Faculty of Science

Qualitative Research Methods Part 1
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5227-25-03-31
	Enrollment deadline: 30/03/2025

Tilmelding : Qualitative Research Methods Part 1

Date and time

07.04.2025, at: 09:00 -
09.04.2025, at: 16:00

Tilmelding : Qualitative Research Methods Part 1 2. del

Date and time

14.04.2025, at: 09:00 - 16:00

Tilmelding : Qualitative Research Methods Part 1 3. del

Date and time

29.04.2025, at: 09:00 - 16:00

Regular seats

ECTS credits

2.50

Contact person

Charlotte Bukdahl Jacobsen E-mail address: cja@ifro.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser

Kia Ditlevsen E-mail address: kmd@ifro.ku.dk

Teaching language

English

Semester/Block

Spring

Course workload

Course workload category	Hours
Preparation	14.00
Lectures	14.00
Class Instruction	5.00
Practical exercises	17.00
Theoretical exercises	18.75

Sum	68.75

Enrolment guidelines

This toolbox course provides PhD students with skills in designing and executing qualitative data collection.
The course will cover qualitative research design and fieldwork. During the course, PhD students will be introduced to social science qualitative methodology and knowledge claims, they will get acquainted with different kinds of qualitative research methods (e.g. interview, focus groups, observations, visual data). They will be introduced to the types of knowledge different qualitative research methods produce, and how to reflect on their own methodological choices in their PhD-projects. The participants will also be working on individual material tailored to fit their PhD-projects.
The course consists of five course days that take place over four weeks. See an overview of the five course days below.

Course content:
Day 1, 2 and 3 (week 15): Sessions on Qualitative methodology; Qualitative knowledge claims and Interviews, Visual methods and Ethnographic observations
Day 4 (week 16): Presentations of research design in participants’ PhD-projects, and project work supervision
Day 5 (week 18): Presentation of course projects and peer feedback

Course days:
Monday April 7th, 9:00-15:00
Tuesday April 8th, 9:00-15:00
Wednesday April 9th, 9:00–15:00
Monday April 14th, 9:00-16:00
Tuesday April 29th, 9:00-16:00

Learning outcome

Knowledge:
• The students can identify specific features, strengths and weaknesses of different qualitative methods, research designs and qualitative analyses
• The students can discuss qualitative methodology and its validity

Skills:
• The students can choose an appropriate methodology to match their research interest.
• The students can operationalize their research questions into meaningful qualitative research designs and construct specific research tools (e.g. interview guide, field note template).
• The students can design valid and reliable qualitative fieldwork, going through different design steps.

Competences:
• The students can critically assess the quality of qualitative research designs
• The students can translate knowledge about qualitative methods to their own work

Target group

The course is aimed at PhD students at the Faculty of Science who have limited to moderate experience with qualitative research methods, and who expect to use qualitative methods during their PhD-project.

It is recommended that applicants have completed the obligatory course PHD course Responsible Conduct of Research before taking this course.

Teaching and learning methods

The course will consist of a mix of lectures and class exercises and individual project work.
In the first week of the course, students will participate in lectures introducing the qualitative methodology and present different types of qualitative methods. Following each lecture, students are expected to participate in class discussions and groups exercises to get a ‘hands-on’ experience of the methods.
In the following weeks, students will work individually with a project relating to their own PhD-project. Students will generate their own problem formulation, supervised by a teacher and guided by peer feedback. The students are expected to work independently on their own projects and to participate in a peer-feedback session in class.
During the last course day, students are asked to present their own project, and to provide constructive feedback on other students’ projects.

Participants are required to actively participate in course sessions to complete the course. In addition, the participants must present their project work to pass the course.

Lecturers

Guest lectures with expertise in qualitative methods will be used as needed. Guest lecturers will be announced later.

Remarks

It is recommended that PhD students take the course Qualitative Research Methods 2 after completing this course.

For all participants there is a participant fee of 1000 DKK that covers coffee, tea, and lunch all days

Cours fee - PRICING PER ECTS PER PARTICIPANT :

- No corse fee for PhD students enrolled at SCIENCE
- No course fee for PhD students enrolled at Danish PhD schools that are members of the open market for PhD courses
-1200 kr. (+ 1000 Kr) PhD students enrolled at Danish PhD schools that are not members of the open market for PhD courses (CBS and Graduate School of Business and Social Sciences AU)

Some participants have to additional pay a course fee, see: https://science.ku.dk/phd/courses/databases/Pricing_PhD_courses_at_SCIENCE_2024.pdf

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