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Member rate £492.50
Non-Member rate £985.00
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*If you attended our Methods School in Summer/Winter 2024.
Monday 6 – Friday 10 February 2023
Minimum 2 hours of live teaching per day
09:30 – 12:00 CET
This in-person seminar-type course provides a blended learning environment, using state-of-the-art in-person pedagogical tools. It is designed for a demanding audience (researchers, professional analysts, advanced students) and capped at a maximum of 12 participants, allowing the Instructor to 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. By understanding their logics and uses, you will be able to select a strategy that fits your own research question.
3 credits Engage fully with class activities
4 credits Complete 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. The course focuses on narrative method, hermeneutics, phenomenology, discourse analysis, deconstruction method and genealogy. Its six objectives are to:
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 includes pre- and post-class activities, along with in-class presentations.
Before the course, reading material and pre-recorded lectures will be available on Canvas for you to access at your own pace. Send your topic-related questions in advance to the Instructor.
In-class activities include short lectures, peer feedback, group exercises and presentations.
After the course, you can create presentations supported by Instructor feedback on your projects.
None, though basic knowledge of qualitative methodology and methods would be an advantage. The commitment time is approximately 40 hours, including readings and on-site participation.