Courses
The School of Global Studies offers a number of doctoral courses that are open for PhD students from other departments and universities.
Transdisciplinary methods for research and societal transformation
5 credits
Study period: 17 September - 12 Decemer 2024
Apply by: 24 August 2024
Collaboration, participatory and interactive methods are central to dealing with complex societal issues, so called wicked problems. Such methods cover many different types of collaboration and participatory processes. This course will focus on transdisciplinary and design approaches, that integrate both research and practice-based knowledge types and needs into the research process. While interdisciplinary approaches include integration between different disciplines, transdisciplinary approaches in addition also transcend the boundaries of the university to include knowledge and expertise from different actors and stakeholders involved in societal issues in practice, in so-called knowledge co-production processes.
The course is given in Swedish, in English or in another language.
Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Field Research
7.5 credits
Study period: 30 September - 1 November 2024
Apply by: 24 August 2024
The course addresses ethical and methodological challenges encountered by researchers doing fieldwork in various contexts in both the global South and the global North. It reflects on a range of problems a researcher encounters through the research process – from planning to data collection/production, analysis and dissemination of results. These include the challenge of navigating unequal power relations between researcher and “researched”, the role and position of research assistants, interpreters and gatekeepers, conducting research in insecure and difficult environments, approaching elite interviewees, and engaging in necessary but not excessive self-reflection.
Ethnographic Methods
7.5 credits
Study period: 18 November - 20 December 2024
Apply by: 18 October 2024
This course aims to develop advanced knowledge in how to conduct an anthropological study and produce ethnographic materials. It includes both traditional and emerging ethnographic methods and discusses their scientific potential and limitations. The course covers how to select methods in relation to how a research problem is formulated and an aim defined. It also discusses experiences of collaboration with interlocutors, subjectivity and positionality.
