PhD Courses in Denmark

Programme

Monday, September 8th

9.00 – 10.15: Welcome and presentation round. Be prepared to give a 5-minute presentation of yourself and your project.

10.15 – 11.15: Eric Komlavi Hahonou: What is ethnography and the ethnography of bureaucratic organisations?

11.15 – 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30: Eric Hahonou: ‘Emotions as method’ – how do you acknowledge your presence in the field and its significance for the production of empirical data?

12.30 – 13.30: Lunch, fresh air and mingling

13.30 – 14.30: Thematic discussion 1: ´Points and modes of access´

• Gaining access and commencing fieldwork.

• How does original access influence ongoing access?

• How do relations to gate keepers affect access?

• Access is not consent

• Navigating overt and covert research

• What about exit?

14.30 – 15.00: Coffee break and leg stretching

15.00 – 16.15: Peer to peer feedback on your project outlines in groups of three to four. Walk & talk around the lake.

16.15 – 17.00: Wrapping up on peer to peer feedback

Tuesday, September 9th

9.00 – 9.15: Jette Ernst: Starting from scratch and constructing theory underway.

9.15 – 10.30: Peer to peer feedback on your project outlines in groups of three.

10.30 – 10.45: Coffee break

10.45 – 12.45: Practice: Doing Participant observation and taking fieldnotes

12.45 – 13.45: Lunch, fresh air and mingling

13.45 – 15.00: Guest speaker and themed discussion

15.15 – 15.30: Coffee break, break and leg stretching

15.30 – 16.30: John Van Maanen – discussion of the video (please watch the video prior to the course, see link below)

16.30 – 17.00: Wrapping up (how can I use what I have learned in my further work?) and course evaluation

Van Maanen video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAbaIb-NpW0