ECTS: 2
Course leader: Martin Demant Frederiksen
Language: English
Graduate school: Faculty of Arts
Course fee: 0.00 DKK
Status: Course is open for application
Semester: Spring 2026
Application deadline: 16/02/2026
Cancellation deadline: 16/02/2026
Course type: Classroom teaching
Start date: 04/03/2026
Administrator: Andreas Mølgaard Laursen
Allocation of seats
You will automatically be placed on a waiting list. After the application deadline, seats will be allocated and all applicants will be notified whether or not they have been offered a seat.
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Course objective
This workshop gives newly enrolled PhD students in Anthropology at Aarhus and Copenhagen Universities the opportunity to present their research projects for critical and constructive discussion, aiming to turn a successful research proposal into a viable fieldwork project. Projects will be considered in terms of research design, the operationalizing of theories and concepts, methods of constructing data in the field, research ethics, and ensuring openness to the unexpected. The challenges of working in different settings will be examined and compared. The workshop runs over 1 day and will bring together the most recent cohort of PhD students and a seasoned field researcher from each of the two anthropology departments.
Preparation for the course
No later than 19 February 2025, participants are asked to send the organizers:
A short (2-3 pages) project description focusing on research design
A short (2 pages) reflection paper focusing on methodological, practical and analytical possibilities, challenges, surprises and dilemmas as encountered or expected in the project
The project descriptions and reflection papers will be distributed to all participants and are expected to be read in advance. Each participant will be assigned the task of preparing more in-depth feedback to one or two other participants.
Course organisers
Cecilie Rubow, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
Martin Demant Frederiksen, Associate Professor, School of Culture and Society, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University.
ECTS: 2
Registration
The workshop is primarily offered to PhD students from the departments of Anthropology in Copenhagen and Aarhus Universities. If there are vacant seats, PhD students from other research schools may participate. All participants must have a background in anthropology or a related discipline, and it is a requirement that the planned project includes ethnographic fieldwork
Venue
4 March 2026. 11.00-17.00. Moesgård Allé 15, 8270 Højbjerg. Building 4240, room 302
Course dates:
- 04 March 2026 11:00 - 17:00