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Syllabus

P000045 Qualitative methodology and research design, 5.0 Credits

Subjects

Other social science

Education cycle

Postgraduate level

Grading scale

Language

English

Prior knowledge

Accepted as a PhD student.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:

• describe different qualitative research methods in social science;
• identify qualitative methods for data collection and analysis that are suitable for the PhD student’s specific research project;
• discuss the role of theory in guiding data collection and analysis;
• reason around the wider implications for the research of choosing certain methods over others;
• actively reflect over ethics, positionality and reflexivity of relevance to different forms of qualitative research and specifically the PhD student’s own research project.

Content

The course will provide an overview of qualitative methods used in social science. The course is designed around presentations and joint discussions in weekly seminars, connected with the course literature and the PhD student’s own research projects.

The seminars are the core of the course and represent an important co-learning environment, therefore we expect each PhD student to have read the assigned course literature and come prepared for each seminar. Students will take turn to present the weekly reading in more detail, but all students will be required to submit written notes of the readings before the seminar.

The course is 5 credits which means that we expect the students to work approximately 3,5 weeks fulltime in total with the course.

Additional information

This course is part of the research school People, Society and Sustainability, a joined research school between the Department of Economics and the Department of Urban and Rural Development.

Responsible department

Department of Urban and Rural Development