PhD Courses in Denmark

Course description

• This workshop gives newly enrolled PhD students in Anthropology at Aarhus and Copenhagen Universities the opportunity to present their research projects for critical and constructive discussion, aiming to turn a successful research proposal into a viable fieldwork project.
• Projects will be considered in terms of research design, the operationalizing of theories and concepts, methods of constructing data in the field, research ethics, and ensuring openness to the unexpected.
• The challenges of working in different settings will be examined and compared.
• The workshop runs over 1 day and will bring together the most recent cohort of PhD students and a seasoned field researcher from each of the two anthropology departments.

Target group/Participants

• Newly enrolled PhD students in Anthropology atAarhus and Copenhagen Universities
• The workshop is primarily offered to PhD students from the departments of Anthropology in Copenhagen and Aarhus Universities. If there are vacant seats, PhD students from other research schools may participate. All participants must have a background in anthropology or related discipline, and it is a requirement that the planned project includes ethnographic fieldwork.

Language

• English

ECTS-credits

• 2

Lecturers

• Martin Demant Frederiksen, Associate Professor,School of Culture and Society, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University
• Cecilie Rubow, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

Preparation for the course

No later than 19 February 2025, participants are asked to send the Martin Demant Frederiksen

1. A short (2-3 pages) project description focusing on research design
2. A short (2 pages) reflection paper focusing on methodological, practical and analytical possibilities, challenges, surprises and dilemmas as encountered or expected in the project

The project descriptions and reflection papers will be distributed to all participants and are expected to be read in advance. Each participant will be assigned the task of preparing more in-depth feedback to one or two other participants.