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Professor Emeritus David Silverman, Sociology Department, Goldsmiths College,

Professor Nanna Mik-Meyer Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School

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.
When you have begun working on you PhD project

Deadline for sending this document is 1 September 2015. The PhD student will be told if he/she is accepted to the course before 7 September.

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 the literature applied / of the course. The student presentation should provide material for discussion in minor groups during the course, and you must be willing to participate in discussions of other presentations.
Deadline for sending this document is 23 September 2015.

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

This course serves as a basic primer for PhD students, aiming to provide student with some constructionist inspired tools for conducting solid qualitative research.

The course derives from Silverman’s and Mik-Meyer’s extensive experience with conducting empirical based research and teaching in qualitative methods. The course involves lectures, workshops, feedback sessions and one to one supervisions.

The course will consist of three main components:

1) It will provide the students with hands-on knowledge on how to conduct a constructionist inspired qualitative research project. The course will focus on how to choose the appropriate analytical strategy (with a focus on coding), how to make a research topic workable, how to analyze interview and document data, and how to select cases.

2) It will discuss qualitative research methods in relation to dominant theoretical perspectives and the quality criteria of research projects today.

3) By actively participating in an intensive supervisory process, the course will provide the students with a good platform for developing their own research methods and project.

Lectures with workshops, dialogues and student presentations/discussions.

Day 1
1 pm     Introduction to the course (Mik-Meyer) and presentation of participants
2 pm     Break
2.15 pm  Lecture 1 Mik-Meyer: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN A CONSTRUCTIONIST PERSPECTIVE
3.15 pm  Break
3.30 pm  Lecture 2 Mik-Meyer: QUALITY CRITERIAS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
4.15 pm  Break
4.30 pm  Joint discussion
5 pm     Day ends

Day 2
9 am     Lecture 3 Mik-Meyer: CHOICE OF ANALYTICAL STRATEGY
10 am    Joint discussion
10.30 am Break
10:45 am Lecture 4 Mik-Meyer: CHOICE OF ANALYTICAL STRATEGY: FOCUS ON CONSTRUCTIONIST CODING
11:45 am Joint discussion    
12:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm  Student presentations and discussions
2:15 pm  Break
2:30 pm  Student presentations and discussions
3:30 pm  Break
3:45 pm  Student presentations and discussions
4:30 pm  Day ends

Day 3
9 am     Introduction to day 3 and day 4
9.30 am  Lecture 1 Silverman: QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
10.30 am Break
10.45 am Workshop 1/Supervision
11:30 am Workshop feedback
12 noon  Lunch
1 pm     Lecture 2 Silverman: ANALYSING INTERVIEW DATA
2 pm     Break
2.15 pm  Workshop 2/Supervision
3 pm     Student presentation (Nanna)
4 pm     Day ends

Day 4
9 am     Feedback from Workshop 2
9.30 am  Lecture 3 Silverman: ANALYSING DOCUMENTS AND ELECTRONIC DATA
10.30 am Break
10.45 am Workshop 3/Supervision
11:30 am Workshop feedback
12 noon  Lunch
1 pm     Lecture 4 Silverman: HOW MANY CASES DO YOU NEED?
2 pm     Open Discussion
3 pm     Student presentation (Nanna)
4 pm     Day ends
6 pm     Dinner

Day 5
9 am     Student presentations and discussions
10 am    Break
10:15 am Lecture 5 Mik-Meyer: PROS AND CONS TOWARDS DIFFERENT ANALYTICAL STRATEGIES
11.15 am Break
11.30 am Joint discussion
1 pm     Course ends

On completion of the course, students should have better understanding of the craft skill needed for good qualitative research.

Knowledge. Students will have sound know about key approaches to interview and document methods, coding strategies, as well as the relation between choice of theory and the quality criteria of qualitative research.

Skill. Students will be able to make a theoretically informed qualitative analysis.

Competences. Students will be able to convert their knowledge about theory and methodology to qualitative research; to evaluate different knowledge interventions based on different qualitative methods and to set up strategies for the conducting scientifically sound qualitative research.
 

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Copenhagen Business School
Kilevej 14 A
DK-2000 Frederiksberg

PhD Support
Katja Høeg Tingleff
kht.research@cbs.dk
Tel.: +45 38 15 28 39

In case we receive more registrations for the course than we have places, the registrations will be prioritized in the the following order: Students from Doctoral School of Organisation and Management Studies (OMS), students from other CBS PhD schools, students from other institutions than CBS.

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