PhD Courses in Denmark

Welcome to Hands-on Analysis of Qualitative Interviews

Description: 

This five-day Ph.D. course provides participants with an introduction to the steps, processes and reflections involved in analysing qualitative data in particular interviews, including working with concrete data. The course is interdisciplinary, and we invite students from different disciples to join the course.

The main learning objectives for the course are that the participants gain theoretical and practical knowledge on how to analyze data from qualitative interviews and other types of qualitative data. This includes understanding ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions in qualitative research and why they are important. The main focus of the course is the particiapants’ development of concrete tools for reflective thinking and practice on how to analyze data from qualitative interviews and other types of qualitative data. During the course we will narrow ourselves to focusing in detail on two approaches; 1) Reflective Thematic Analysis by Braun and Clarke (2006, 2013, 2022), and 2) Narrative Identity Analysis, e.g. Discourse Analysis and Positioning Analysis from the approaches developed by for instance Michael Bamberg (De Fina et al., 2006; Bamberg et al., 2011) & Davies & Harré (1990).

As highlighted by the title this course is mainly about HOW to work with interview data and preferably  with the participants’ own data from qualitative interviews or/and data provided by the course holders (English and Danish data). The course is held in English and participants are invited to bring data in any language, but if the language is not Danish, Scandinavian, English or Spanish the students will be expected to be fully proficient in the respective language.

The course is split into two blocks and students are expected to work independently with peers in the time period between the two blocks.

Tentative course programme:

The course consists of two teaching blocks of respectively two and three full course days. The first block will primarily focus on Reflective Thematic Analysis and how to apply it, whereas the second block will focus on Narrative Identity and Positioning and how to apply it.

Block 1:

Day 1: Introduction, lectures, group work 1 & 2, discussion

Day 2: lectures, group work 2 & 3, panel discussion and how to prepare for block 2 of the course, evaluation of block 1

Block 2:

Day 1: Introduction, lectures, presentations, group work 4, discussion

Day 2: lectures, presentations, group work 5, discussion

Day 3: lectures, presentations, group work 6, discussion and wrap-up

Teaching methods:

The teaching methods of the course will be Problem-Based-Learning including a mixture of lectures, group work, peer comments, group discussions, and comments and feed-back on individual papers and research projects.

Description of paper requirements:

The students are required to present a short paper describing their own Ph.D. project, and focusing on data generation and analyses. The procedure for this will take place in two steps:

1)     On application to the course the student is required to send a one to two-page abstract describing her/his Ph.D. project, the stage of the project, the design/methods, and e.g. the amount of interview data expected available at the time of the course. The application should also include a short and tentative description of the stage of data analyses that the student expects to have reached when the course starts (e.g. development of research question/interview topics, pilot interview, transcription, initial data analysis etc.) and the students expectations for the course.

After completion of the first block of the course the students will be required to continue elaborating on her/his data analyses and to write up a 5–7-page paper describing the data analysis procedure which has been applied (codes etc.) and tentative suggestions for themes (results). This work should be sent to the course teachers one week before the second block (2nd October). The students will receive individual feedback during the second block. The students will also work in designated groups during the periode between block I and block II and prepare short presentations during the course.

Organizer: Kristine Jensen de López, Chalotte Glintborg.

Lecturers: 

Chalotte Glintborg 

Kristine Jensen de López

Manolo de la Mata

ECTS: 5

Time: 

Block 1: June 11-12, 2024 (in Aalborg)

Block 2: October 8-10, 2024 (in Aalborg)

Place: TBA

Zip code: 9000

City: Aalborg

Number of seats: 20

Registration deadline and upload of papers in moodle: 22 May 2024

Key literature: See Moodle