CCRAM's 3rd Annual Rocky Mountain Methodology Academy
Join us July 2025 in Calgary for one or more sessions of learning about data analysis and research design while socializing and exploring the area with new friends and colleagues. Between sessions, enjoy some time at Banff, one of Canada's most famous tourist destinations.
Learning at Rocky Mountain Methodology Academy
Why Come to Calgary Rather Than Learn Online?
As a mid-career faculty member, I needed a thorough yet efficient crash course in specific techniques. The two RMMA courses I took fit the bill perfectly. In just 2 days each, I got the theoretical grounding and technical skill building I needed. The Banff trip was a lovely way to rest my brain between sessions and get some much needed time in nature.
Hayley Cleary
Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
RMMA was an incredibly valuable and informative experience. I am leaving this course feeling very inspired and empowered. I've had a lot of "a-ha" moments over the last couple of days. Not only did I understand the material in this course, but I quite enjoyed it. That is a testament to the course instructor and the structure of this academy.
Krishanda Bemister
PhD student, Toronto Metropolitan University
Course Options and Events
Session 1: July 15-16, 2025
Mediation Analysis
Andrew F. Hayes, PhD (University of Calgary)
Session 1: July 15-16, 2025
Introduction to Social Network Analysis
Dr. Jenny Godley, PhD (University of Calgary)
Session 1: July 15-16, 2025
Longitudinal Data Analysis and Visualization*
Dr. Andrea Howard, PhD (Carleton University)
Session 2: July 18-19, 2025
Experience Sampling Methods and Implementation*
Dr. Sabrina Thai, PhD (Brock University)
Session 2: July 18-19, 2025
Interactions in Regression Analysis
Dr. Andrew F. Hayes, PhD (University of Calgary)
Session 2: July 18-19, 2025
Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling
Dr. Doug Baer, PhD (University of Victoria)
Session 3: July 21-22, 2025
Scale Development and Psychometrics
Dr. Jessica Flake, PhD (University of British Columbia)
Session 3: July 21-22, 2025
Introduction to Mixed Methods Research
Dr. Cheryl Poth, PhD (University of Alberta)
Session 3: July 21-22, 2025
Introduction to Multilevel Modeling*
Dr. Jason Rights, PhD (University of British Columbia)
Session 3: July 21-22, 2025
Latent Profile Analysis
Dr. Matthew McLarnon, PhD (Mount Royal University)
Intersession 1: July 17, 2025
RMMA Keynote Address and Guest Lecturer
Dr. Andrea Howard, PhD (Carleton University) and Dr. Amanda Montoya, PhD (UCLA)
Intersession 2: July 20, 2025
Canadian Rockies Day Trip
Board our chartered bus to the town of Banff. This trip is included with your registration while space is available. Register now to save your space!
* Starred courses are part of the three-course Longitudinal Toolkit available as a bundle at a special discount when purchased together. Choose this bundle at registration to receive the discount. All courses in the Longitudinal Toolkit bundle can also each be purchased separately.
Dr. Amanda K. Montoya, PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, U.S.A
Guest Lecture by Amanda K. Montoya, PhD
"Preregistration with Complex Statistical Models"
July 17, 2025, 10:00am to 11:30am. This address is free of charge and included with your registration.
Complex statistical models (e.g., conditional process analysis, structural equation model, multilevel model) allow researchers to more thoroughly explore their research questions and align their analyses with the true data generating processes. But these analyses can be difficult to preregister. Preregistration provides a transparent reporting of an investigator's hypotheses, design, and analysis plan prior to data collection or analysis. Preregistration has become increasingly common in social-behavioral sciences but can feel intimidating when a researcher is planning a complex statistical model. There are few centralized resources for what to include in a preregistration for specific complex statistical models. In this presentation, I will demonstrate how complex statistical models introduce many analytical choices which can lead to questionable research practices. I provide a set of general principles to help researchers generate a preregistration for a complex analysis and demonstrate this process with multiple real examples. Finally, I will introduce registered reports as a means of gaining peer feedback on preregistered plans prior to conducting a study and ensuring that results are published regardless of whether the hypotheses are supported by the evidence in the study. Complex statistical analyses can often benefit from preregistration, but this process is not well mapped out for researchers. Centralized resources for preregistrations of complex statistical models are needed, and methodologists should also consider providing resources to assist researchers in preregistering newly developed statistical models.
Dr. Andrea Howard, PhD, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Keynote Address by Andrea Howard, PhD
"Graduate Students Need More Quantitative Support."
July 17, 2025, 3:00pm to 4:30pm. This address is free of charge and included with your registration. A reception will follow the presentation.
