Ansøgning til ph.d.-kurser

Language
English

Coodinator(s)
Dr. Emanuele Naboni (Adjunct Professor at the Royal Danish Academy, Contracted Professor at University of South Wales (Sydney), UC Berkeley, Norman Foster Academy, School of Sustainability).

Course description 
This course, taught in 12 universities in different countries and taught to more than 300 PhD students, aims to support Ph.D. students wishing to conduct design research and enter the academic world. The objectives of the course are four: 

1) to understand the academic world coordinates 
2) to grant breadth, fostering the development of a Ph.D. thesis Structure and other academic essays
3) to give depth to research work by converging on the development of a solid methodology and customized Research Methods (primarily for Architecture and Design but applicable to Scientific Disciplines) 
4) to address all the aspects of the Management of a Thesis and relations to stakeholders

From the introduction to conclusions, producing a Thesis Structure is a further challenge: the course, uniquely based on participants' thesis work, proposes a step-by-step guide to devising a Structure that strengths Parts and Chapters organization and connections. Either Ph.D. researchers have just started their Ph.D. or are closing it; each participant will grasp the essential, iterative process by which research questions generate Knowledge.

Critical to the Process is the vast range of Research Methods suitable for the diverse array of topics germane to Design Research (e.g. research by Design, Qualitative Research design, Correlational, Experimental, Simulation, Case Studies). When logical, participants will seek ways to marshal the benefits of two or more Research Methods applied to their investigations to build a solid Methodology. 

Weaved with Structure and Methods is the “Thesis Management.” Here, a high emphasis is placed on the "adventure" of being a research student. How to get started, get through revisions, face deadlines, and regulate the workload is addressed. The full potential of working with supervisors, the varied stakeholders (comprising industrial Ph.Ds), academic peers, and final examiners is treated. The topic of dissemination along and after the Ph.D. is also debated.

The course offers a cohesive approach that will help PhD students succeed in their academic path. 

Dates
3rd-7th of February

Calendar:
Monday
9 AM to 12 PM: Introduction to the academic world, key academic terms, structuring the thesis and its components, and focus on the Introduction and Research Goals.

Afternoon: Individual work

Tuesday
9 AM to 12 PM: Detailed examination of your thesis' core and synthesis. Principles of good academic writing and a guide to scientific production during the PhD.

Afternoon: Individual work

Wednesday
9 AM to 12 PM: Methodology - emphasizing the development of original research methods.

Afternoon: Individual work

Thursday
9 AM to 12 PM: Writing, viva, and attributes of a successful thesis. Other academic activities alongside the PhD. Time and energy management. Managing relationships with thesis stakeholders.

Afternoon: Individual work

Friday
9 AM to 12 PM: Presentation and final debates on PhD structure and Table of Contents.

Min. and max participants
Min 6 max 12 or 14

ECTS
4

Application deadline
15st of January 2025

Instructor
Anna-Vera Meidell Sigsgaard, Ph.D. 
annavera@sigsgaard.com

Course Aim

The aim of this workshop is to introduce participants to aspects of academic writing when writing academic journal articles in English. In this workshop we will pay attention to genre and function as well as some aspects of written language. The workshop also provides structured time for participants to work on their own writing; this means participants must bring a draft of their own writing to work on during the workshop.  

Throughout the workshop, participants will be introduced to generic structures of academic articles, to the function of each section of academic articles and to prominent language features. The focus of the workshop is on academic journal articles; however, it can also be useful for participants working on other kinds of academic writing, such as abstracts, conference papers, monographs, and literature reviews. These are not, however, the specific focus of this workshop.

The course incorporates a variety of instructional activities including instructor presentations, structured pair exercises, group work, as well as time for individual writing on participants’ own drafts. Typically, the instructor will introduce participants to a specific generic or language feature (or group of features), ask participants to complete related exercises that highlight this feature, then provide structured writing time for participants to work on these aspects of their own texts.  

The course will be taught in English; however, participants are welcome to ask questions and do group work in Danish.  

ECTS

3

Prerequisites

In order to participate in the workshop, participants must bring a draft of the article they wish to work on during the workshop. Participants should at least have started the writing process on an article (or if need be, a chapter in their monograph). In other words, participants should have an idea about the article’s main idea/contribution, an outline for the article as well as several paragraphs of text to work with during the three days of the workshop.   

