Login for PhD students at UCPH
Login for others
Home
Course Catalogue
Communication & Teaching
Online Courses
Responsible Conduct of Research
Specialist Courses
Statistics
Summer Schools
PhD Supervision for Academic staff
Course fee, cancellation policy and invoice details
How to apply for a course
PhD students from Nordic universities
Newly enrolled PhD students at SUND
PhD students at UCPH
Other applicants
How to log on to the course system
How to log in as a student
How to log in as a course provider
Contact information
Processing...
Multi-methods in health sciences research
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Activity no.: 3791-19-00-00
Enrollment deadline: 01/09/2019
Place
Centre for Health and Society
Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 C, 1353 København K
Date and time
01.10.2019, at: 08:15 - 22.10.2019, at: 15:00
Regular seats
20
Course fee
3,000.00 kr.
Lecturers
Maria Kristiansen
ECTS credits
2.30
Contact person
Annegrethe Hansen E-mail address: ahan@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser
PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk
Aim and content
This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list.
The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. All other participants must pay the course fee.
Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
1. Understand and explain the rationales and foundations of multi-methods research
2. Explain and compare core multi-methods designs
3. Describe and explain approaches to planning, data collection, analysis and reporting of multi- methods research
4. Discuss advantages and challenges in conducting multi-methods research
Content
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the foundations and underlying rationales for multi-methods research; to present core designs with a focus on planning, data collection, and analysis; to introduce advantages and challenges of engaging with multi-methods research in the fields of health and medical sciences; and finally to presents approaches to reporting different types of multi-methods research.
Participants
The course is relevant to students using or planning to use a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods in their studies. Knowledge of basic qualitative and quantitative methods is required.
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:
Public Health and Epidemiology
Medicine, Culture and Society
Language
English
Form
A combination of lectures, project presentations, peer-feedback, group work, and discussions. Emphasis will be placed on cases represented in the studies undertaken by PhD students participating in the course.
Participants are required to submit a one page application upon registering for the course. The application should be sent to Maria Kristiansen at makk@sund.ku.dk. This should include the following elements: title of the PhD project and the student, aim of the project, methodology including how multi-methods are used/incorporated into the study design, and expected learning outcomes from participating in the course.
A course assignment is handed out to students at the end of the second course day. In order to pass the course, this assignment should be completed individually followed by a presentation and discussion during the final day of the course with feedback from teachers and students.
Literature
The course builds on John W. Creswell and Vicki L. Plano Clark. Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research. 3rd Edition. SAGE Publications, 2018. Additional papers on methodology and multi-methods cases will be distributed and discussed.
Course director
Maria Kristiansen, Associate professor, makk@sund.ku.dk and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Professor, titt@si-folkesundhed.dk
Teachers
Maria Kristiansen, Associate professor, Department of Public Health & Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen
Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Professor, Department of Health and Social Context, University of Southern Denmark
Guest teachers representing different approaches to multi-methods research will present and discuss case studies
Dates
1-2 and 22 October 2019 from 8am-3pm.
Course location
Centre for Health and Society, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen K
The exact room numbers will be announced in the programme that will be sent out after the application deadline.
Registration
Please register before 1 September 2019
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.
Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.
Search
Click the search button to search Courses.
Choose course area
Course Catalogue
Choose sub area
Communication & Teaching
Online Courses
Responsible Conduct of Research
Specialist Courses
Statistics
Summer Schools
PhD Supervision for Academic staff
Course calendar
See which courses you can attend and when
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Processing...
RadEditor - HTML WYSIWYG Editor. MS Word-like content editing experience thanks to a rich set of formatting tools, dropdowns, dialogs, system modules and built-in spell-check.
RadEditor's components - toolbar, content area, modes and modules
Toolbar's wrapper
Paragraph Style
Font Name
Real font size
Apply CSS Class
Custom Links
Zoom
Content area wrapper
RadEditor hidden textarea
RadEditor's bottom area: Design, Html and Preview modes, Statistics module and resize handle.
It contains RadEditor's Modes/views (HTML, Design and Preview), Statistics and Resizer
Editor Mode buttons
Statistics module
Editor resizer
Design
HTML
Preview
RadEditor - please enable JavaScript to use the rich text editor.
RadEditor's Modules - special tools used to provide extra information such as Tag Inspector, Real Time HTML Viewer, Tag Properties and other.
N
ew courses
Courses are published regularly. High demand courses are announced in spring and autumn.
Learn which courses are announced on fixed dates