course-schedule

Ethnografische Forschung in Theorie und Praxis (Seminar)

Inhalt: Das Seminar vermittelt Promovierenden grundlegende und vertiefte Kenntnisse der ethnographischen Forschung in Theorie und Praxis. Dabei werden zentrale methodologische und methodische Konzepte der Ethnographie behandelt und mit konkreten Forschungsbeispielen verknüpft. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf den Herausforderungen der ethnographischen Feldforschung, insbesondere im Hinblick auf Forschungsethik, Datenerhebung und -auswertung. Die Teilnehmenden entwickeln die Kompetenz, ethnographische Methoden reflektiert einzusetzen und ihre eigenen Forschungsvorhaben kritisch zu hinterfragen. Nach einer allgemeinen Einführung werden die folgenden Perspektiven spezifisch behandelt: (1) Grundlagen der Ethnographie: Konzepte und Methodologie - Historische Entwicklung und theoretische Grundlagen ethnographischer Forschung - Abgrenzung zu anderen qualitativen Methoden - Reflexivität und die Rolle der Forschenden im Feld - Zugang zum Feld: Chancen, Herausforderungen und Strategien (2) Methoden der ethnographischen Datenerhebung - Teilnehmende Beobachtung: Formen, Herausforderungen und Protokollierung - Qualitative Interviews: Narrative, problemzentrierte und Experteninterviews - Virtual/Online-Ethnographie: Digitale Felder, Herausforderungen und Chancen - Autoethnographie: Forschung aus der Innenperspektive und eigenen Erfahrung - Triangulation und Mixed-Methods-Ansätze in der Ethnographie (3) Datenanalyse und Interpretation - Ethnographisches Schreiben: Vom Feldnotizbuch zur Publikation - Theoretische Kodierung und Grounded Theory - Ethnographische Fallstudien und dichte Beschreibung - Herausforderungen der Repräsentation: Stimmen aus dem Feld, Machtverhältnisse und Ethik (4) Ethik und Verantwortung in der ethnographischen Forschung - Informed Consent und Datenschutz in der ethnographischen Praxis - Machtverhältnisse und die Beziehung zwischen Forschenden und Beforschten - Sensible Themen und vulnerable Gruppen: Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze - Wissenschaftliche Integrität und Umgang mit Forschungsdilemmata (5) Anwendung ethnographischer Methoden auf die eigene Forschung - Reflexion der eigenen Forschungsprojekte vor dem Hintergrund ethnographischer Konzepte - Diskussion von Feldzugängen, Datenerhebung und Analyse im Peer-Format - Entwicklung einer Forschungsstrategie: Verbindung von Theorie und Praxis - Herausforderungen des ethnographischen Publizierens und Schreiben für verschiedene Zielgruppen Die Themenblöcke werden miteinander verknüpft, um Querverbindungen zwischen Theorie und Praxis sichtbar zu machen. Dabei steht der Austausch über konkrete Forschungsprojekte der Teilnehmenden im Zentrum.

Interviewing in Qualitative Social Research (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Philipp Sandermann

Inhalt: Based on methods literature on qualitative data collection, the course focuses on interview techniques in the narrower sense, including exercises. Doctoral students who are doing qualitative research with a strong focus on validity, and who may want to conduct biographical interviews, semi-structured interviews, exploratory key informant interviews, episodic interviews or ethnographically embedded (participatory) interviews, and who want to produce data that can be analyzed using grounded theory, documentary method, social science hermeneutics, objective hermeneutics, supplementary sequence analyses or "post-Mayring" content analyses, may benefit most from this course.

Policy Analysis and Design An Advanced Introduction for Higher Degree Scholars (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Tobia Fattore

