The Multi-Method Data Laboratory for Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe (DataLab)

The Multi-Method Data Laboratory for Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe (DataLab) is an interdisciplinary platform that discusses and shares data and methods on the political, social, economic, and spatial dynamics of Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War.

The DataLab focuses on four activities: data support, trainings, publications, and developing of two databases. It helps researchers in KonKoop for their research design, management of data, methods, and data analysis. It also provides Data Management Plan and guidelines for specific context and situation in the research field (e.g. how to use mixed-methods). The trainings consists of workshops and seminars for young researchers on methods and techniques in social and political sciences. The first database compiles available datasets and sources covering the region of Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. The second, Protest Event Data in Eastern Europe, aims to deepen our understanding of contemporary and historical societal dynamics across the regions while fostering critical engagement with the challenges and opportunities of this research approach. The DataLab also coordinates a Blog platform for engaging academic discussion on data and methods.

DataLab Blog

Protest Event Datasets in Eastern Europe

ZOiS, Berlin, 2023. Photo by: Philipp Zimmermann

Multi-Method Data Lab - Trainings

Catalog of Conflict and Cooperation Datasets

Ivaylo Dinev is a political scientist and, since April 2022, a postdoctoral researcher at ZOiS, where he coordinates the Multi-Method Data Laboratory of KonKoop. He holds a doctoral degree in Political Science from the joint doctoral initiative of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, University of Siena, University of Pisa and University of Florence. Prior to that, he completed BA and MA at Sofia University in Southeast European Studies and Cultural Anthropology. Before joining ZOiS, Ivaylo Dinev worked as a researcher at the Institute for Social and Trade Union Research in the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bulgaria and as a postdoctoral researcher at Sofia University.