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Advanced Course in Qualitative Research in Global Public Health – From Conceptualization to Write-up
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3548-18-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 05/04/2018
Date and time23.04.2018, at: 08:00 - 04.05.2018, at: 15:00
Regular seats22
Course fee7,200.00 kr.
LecturersBritt Pinkowski Tersbøl
ECTS credits6.30
Contact personSusanne Kragskov Laupstad    E-mail address: skl@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). All other participants must pay the course fee.
Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list.

Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

Knowledge
1. understand interpretive epistemology in qualitative research, and identify empirical versus analytical objectives and perspectives of a qualitative research project

Skills
2. apply central quality criteria in qualitative research including the importance of transparency, reflexivity, the position of the researcher, the role of context, access to the field and data, and to discuss these in relation to specific research projects

Competences
3. critically reflect on the process of producing data and to evaluate ethically sound research conduct and academic integrity in qualitative research projects
4. apply a range of selected analytical approaches to qualitative data, and discuss the interaction between data and social theory
5. construct different theoretical positions and perspectives relevant for qualitative research and develop the theoretical potential of her/his own studies

Content
This PhD course aims to give PhD students a solid introduction to the progression of qualitative studies from idea (research questions) to analysis and write-up. Participants will be guided on how to strengthen their own methodological, theoretical and analytical approach through discussions with lecturers, other course participants and home work. Lectures and student preparations and exercises will focus on conceptualization, methodological, theoretical and analytical perspectives central to qualitative research with specific focus on international and global health challenges.

Participants
The course is targeted at students who work with global public health research and are either in the process of developing a qualitative PhD study, collecting data or have already collected data. Students should preferable have prior experience with qualitative research.

Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

Medicine, Culture and Society
Veterinary and Animal Sciences
Public Health and Epidemiology

Language
English

Form
Preparation for class, lectures, individual and group presentations by students, exercises, discussions

Course director
Britt Pinkowski Tersbøl, Associate Professor, Global Health, Department of Public Health.
Briter@sund.ku.dk

Teachers
Britt Pinkowski Tersbøl, Associate Professor, Depatment of Public Health, University of Copenhagen
Morten Skovdal, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen
Karen Marie Moland, Professor, Centre for International Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen
Astrid Blystad, Professor, Centre for International Health, Institute for Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen

Dates
23 April – 4 May 2018, all days 8-15.

Course location
CSS Campus Copenhagen, Denmark

Registration
Please register before 2 April 2018

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

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