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Framing the PhD project: How to connect parts to a whole in a paper-based dissertation within organization and management studies? - 2 ECTS
Date and time
Wednesday 11 October 2023 at 09:00 to Thursday 12 October 2023 at 16:00
Registration Deadline
Wednesday 13 September 2023 at 23:55
Location
Kilen - room KL4.74 (fourth floor),
Kilevej 14A,
2000 Frederiksberg
Kilen - room KL4.74 (fourth floor)
Kilevej 14A
2000 Frederiksberg
Framing the PhD project: How to connect parts to a whole in a paper-based dissertation within organization and management studies? - 2 ECTS
Course coordinator: Signe Vikkelsø, Department of Organization (IOA)
Faculty
Department of Organization, CBS
Department of Organization, CBS
Prerequisites
To participate, the PhD student must be conducting a PhD project within the field of organization and management studies. Priority is given to MOST PhD students in the final year of their project. Each student must submit a max. 3 page presentation of the following core elements in the framework of their PhD dissertation: a) Overall thesis narrative: what is the story in a nutshell? b) State-of-the-art and overarching research question; c) Overall theoretical approach and research design; d) The role of each paper in the narrative?
Deadline for submission of paper is 4 October at noon via Canvas.
Aim
A core challenge in the paper-based dissertation is to ensure that the papers are connected, e.g. that they relate to an overarching research question, supplement each other in a systematic manner, and enable a solid conclusion – without being too overlapping. The course focuses on establishing robust linkages between papers in a PhD dissertation by composing and writing an effective framework (”kappe”). This is a creative and experimental process that entails moving back and forth between whole and parts and identifying an effective – i.e. clear and interesting – narrative within the disicplinary domain of the project. Participants will learn what is expected by different types of readers of a dissertation within the field of organization and management studies, and how they can craft a framework that meets these expectations.
Course content
The course adopts a pragmatist approach to composing a coherent paper-based dissertation in a given research domain. It centers on the question: how can a framework be written to interest readers and withstand “assaults from a hostile environment” (Latour, 1987)? Four tools are presented: “framing” (what is the domain and approach of the dissertation?), “storyline” (what is the relationship, logic structure, or golden thread across papers?), “enrolment” (how to make readers interested and minimize objections?), and “narration” (what is the type of story to tell, and how to tell it in what time and space?). The participants will employ the tools to each others’ framework outlines in order to make them most effective.
Teaching style
The course runs as a mixture of lectures and facilitated breakout sessions where participants give and receive feedback on the composition of their PhD frameworks.
Lecture plan
October 11
09.00-09.30: Welcome and introduction lecture Signe Vikkelsø
09.30-10.30: Lecture: The core constituents and role of the frame in a paper-based dissertation Signe Vikkelsø
10.30-10.45: Coffee break
10.45-12.00: Break-out sessions: Discussion of participants’ outlines
Faculty present in each session
12.00-12.30: Lunch break
12.30-14.00: Lecture: Constructing coherence among parts (what’s the story?) Anne Reff Pedersen
14.00-14.15: Coffee break
14.15-15.45: Break-out sessions: Discussion of participants’ outlines
Faculty present in each session
15.45-16.00: Wrap up
October 12
09.00-10.30: Lecture: Who are you writing for? Selecting and understanding your readers Signe Vikkelsø
10.30-10.45: Coffee break
10.45-12.00: Break-out sessions: Discussion of participants’ outlines
Faculty present in each session
12.00-12.30: Lunch break
12.30-14.00: Lecture: How to tell the story? Genres and temporality
Anne Reff Pedersen
14.00-14.15: Coffee break
14.15-15.45: Break-out sessions: Discussion of participants’ outlines
Faculty present in each session
15.45-16.00: Wrap up and goodbye
Learning objectives
- To understand the core elements of a paper-based dissertation and what characterizes an effective “framework” in organization and management studies.
- To identify the overarching narrative of the participants’ own PhD dissertations and how the framework can be crafted to make this narrative clear and compelling.
Exam
N/A
Course Literature (incomplete)
· Howard Becker (1986) Writing for Social Scientists: How to start and finish your thesis, book, or article. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, Chapter 3: One Right Way, pp. 43–67.
· Murray S. Davis (1971) That's Interesting!: Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1(2), pp. 309–344.
· Bruno Latour (1987) Science in Action, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Chapter 1: Literature, pp. 21–63.
· Richardson, L. (2000). Writing: A Method of Inquiry. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd edition. Sage, pp. 923–948.
· Reading the text of the participants
Select payment methods:
CBS students: Choose CBS PhD students and the course fee will be deducted from your PhD budget.
Students from other Danish universities: Choose Danish Electronic Invoice (EAN). Fill in your EAN number, attention and possible purchase (project) order number. Do you not pay by EAN number please choose Invoice to pay via electronic bank payment (+71).
Students from foreign universities: Choose Payment Card. Are you not able to pay by credit card please choose Invoice International to pay via bank transfer.
Please note that your registration is binding after the registration deadline.
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Organizer Contact Information
CBS PhD School
Nina Iversen
Phone: +45 3815 2475
ni.research@cbs.dk
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Organizer Contact Information
CBS PhD School
Nina Iversen
Phone: +45 3815 2475
ni.research@cbs.dk