COURSE DESIGN
A significant portion of my PhD research (and training) took place during a series of SARS-Cov2 pandemic lockdowns and restrictions, which also impacted the availability of PhD courses. With colleagues, co-organizing our own PhD courses became a way to both supply training in and connect around shared research interests and concerns. Please note: The courses were a one-time offer (but I can probably supply syllabi and some resources upon request).
FEMINIST AND POSTCOLONIAL STS
4 ECTS. (Link). Offered at the IT University of Copenhagen in August 2021.
"This course explores the development of feminist and post-colonial perspectives, and how these have manifested within STS, often referred to as ‘feminist technoscience’. Such perspectives have gained importance for exploring how the logics and values embedded in digital technologies, digitalisation processes, data, knowledge and work practices impacts individuals, groups and society."
SCALING DEVICES: METHODS AND CONCETPS FOR APPROACHING SCALE IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
2 ECTS. (Link). Offered at the IT University of Copenhagen in November/December 2021.
"The aim of this PhD course is to facilitate, through concepts and methods, an attention to how scales and scaling manifest within the sites and research landscape in which PhDs conduct their fieldwork today. Many PhD projects are accountable to or have the ambition to address large concepts, problems, ideas or trends, such as “culture,” “digitalisation,” “post-factual society,” “healthcare,” “welfare,” or “development. But these concepts can also lose touch with or remain quite distant from empirical material gathered in specific sites and places where our research takes place. By attending to the scaling devices of our interlocutors as well as our own, this course explores how relations between what is perceived or constructed to be large and small are done in practice and how these relations of scale might be reimagined."