Methods and Statistical Consulting
for HSU|Psychology

Scope

In individual consulting sessions, we support your research with advice and assistance. Our consulting involves all stages of a research project, including the preparation of grant and research proposals, sampling, data preparation, the selection of appropriate statistical techniques, and the interpretation of results.

Target Group

• At present, the methodological consulting is limited to members of the Department of Psychology (students, pre- and postdocs, professors) at Helmut Schmidt University.
• Our methodological consulting of students is limited to bachelor and master theses. We do not offer advice for regular course work.

Requirements

• Students and PhD students need the approval of their supervisor prior to contacting us. We will inform your supervisor about your request.
• There need to be at least four weeks between the application and the deadline of your research project.

About the Consulting Session

• The consulting service is free of charge.
• A consulting session is limited to a maximum of 30 minutes.
• Each research project is limited to a maximum of two consulting sessions.
• Because of time constraints, it is often not possible to go through programming code (e. g. an R script) in detail or to run a new analysis.
• Our goal is to offer high quality consulting at the state of the art. However, our free consulting comes with absolutely no warranty. We neither guarantee that a solution is always correct, nor that we find a solution. Students should always discuss the content of the consulting sessions with their supervisors.
• For easier scheduling, consulting is usually offered via Zoom, Skype, etc.

Preparations

You can greatly contribute towards a successful consulting session with these simple preparations:

• Our consultants will use the information from your application to prepare for the consulting session. Please describe your research questions, sample, and statistical approaches carefully. Please do not use abbreviations or jargon. Keep in mind that some of our consultants have an academic background outside of psychology.
• Please be as specific as possible when describing your primary research questions (to us) and keep in mind the time limitations of 30 minutes for each consulting session.
• Sometimes a figure is worth a 1000 words. If you would like to illustrate your research design and/or methodological questions, you may attach a PDF file with plots and diagrams (no more than two pages).

Registration for Consulting

Please answer the following questions. Mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk.
Please do not use abbreviations without defining what they stand for.

Name

Email

Are you a member of the Department of Psychology at HSU?
Yes No

Status
Bachelor Student Master Student PreDoc PostDoc Professor Research Associate

Title of the Research Project

Type of the project
Bachelor's Thesis Master's Thesis Dissertation Habilitation Publication other

Professorship
Social Psychology Occupational Psychology Differential Psychology
Experimental Psychology Clinical Psychology Educational Psychology other

Name of your supervisor
(mandatory for students)

Email of your supervisor
(mandatory for students)

Do all your supervisors approve of the methodical consulting?
(mandatory for students)
Yes No

Have you or a collaborator working on your project already been consulted?
(currently each project is limited to a maximum of two consulting sessions)
Yes No

When is the deadline of your project?

In which language can the consultation take place?
English German Italian

Please describe briefly your research questions and your hypotheses.

Please describe briefly your sample and the design of your study (e.g. sample size, number of missing values, number of measurement time points, demographic variables).

Please describe briefly the statistical approaches you want to use to analyse your data.

What are the most important problems you would like to discuss during the consulting session? Attach PDF file:

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