Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Aging from a cross disciplinary perspective
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3661-19-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 01/11/2019

Date and time	02.12.2019, at: 09:00 - 04.12.2019, at: 16:00
Regular seats	16
Course fee	4,800.00 kr.
Lecturers	Claus Desler
ECTS credits	2.40

Contact person	Pia Nygaard E-mail address: pia.nygaard@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD 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. Course title Aging from a cross disciplinary perspective Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Get insight into forefront aging research of different disciplines 2. Compare, relate and discuss perception of aging from different research disciplines 3. Reflect on limitations of mono-disciplinary understanding of aging mechanisms Content Within the research fields, molecular biology, physiology, and social sciences, the process of aging is a very active research subject. Each of the research disciplines have their own unique view on aging, but also limitations to the extent that the phenomenon can be studied. With this course, the student will be introduced to the forefront research with these three research disciplines, and will through discussion, actively relate different aspects of age perception to get a deeper understanding of aging mechanisms. Participants The PhD course is intended for students from all academic fields, who are working or are planning to work with aging research - especially in a cross disciplinary context. However, the course is open for all students interested in the ability to relate to aging and understanding of other research disciplines. 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: All graduate programmes Language The course is taught in English. Form The course will be based on lectures ending with discussion. Course director Claus Desler, Associate professor, CEHA/ICMM, cdesler@sund.ku.dk Teachers TBA Dates 2 – 4 December 2019 Course location Panum, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200 Copenhagen N Registration Please register before 1 November 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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