The 2024 summer school will focus on research about and co-creation with people in vulnerable positions. The course provides 5 ECTS credits and has been developed especially for this summer school.

Research has during the last decades focused more and more on giving voices to and collaborating with people in vulnerable positions – both as informants and as stakeholders in the research process. This focus and the associated processes have challenged both the more traditional perception of informants as objectives in the research process and the researchers’ position as the person managing the research process alone or together with colleagues from academia. Besides it has entailed different and new ethical and practical dilemmas in the research process when involving or co-producing with people who are stigmatized and/or challenged by several physical, mental and/or social issues in their lives.

The summer school will be based on key-note presentations, the participants’ research experiences/reflections and the papers produced by participants for the summer school. The key-note presentations, the discussions and the papers will all focus on the possibilities and the challenges when including people in vulnerable positions as informants and as stakeholders.

The keynotes will present methodological, theoretical, ethical, and experienced-based issues within the overall topic and will through discussions include participants’ experiences. This will be further explored in the parallel sessions where students’ papers will be discussed and given feedback from senior researchers and participating doctoral students in smaller groups. All student papers must relate to both their research and the overall topic of the summer school. 

The summer school will each day contain a mixture of keynote presentations related to the perspectives of the overall topic and workshops where the PhD students present and discuss their papers under the guidance of experienced researchers or keynote speakers. Paper will receive feedback from fellow doctoral students and 1-2 senior researchers during the summer school. 

Price

The prize is all-inclusive covering transportation from and to the airport (42 km each way), accommodation and all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee breaks) during the summer school. Single room: 3800 Danish kroner (€470). Sharing a double room: 3400 Danish kroner (€455) pr. person.

Participation in the summer school is free.

Number of seats

The maximum number of participants is 25.

The international NBSW Steering Committee will assess all applications and make the final selection of participants.  

Organising committee

The XV Nordic-Baltic Doctoral Network Summer School is organised by Aalborg University in cooperation with the coordination group of the Nordic-Baltic Doctoral Network in Social Work.

Application form

Please fill in the application in PhD Moodle until May 12, 2024 (midnight) at the latest.

Preliminary paper instructions

Paper: 5 ECTS credits (4000-5000 words).

Papers and presentations must connect the participant’s doctoral research project with the theme of the summer school.

Key dates

Application deadline:	12 May at midnight
Decision about participation:	31 May
Literature list for reading:	31 May
Registration deadline:	14 June
Paper submission deadline:	22 July 3 pm CET
Summer school start:	19 August

Contact

If you have any questions regarding the PhD course, please contact the PhD School.