Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Why, when and how: Theory in Qualitative Empirical Studies
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3930-25-00-00	There are 13 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 03/04/2025

Date and time	06.05.2025, at: 09:00 - 08.05.2025, at: 16:00
Regular seats	25
Course fee	6,600.00 kr.
Lecturers	Anette Lykke Hindhede
ECTS credits	2.40

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 NorDoc member faculties. 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. Be conscious of motivations and incitements for choice of theory mediated between research subject (interests of researcher/you), research object (character of research area) and research environment (research milieu, supervisor) 2. Compare and discuss different theories, their status, compatibleness, statement power, scope and level of abstraction (grand theory, middle-range and micro theory) and how it applies to own project 3. Know and use knowledge about different dimensions in qualitative research e.g. genesis and structure; time, space and body; relations between fields (research, clinic, education) 4. Assess the appropriateness of the interrelatedness of paradigms, theories, methods, technicalities, research questions and empirical data material in research including knowledge about processes of deduction, induction and abduction 5. Have insight to conduct a qualitative analysis in accordance with acknowledged criteria of quality, validity and disciplinary integrity Content This course aims to increase PhD students’ competences in use of theory in qualitative research. During the course we present, discuss and operationalize how different theories relate to empirical work and the broader research process. We will discuss strength and limitations of deductive, inductive and abductive approaches and how choice of theory is interwoven with knowledge traditions (paradigms), research question, work assumptions, methods, operationalization, coding and results. We will work in-depth with sociological and institutional theory, cultural theory, theory of learning, and patientology. Special attention will be on use of theory as a central operation in empirical research. We will emphasize how critical research requires an ongoing reflectivity where every choice implicit or explicit, have implications on the other levels and phases of the research process. The last seminar will focus on academic writing, how analysis becomes text. Participants PhD students and research-year medical students working on a research project based on qualitative methods. Data collection must be in progress, i.e. we expect participants to work with their own empirical material. 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 - All graduate programmes Language English Form The course is a three days seminar. Seminar days are conducted as master classes with opening lectures and exercises. Participants will present their own research in three or four smaller groups with response from course teachers and other participants. Work in groups, project presentations and preparation to the seminars will be expected. In addition, a summary of your project, and reflections over the method is required, estimated to equivalate 7,5 hours work. Course director Anette Lykke Hindhede senior researcher, Center for Health Research, The Capital Region, anette.lykke.hindhede@regionh.dk, and associate professor, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, anette.hindhede@sund.ku.dk Teachers Leslie Dubbin, associate professor, School of Nursing, University of California, San Fransisco, USA Fran Collyer, professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, Australia Sasha Scambler, professor, Kings College, London, United Kingdom Helle Timm, professor, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Kristian Larsen, professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Anette Lykke Hindhede, associate professor, University of Copenhagen Dates 6-8 May 2025 - 9-16 all days Course location CSS Registration Please register before 03 April 2025 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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