Emotional Challenges in Fieldwork
Copenhagen Graduate School of Social Sciences
Department of Anthropology
Date and time: 28 August from 9:00 to 16:00
The course aims to support PhD students in handling the emotional challenges that long-term fieldwork and other aspects of PhD work can produce, discussing how to turn personal challenges into sources of anthropological insight. The workshop will be based on PhD students’ reflections on emotional challenges experienced or anticipated during fieldwork/PhD work. Chief psychologist Jacob Vindbjerg Nissen will comment on PhD students’ reflections in light of current knowledge on psycho-traumatology and give concrete recommendations for how to protect one’s mental health before, during, and after fieldwork.
Course organiser: Professor Tine Gammeltoft, University of Copenhagen.
Lecturers
- Chief psychologist Jacob Vindbjerg Nissen, Falck Healthcare
- Professor Tine Gammeltoft, University of Copenhagen
ECTS: 2 points
Max. numbers of participants: 12
Course fee: The PhD School at the Faculty of Social Sciences participates in Denmark’s national network for PhD courses. This course is free of charge for PhD students enrolled at a one of the participating PhD schools (PhD students enrolled at a Danish University, except from Copenhagen Business School). Other PhD students will be charged a course fee of DKK 1,200 per ECTS for participation in the course (PhD students enrolled at Copenhagen Business School or at a University outside Denmark).
Registration: Please register via the link in the box as soon as possible and no later than 11 August 2025.
Further information: For more information about the PhD course, please contact the PhD administration (phd@hrsc.ku.dk) or the course organiser.