Courses
We regularly organize short courses about topics such as how to prepare a data donation study, methodological challenges around data donation studies, or how to program your own data donation task.
The archive below keeps previous courses and materials available without forcing the page itself to become a long list of one-off blocks.
Upcoming course
A practical guide to collecting digital trace data using data donation
This workshop introduces data donation as a privacy-preserving approach for collecting digital trace data, with hands-on exercises covering study design, Port configuration, extraction scripts, recruitment, and linkage with other data.
- When
- July 13, 2026, 09:00 - 12:30
- Where
- IPDLN Conference, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Instructors
- Laura Boeschoten, Danielle McCool (Utrecht University)
- Program
- IPDLN 2026 program
Previous courses
Data Donation as a Method for Social Media Research: Workflow, Privacy Considerations, and Practical Challenges
Symposium hands-on workshop that explores the legal and ethical challenges of using social media data in research, from a privacy-first perspective.
How to prepare a data donation study?
A hands-on introduction to designing a study and preparing participants for data donation.
Collecting digital trace data through data donation
A practical tutorial on deploying a data donation workflow for computational social science research.
How to prepare a data donation study?
An introductory short course on study design, ethics, and implementation choices.
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