The course How to train professionals on gender and sexuality issues is aimed at postgraduate students in the humanities (including education), in particular anyone who is or will be training or encountering issues related to gender and sexual minorities and/or domestic violence in their work.
The course covers the following topics:
Physical sex characteristics, legal and cognitive gender
Assessing sexual behaviour and addressing it
Relationship models outside of cisheteromono-norm
Addressing relationship abuse and principles of treating it
Self-care for professionals: support, referrals, learning
The course will be taught (on-site only) by Lyoshka Gerassimenko (Tallinn/Tartu) in May, 2024. The course can accommodate up to 20 students. If there is room in the group, undergraduate students and staff will also be admitted. Registration is open at Peppi, where the course can be found under the code HY00AT33-3001. The course is in English.
DP00AT62 Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling (2 ECTS)
This course will introduce the basics of structural equation modeling (SEM) and how to apply SEM for different types of research problems, especially in the fields of educational sciences and psychology. Analyses covered will include confirmatory factor analysis, path and regression models, tests of measurement invariance, and multi-group modeling. Open source SEM software, Jamovi, will be used (https://www.jamovi.org/). Also principles of and examples on how to report and visualize results will be given.
The course is intended for doctoral researchers (max. 20 participants) mainly in the fields of educational sciences and psychology, but doctoral researchers from other disciplines interested in the topic are also welcome. Requirements: basics of statistics.
Aims
After completing the course, the student is able to: - understand the basics of structural equation modeling (SEM) - use applicable statistics software (e.g., Jamovi) for basic SEM analyses (e.g., confirmatory factor analysis, path and regression models, invariance testing, and multi-group modeling) - report and visualize results from SEM analyses - apply basic SEM analyses to their own data
Activities and participation
The course includes four parts:
1) Preparatory reading of the topic and videos related to the basic use of Jamovi are provided in Moodle before the lectures start.
2) Two-day (2 x 6 h) intensive teaching; interactive participation either online or locally in Oulu (Kontinkangas campus), 1.-2.10.2024 at 10–16.
3) Independent work on a course assignment.
4) An online summary lecture at the end of the course, 31.10.2024 at 10–13.
The language of instruction is English.
Grading: Pass/fail
Lecturers
The course is given in collaboration with the University of Eastern Finland and Åbo Akademi University. Lecturers: Prof. Markku Niemivirta (UEF) and Prof. Johan Korhonen (ÅA). Tutors: Prof. Riikka Mononen (UO), Academy Research Fellow, Dr. Heta Tuominen (UEF), and Prof. Jaana Viljaranta (UEF).
Registration
Registration is open at Peppi from 2.7.2024, where the course can be found under the code DP00AT62.
If you have any questions or need more information, please email: Riikka Mononen (riikka.mononen@oulu.fi)
Instructors: Jonas Ahlskog (Åbo Akademi), Paul Roth (UC Santa Cruz), Chris Lorenz (Free University of Amsterdam), Georg Gangl (University of Oulu/Ostrava University)
Course dates and lecture hall:16.-17.12.2024, Lo130
Credits: 5 ECTS
Target group: Doctoral researchers in any field of the human sciences
Registration: Through the Peppi course code DP00AU74
In recent years, an intense debate has been going on in historiography and its philosophy about the goal and perspective of the discipline: Should the historian aim at describing the past in the way historical actors experienced it, i.e. should they try to gain insight into their actions and the reasons for their acting? Or should they make full use of their perspective in the future of the past and describe it with the help of hindsight in ways the historical actors never could have? Each of these positions comes with its own problems: Historiographic insight is faced with questions about the epistemic possibility and desirability of taking the perspective of past actors, and historiographic hindsight is confronted with questions about the legitimacy of anachronistic and presentist descriptions of the past.
The aim of the course “Hindsight and Insight: Historical Perspective between the Past and Present” is to introduce students to this central debate in historiography and its philosophy and to enable them to critically engage with the material and take their own reasoned stance on the questions at stake.
As such, this course is particularly aimed at students in the Humanities and Education degree programmes where questions of hindsight and insight, and with the latter also empathy, are of central concern. Yet, students from Business and Human Geography can also benefit from the course, given that insight into the perspective of people past and present and retrospective redescriptions of their behaviour play a central role in their respective fields as well.
