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PLG0041

Research Design for PhD-students

The course will consist of lectures, seminars, group discussions, excursions and visits to the main research environments at the faculty. Lectures and seminars will be scheduled on full time (ca 9 – 16) at least four days each week. A detailed scheme will be available in late October.



The lectures will present and discuss fundamental aspects of research design within natural sciences as well as social science and the humanities. Quantitative methods (experimental designs, inquiries, statistical analysis) as well as qualitative methods (case-study methodology, grounded theory, narratives) will be discussed. Invited researchers will present their own work from a research design perspective. The homework consists of independent work, where course participants reflect and link their own postgraduate project to aspects of research design discussed in lectures, seminars and course literature. Course participants’ independent work will be discussed during a concluding seminar.

Syllabus and other information


Syllabus

PLG0041 Research Design for PhD-students, 3.0 Credits

Subjects

Biometry

Education cycle

Postgraduate level

Grading scale

Pass / Failed

Prior knowledge

PhD student

Objectives

The aim of the course is to give an introduction and overview of different research strategies and methods in general as well as within the faculty. Quantitative and qualitative methods will be discussed and related to ongoing or planned research projects as well as lectures and course literature. On completion of the course, the postgraduate student will have more profound knowledge about research design and the possibilities and limits of different kind of research methods and strategies. In that way the student will be better prepared to design and perform their own research projects.

Content

The course will consist of lectures, seminars, group discussions, excursions and visits to the main research environments at the faculty. Lectures and seminars will be scheduled on full time (ca 9 – 16) at least four days each week. A detailed scheme will be available in late October. The lectures will present and discuss fundamental aspects of research design within natural sciences as well as social science and the humanities. Quantitative methods (experimental designs, inquiries, statistical analysis) as well as qualitative methods (case-study methodology, grounded theory, narratives) will be discussed. Invited researchers will present their own work from a research design perspective. The homework consists of independent work, where course participants reflect and link their own postgraduate project to aspects of research design discussed in lectures, seminars and course literature. Course participants’ independent work will be discussed during a concluding seminar.

Additional information

Deadline for registration is 1st of November 2015