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[ecrea] Three-day PhD Course: Dialogic Communication, Participation and Collaboration in Research
Mon Apr 24 20:39:49 GMT 2017
*_Three-day PhD Course: Dialogic Communication, Participation and
Collaboration in Research _*
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*Monday, 27 November – Wednesday, 29 November 2017 *
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*_Organisers_**: Dialogic Communication (research group), Department of
Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark*
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*_Location_**: Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde
University, Roskilde, Denmark*
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*About the Course *
In collaborative research, social actors in the field under study are
invited to participate in the co-
production of knowledge across the multiple knowledge forms that are
brought into play.A
central assumption is that new knowledge can be generated through
participation in dialogue
across differences, including differences of organizational position,
professional background,
position, theoretical perspective, gender and ethnicity. But what do
“dialogue”, “participation”
and “co-production/co-creation” mean concretely in collaborative PhD
projects? How are they
played out in specific organizational and sociopolitical settings which
shape and are shaped by
research practices? This course takes its starting point in the
assumption that collaborative
research is fraught with tensions which arise in dialogue between
different participants and across
different forms of knowledge and hierarchies of power. On the course, we
will go into depth with
critical, reflexive ways of understanding and tackling the tensions in
collaborative knowledge
production. We will work hands-on with the interplay between
metatheoretical assumptions,
theory, methodology, methods, empirical material and practice.
The course is designed for PhD students who are engaged in collaborative
research. We
understand collaborative research as a heterogeneous field embracing
different kinds of
Action Research and other approaches in which research is construed as
“co-production/co-
creation” where actors outside the research institution are invited to
participate as co-producers
of knowledge/co-researchers. The course is open for PhD students in
different fields and
empirical topic areas within and across the social sciences and humanities.
Relevant topics for PhD research include but are not restricted to
* Dialogic, participatory approaches to communication in health care
and social work
* Interdisciplinary collaboration
* Co-creation in participatory media
* Co-design in digital communication
* ”Bottom up” organisational change
* Citizen involvement in public administration and urban planning
* Public engagement with science and the environment.
Based on principles of dialogue, we will strive to create a space for
mutual learning across the
different fields and topics.
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*Teachers*
Professor Bengt Karlsson
Professor Ottar Ness
Associate Professor Birgitte Ravn Olesen
Professor Louise Phillips (PhD course coordinator)
The course is organised by Dialogic Communication (departmental research
group), Department of
Communication and Humanities, Roskilde University.
*Course aims **__*
The main aim of the course is to support participants’ PhD projects by
working with approaches to
dialogic communication, participation and collaboration in relation to
tensions in collaborative
research. We will focus on the interplay between theoretical lens,
methodological approach,
analysis and practice. The course is intended to provide participants
with insights into the
tensions in collaborative research and with methods for tackling
complexity both with respect to
their own research practices and with respect to other practices that
represent objects of
empirical analysis.
The course is designed to help to answer complex questions such as the
following:
* How can we practise, analyse, and understand collaborative research
in ways that take account of the complexity of relations among the
collaborating actors and among the different knowledge forms?
* How can we analyse and understand communication processes among the
collaborating actors in terms of different theories of dialogic
communication as processes where different knowledge forms meet, are
negotiated and may collide?
* How can we use these analyses in order to tackle the tension between
opening up for a plurality of different voices /and/ managing the
research process in order to create a product (or set of products)
that can satisfy all the relevant parties (including the board of
Ph.D. examiners that demand scientifically valid knowledge- claims
and practitioners who seek input that they can use)?
* What can we do to tackle tensions in our research practice
critically and reflexively without derailing or scuppering the project?
* How can we critically and reflexively work with issues of democracy,
power and control in the practice and analysis of collaborative
knowledge production? How do we conceptualise power? And how is this
understanding of power performative in different stages of the
research process and with which consequences for the relations we
establish and the results we arrive at?
* How can we contribute to the development of theories, concepts and
methods that can further and improve practices of dialogic
communication, participation and collaboration?
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*Course format *
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The course will be organised along interactive, dialogic lines in a
series of workshops.
Morning workshops will be thematically organised in order to address the
questions listed above.
They will be based on a combination of presentations by course teachers
and hands-on group
work. Afternoon workshops will consist of course participants’
presentations and feedback based
on the 10-page papers (in English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish)
submitted by course
participants prior to the course. Afternoon workshops will be divided
into groups of 5-6
participants. It is expected that every group member has read all papers
in their group prior to the
course. In addition, there will be two designated feedback givers (1 PhD
student & 1 teacher) who
will give detailed feedback. A detailed programme for each day will be
sent out in November.
Morning workshops will be held in English. There will be both
English-language and Scandinavian-
language afternoon workshops (depending on the language of the 10-page
papers submitted).
The aim of this format is to create a dynamic interplay between the
metatheoretical, theoretical,
methodological, empirical and practice-oriented perspectives brought
into play on the course and
in PhD research practices.
*Course teachers*
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*Bengt Karlsson *(Dr.polit, University of Oslo, PhD in Nursing Science
2004, Family Therapist, University College of Oslo and Akershus, 2012).
