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Course
Hands-on Qualitative Methods

Faculty

Magali Gravier (MSC), Mette Zølner (MSC), Rebecca Piekkari and Catherine Welch ; Martin Skrydstrup (MSC) ; Rasmus Koss Hartmann (MSC); Joshua Kragh Bruhn (CBSLibrary)

Course Coordinator
Magali Gravier (magr.msc@cbs.dk) and Mette Zølner (mz.msc@cbs.dk)

Prerequisites
The PhD student should attach to the application one document:

A brief note (no more than 150 words), listing:

• Your research topic
• The kind of data you are gathering
• Five key questions on methodological/analytical issues in your project.
• Date of the start of your PhD project

Deadline for sending this document is November 29, 2019. The PhD student will be told if he/she is accepted to the course by December 6.

If you are accepted to the course you should work out a three-pages (maximum) written presentation in which you relate some parts of the curriculum literature in the course to your project. The presentation should focus on a methodological and analytical issue, and specific references to course literature. A list of literature will be uploaded on Canvas on December 6. Deadline for sending this document is February 3, 2020.

The three pages will provide material for discussions and reflections throughout the course. You will be asked to discuss your own project as well as the projects of course participants, and to reflect upon how you can include learnings in your PhD. project.

It is a precondition for receiving the course diploma that the PhD student attends the whole course.

Aim
This course serves as a basic primer for PhD students on how to conduct solid qualitative research as well as on major considerations that researchers need to reflect upon when aspiring to conduct qualitative research with quality.

Course content
The course will consist of four main components:

1) It will provide the students with hands-on knowledge on how to conduct a qualitative research project. The course will focus on how to elaborate research designs, how to make a workable research topic, how to choose the appropriate analytical strategy, how to analyze data, and how to present qualitative research in a PhD and in scientific publications.

2) It will discuss qualitative research methods in relation to dominant philosophies of science (i.e. positivism, constructionism, critical realism and pragmatism) and their respective quality criteria.

3) It will enhance the students’ ability to reflect upon own research designs and methods through discussions and sharing of experiences with course participants and CBS researchers.

4) Students will be offered exercises in order to acquire and improve skills in qualitative methods.

Teaching style
Lectures with workshops, dialogues, exercises, student presentations and discussions.

Lecture plan
Time Title Lecturer
Day 1 Scientific paradigms and quality criteria
10.00 Introduction of the course Magali Gravier & Mette Zølner
10.30 Qualitative research processes in various paradigms

(i.e. Positivism, constructionism, critical realism)

Role playing game - philosophy of science Part I		 Magali Gravier & Mette Zølner
12.30 Lunch     
13.30 Role playing game – philosophy of science Part II    
15.00 A tale from the field on ethics Rasmus Koss Hartman
16.00 Role playing game – philosophy of science Part II3    
16.30 Discussions around students’ projects Magali Gravier & Mette Zølner
17.15 End of day     
Day 2 Research Design and Qualitative Data: What is it and how to proceed?
9.00

Processes of defining a qualitative research design;

(i.e. Research strategy, deductive, inductive, abductive, retroductive approaches; quality criteria)

 Magali Gravier & Mette Zølner
10.40 

Collecting qualitative data and field access

(i.e. Case studies, (participant) observations, shadowing, documents, social media, interviews, visual data)

 Magali Gravier & Mette Zølner
12.30

Lunch

   
13.30

A tale from the field on planning and collecting qualitative data

Martin Skrydstrup
14.30

Discussions around students’ projects

Magali Gravier & Mette Zølner
16.15/16.30

End of day - Hand out of data material for day 3

  
18:00

Course dinner

Further information will follow
Day 3

Doing Data Analysis   
9.00

Various analytical strategies (i.e. Content analysis, Discourse analysis, Narrative analysis, Ethnomethodology)

Magali Gravier & Mette Zølner
11.30

Hands-on analytical strategies and working in research teams

Exercise 1: applying two analytical strategies to selected data material

Magali Gravier & Mette Zølner
12.30

Lunch

  
13.30

A tale from the field on analyzing

Martin Skydstrup
14.30

Hands-on analytical strategies and working in research teams

Exercise 2: applying two analytical strategies to selected data material

Mette Zølner & Magali Gravier
15.30

Hands-on analytical strategies and working in research teams

Exercise 3: Method combinations (drawing on exercise 1 and 2)

Mette Zølner & Magali Gravier
17.00

End of day

  
Day 4

Using CAQDAs / NVIVO and other software - Promises and limits  
9.00

Using NVIVO for qualitative data analysis: assets and challenges

Joshua Kragh, CBS Library
10.15

Discussing software based vs manual data analysis

Magali Gravier & Mette Zølner
11.00

What about theorizing?

