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Høst 2024

HEL-8042 Qualitative methodology and methods in health research - 5 stp


The course is administrated by

Institutt for samfunnsmedisin

Type of course

PhD course. It is available as a singular course.

PhD students and students at the Student Research Program at UiT The Arctic University of Norway register for class and exam in Studentweb by September 1st.

Other applicants apply for the right to study by June 1st. Application is sent through SøknadsWeb. Please use the application code "9301 - Singular courses at the PhD level". If granted admission to the course students must register for class and exam in Studentweb by September 1st.


Course overlap

HEL-8025 Qualitative Methods in Health Research 2 ects

Course contents

Qualitative research methods are useful for the study of human experience and people’s way of understanding and reasoning. They also create understanding of social contexts, relations and practice/actions, i.e. the experience of patients, their relations to health professionals, the role of the health system and the practices of both patients and professionals. This course will provide in-depth knowledge on what qualitative methods are and how to use them, how methodologies guide research and what are the important steps in developing a qualitative study. The course is a specialised and advanced course relevant for PhD-students within medicine, health sciences and social sciences.

In the course, we will first go in-depth with the most commonly used methods in health research (observation, interviews, focus group discussions, narrative inquiry, document analysis, visual methods). We will discuss each method and their prerequisites, adequacy, challenges and possibilities with special emphasis on what are the premises and assumptions for each method. Specific issues for each method will be critically discussed.

Second, all methods will be compared and discussed in terms of their sustainability for a given project design, their adequacy as methodic tool and their differences. We will focus on how different methodologies apply these methods and produce knowledge through a distinct ‘logic of inquiry’.

Third, the course will emphasize and demonstrate how all choices of methodologies and methods require consistency between theory of science, research question and design. Further, we will address how any research project is embedded in research communities informed by contemporary values, policies and economics.


Admission requirements

Participants must be enrolled in a PhD programme or a Student Research Programme at UiT or another Norwegian/Nordic university. PhD students from other universities may also apply.

All participants must have a qualitative design or a mixed/multiple methods design in their PhD research projects.

Participants must have competence and knowledge of theory of science, research ethics, and research design at PhD level (through HEL-8040 or a similar course). Participants are also assumed to have basic skills in qualitative research.

The course will be held only with a minimum of 6 participants. The maximum number of participants is 12 students.

If there are more applicants than available seats in the course, students will be given priority from category 1 to 4:


Objective of the course

Knowledge:

By the end of this course, the candidate has knowledge that enables him/her to:

Skills

By the end of this course, the candidate has skills that enable him/her to

General competence

By the end of this course, the candidate is expected to be able to


Language of instruction

English

Teaching methods

The course will consist of 3x2 full day seminars during one academic year. Preparation in terms of reading the curriculum for the course is expected.

Each seminar day will be a combination of teacher-led and student-led activities. The educational approach is based on lectures and student involvement through interactive teaching, group work, and peer learning. Seminars will be led by two teachers co-teaching and consist of: