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Multi-methods in health sciences research
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3791-19-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 01/09/2019
PlaceCentre for Health and Society
Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 C, 1353 København K
Date and time01.10.2019, at: 08:15 - 22.10.2019, at: 15:00
Regular seats20
Course fee3,000.00 kr.
LecturersMaria Kristiansen
ECTS credits2.30
Contact personAnnegrethe Hansen    E-mail address: ahan@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD 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.

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