PhD Courses in Denmark

Language

English

Lecturer(s)

Olga Popovic Larsen and Johan Mottelson

Other Lecturer(s)

TBA                                                            

Course description

This course is for PhD candidates in their final year and focuses on finalizing the thesis and preparing for successful submission and public defence.

With a spectrum of different and often braod approaches, methods, theoretical contexts, and the wealth of different kinds of knowledge developed through the research project, PhD candidates are faced with challenging decisions on the presentationand defence of the thesis.

The course addresses:
• Framing and structuring the dissertation
• A monograph vis-a-vis article-based thesis
• Situating academic practices within the specificproject
• Identification and presentation of the most important knowledge contributions
• Praparing for the defence of the thesis

The PhD course will span three weeks, with three full 
days of activities with preparation in between.

Timeschedule:

Week 1 - Defining the thematic scope
One full day of PhD project presentations by candidates, followed by discussions in small groups and in plenum. PhD candidates will present and refletct on their own work to provide an overview of the thematic, methodological and epistemic scope of each project.
A recently finished PhD candidate will provide a presentation about how to structure the PhD project,followed by a discussion about structuring a PhD thesis.

Task for the following week: preparing a draft structure of own PhD project.

Week 2- Structuring the PhD thesis
One full day of presentations by candidates focusing on structuring the PhD thesis followed by discussions in small groups and in plenum.
A recently finished PhD candidate will provide a presentation about how to prepare for the oral PhD defence, followed by a discussion about preparing the defence.

Task for final week: preparing a draft presentation and strategy for defence of own PhD project.

Week 3 - Preparing the defence
One full day of presentations by candidates focusing on their preparations of the defence of their own PhD project, followed by discussions in small groups and in plenum.
Prior to the course, participants enrolled in the course will be asked to send a short summary of the material produced throughout the PhD project and intended to be included in the PhD thesis. This includes publications, practice work, artistic research, and other outputs.

Course outcomes: a clearer academic understanding of how to structure, present and defend a PhD project, developed for the participant’s own PhD project.

Dates

1st, 8th and 15th of march

Venue 

Physical attendance at the Royal Danish Academy –
Campus Holmen

ECTS

3

Application deadline

31/01-2027 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php