Course Qualitative Research: Phenomenology

The course A148 Qualitative analysis in a phenomenological study is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, 2025.

Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).

Are you a health science researcher working within any qualitative tradition and are you curious about how to grasp a phenomenological approach s and methods, this course might be for you.

Aim: Focusing on analysis, students will gain an in-depth understanding of the scientific theoretical basis guiding the analytical process in phenomenological qualitative research. The students will be able to apply relevant analytical approaches and to make consistent and well-informed choices in relation to qualitative research.

Learning outcomes: 

• The student will have engaged in critically evaluate literature and practice in phenomenological analysis.
• The student will have hands-on experience with analysis from analysing own (or another set) data with a phenomenological approach.
• The student will have discussed own and co-participants’ choices and considerations.
• The student will describe a plan for analyzing own qualitative data/material with reference to the literature.

Workload: 25 hours lectures and 4 hours student presentation and discussion, 5 hours for preparing assignment and presentation day 4.

Preparation: Course participants will get online access to the course material (practical information, learning goals and links to literature) in Brightspace (BS).

• For each course day, it is mandatory to have read the texts denoted as primary literature beforehand, whereas texts denoted ‘supplementary’ are optional.
• Before the start of the course, each participant is cordially asked to upload (on the course page in Brightspace in “file exchange”) a document with a 1 to 3 pages document. This document should state the PhD’s: (1) research question, (2) method and thoughts about method as relating to phenomenology, (3) plan for or idea of analyses with reference to sources ofyour choices

Content: With a starting point in the classical phenomelogical tradition, the most uses analytical methods are introduced and discussed day 1, day 2 focus on Reflective lifeworld research. Day 3 we work with analysis based on Paul Ricoeurs theory.

For day 4 each participant is asked to have prepared a 15 minutes presentation using Power Point) of their process of analyses and their consideration the analytical work in their PhD project.

Instructors: 

Annelise Norlyk, Professor, Research Unit of Nursing and Healthcare, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University.

Sanne Angel (Head of course) Associate Professor, Research Unit of Nursing and Healthcare, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University.

Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus

While not a mandatory prerequisite for taking the present course, the PhD- course: P169 Collecting qualitative research data had a focus on data material gathering and it would be a good preparation for this course.

Participation in the course is without cost for:

• PhD students, Health Research Year students from Aarhus University
• PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
• PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses

Course dates:

• 01 April 2025 09:00 - 15:00
• 02 April 2025 09:00 - 15:00
• 03 April 2025 09:00 - 15:00
• 24 April 2025 09:00 - 15:00