Roskilde 18th - 20th August 2025
The Roskilde University International PhD Summer School at Department of People and Technology is part of a long tradition of interactive and responsive doctoral training.
This year’s theme provides an excellent opportunity to work in-depth with questions related to empirical production of data and analysis informed by a range of theoretical perspectives. Keynotes on central methodological challenges and considerations from senior scholars, are followed by careful readings and collective reflections on your individual work – and the work of other PhD fellows. Supported and guided by senior researchers you are hereby given the opportunity to share considerations with other PhD scholars, on challenges you may have encountered in your work, and thereby gain deeper insights into the strengths and weaknesses of your analytical and theoretical approach, and into knowledge production in different research tradition. You will learn to identify, work, and communicate the complex and interesting relations between your research question, project design, theoretical foundation methods and analysis.
The format of the summer school is highly variated with an emphasis on active participation, and common and collective response on work-in-progress, and support for your individual process of investigation, analysis, and writing. We are highly experienced in facilitating an open, trusting, and reflexive learning space in an unformal atmosphere that supports dialogue between different research fields and traditions as well as between junior and senior scholars.
The summer school welcomes PhD scholar from research fields such as learning/education, work life, health, and social innovation and sustainability.
ECTS-Credits
Participation in the summer school, i.e. submission and presentation of one’s own work and active participation in all aspects of the summer school is accredited 5 ECTS points.
Working format
Summer School 2024 will present keynotes and invite papers that approach methodology in various ways.
This includes discussions on theoretical choices and methodological implications, ethics, research’s
subjective and societal embeddedness, research designs, and analytical frameworks. We provide an inspiring
environment for exchanging experiences with research processes across different fields and traditions.
Besides keynote and paper sessions, the summer School offers a hands-on workshop on creative writing.
This adds to the overall ambition of Summer School to be actively supportive for your Ph.D. work with
opportunities to reflect and develop new perspectives around methodological considerations.
Keynote Lectures and Workshop Moderators
Professor, Dr. Birgitta Haga Gripsrud, Stavanger University, NO
Associate Professor, Dr. Steen Baagøe Nielsen
Associate Professor, Dr. Sine Lehn, Roskilde University, DK
Statements from participants in the 2023- summer school
“I feel that this course will strengthen my education as a researcher. The summer school differs from other courses in that so much of the learning lies in the active participation in discussing and reflecting on other students' projects and issues, and not just on the surface by briefly presenting what you are doing, but by spending a lot of time on each project. The course leader created a safe framework and at the same time provided critical input that gave everyone "something to chew on" (Jannicke Raben, PhD Scholar).
“One of the things that the summer school made me particularly aware of, and which I took with me, was to reflect in an interprofessional and cross-cultural community. To see one's own project reflected in PhD. students from other countries, with different subjects and theoretical backgrounds was a very interesting and rewarding experience” (Jesper Bøgmose Hansen, PhD Scholar).
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