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Course |
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| Effective Qualitative Research | ||
Faculty |
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Magali Gravier and Mette Zølner, both from the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, CBS Per Darmer, from the Department of Organization, CBS |
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Course Coordinator |
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| Magali Gravier and Mette Zølner | ||
Prerequisites |
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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 1 November 2016. The PhD student will be told if he/she is accepted to the course before 14 November. 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. Deadline for sending this document is 1 December 2016. 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. |
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Aim |
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| 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 |
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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. |
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Teaching style |
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| Lectures with workshops, dialogues, exercises, student presentations and discussions. | ||
Lecture plan |
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DAY 1 PHILOSOPHIES OF SCIENCE AND QUALITY CRITERIA 10.00 Introduction of the course and of participants (Mette Zølner) 11.00 Qualitative research processes in various paradigms (Per Darmer) (i.e. Positivism, constructionism, critical realism, pragmatism) 12.30 Lunch 13.30 Quality criteria for qualitative research (Magali Gravier & Mette Zølner) 15.00 How and when to consider ethics? (Per Darmer) 16.00 Discussions around students’ projects (Magali Gravier & Mette Zølner) 17.00 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 approaches) (Magali Gravier) 10.30 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 story on planning and doing qualitative analysis (TBA) 14.30 Discussions around students’ projects (Magali Gravier & Mette Zølner) Hand out of data material for day 3 16.00 End of day 18.00 Dinner (Restaurant TBA) DAY 3 DOING DATA ANALYSIS 9.00 Various analytical strategies (i.e. Content analysis, Discourse analysis, Narrative analysis, Ethnomethodology) (Mette Zølner) 10.30 Hands-on analytical strategies and working in research teams Exercise 1: applying two analytical strategies to selected data material (Per Darmer) 12.30 Lunch 13.30 A story on analyzing qualitative analysis (TBA) 14.00 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 – PROMISES AND LIMITS 9.00 Using software for qualitative data analysis: assets and challenges (TBA) 11.30 Discussing software based vs manual data analysis (Magali Gravier) 12.30 Lunch 13.30 A story on presenting and publishing qualitative analyses (TBA) 14.30 Discussion on how to publish qualitative research (Magali Gravier) 15.30 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 Wrapping up and evaluations 15.00 End of the course |
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Learning objectives |
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• 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. |
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Exam |
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Other |
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Start date |
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| 12/12/2016 | ||
End date |
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| 16/12/2016 | ||
Level |
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| PhD | ||
ECTS |
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| 5 | ||
Language |
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| English | ||
Course Literature |
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| Alvesson, M. and Sköldberg, K. (2009). Reflexive methodology. New Vistas for qualitative research. London: Sage (2nd edition).Bazeley P. and Kristi Jackson (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) 513-533Flick, 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. et al (2010). Forging an identity: an insider-outsider study of processes involved in the formation of organizational identity. Administrative Science Quarterly, 55:1-46.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 |
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| DKK 6,500 (covers the course, coffee/tea, lunch and one dinner) | ||
Minimum number of participants |
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| 15 | ||
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Maximum number of participants |
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| 18 | ||
Location |
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Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshaven 18 B 2000 Frederiksberg Room: S.023 |
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Contact information |
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The PhD Support Katja Høeg Tingleff Tel.: +45 38 15 28 39 E-mail: kht.research@cbs.dk |
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Registration deadline |
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| 01/11/2016 | ||
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Please note that your registration is binding after the registration deadline.
In case we receive more registrations for the course than we have places, the registrations will be prioritized in 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. |
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