Creative research design and practices

Welcome to Creative research design and practices

Program: General Course

Description:

Research is never a fixed phenomenon. Its practices are subjected to change, creating different variations across time and cultures. Methods, analysis, and demonstrations vary according to scientific paradigms, habits, and customs, as well as expectations and demands. In current medical research RCTs, IMRAD articles and evidence based represents the dominating form of research design, presentation, and analytical practices. But there are things emerging in the shadows and in the outskirts. Other forms of data and data collection, of presentation and communication, and of thinking about and thinking with, are finding their way into research practices. Creative forms that may or may not be justified. Some are artistic and aesthetic, some are personal and playful, some are fictional and speculative.

In this course we will present and discuss some of this alternative research practices, such as Creative Analytical Practices, Speculative Methods, Art-based Inquire, etc. The purpose is to understand some of these practices, to assess their value, and their feasibility and validity as science, and to deliberate on their possibilities and limitations.

The course is organised with four full day sessions. Each session consists of lectures, exercises, and workshop activities. The students will also try out some creative forms themselves and produce a presentation in the time between the first and second set of dates.

During the course, the participants will have a chance to enhance their general understanding of science and scientific research, and to find out, if this road less travelled, is one they would like to pursue or if they are content just knowing that it is there.

Organizer: Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus, Lars Domino Østergaard

Lecturers: Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus, Lars Domino Østergaard + guest researchers

ECTS: 3

Date: 16, 17, 29, 30 April 2026

Time: 08.15-16.15

Place: Aalborg University, Selma Lagerløfs Vej 249, 9260 Gistrup

Rooms: 16 & 17 April: 14.01.004, 29 April: 12.01.054, 30 April: 11.00.033

City: Gistrup

Number of seats: 25

Deadline: 26 March 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.