The course works best if you have a draft of an article (at least a few pages of text from several sections – i.e. Intro, analysis, discussion) that you can work with, as these will be the basis for your revision/writing exercises. Time will be made available each day to revise, write and edit your article draft during the workshop with sparring/feedback from the other participants and from the instructor.  

Participants are expected to have a working level of written English language skills at the tertiary level. This workshop focuses on genre-specific language patterns and conventions in academic writing and is not a language/grammar course. 

Contributions
- Participants should find an example of what they would consider a good article relevant to their field of research. This must be uploaded to the online platform a week or so before the workshop. We will use these articles for analysis and comparison during some of the exercises.  
- Participants must bring a computer/tablet for working on their own and other’s drafts (remember a power cable if necessary). 

Readings
- Relevant literature and readings will be made available prior to and during the workshop.

Course Content

The workshop will cover the following topics, prioritized depending on participant needs:  

- Text structure at the whole-text, paragraph, and clause levels 
- Genre and text style in articles and papers 
- How to connect theory with data in writing (especially in your analysis/discussion) 
- Moving from more spoken-like to more written-like, academic language 
- Text density and clarity  

Suggested Program
The following is a preliminary program; content may be adjusted prior to and during the workshop based on participant levels. Adjustments may also be made underway, depending on participant requests.
The course runs over 3 days.

Day 1: Wednesday, 10:30 - 15:30
- Introduction
- Your Academic Writing Profile and purpose for writing 
- The Structure of an academic article (at the whole-text level)
- Thematic structures at the whole-text level
- What is a paragraph (and paragraph structures)

Day 2: Thursday, 9:00 - 15:00
- Stages in the introduction
- Referring to other people’s work
- Structure at the clause level (Theme-Rheme) 
- Transitions and transitional devices 

Day 3: Friday, 9:00 - 15:00
- Coherence and cohesion (making sure your sentences fit together)
- Constructing findings: connecting your data (what we see) with theory (what we know) in your analysis
- Making your language more written like
- looking at noun- groups and nominalizations

Application deadline

19th of May 2025 via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php

Language
English (or Danish if only Danish speaking students) 

Coodinator
Anders Hermund

Other lecturers
Henrik Oxvig and Jacob Bang + invited key note lecturers

Course description
The course introduces artificial intelligence in research as a potential player in the creative process. We look at A.I. text generation tools and Machine Learning where A.I. text-to-image generation is used as a possible inspiration to get started with studies of moods, spatiality and to support a reflection on the architectural vision and narratives in architecture projects. A research project in Tanzania using remote sensing and machine learning artificial intelligence will also be introduced as a case study.

We will combine philosophical, artistic, and scientific approaches in order to discuss the potentials and the potential dangers by A.I. as an instrument or agent in our daily work with art and research, and the big questions of modern society. During the course we will have reflections and discussions based on presentations from the lecturers and a reader comprising texts from Plato, Heidegger, Deleuze to modern tech philosophers like Kevin Kelly and Jaron Lanier.  We will also hands-on introduce and use A.I. tools during the course to produce material for discussion in relation to research, art, and scientific work in the individual PhD projects.

Dates
Course will be one week, with presentations Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. 
17-02-2025 - 21-02-2025

Venue
Royal Danish Academy

ECTS
3

Application deadline
17th of December 2024

Language
English

Coodinator
Sissel Olander

Other lecturers
TBA

Course description
The choice of PhD research methodology or approach(es) largely influences the results and arguments one is able to make. Within design research, during the last decades research-through-design (Frayling 1993) or more broadly practice-based approaches have been emphasized and richly elaborated. The course has a special focus on research programs and how practices of making – often described and considered as experiments – play a core role in the

development of new knowledge. During this PhD course we will give an overview of these different developments and characteristics of research-through-design - especially in a Scandinavian perspective. The course is comprised of a two-day Symposium followed by a later two/three-day Seminar. The Symposium includes: Lecturers introducing and engaging in dialogue about different perspectives on and characteristics of research-through-design – with special focus on ‘research programs’ and experiments; smaller reflective exercises and a hands-on workshop / meta-experiment to assist the participating PhD scholars in elaborating their own approach and position in relation to parts of the course literature. The later Seminar includes: group analysis, discussion and presentation – in a methodological perspective - of a collection of research-through-design PhD dissertations. Additionally, the participating Ph.d. scholars will present their own position in terms of research approach(es) and roles of the practical work, and will give and get verbal individual feedback from staff and one other student. Preparation prior to the Symposium and the Seminar will be rather substantial in terms of readings. A compendium of texts will be provided as well as examples of practice-based PhD dissertations. Each student is to read one of these dissertations intentionally matching the student’s research interests. Preparation for the Seminar also includes individually making a theoretically and practically grounded presentation of one’s own research methodology / approach(es) and giving feedback to one other student.

