PhD Course - Details

Who is afraid of the F-word? On Feminist Qualitative Research Methods

Date:
April 12-14, 2010

Deadline for application:
March 10, 2010

Venue:
Utrecht university, The Netherlands

Teachers:
* Prof. dr. Gloria Wekker, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

* M.A. Rebecca Walker, Author and Honorary Doctor of Letters from North Carolina School of the Arts, USA

* Dr. Fataneh Farahani, Stockholm University, Sweden

Coordinators:
Prof. dr. Gloria Wekker in collaboration with
Director of InterGender, Prof. Nina Lykke, Linköping University, Sweden.

Course description:

InterGender: Swedish-International Research School in
Interdisciplinary Gender Studies

www.intergender.net

The School is funded by The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). It is organized as a joint venture between Gender Studies Units and doctoral programmes at Linköping University (host university) and at eight other Swedish Universities: Blekinge Institute of Technology, Göteborg University, Lund University, Luleå Technical University, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, Umeå University, Örebro University and at three international partner institutions: Graduate Gender Programme at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), The Finnish National Doctoral School of Women's and Gender Studies (Helsinki University, Finland) and Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany)


PhD-Course:

Dates: April 12, 13 and 14, 2010
Location: Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Time: 10 am – 1 pm & 2 pm – 5 pm.

Deadline for application: March 10, 2010


Organization:
The PhD course is organized by InterGender (The Swedish-International ResearchSchool in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies) and NOV (The Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, Utrecht).



Course Description:
What is feminist about qualitative research methods? How does one go about interviewing people and which knowledge assumptions are underlying this method? Which choices and decisions does one have to make in embarking on a feminist qualitative research project?

In this InterGender course we will be concerned with qualitative social science research methods, including in-depth interview, focus group and oral history. Importantly, we will pay special attention to the writing up of your data. The course will be strongly driven by intersectional and anti-racist perspectives. In the mornings, we will be dedicated to working through various aspects of and concepts underlying qualitative methods, - methodology, epistemology, ontology. In the afternoons, students will present their own work and will get feedback.


Applications:

Deadline for applications:
March 10

Applications should be sent to InterGender Academic Coordinator Dr. Mette Bryld (mbry@galnet.dk)

Applications should be written in English and include
* name, affiliation, full address, e-mail, phone, fax
* name and affiliation of PhD supervisor
* brief CV
* description of PhD project (1-2 pages)
* motivation: why do you want to participate in the course (1-2 pages)
* please, indicate if you are in the first/middle/last phase of your PhD research
(see: www.intergender.net/?q=node/8)


Preparation:

Required:
* app. 1000 pages (a list of readings will be sent to the participants)
* paper (2-5 pages describing research problems related to the PhD project of the participant) to be sent to Academic Coordinator, Mette Bryld (mbry@galnet.dk) after acceptance of application; remember to mark it with your name and the course name.


Optional:
* Those participants, who already have done (an) interview(s), get the chance to present their work on this. This may take the form of a transcription, or, preferably would be a further stage, where you have already come up with (a) theme(s), under which you would like to order the interview. At maximum, the work should be 10 pages and is to be submitted together with the 2-5 page project description, see above, to mbry@galnet.dk

Those participants, who haven’t done an interview yet, may decide to do so before the course and submit it. The same conditions as stated above.


Grants
20 PhD students can be funded by InterGender.
PhD students from all disciplines and countries are eligible.

If the number of applicants, qualifying for InterGender grants exceeds 20, a selection will be made along the criteria mentioned on www.intergender.net/?q=node/61



Applications should be sent to Mette Bryld (mbry@galnet.dk) no later than March 10.



Applicants:


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