HEALTH RESEARCH WITH VULNERABLE GROUPS (2021)

  • Description:

    Increasing public and political attention is paid to vulnerable groups who are linked with social deprivation, functional impairment as well as psychological vulnerability. While numerous programs are run to improve the state of health of vulnerable groups and individuals much more research is needed in order to better understand the dimensions involved in their vulnerability. At the same time, research with vulnerable groups and individuals opens for a number of considerations that are crucial to anyone interested in conducting sensitive research.

    This course aims to provide PhD students with a space for reflecting on the numerous conceptual, methodological and ethical dilemmas that follow when conducting research with vulnerable groups.

    The course will be designed so that lectures are mixed with group work and discussions of questions such as:

    ·       How to develop an analytical language in description of vulnerable groups and individuals to avoid reproducing political and public representations?

    ·       How to work with the researchers’ own positionality and reflexivity?

    ·       How to pay attention to the agency of vulnerable groups and individuals in order to avoid reproducing homogenizing categorization of them as powerless victims?

    ·       How to deal with ethical principles of research such as ‘informed consent’

    ·      How to include vulnerable groups and individuals in the research process?


    Prerequisites:     The course targets PhD students working within health and sport sciences

    Literature: Selected peer-reviewed articles and book chapters will be announced to the participants in appropriate time before the course

    Evaluation: Active participation and completion of course exercises


  • Organizers: Professor mso, Sine Agergaard, sine@hst.aau.dk and associate professor Charlotte Overgaard, co@hst.aau.dk

  • Lecturers: Organizers and assistant professor Verena Lenneis

  • ECTS: 1,6

  • Time: 2.-3. December 2021, 9-16

  • Place: Online via Teams - Click here to participate

  • Zip code: 9220

  • City: Aalborg East

  • Number of seats: 20

  • Deadline: 12 November 2021

Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce 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 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. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.