[1/20] Transdisciplinary Theories and Practices

- still a few places left on Ph.D. course

When? Feb 10-12, 2009
Where? Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlshamn, Sweden
Organized by Technoscience Studies, Blekinge Institute of Technology - in collaboration with Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt-University zu Berlin.
More information www.intergender.webbhuset.com/?q=node/58
Deadline Extended until Jan 20.
Send application to application@intergender.net (mark with your name and the course)

Applications should be written in English and include
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        •        name, affiliation, full address, e-mail, phone, fax
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        •        name and affiliation of PhD supervisor
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        •        brief CV
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        •        description of PhD project (1-2 pages)
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        •        motivation: why do you want to participate in the course (1-2 pages)
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        •        please, indicate if you are in the first/middle/last phase of your Ph.D. research
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Grants Grants that cover travel, food and accomodation are available for registered PhD students who are selected as qualifying for the course.



Course description
Our understandings of and practices within research are constantly changing and developing. The conditions for necessary and relevant research transformations are not the least an impact of feminist research efforts. But to go from words to practice in inter/trans/post disciplinary research is a challenge for all involved. The objective of this course is to come to grips with the more fundamental prerequisites for inter- and transdisciplinary research and development. The course is a contribution to the research transforming work where our perception of research concerns how to move from ambitions and dreams to new practices in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary / postnormal research. The course will include three kinds of sessions:
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        2.        lecture-discussion-sessions,
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        4.        group sessions with presentations of students' papers, where students are given the opportunity to present their doctoral research and receive comments from teachers and co-participants,
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        6.        Thematic group discussions.
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Course coordinators


Prof. Lena Trojer, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Senior Lecturer Pirjo Elovaara, Blekinge Institute of Technology
PhD Student Rebecka Molin, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Dr. Bettina Bock v. Wulfingen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany – in collaboration with InterGender Research School Director Prof. Nina Lykke, Linköping University, Sweden

Guest speakers and teachers
Prof. Ulrike Felt, Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna
Prof. Nina Lykke, Dept. of Gender Studies, Linköping University
Dr. Elisabeth Gulbrandsen, Norges forskningsråd, Oslo
Dr. Bettina Bock v. Wulfingen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Inger Gustafsson, VINNOVA, Stockholm
Prof.Lena Trojer, Technoscience Studies, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Dr. Pirjo Elovaara, Technoscience Studies, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Dr. Peter Ekdahl, Technoscience Studies, Blekinge Institute of Technology

Accreditation
7,5 ECTS for active participation
15 ECTS for active participation + essay (evaluated pass)

About InterGender: Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
InterGender: Swedish-International Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies is a collaboration between major Swedish PhD programmes in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, located at the universities of Blekinge, Gothenburg, Linköping, Luleå, Lund, Stockholm, Uppsala, Umeå and Örebro, and three major European Gender Studies PhD programmes (the national dutch and the national Finnish Research School in Gender Studies as well as the PhD programme for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin) and finally, the Nordic Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies.