)                                   Conflict (in German), Seminar (M.A. students) at the Department of Education, Winter Term 2009/2010,
                                                       with Jürgen Mansel. Syllabus. 
Bielefeld University                        Internet as a socialisation and society-forming medium (in German), Seminar (M.A. students) at the
(2009-2010)                                   Department of Education, Winter Term 2009/2010. Syllabus.

Workshops

Interacting Minds Center               Hands-On Workshop: Exploring Social Data, Workshop at the Modeling Emerging Norms Workshop, 
Aarhus University, 2013                with David J.T. Sumpter and Andrea Perna. 
Leeds Institute for Data                 Introduction to Python for Data Analytics, ​2-days CDRC training course, for details please see here.                 
Analytics (LIDA), 2018, 2019

Research Students Supervision

If you are interested in doing your Ph.D. with me, please do contact me (v.spaiser@leeds.ac.uk). I am generally willing to supervise PhD students who plan to work in the area of Mathematical Modelling in Political Science, Computational Political Science, Social Media & Politics, Sustainable Development Goals, Online Political Experiments, ... 

Currently, I supervise three PhD students:
  • Nicole Nisbett, who is doing her PhD in collaboration with the House of Commons on how we can improve UK Parliament online public engagement, making use of data analytics, 
  • Daniel Valdenegro, who is doing his PhD on Emotions and Collective Actions using a data analytics approach, and
  • Amirali Emami (at Data Analytics & Society CDT), who will be working on improving and extending dynamical systems modeling to better understand and predict sustainable development as envisioned by the UN Sustainable Development Goals 
I also supervised Ahmed Tarek Hammad, from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (Italy), who worked with me as a visiting PhD student from November 2018 to April 2019 on Big Data and Public Policies.