I am Professor of Mental Health Care at the Department of Health, Social
and Welfare Studies, and leader of Centre for Mental Health and
Substance Abuse at the University College of Southeast Norway, and have
a position as Researcher at the University Hospital of Akershus, Health
Trust, Department of Psychiatry. My research interests are dialogical
and collaborative practices in mental healthcare and substance abuse,
Open Dialogue, Philosophy of Science and research methodologies. My
publications include Borg, Marit; Karlsson, Bengt; Kim, Hesook Suzie;
McCormack, Brendan (2012), “Opening up for Many
Voices in Knowledge Construction. /Forum qualitative Sozialforschung/,
13 (1), and Klevan, Trude Gøril; Karlsson, Bengt Eirik; Ness, Ottar;
Grant, Alec; Ruud, Torleif (2016) “Between a rock and a softer place -
A discourse analysis of helping cultures in crisis resolution teams”.
/Qualitative Social Work/.
*Ottar Ness *(cand.polit. Educational Psychology, Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, 2006; family therapist, Diakonhjemmet
University College, 2006; PhD, Family Therapy, Tilburg University,
2011). I am Professor of Mental Health Care at the Department of Health,
Social and Welfare Studies, Centre for Mental Health and Substance Abuse
at the University College of Southeast Norway, Professor II of Mental
Health Care at NORD University, and Professor of Counselling at
Norwegian University of Science and Technology. My research interests
are dialogical and collaborative practices in mental healthcare, family
therapy and research methodologies. My publications include Ness, O.;
Kvello, Ø.; Borg, M.; Semb, R. & Davidson, L. (2017). “Sorting things
out together:” Young Adults’ Experiences of Collaborative Practices in
Mental Health and Substance Use Care. /American Journal of Psychiatric
Rehabilitation, 20/(2), and Gergen, K. J. & Ness, O. (2016).
“Therapeutic Practice as Social Construction”. In M. O´Reilly & J.
Lester (Eds.), /The Palgrave Handbook of Adult Mental Health: Discourse
and Conversation Studies/ (pp. 502-519). London, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
*Birgitte Ravn Olesen*is Associate Professor in Communication Studies,
Department of Communication and Humanities and member of the research
group on Dialogic Communication, Roskilde University, Denmark. I have a
MA in Communication Studies and a PhD on the coordinated management of
meaning between health visitors and parents (Roskilde University). My
research interests include theories and methods for understanding
processes of communication and dialogic knowledge production in
collaboration between researchers and practitioners. I have recently
completed a research and development project with a Danish hospital and
is currently engaged in action research with a disability enterprise.My
publications include Olesen, B. R. & Nordentoft, H. M. (2013). ”Too much
coffee: A micro-sociological approach to the co-production of knowledge
and power in action research”. in/International Journal of Action
Research/, 9(1): 67-94 anda book on communication processes in health
care, /Kommunikation i kontekst/Kommunikation in context / (Munksgaard,
2014, co-author Helle M. Nordentoft).
*Louise Phillips*(B.A. Hons in Psychology & Sociology, Strathclyde
University, 1984; MSc, 1989, PhD, 1993, Social Psychology, LSE). I am
Professor of Communication at the Department of Communication and
Humanities and coordinator of the research group on Dialogic
Communication, Roskilde University, Denmark. My research interests are
in dialogic approaches to communication theory and practice, including
collaborative research practices. I was the co-ordinator of the
NordForsk Network for the Study of the Dialogic Communication of
Research (2008–2012). My publications include /The Promise of Dialogue:
The Dialogic Turn in the Production and Communication of Knowledge
/(2011), /Citizen Voices: Performing Public Participation in Science and
Environment Communication /(2012, with co-editors A. Carvalho and J.
Doyle) and /Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research: A Reflexive
Approach/ (2013, with co-editors, M. Kristiansen, M. Vehvilainen & E.
Gunnarsson).
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*Course registration __*
To register for the course, please send a mail to Karen Kleis
((kleis /at/ ruc.dk) <mailto:(kleis /at/ ruc.dk)>), doctoral school administrator,
Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University. The deadline
for registration is *1 October 2017*.
To participate in the course, you have to submit a 10-page paper in
English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish by *Friday 27 October 2017 *with
the following content:
a) an outline of the research design of the PhD project
b) a description of the ongoing research practices including methods of
data production and analysis
c) a description of challenges, dilemmas and problems that you would
like input in order to tackle.
If you have already produced some data, you are welcome to include some
of it (1-5 pages, in addition to the 10-page paper) so that it may form
an object of analysis in morning workshops. In addition, all
participants should read a collection of course readings prior to the
course. The course readings will be made available during October 2017.
You are welcome to contact the course coordinator, Louise Phillips
((louisep /at/ ruc.dk) <mailto:(louisep /at/ ruc.dk)>) if you would like more
information about the course.
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ECTS points: 5 ECTS
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*Course fee*
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2400 Danish Kroner (includes lunch and refreshments). The course is free
of charge for PhD students from Roskilde University and PhDs enrolled in
Danish programmes within the Humanities.
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