Course detail

Welcome to Co-creation and community health

Program:HES

Description:

For the past decade health policies and programs have widely emphasized the relevance of involving the groups in focus along with community stakeholders in co-production processes. Yet, little attention has been directed towards conceptualizing co-creation and community involvement, along with describing how the wide range of co-design processes are carried out in practice as well as evaluated with attention also to unintended consequences.

This course aims to provide PhD students with knowledge about the variety of co-creation approaches, and their current relevance in health research. In the course we will present involvement methods and facilitating techniques, along with selected methodological approaches to evaluate the processes of co-creation and community involvement. The course will also offer PhD students a space for reflecting on the power differences at play in co-creation processes along with possible unintended consequences and how to address these.

The course involves lectures, group work and discussions about:

• What is co-creation; when did the concept appear historically, which are the key characteristics and what range of approaches may be applied today?
• How to involve the group in focus and community stakeholders in the research process and which involvement methods, facilitating techniques and evaluation methods may be used?
• What may be done to address possible unintended consequences and power differences?

Literature:

A reference list will be provided 2 weeks before the course.

Prerequisites:

None

Form of evaluation:

Evaluation by participating in lectures and group work.

Organizer:

• Associate Professor Kirsten Schultz Pedersen
• Professor Sine Agergaard

Lecturers: Organisers and international lecturers

ECTS: 1,5

 Date: 26, 27 May 2026

Time: 08.15-16.15

Place: Aalborg University

City: Aalborg

Number of seats: 25

Deadline: 5 May 2026

Important information concerning PhD courses:

There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course. We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.

To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.

For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at phdcourses@adm.aau.dk. When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.