Course Structure and Course Requirements
There is compulsory reading for each session to be read beforehand. Each session is let by one of the instructors and will begin with an introduction to the topic by the instructor. The rest of the session is dedicated to questions and free-form discussion of the topic of the session, based on the assigned texts.
Attendance in class and contribution to the discussion will account for 25% of the overall mark. The final essay will count for the remaining 75%. Modalities and topics of the essay will be discussed during the course, and essays will be graded by Georg Gangl.
For more information, please see Peppi under the course code DP00AU74.
DP00AU65 Multimodal Methods in Education and Business Studies, 5 ECTS
The nature of social interactions in different business or learning contexts is getting more complex due to technological developments (e.g., emerging human-AI collaborations). This complexity necessitates the need for interdisciplinary research mindset and methods, which provide contemporary multimodal views of exploring multidimensional complex human data. This course introduces and integrates individual modalities (e.g., physiological data; eye-tracking, heart rate, EDA; electrodermal activity, or video/audio data) to understand the social interactions in business or learning contexts (i.e., human-human and/or human-technology). This course offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, enhancing understanding of multimodal methods and research through diverse perspectives.
This course is targeted to doctoral researchers in different education and business fields, including Educational Psychology, Educational Sciences, Management, International Business, Economics, Marketing, Business Analytics, Accounting, and Finance. We also welcome potential doctoral students, and postdoctoral researchers in the University of Oulu. Individual highly motivated doctoral students from other universities in Finland are also encouraged to participate in this course.
Learning objectives
Adopting interdisciplinary mindset
Solving interdisciplinary research problems through multimodal methods at research infrastructures (e.g., LeaF)
Learning about the ethical considerations related to the multimodal methods
Applying interdisciplinary multimodal methods in your research project
Understanding the research process related to multimodal methods
Time and place
09 to 13 December 2024, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland (Face-to-face)
This is a 5-day, which collectively provide insights into the multimodal methods and potential use in your own research. Your learning will be supported by national and international leading scholars in their fields:
Day 1: Introduction to interdisciplinary mindset (09 Dec)
Day 2-3: Hands-on exercises: Planning and demonstrating multimodal data collection at LeaF (10-11 Dec)
Day 4-5: Multimodal data analysis/interpretations of results and understanding the added value of multimodal methods in your research (12-13 Dec)
Evaluation
Attendance and active participation in course activities and post-course assignment (Pass/Fail)
Course convenors: Docent, Dr. Eeva-Liisa Oikarinen, Associate Professor Jonna Malmberg, Prof. Tapio Seppänen, Antti Siipo, and Mohsin Abdur Rehman.
Teachers
Professor Richard Bagozzi does basic research into human emotions, decision making, social identity, ethics, theory of mind, theory of action, and neuroscience. This work has been applied to the study of consumers, patients, doctors, salespersons, managers, military officers, and organizations. He also does research into multivariate statistics and its relationship to measurement, construct validity, theory, hypotheses testing, and the philosophy of science. The methods he uses include experimentation, survey research, and qualitative research. Recently he has investigated biological bases of manager and consumer behavior by use of fMRI and EEG analyses and genetic and hormonal methods. He has received Thomson Reuters recognition for ranking among the top 1% most cited researchers between 2002 and 2012.
Professor Magnus Söderlund is a professor of marketing and head of the consumer research unit. His research interests are often related to consumer marketing that utilizes experimental methods and how different marketing activities affect consumers, especially their satisfaction, more recently in virtual customer encounters. His studies have also used Face-reader analytics to analyze emotional reactions from video images and analyzed the emotional and cognitive elements of textual linguistic expression LIWC and their connections to customer satisfaction. He will introduce students to the potential related to these methodological approaches.
Professor Tapio Seppänen is a professor of biomedical engineering, and he is leading The Physiological Signal Analysis research team. The team's expertise includes biomedical engineering, digital signal processing, image analysis and machine learning algorithms. Research on biomedical signal analysis is focused on cardiovascular signal processing (multi-channel ECG and heart rate variability), cardio-respiratory signal processing, and autonomic nervous system signal processing. In exercise physiology domain, the focus of their research during the last 20 years has been to develop novel methods for analysis of cardiovascular function motivated by multimodal physiological signals and to apply those methods to the experimental physiology in healthy subjects and different patient populations. They have done research on affective computing in which algorithms for detecting human emotions from physiological signals have been in focus. Seppänen is providing one of the keynote lectures on the selected topics related to physiological signal analysis from multimodal perspective.
