Multimodal Methods in Business Studies and Education
- 5 ECTS credits
- Academic year 2025-2026
- DP00BE38
Education information
Implementation date
08.06.2026 - 12.06.2026
Enrollment period
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Education type
Field-specific studies
Alternativity of education
Optional
Location
Venue location
University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland (Face-to-face) Leaf Research Infrastructure (https://www.oulu.fi/en/research/research-infrastructures/leaf-research-infrastructure)
Enrollment and further information
Application period: 1st November 2025-15th April 2026. Notification of acceptance by e-mail 30th April 2026.
- Applicants will enroll to the course by submitting an application via Webropol-link by 15th April, 2026.
- Applicants will be sent instructions for writing the pre-assignment when they are notified about course acceptance.
- The deadline for pre-assignment is on May 15th.
Education description
We are welcoming applications for the KATAJA doctoral course Multimodal Methods in Business and Education, taking place at Oulu Business School and organized in interdisciplinary collaboration in June 2026.
If your research deals with complex human behavior, interaction, learning, communication, and you are collecting, analyzing and integrating different modes of data (e.g., physiological, textual, behavioral) for your research or data from multiple sources, this course can give you new understanding and tools.
Why join this course?
By learning from leading national and international scholars, you will learn how multimodal methods support approaching interdisciplinary research problems and thinking, and how to apply multimodal methods to your own doctoral project. You can work with researchers from different backgrounds, explore interdisciplinary perspectives in business and education and expand your academic network. The course strengthen your methodological choices for your dissertation.
Learning goals of the course
- Adopting an interdisciplinary mindset
- Identifying and ideating interdisciplinary research problems
- Applying interdisciplinary multimodal methods at research infrastructures (e.g., LeaF)
- Learning about the ethical considerations related to the multimodal methods
- Understanding the research process related to multimodal methods
Teachers
The learning in this course is supported by national and international leading scholars in their fields, such as:
Magnus Söderlund, Tapio Seppänen, Haoyu Chen, Jonna Malmberg, Héctor J. Pijeira-Díaz, Justin Edwards, Eeva-Liisa Oikarinen, Azzurra Morreale, Egle Gedrimiene, Antti Siipo.
History of the course
This 5-day course has been developed through collaboration across several units at the University of Oulu, including the Faculty of Education and Psychology, the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, and LeaF Research Infrastructure. The course has been designed and piloted in 2024 December by Jonna Malmberg, Tapio Seppänen, Antti Siipo, Eeva-Liisa Oikarinen, and Mohsin Abdur Rehman.
This course helps you think out of the box and across disciplines, engage with rich and layered data, and see new possibilities for your own research.
One participant (Julia Autio) from the pilot course in December 2024 described the course like this:
"Attending the course strengthened my methodological understanding and opened my eyes to the possibilities interdisciplinary research can offer. The lectures and teaching sessions were brilliant, but I gained the most from our reflective morning coffees and learning tasks. It was inspiring to hear about others’ work. The course was very well organized, and I would warmly recommend it to all doctoral researchers interested in understanding and applying multimodal methods in their research.”
More information
Multimodal methods in business studies and education course –description (https://kataja.eu/events/multimodal-methods-in-business-studies-and-education/) and from course coordinators.
Course coordinators: Eeva-Liisa Oikarinen: eeva-liisa.oikarinen@oulu.fi or Mohsin Abdur Rehman: mohsin.abdurrehman@oulu.fi