PSYFL5407 – The qualitative research process II

Schedule, syllabus and examination date

Course content

The course focuses on the qualitative research process (data production, analysis and result presentation), and takes the form of a series of seminars over two semesters. The topics delt with each time will be decided by the challenges the participants are facing in their projects, but the lecturers will also make sure central phenomena in the qualitative research process will be covered over the course of the year. The main focus will be on working with the analysis, and result presentation. Presentations and work with relevant texts will be part of the course.

Course structure: Three sessions of four hours each

Learning outcome

Knowledge

You should be able to:

  • Be familiar with different types of results/findings and different ways of presenting work in qualitative research
  • Evaluate possible consequences - including ethical - of different ways of presenting work
  • Be familiar with different approaches to the question of generalizing in qualitative methods and with different ways of evaluating quality in qualitative research

Skills

You should be able to

  • Present results in your own project in ways that are trustworthy, interesting and which relate to the knowledge situation of the given field?
  • Argue for quality and transferability of the results in your research project
  • Reflect on own personal positioning and role in the producing of own research

General skills

You should be able to

  • Evaluate and discuss own and others’ academic work in an open, critical and constructive debate

Admission to the course

This course is only for students admitted at the student research program at PSI. Contact the administration if you have problem to sign up in Studentweb.

You need to register for PSYFL5406 first. If you have completed PSYFL5406 you need to register for PSYFL5407.

Formal prerequisite knowledge

You must have taken the course PSY9250/PSYFL5405, or demonstrate the similar knowledge/experience.

Overlapping courses

Teaching

The course will cover numerous choices that researchers face at the different stages of the research process, by analyzing possibilities and discussing reasoning for the different choices made. The topics for each gathering will be driven by the challenges that the participants face in their projects (planning and carrying out data production, choosing analytical approaches, developing the analysis, presentation of results in recognized outlets). The lecturers will make sure central phenomena of the qualitative process