Install this application on your home screen for quick and easy access when you’re on the go.
Just tap then “Add to Home Screen”
Install this application on your home screen for quick and easy access when you’re on the go.
Just tap then “Add to Home Screen”
Member rate £492.50
Non-Member rate £985.00
Save £45 Loyalty discount applied automatically*
Save 5% on each additional course booked
*If you attended our Methods School in Summer/Winter 2024.
Monday 7 – Friday 11 February 2022
2 hours of live teaching per day
09:30 – 12:00 CET
VIR: This is a virtual course
This seminar-type course provides a highly interactive online teaching and learning environment, using state of the art online pedagogical tools. It is designed for a demanding audience (researchers, professional analysts, advanced students) and capped at a maximum of 12 participants so that the Instructor can cater to the specific needs of each individual.
You will gain a practical understanding of the typical steps of an interpretive research process – from how to formulate an interpretive research question to how to present and document interpretive analyses.
The course introduces a broad spectrum of interpretive approaches, including narrative methods, discourse analysis, and deconstructive analytics. These approaches provide a good representation of different interpretive strategies, and by understanding their logics and uses, you will be able to select and perform a research strategy that fits your own research question.
3 credits Engage fully with class activities
4 credits Complete a post-class assignment
Marie Østergaard Møller is Associate Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark.
Her research interests include social and political categories, categorisation, frontline work, welfare state research, classic social theory of solidarity, and systematic qualitative methods.
Read more about Marie here.
The course covers different interpretive methods. You will learn to ‘read’ texts while becoming familiar with contemporary thinking about interpretation, narrative, and discourse. During the course we will focus on narrative method, hermeneutics, phenomenology, discourse analysis, deconstruction method and genealogy. The course is organised with the following six objectives in mind:
Introducing interpretive methods
Interpretive strategies, positions and methods I
Hands-on strategies for interpretation and analysis
Interpretive strategies, positions and methods II
Hands-on strategies for interpretation and analysis
Interpretive strategies, positions and methods III
Hands-on strategies for interpretation and analysis
Condensing and presenting interpretations
Drawing conclusions from interpretive analyses
The course will include a combination of pre-class activities, post-class activities and live, online interaction. Pre-class activities include readings of course material, watching pre-recorded lectures and formulation of topic-related questions to be sent in advance to the Instructor. Material and lectures will be available on Canvas.
Online interactions include small lectures, classroom feedback, and group exercises in breakout rooms. All our online interaction will be via Zoom.
Post-class activities include preparation of project presentations in breakout rooms followed by personal Instructor feedback on projects.
None, though basic knowledge of qualitative methodology and methods would be an advantage. The commitment time is approximately 40 hours, including readings and online participation.