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Advanced Course in Implementation Science and Health Research
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3962-26-00-00	There are 20 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 19/01/2026

Date and time	04.03.2026, at: 08:30 - 06.03.2026, at: 15:00
Regular seats	20
Course fee	5,520.00 kr.
Lecturers	Jeanette Kirk
ECTS credits	2.20

Contact person	Henriette Møller E-mail address: henriette.moeller.02@regionh.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration SUND E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment guidelines 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. Course title: Advanced Course in Implementation Science and Health Research Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Achieve knowledge and competencies to implement interventions and change. 2. Have competencies to plan, conduct, report and evaluate the implementation of interventions and implementation research. 3. Have knowledge and understanding of fundamental principles of designing, conducting, and reporting implementation processes and implementation research. 4. Have knowledge, understanding and competencies of designing projects with hybrid designs and argumentation of the challenges involved. 5. Analyse and argue for how to select implementation frameworks, theories, and models. 6. Have knowledge and competencies to tailored implementation strategies. 7. Achieve knowledge and competencies to build implementation capacity in practice. 8. Prepared a written assignment for the intervention and/or implementation. 9. Create networks among implementation researchers. Content Many clinicians and researchers struggle with the critical step of translating effective interventions into routine practice. This transition is often more complex than the development of the intervention itself, as it requires navigating resistance among professionals, limited resources, organizational barriers, and competing priorities. Despite decades of research demonstrating these challenges, most resources for innovation are still directed toward developing new interventions rather than ensuring their sustainable implementation. The result is a persistent knowing–doing gap, where even strong and evidence-based projects risk never being embedded in practice. This Ph.D.-level course is designed to address this gap by offering participants advanced insight into the science of implementation. Rather than providing a general introduction, the course takes a critical and research-oriented perspective, focusing on how implementation can be systematically studied, theorized, and evaluated within health, public health, and medical sciences. The course emphasizes how implementation considerations should be integrated already at the design stage of clinical and public health research, and how theoretical, methodological, and practical approaches can be combined to strengthen real-world uptake. Participants will be introduced to the historical and theoretical foundations of implementation science and will work in depth with key concepts such as determinants of implementation, contextual and cultural influences, intervention complexity, and behavior change. They will engage with advanced methodological approaches, including hybrid effectiveness–implementation designs, the use of frameworks and theories to guide analysis, and programme theory as a tool for planning and evaluating implementation. A central focus is on the ability to critically select and tailor implementation strategies to address identified barriers and facilitators in specific contexts. Throughout the course, participants will actively apply these perspectives to their own or shared research projects. By working iteratively with project descriptions, they will practice analyzing implementation challenges, developing theoretically informed strategies, and designing evaluation approaches. Teaching will alternate between lectures, case-based discussions, and group work to ensure a high level of interaction and reflection. Participants and recommended academic qualifications This course is exclusively designed for Ph.D. students whose projects include implementation research as a primary focus or who have one or more sub-studies within implementation research. Participants are expected to have a relevant academic background, such as a university degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, public health, or a master’s degree in related fields, and to be enrolled as postgraduate research fellows (Ph.D. students, research-year medical students or postdoc). For optimal learning outcomes, it is recommended to combine this advanced course with the introductory implementation course (Activity number 3921), which provides the necessary foundation. The course is limited to a minimum of 16 and a maximum of 20 participants to ensure a high level of interaction, feedback, and peer learning. 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 and Danish Form Lectures, group work, discussions and technology-supported Course director Senior researcher, Associate professor in implementation research, Jeanette Wassar Kirk, Ph.D., Department of Clinical Research, Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark and Department of Health and Social Context, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. E-mail: jeanette.wassar.kirk@regionh.dk Teachers Senior researcher, Associate professor in implementation research, Jeanette Wassar Kirk, Ph.D., Department of Clinical Research, Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark and Department of Health and Social Context, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Professor Ove Andersen, Department of Clinical Research, Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen and Department of Clinical Medicine, Denmark Professor Thomas Q Bandholm, Department of Clinical Research, Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark and Clinical Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation at the Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Associate professor Marie Broholm-Jørgensen, Department of Health and Social Context, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark Professor Per Nilsen, Department of Health, Medical and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden Senior researcher Margit Neher, Department of Health, Medical and Caring Sciences, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden Postdoctoral Researcher Bianca Alberts, University of Zurich, Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz Dates 4 - 6 March 2026 Course location Department of Clinical Research, Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark Registration Please register before 19 January 2026 Expected frequency Once a year. 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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