Termin:
Einzeltermin | Mi, 10.12.2025, 16:00 - Mi, 10.12.2025, 19:00 | Online-Veranstaltung | https://leuphana.zoom.us/j/97454950665?pwd=z0biVuvGU0kIhrtoLaa2yiEYFfwA7o.1 Meeting-ID: 974 5495 0665 Kenncode: 025065
Einzeltermin | Fr, 12.12.2025, 10:00 - Fr, 12.12.2025, 17:00 | C 14.027 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Sa, 13.12.2025, 10:00 - Sa, 13.12.2025, 17:00 | C 14.202 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | So, 14.12.2025, 10:00 - So, 14.12.2025, 17:00 | C 14.202 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The aim of this course is to equip students with the methodological tools to undertake critical policy analysis in the following ways: i) Analysis of policy, involving the examination of policy documents and processes as an object of analysis for their research. ii) Analysis for policy, involving the identification of policy options from their research. and iii) Policy design, involving the systematic processes of translating their research into actionable policy tools and instruments. Conventionally, policy analysis involves the evaluation of different public decision-making, or policy, options to address what are considered social problems or to improve decision-making. This course draws upon and questions this definition by starting from a simple distinction between analysis of policy, analysis for policy and policy design, which provides a more systematic and differentiated approach to policy analysis. Drawing upon key literatures in the policy analysis field, students will examine how different approaches to policy analysis, regardless of the field in which one is situated, can be used firstly, as a methodological component for undertaking research; and secondly, as a means through which research findings can be used to inform policy. The course involves five sessions: Session 1 Introduction: Introduces policy analysis and provides an overview of the course. Students will be introduced to different models of the policy process, how policy is both a subject and objective of research and general questions regarding the relationship between research and policy. Session 2 Analysis of Policy: This session explores how policy processes and documents can be used as analytical objects and forms of data within research, from which we can learn about a topic of interest. Various approaches to undertaking analysis of policy will be canvassed, including those drawn from interpretive (Discourse, framing and narrative approaches), post-structural (‘What is the problem represented to be’) and analytical traditions of policy analysis (which evaluate policy in terms of its stated aims and objectives). Session 3 Analysis for policy: This session explores the process of using insights drawn from research to contribute to policy processes, whether through engaging in policy debates, developing new policy ideas or contributing to existing policy frameworks. In this section of the course, various models and of undertaking analysis for policy will be discussed, including those that emphasise the role of research within policy-cycles, and those that engage in more critical-realist perspectives of the role of research for policy. Session 4 Policy Design: This component of the course reflects on how ideas and evidence generated from research can be used to inform the development of specific tools and instruments which constitute policy design. As well as canvassing typologies of policy design this aspect of the course examines the importance of stakeholder coalitions and the politics of implementation as part of the ‘doing’ of policy design. Session 5 Application: This session involves students examining how the analytical approaches introduced in Sessions 2 to 4 can be applied to the participant’s own research. Across all sessions, emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of frameworks and methods of analysis of and for policy and policy design. Together these will form a suite of concepts and methods participants can apply for their own research. This is the focussed on in this session where participants will be expected to select and apply some of these frameworks and tools to their own research topic. It is intended that in some sessions, ‘Question & Answer’ discussions with policy practitioners will be included, providing an opportunity for participants to discuss how research is utilised by those currently engaged in doing policy work.

Theorizing and Publishing from Qualitative Data (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Nora Lohmeyer

Inhalt: This applied 3-day workshop deals with the issues of publishing from qualitative research. It equips PhD candidates with an understanding of the requirements for collecting, analyzing, and presenting qualitative data that has the potential to be published in leading organization and management journals and provides hands-on insights on the practice of publishing from qualitative work. Participants also have the opportunity to reflect on and discuss their own work and get feedback on how to further develop their qualitative research. The workshop balances theoretical knowledge with practical application, providing participants with both understanding and actionable skills for successful qualitative research publication. It draws on a variety of didactic approaches, including input from the instructor, interactive elements and group discussions, group work, as well as consulting sessions.

Trustful relationality as foundation for effective transdisciplinary cooperation and co-creation (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Thomas Bruhn

Inhalt: The course teaches practical methods and concepts for organising transdisciplinary workshops in which different perspectives from science, practice and society come together. The focus is on trust, power structures, group dynamics and the role of facilitation. Participants will learn how to create an open and constructive working environment through conscious process design and psychodynamic leadership. Theoretical principles of self-organisation in complex systems are combined with practical exercises, reflection and method training. The course is aimed at researchers who moderate interdisciplinary processes and want to find a balance between their own leadership personality and participative organisation.

Course Schedule

Lehrveranstaltungen

Ethnografische Forschung in Theorie und Praxis (Seminar)

Interviewing in Qualitative Social Research (Seminar)

Policy Analysis and Design An Advanced Introduction for Higher Degree Scholars (Seminar)

Theorizing and Publishing from Qualitative Data (Seminar)

Trustful relationality as foundation for effective transdisciplinary cooperation and co-creation (Seminar)