Course description
Collaboration, participatory and interactive methods are central to dealing with complex societal issues, so called wicked problems. Such methods cover many different types of collaboration and participatory processes. This course will focus on transdisciplinary and design approaches, that integrate both research and practice-based knowledge types and needs into the research process. While interdisciplinary approaches include integration between different disciplines, transdisciplinary approaches in addition also transcend the boundaries of the university to include knowledge and expertise from different actors and stakeholders involved in societal issues in practice, in so-called knowledge co-production processes. This course focuses on relevant theories on transdisciplinary and design method choice and use through a review of, and hands-on explorations into, state-of-the-art methods and approaches for such collaborative research. It will also discuss the conditions for and consequences of applying different participatory methods and their relationship to disciplinary research. The course invites doctoral students with diverse disciplinary and subject area backgrounds to joint learning, by discussing and reflecting on different phases and dimensions of collaborative methods in research.
Target group
The course is mandatory for PhD students in the research school Just Transitions.
Requirements and Selection
Entry requirements
In order to be eligible for the course the applicant must be registered in a PhD program.
Selection
PhD students within the research school Just Transitions will be given priority. Other applicants will be assessed and admitted based on the relevance of their PhD project.
Educational partnership
The research school is a collaboration between GU, University of Linköping and Chalmers University of Technology.
Other information
The course is given on Campus.
Course syllabus
SFGS393
Department
School of Global Studies
Subject
Natural Science and Mathematics, Social Science
Type of course
Subject area course
Research School/Graduate School
Just Transitions
Keywords
Transdisciplinary methods, Transdisciplinära metoder