Cultural analysis in the Health Sciences
Description
This course seeks to elucidates how cultural analysis can be used in the Health Sciences to investigate body, physical activity, and health, and which consequences that has for the development of knowledge within the health sciences. The course takes place over the course of two days and is focusing on cultural analysis and its traditions in relation to the health sciences today. We will explore the “craft” of cultural analysis in different traditions and how it can be used within research in the health sciences.
The course focuses on the cultural analysis of different kinds of material (whether it be material collected through observation/interviews or cultural artefacts/texts) and how that analysis might be undertaken through different perspectives.
The course addresses both PhD candidates working with cultural analysis as their primary method, and PhD candidates who has no prior experience, but wish to extend their epistemological understanding of how their work is situated within knowledge production in the health sciences or use cultural analysis as a supplementary perspective.
Intended learning outcomes
At the end of the course the PhD candidate is able to:
Knowledge:
- Account for different traditions of cultural analysis and how they contribute to the health sciences today
- Account for current perspectives within cultural analysis and the way they open up for an epistemological discussions
Skill:
- Present and discuss their own field of research and the way cultural analysis can contribute to their projects
- Conduct cultural analysis in academic discussions and in writing in a way that is relevant to their field of research
Competencies:
- Understand and discuss the epistemological dimensions of cultural analysis
- Understand and discuss the ethical considerations that this opens and the responsibility of the researcher that this entails
Language
Danish/English
Preparation
Please write a short synopsis:
1) Write a short introduction to your project (½ page).
2) Write your reflections on the two following questions (1-2 pages):
- Why is cultural analysis relevant in our project?
- Which traditions of cultural analysis do you know/build your research on, and which questions arise when these are employed within your field of research?
Please upload it under “assignments” in the E-learn course before the course and be prepared to present the main points at the workshop.
Course leaders
Signe Højbjerre Larsen and Annemari Munk Svendsen
Expected guest lectures by
Professor Karen Hvidtfelt Madsen, University of Southern Denmark and Professor Susanne Ravn, University of Southern Denmark, Verner Møller, Aarhus University
Teaching methods:
The course is based on lectures and seminars.
The examination of the course is based on the PhD candidate’s presentation of an aspect of their research in relation to the perspectives discussed, based on a written synopsis handed in before the course.
Course fee
The course is free of charge for PhD students enrolled in Universities that have joined the "Open market agreement".
For other participants there is a course fee of (2023 Prices)
DKK 4.900 ,-
EUR 658,78 ,-