University Teaching

University of Leeds                      Conflict, Cooperation and Strategic Decision Making 
(2020)                                          Lectures, tutorials (PGT students) and module management at the School of Politics and International Studies,
                                                    Syllabus 

University of Leeds                      Introduction to Programming for Social Science
(2020)                                          Lectures, computer labs (UG students) and module management at the School of Politics and International Studies,   
​                                                     Syllabus 

University of Leeds                      Technology, Media and Politics: Research and Real World Cases
(2020-2021)                                 Lectures and computer labs (PGT students) at the School of Politics and International Studies,
​                                                     Syllabus. 

University of Leeds                      Global Inequalities and Development​ 
(2019, 2021)                                Lecture and seminar (PGT students) on Sustainable Development Goals, School of Politics and International Studies,
                                                     Syllabus

University of Leeds                       Advanced Statistical Analysis
(2017-2021)                                  Lectures and practicals (UG students) at the School of Politics and International Studies,  
                                                      Syllabus

University of Leeds                       Approaches to Analysis
(2016-2019, 2021)                        Lecture and workshops (UG students) at the School of Politics and International Studies, 
​                                                      Syllabus 

University of Leeds                       Analysing Data in Politics, Development and International Relations 
(2015-2021)                                  Practicals (UG students) at the School of Politics and International Studies,
​                                                      Syllabus 

University of Leeds                        Research Methods
(2015-2017)                                   Lectures and seminars (PGT & PGR students) at the School of Politics and International Studies, 
                                                       Syllabus. 

Stockholm University                     Models of Social Change and Social Stability (Formal Modelling in Social Sciences)
(2014)                                            Lectures and Seminars (PGT & PGR students) and module management at the Department of Sociology,
​                                                       Syllabus

Bielefeld University                        Research seminar on political socialisation: Young people’s attitudes on the Middle-East 
(2009-2010)                                   Conflict (in German), Seminar (PGT students) at the Department of Education,
​                                                       Syllabus. 

Bielefeld University                         Internet as a socialisation and society-forming medium (in German),
​(2009-2010)                                    seminars (PGT students) at the Department of Education,
                                                        Syllabus.

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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

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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 Climate Change (social science perspectives), Mathematical Modeling in Political Science, Computational Political Science, Sustainable Development Goals, Online Political Experiments, ... 

Currently, I supervise two PhD students:

• Daniel Valdenegro, who is doing his PhD on Emotions and Political Collective Action using a data analytics approach, and
• Amirali Emami (at Data Analytics & Society CDT), who is working on Mathematical Modeling of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 

My former PhD student, Nicole Nisbett, has successfully completed her doctoral studies on UK Parliament's online public engagement using data science   (in collaboration with The House of Commons) in February 2021. 
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.