PhD Courses in Denmark

Welcome to Expertise and Emerging Technologies: A Working and Organizing Perspective

Description:

The accelerated technological developments, particularly in the areas that directly touch on skilled and knowledge work, has rejuvenated social, economic, ethical, and humanistic questions regarding “expertise”. Here, there it is essential for researchers and academics to engage in in-depth, qualitative understanding of expertise and how it is developed, enacted and worked, critically examine the intended and unintended consequences of technologies for how expertise, and creatively contribute to the assumptions, debates, decisions, and actions through their scholarly work. This PhD course aims to engage our future scholars in such a process, providing them with the knowledge, methods, and skills to investigate and contribute to engaged scholarship in this area.

The course focuses on the following themes and questions:

• Deep dive into expertise: past, present and future
• Technologies of expertise: a historical and phenomenological analysis
• Interactions of technologies and expertise: (emerging) configurations of technology and experts at work
• Developing expertise in relation to emerging technologies (novel expertise, destruction of expertise, and new modes of learning and knowing)
• Organizing expertise through emerging technologies: within and across organizations (coordination, market of expertise, control, and jurisdiction)

Learning objectives:

• Understanding how expertise is developed, exercises, and organized through classic academic theories;
• Developing a critical, informed understanding of the broader scheme of technological developments (including but not limited to artificial intelligence, robotics, ...) in relation to the development, exercising, and organizing expertise.
• Gaining experience on how to investigate the impacts of technologies on development, enactment and organization of expertise as a form of in-depth, engaged scholarship
• Being able to analyze and synthesize their research findings in relation to theoretical debates and develop insights for understanding and practice.

For additional information, updates, and registration, please refer to AAU PhD Moodle via the link provided on the right side of this page.