Dates
Symposium 26th and 27th of May
Seminar 14th and 15th of August

ECTS
5

Application deadline
26th of March

Language
English

Coordinator
Dag Petersson

Course description
Through this course, students obtain insights in the fundamentals of academic research practices. Particular focus is on crafting a proper academic object, formulating a good problem statement, structuring one’s data collection, and getting a first grasp on method, theory and analysis. This introduction is primarily for PhD-students from the art, architecture, and design schools, aiming particularly at those who are in the early phases of their projects Teaching is based on the participants’ individual project descriptions. No previous experience with academic production is expected. The goal is to critically identify each project’s inherent academic requirements and preferred strategy, and to help students meet the established academic criteria and standards from early on.

Participants should upload/submit their full PhD project description and project plan ahead.

Dates
13th-17th of January 2025

Venue
Holmen

ECTS 
3 

Application deadline
20th of December 2024

Language
English

Coordinators
Isak Worre Foged & Phil Ayres 

Other lecturers
TBA

Course description
Materials are an embedded part of design thinking, design experiments and design making, both in academia and industry. They also form a central leverage point in the transition to a sustainable society, and a core aspect of how we develop experiential phenomena for our design targets.

We engage with materials constantly, but how do we study materials, material processes and material representations in design led research?

This course focuses on illustrating and debating research strategies and methods for material studies in architecture and design. This implicates the forming of a dual research platform of both quantitative and qualitative investigations that enable new insights across the design scales.

The course is structured around 2 activities: An initiating 2-Day seminar, where invited speakers and participating PhD students will present and discuss research approaches. This is followed by a 2-Day workshop on how to advance the methodological approaches of the student specific projects.

Dates
Seminar: 19th-20th of March
Workshop: 9th-10th of April

Venue
Holmen

ECTS
3

Application deadline
1 February 2025

Language, form and ECTS
English/Danish. Lectures, exercises, discussions, 1 ECTS

Course facilitators
Margrethe “Gæk” Bredahl – Librarian – mbre@kglakademi.dk 
Søren Peter Mørch – Librarian – smor@kglakademi.dk 
Silja Attrup – Librarian – satt@kglakademi.dk

Dates
11th and 12th of March 2025 - both days from 9:00 to 15.00 with an one-hour lunch break.

Application deadline
10th of January 2025

Course description
This course is specifically aimed at PhD students in the beginning of their writing process. The course will consist of a mix of lectures, discussions, and exercises. We encourage you to share your knowledge and experiences during the course.

Part 1: Information search in specialized databases and the open web. The first part of this course will enable you to conduct advanced academic information searches. We will explore the search process from defining a strategy to evaluating and documenting your search results. You will learn how to carry out comprehensive literature searches based on your own research assignment. We will guide you through the various information seeking steps from selecting relevant search strategies and techniques to evaluating your search results.

Evaluate databases and other information resources
Set up search strategies and use various search techniques
Identify relevant types of information resources
 

Part 2: Reference management, citations, and bibliography. The second part of the course will teach you how to use a reference management tool to keep track of the literature and other sources you need for your research and how to use the tools to manage and overlook your research process.

Introduction to Zotero – please install one before the course : zotero.org
How to autogenerate citations and bibliography entries in various styles as part of your search- and writing process
Part 3: Personal Knowledge Management. We introduce the student to various methods and tools to organize all the information and data types they deal with within their three years of study.

Part 4: Publishing and sharing your research. This third part of the course will introduce you to the publishing workflow, Open Access, the PURE portal, and other aspects of the research cycle.

Open Access and copyright-negotiation with publishers
How to register your research and CV in our PURE research portal
Introduction to the publication workflow and platforms for Academic exposure and findability such as ORCID