PhD Courses in Denmark

How can you build experiments into your research project and dissertation work? How can you develop stronger connections between the practical possibilities for setting up experiments in your project and your overarching research interests and questions?

This PhD course explores such questions through the lens of research-through-design, with a particular emphasis on research programs and how various practices of making – often described and understood as experiments – play a key role in the development of new knowledge. The course draws on both Scandinavian and international developments in research through design and introduces different ways of theorizing and setting up experiments as an integrated part of the research process.

The course is structured around a two-day symposium, followed by a one-day seminar two weeks later. The symposium combines lectures introducing different theoretical perspectives on experimentation with dialogue-based workshop sessions, where participants work with their own projects. For the seminar, participants will prepare and present a focused account of their own research approach, emphasising the role of experimentation, based on the theoretical and conceptual tools introduced during the symposium. The presentation – developed in the period between the symposium and the seminar – will form the basis for feedback from peers and instructors, providing clarity and direction for the ongoing doctoral work.

The course requires preparation through a selected set of readings and preparatory work for presentations at the seminar. Participants will give and receive feedback throughout, both in group settings and one-to-one. By the end of the course, participants will have developed a stronger understanding of how to theorise and construct experiments that can lead to valuable research contributions.

Dates
Symposium: 11-12 May, 2026.
Seminar: 20 August, 2026.

ECTS
3

Application deadline: 
13-04-2026