Many of the social sciences have a hands-on tradition for data analysis, and their graduate students accordingly receive some research methods and statistics training covering basic procedures that will allow them to analyze and interpret their own data. For most of the 20th century, this formal curricular training met the needs of the study designs and data analyses that were accessible to social scientists. In this talk, I argue that quantitative methods have evolved to a point where the formal curriculum no longer meets our needs. Graduate students who were formerly prepared after their first year to conduct the analyses that would be needed for their dissertations now find themselves struggling to apply latent variable or random effects models to their thesis data without having taken a course on the subject and sometimes without a mentor possessing technical expertise. I discuss the consequences of this evolution and how we can navigate solutions in a scientific climate emphasizing transparency and reproducibility. I discuss graduate advisors’ responsibilities to their students, the overarching value of teaching statistical literacy, and the open question of whether social scientists should continue to be hands-on with their own data, or to forge interdisciplinary partnerships with statisticians and data scientists.
Tuition
Classes are $950 (CAD: Canadian dollars) each + 5% GST (federal goods and services tax). For a table of approximate tuition in US dollars, UK Pounds, and European Euro as of April 4, 2025, click here. Convert to your local currency here.
Your registration includes a day trip to Banff on July 20, 2025, while space is available (so register soon!) Note that because each class runs from 9am to 5pm each day for the entire 2-day session, you can enroll in only one class per session.
- The more classes you take, the more you save! Enroll in 2 classes for $1800 CAD (save 5%); Enroll in 3 classes for $2500 CAD (save 10%).
- Special discount on the 3-course Longitudinal Toolkit bundle: $2280 CAD (save 20%) for Longitudinal Data Analysis in session 1; Experience Sampling Methods and Implementation in session 2; and Introduction to Multilevel Modeling in session 3.
- Graduate students anywhere in the world are eligible for an additional 10% discount. Choose the graduate student price when registering.
- Active members of the Quantitative Methods section of the Canadian Psychological Association are eligible for an additional 10% discount via a coupon code available from CPA-QM leadership.
- Residents of nations on the United Nations list of Least Developed Countries are eligible for up to a 50% discount. The list of countries on the UN-LDC list can be found here.
Accommodation
You will need accommodation during your stay in Calgary. Calgary is a large city with many options varying in price and convenience to the University of Calgary campus. We provide four regional options below for you to consider. Note that you are responsible for acquiring your own accommodation, and accommodation is not included in the price of tuition. If you need assistance or have questions, feel free to contact us at ccram@ucalgary.ca.
During the summer months, the University of Calgary provides accommodation for people attending events on campus. Various options are available ranging from traditional dormitory rooms, shared two room dorm suites with a common kitchen and bathroom, and traditional single room hotel-like accommodations. All rooms are a few minutes walk from the RMMA Academy classrooms and the University stop on the CTrain line gives you access to Kensington and downtown. Necessities of life can be found nearby at the MacEwan Student Centre, including a food court, pharmacy, convenience store, a pub, and numerous other stores. The University District is also a brief walk away, where you will find a major grocery store, numerous restaurants and bars, and miscellaneous retailers. A nominal additional fee provides access to various fitness centres on the University of Calgary campus during your stay. The nightly rate is typically between 100 and 150CAD per night, though rates fluctuate based on demand.
For more information about on-campus accommodation, see:
https://www.ucalgary.ca/ancillary/accommodations-and-eventsommodations
Banff Trail is a residential neighbourhood adjacent to the University of Calgary. This area has numerous low to moderate price hotel chains. It is a brief walk (10-15 minutes) to the RMMA Academy classrooms. You will find a couple of small restaurants and fast food chains nearby as well as a convenience store. The Banff Trail CTrain station is nearby the hotels and it is only one stop north to University station and a few stops south to the Kensington and Sunnyside neighbourhoods and downtown, where you will find numerous restaurants, bars, shops, and parks. The hotel nearest the university is the Holiday Inn Express and Suites. Some other options include Hampton Inn and Suites, Aloft Hotel, Comfort Inn and Suites, and the Best Western Plus Village Park Inn. Rates vary by hotel and demand and will be more expensive the longer you wait to book.
The University District is a newly-developed residential and business community right next to the University of Calgary campus and about a 20 minute walk away from the RMMA Academy classrooms. All the conveniences of life can be found here, including a large grocery store, pharmacy, coffee shops, restaurants, a movie theatre, and miscellaneous shops. The Alt Hotel University District is currently the only hotel offering accommodations in the University District.
