WiSo-IT

Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences

Methods Consulting of the Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences

The Methods Consulting of the WiSo-IT supports members of the Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences (students, teachers and staff members) with methodical issues. We primarily give advise on questions about IT tools and quantative methods.

We offer individual consultations on problems and questions before and during the process of writing theses. Information sessions to certain topics during classes are also possible. Please contact us.

 

We cover the following topics:

Topics Consultation services and tools
Literature search and management Literature data bases, Citavi
Construction of questionnaires and data gathering LimeSurvey1
Data preparation SPSS, R, Excel, MAXQDA
Statistical analysis Descriptive and inference-statistical methods
Study design and sampling E.g., longitudinal study, cross-sectional study, experiments, random samples, GPower
Presentation and visualisation of results Word, PowerPoint, Excel
Ethical and legal issues E.g., Consent
Usability Questionnaires, Eye-Tracking
Information and process modeling ARIS Express, Visual Paradigm, Enterprise Architect, Adonis
Project management MS Project
Plagiarism detection2 Similarity2

 

1 Please note the information about LimeSurvey, incl. access, in the Serviceportal.

2 Only for teaching staff

Regarding the installation etc. of individual tools, please refer to the knowledge portal or the methods counsulting course in the learning management platform ILIAS.

Consultation appointments

Consultation appointments are possible by individual arrangement. Please contact Mareike Przysucha regarding an appointment. She will forward your enquiry to the relevant member of staff.

The normal consultations take place on Tuesday and Friday by zoom or in person.

Mareike Przysucha, M.Sc.

Blumenthalstraße (CO 0108)
Phone: 0541 969-3354
E-Mail: methodenberatung-wiso@hs-osnabrueck.de

Please note that the CO building is not fully accessible.

Templates

As service for students we provide a template for theses in word. In addition to predefined formats, you find helpful hints for writing assignments and bachelor and master theses.

Template for scientific theses in Word

Links

We gathered first information in a course in the learning management platform ILIAS.

In addition we created a YouTube channel for the Methods Consulting, containing playlists with videos, which might be relevant, and channel abonnements.

Acknowledgements

Use of software development tools is made available to Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences by the Academic Partner Program from Visual Paradigm for educational use.