The Department of Sociology and Social Research is happy to announce that the 7th edition of the Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research (TN-Square) will take place from October 28th to October 30, 2026 (3 days).
The topic of this edition is Geography, Mobility, and Life Course Inequalities, examining how geographic contexts shape individual trajectories, social mobility, and the intergenerational transmission of advantage. The methodological focus will be devoted to proximity-based models for the identification of neighbourhood effects; the analysis of mobility as weighted directed networks; and causal inference with georeferenced data through conditional instrumental variable strategies.
Speakers include Maria Brandén and Mael Lecoursonnais (Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University), Per Block (University of Zurich) and Kerstin Ostermann (University of Bielefeld / IAB Nuremberg).
The school is addressed to PhD students, post-docs, and early-stage researchers. The official language is English.
The application deadline is August 25th, 2026, 12:00 PM (CET). Details about this year’s TN-Square soon at https://event.unitn.it/tn-square/.