The Kensington and Sunnyside neighbourhoods are lively and active communities with many retail stores, coffee shops, restaurants, bars, and other amenities including a major grocery store, all packed together on a couple of streets at a walkable inner-city location. It is right across the Bow river from downtown. The Sunnyside CTrain stop makes it a convenient place to go to for food and fun after and between classes, and it is only a few CTrain stops away from the University of Calgary. In Kensington you will find the boutique Hotel Arts Kensington.
In the downtown, one CTrain stop further from Kensington and Sunnyside, you will find everything that downtown Calgary has to offer and that you would expect from a major city, including numerous hotels. For a lower price hotel option, you may try the Sandman Signature Downtown, a brief walk from the Kensington neighbourhood and with a CTrain stop next door. For a longer stay, consider the Marriott Residence Inn.
The CTrain is convenient and free in the downtown core, but a small fare of $3.80 is required for the brief trip from downtown to Kensington/Sunnyside and the University of Calgary.
Experience CCRAM in Calgary
In-person CCRAM courses are hosted at the University of Calgary. Take advantage of this opportunity to visit Calgary, Alberta. Only an hour drive away from the extraordinary Canadian Rocky Mountains. Must-see destinations include Banff National Park, Jasper National Park and Canmore. In warmer months, you can canoe or kayak across the many beautiful lakes, hike and camp in the tall forests, and breathe in the fresh mountain air.
Explore Calgary's vibrant downtown. Calgary’s culinary scene delivers flavours from all over the world with hundreds of great restaurants to choose from. Rich in arts, culture, entertainment and leisure activities, there’s always something to do in Calgary.
Getting to Calgary
Calgary is easy to get to from various destinations around the world. With one of the world's most modern and welcoming airports, getting to Calgary by air is easy with commercial airline access and other options available to travelers. Nonstop flights to Calgary are available from most Canadian commercial airports as well as Amsterdam, Atlanta, Austin, Barcelona, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Honolulu, Houston, London (UK), Los Angeles (LAX and Orange County/Santa Ana), Las Vegas, Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York/Newark, Orlando, Palm Springs, Paris, Phoenix, Portland (Oregon), Rome, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Seoul, Tokyo, Washington DC, and Zurich. Major airlines serving Calgary airport include Air Canada, United, American, Delta, Porter, Air France, KLM, and Calgary-based WestJet.
Do I Need a Visa to Travel to Canada?
Whether you need a visa or electronic travel authorization to come to Canada to attend a CCRAM session depends on your country of citizenship. To find out if you need one, see this government of Canada web page. Obtaining a visa takes time and there are various fees required by the Canadian government, so please plan and apply well in advance to increase the likelihood your application will be processed in time. Once you have paid your registration, we can assist by providing a letter for your visa application attesting to the purpose of your visit to Canada.
About Calgary
Finding the Rocky Mountain Methodology Academy
All classes during the Rocky Mountain Methodology Academy are held at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. The Haskayne School of Business occupies Scurfield and Mathison Halls, which are both located at the intersection of Campus Gate Drive NW and Campus Drive NW in the southeast corner of campus and next to the Education Tower and Werklund School of Education. Note that some electronic maps provided with smartphones misplace the location of the business school. If using your smartphone for navigation, head to Scurfield or Mathison Halls rather than where your phone might be incorrectly telling you to go.
Cancellation Policy
If you need to cancel your registration or withdraw from your registered program, emailed notice must be submitted to a representative of the Canadian Centre for Research Analysis and Methods.
Cancellation or withdrawal of your registration will incur the following fee:
• $100 for notice of cancellation/withdrawal from the program received 31 days or greater prior to the program start date
• The fee amount equivalent to 25 percent of the program cost, up to a maximum of $500, for notice of cancellation/withdrawal from the program received between 30 and 15 days prior to the program start date
• The fee amount equivalent to 100 percent of the program cost, for notice of cancellation/withdrawal from the program received 14 days or less prior to the program start date. By request, we can apply this fee dollar-for-dollar to a future CCRAM course.
Should you be unable to attend a registered program due to acts of God, war, government regulations, disaster, strikes, civil disorder, curtailment of transportation facilities, pandemic, or other emergencies making it illegal or impossible to travel, emailed notice must be submitted to ccram@ucalgary.ca. You will be required to pay the $100 program deposit. All other cancellation fees will be waived.
Although always a last resort, we reserve the right to cancel a course or substitute a different instructor if circumstances require. We strive to give at least three weeks notice when such a cancellation or substitution is required. If a cancellation must occur, the Canadian Centre for Research Analysis and Methods is not responsible for any costs you may have incurred (e.g., airline tickets or hotel bookings).
Questions?
If you have questions, please contact us at (403)220-6600 or by email ccram@ucalgary.ca.