Michael Christensen, Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University – Ottawa. He is staying at IC3JM from February 15 to May 15, 2025.
Franziska Quoß, Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Sciences at the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences -Cologne. She is staying from February 24 to April 18, 2025.
Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School – Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is staying from March 1 to July 31, 2025.
The IC3JM’s postgraduate programs are now open for applications, the tenth for the two-year Master’s Degree in Social Sciences; the eighth edition of the one-year Master’s Degree in Political and Electoral Analysis; and the fourth edition of the one-year Master’s Degree in Computational Social Sciences.
Master’s Degree in Social Sciences.
This is a two-year (120 credits) academic, research-based Master’s program, conducted entirely in English. It is a Master’s degree with an international reputation in the area of Social Sciences, as demanding, intense and rigorous as the best graduate programs in the United States and Europe.
This is an official, professionally-oriented Master’s degree. It lasts one year and is taught entirely in English. Computational Social Sciences is a new and exciting field that combines the tools of computer science and data science with the knowledge of the Social Sciences.
Master’s Degree in Political and Electoral Analysis.
Se trata de un Máster oficial, de orientación profesional, que busca formar a analistas que tengan un conocimiento profundo tanto de las encuestas políticas y la opinión pública como de las estrategias que siguen los actores políticos y sociales. Tiene una duración de un año (60 créditos). El Máster se imparte en español. See more
Master’s in Social Sciences
This is a two-year (120 credits) academic, research-based Master’s program, conducted entirely in English. It is an internationally renowned Master’s degree in the area of Social Sciences, as demanding, intense and rigorous as the best graduate programs in the United States and Europe.
The objective of this Master’s program is to teach students to conduct high-level research in the central themes of the Social Sciences. The Master provides advanced and interdisciplinary training in the Social Sciences, with a strong emphasis on methodology and quantitative analysis.
The Master covers three fields: political science, sociology and economic history.
During the first year, all courses are common, with two differentiated blocks: on the one hand, substantive courses in sociological analysis, social stratification, comparative politics, economic history and political economy; and, on the other, methodological courses in statistics, game theory and research design.
During the second year, there are some additional methodological courses and the student can choose one of the three specialization tracks (political science, sociology and economic history).
The Master’s students can continue their research in the PhD in Social Sciences offered by the UC3M Department of Social Sciences in collaboration with the IC3JM. The Master’s faculty is composed of members of the Department of Social Sciences of the IC3JM and by visiting professors. More information can be found on the Master’s website.
Master’s Degree in Computer Science
This is an official, professionally-oriented Master’s degree. It lasts one year and is taught entirely in English. Computational Social Sciences is a new and exciting field that combines the tools of computer science and data science with the knowledge of the Social Sciences. This Master offers specialized training in new computational approaches based on predictive modeling, text analytics and network science to analyze society in a new and revealing way.
The Master is aimed at students with a background in Social Sciences, Economics and Communication, and qualifies them to work in professional and academic fields, as well as to lead and supervise interdisciplinary teams in the field of Computational Social Sciences.
Master’s Degree in Political and Electoral Analysis
This is an official, professionally oriented Master’s degree that seeks to train analysts who have an in-depth knowledge of both political polls and public opinion, as well as the strategies followed by political and social actors. It lasts one year (60 credits). The Master is taught in Spanish and is aimed at all those students and professionals interested in understanding public opinion, knowing the tools for its analysis (survey techniques, graphic analysis, experiments, big data analysis) and making political and electoral analysis, academically and professionally.
It offers a wide variety of courses, taught by some of the best experts in public opinion and politics in Spain, both from universities and research companies.
The Master includes internships in companies and research institutes.
Universidad Carlos III offers four full two-year scholarships for the Master in Social Sciences; these scholarships are funded by the Department of Social Sciences.
These scholarships are open to any student (Spanish or foreign) with excellent academic performance, a high level of English and a strong motivation for study and research in the social sciences.
The IC3JM also offers three tuition grants for the two years of the Master’s program, with an amount equivalent to the cost of tuition for a student from the European Union (approximately 2,900 euros). It is not necessary to be a citizen of an EU country to apply.
The scholarships corresponding to the second year may be suspended if the student does not pass one or more courses during the first year of the Master. This condition applies to both full scholarships and tuition grants.
More information on all scholarships and grants can be found at scholarships’ website.
In collaboration with the Department of Social Sciences and the Figuerola Institute, both at the Universidad Carlos III, the Max Weber Conferences are led by renowned researchers whose work is of general interest in the social sciences, beyond the usual disciplinary boundaries between sociology, political science and economics.
One session takes place in spring 2025:
31 March: Paula England (Professor of Sociology and Dean of Social Sciences at New York University -Abu Dhabi). “The Assymetry of Gender Change”.
The conferences are open to the entire academic community.
The Internal Seminars are one of the basic pillars of the research activity carried out by IC3JM members. They are usually interspersed with the permanent seminars and are open to presentations by both members and visitors to the Institute.
Spring 2025
28 February: Adrian J. Shin (College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado -Boulder), “Class of Capital: Diaspora Capital, Foreign Development Assistance, and Institutional Structures”
7 March: Patrick Kraft (IC3JM): “What do Average People Perceive as Extreme Weather?”
28 March: Paul Atwell, Simon Chauchard and Fernando Mello (all from IC3JM). “How do Anti-misinformation Laws Affect Electoral Campaigns? A field Experiment with Brazil’s Mayors”
9 May: Michael Christensen (Carleton University -Ottawa). “Facts or Frames? Rethinking Misinformation Research through an Analysis of the COVID-19 Vaccine Discourse”