Magali Gravier & Mette Zølner
12.30

Lunch

 
13.30

A tale from the field on presenting and publishing qualitative analyses

Rebecca Piekkari and Catherine Welch
14.30

In class home-work – preparing for tomorrow

   
Day 5

Implementing on own research  
9.00

Student presentations on how to implement learnings in their Ph.D. projects

Mette Zølner & Magali Gravier
12.30

Lunch

  
13.30

Student presentations on how to implement learnings in their Ph.D. projects

Mette Zølner & Magali Gravier
14.30

Wrapping up and evaluations

  

15.30

End of the course

   

Learning objectives
• Enhance the participants’ knowledge and ability to work with qualitative methods and research;

• Develop the participants’ capacity to reflect critically upon qualitative methods and research;

• Make participants aware of the pros and cons of doing qualitative research (both in general and in regard to specific qualitative methods);

• Help the participants learn how to present qualitative research convincingly in their PhD and scientific publications.

Exam
N/A

Other

Start date
17/02/2020

End date
21/02/2020

Level
PhD

ECTS
5

Language
English

Course Literature
Indicative list of literature (A final list of literature will be uploaded on Canvas on December 6). 

Alvesson, M. and Sköldberg, K. (2009). Reflexive methodology. New Vistas for qualitative research. London: Sage (2nd edition).

Bhaskar, Roy. 2008. A Realist Theory of Science. Rev. ed. London: Routledge.

Bazeley P. and Jackson, K.  (2013). Qualitative Data Analysis with NVIVO. Sage (2nd ed.)

Cassell C. et al. (2009) Learning to be a qualitative management researcher. Management Learning. 40 (5) 513-533

Flick, U.  (2014). An introduction to qualitative research. London: Sage (5th edition)

Flick, U. (ed) (2014). The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis. London: Sage. 

Gioia, D. A., K. N. Price, A. L. Hamilton, and J. B. Thomas. 2010. “Forging an Identity: An Insider-Outsider Study of Processes Involved in the Formation of Organizational Identity.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 55: 1–46.

Leroux, P. and Neveu, E. (dir.), 2017. En Immersion. Pratiques intensives du terrain en journalisme, littérature et sciences sociales, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 427 p.

Salmons, J. (2015). Qualitative online interviews. London: Sage (2nd edition).

Saldaña, J. (2013). The coding manual for Qualitative Research. London: Sage.

Silverman, D. (2014). Interpreting qualitative data. London: Sage (5th edition).

Miles, M. B. and Huberman, M. A. (1994). Qualitative Data Analysis. London: Sage (2nd edition).

Braun, V. & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative research in Psychology, 3(2), 77-101.

Tracy, S. J. (2012). Qualitative Research Methods: Collecting Evidence, Crafting Analysis, Communicating Impact. Wiley-Blackwell.

Welch C. et al. (2011). Theorising from case studies: towards a pluralist future for international business research. Journal of International Business Studies, 42: 740-762.

White, P. (2009). Developing Research Questions. Palgrave Macmillan.

Fee
DKK 6,500 (covers the course, coffe/tea and lunch)

Minimum number of participants
15

Maximum number of participants
15

Location
Copenhagen Business School
Dalgas Have 15
2000 Frederiksberg
Room: DH2V.070 (2nd floor)

Contact information
The PhD Support
Nina Iversen
Tel.: +45 38 15 24 75
E-mail: ni.research@cbs.dk

Registration deadline
29/11/2019

In case we receive more registrations for the course than we have places, the registrations will be prioritized in the following order: Students from CBS departments, students from other institutions than CBS.

Please note that your registration is binding after the registration deadline.
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