Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Health Sciences
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3738-25-00-00	There are no available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 15/03/2025

Date and time	28.04.2025, at: 09:00 - 09.05.2025, at: 15:00
Regular seats	16
Course fee	5,280.00 kr.
Lecturers	Suzanne Forsyth Herling
ECTS credits	3.50

Contact person	Lotte Jacobsen E-mail address: lotte.jacobsen.01@regionh.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.Describe and compare different types of qualitative approaches. 2.Discuss the usefulness of each approach in relation to the research question. 3.Apply an appropriate design to own study. 4.Plan the use of various data collection and methods of analysis in own research. 5.Gain experience with creating interview guide and conducting qualitative analysis. Content The course includes an introduction to qualitative inquiry using various approaches (grounded theory, phenomenology, ethnography, thematic and content analysis) and methods for data collection and analysis (development of interview guides, conducting interviews, field work, analysis of data). Participants Participants are PhD students and other postgraduate researchers conducting qualitative studies. 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 English or Danish if no English-speaking students attend the course. Form Each approach is presented in lectures and discussed with the participants during workshops where participants present their studies. Questions related to each approach are answered during group discussions. In the exercises, students have the opportunity to formulate a qualitative research question, develop an interview guide and analyse interview data using different approaches. Course director Suzanne Forsyth Herling, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroanesthesiology, The Neuroscience centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet. Department of Clinical Medicine University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen. Suzanne.forsyth.herling.01@regionh.dk Teachers Thordis Thomsen, Professor, Graduate School of Health and Medical sciences, Herlev Anesthesia Critical and Emergency care Science Unit, University of Copenhagen, Herlev Hospital Julie Midtgaard, Professor, Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health Care (CARMEN), Mental Health Center Glostrup, Copenhagen University Hospital - Mental Health Services CPH, Copenhagen, Denmark and Department of Clinical Medicine University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Bente Appel Esbensen, Professor, Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen and Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University, Rigshospitalet. Dates April 28. and 29., May 7., 8. and 9. 2025. 5 days 6 hours, from 9-16 every day. Course location Panum, Copenhagen. Rooms will follow. Registration Please register before March 15. 2025 Expected frequency Once yearly 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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