Dr. Jonna Malmberg works at the University of Oulu, in Learning and Learning Processes (LLP) Research Unit and is also member of Learning and Educational Technology (LET) Research Unit. She was appointed as an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the GenZ strategic profiling theme Co-evolution of humans and new technologies in the emerging digital era. Jonna´s research is focuses on strategic and self-regulated learning in solo and collaborative learning settings. Also, Jonna explores how to support strategic and self-regulated learning with the use of adaptive technologies. Recently, she has been exploring how physiological data, such as electrodermal activity is connected to self-regulated learning in individual and collaborative learning settings and how to help learners to develop their learning skills.
Dr. Eeva-Liisa Oikarinen has studied the dynamics of human-to-human marketing and especially the importance of human aspects in virtual customer service encounters. She has studied humor and its limits, playfulness and joking in various business interaction situations, such as in recruitment advertising, service encounters, and innovation management. Her research has been published in several journals such as European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Service Management, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services among others. Currently Oikarinen is responsible leader of the project, funded by Foundation for Economic Education with the aim of facilitating business interaction research in LeaF infrastructure in the University of Oulu. Oikarinen has project management experience for innovative research openings (HURMOS-Humour tools for innovative business 2015-2017). She holds a previous master's degree in biophysics with experience in the analysis of biosignals, which gives her fertile background in efforts to explain the interaction phenomena of marketing with biology.
Dr. Annmarie Ryan's research interests relate to Partnering between corporate and nonprofits for innovation, Market innovation and innovation process, and Network effects regarding the role of Cities of Culture shaping corporate engagement. In this course, she will concentrate on facilitating participants interdisciplinary abilities; interdisciplinary collaborative capacity and she will arrange a workshop about this theme for students participating course. She has earlier experience on leading workshops on the topic: Workshop "How resilient am I?" for postdocs and PhD students | Patio (oulu.fi).
Dr. Azzurra Morreale acts as an associate professor at LUT University, School of Business and Management, where she is also Head of Viipuri Lab since February 2021. She has been awarded the Title of Docent (Strategic financing, Economic behavior and Decision-making) in the same School for the period September 2021 - 31 August 2026. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management from University of Palermo (Italy). She is also a member of CEEL (Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory), Department of Economics, Management University of Trento (Italy). She has been a visiting scholar at the University of California Santa Cruz (USA), and she is a regular visiting scholar at University of Trento (Italy). She is particularly specialized in behavioral experimental and quantitative methods, and she has applied such methods to several financial and economics contexts (e.g., real options testing, crowdfunding, organizational exploration-exploitation dilemma, tax compliance, among others).
Data Management and Protection for Human Sciences (October – November 2023)
Wondering how to comply with data protection requirements? Not sure how to organize and store your data securely? In doubt whether any additional measures are needed to protect vulnerable participants in your research?
Data management and protection specialists from the University of Oulu are offering a practical hands-on course to prepare for research projects involving human data and to meet the necessary legal and ethical requirements.
The course will focus on the practical application of data protection principles and security measures, with some limited theoretical parts.
Participants will have the opportunity to prepare the necessary documents for their research project to be ethically and legally compliant and to get personalized guidance. E.g., Data management plan will be created by each participant to address key issues in their research project.
The course will be most useful for those who are planning their research, but all doctoral researchers are welcome to attend. No previous knowledge is required. The course is suitable for those working with various human data (such as audio-visual data, registry data, interview, and questionnaire materials) and participants (children, adults, vulnerable individuals).
Mode of delivery: Face to face. Participants should bring their own laptops.
Target group: Doctoral researchers in any field of human sciences. Maximum number of participants is 20.
Language of instruction: English
Credits: 1 ECTS
Grading: Pass/Fail
Registration: through Peppi course code DP00AN06.
Schedule and place:
Tuesday 31 October, 10.00 – 12.00, room Lo104
Data management + Data storage and sharing
Tuesday 7November, 10.00 – 12.00, room Lo107
Basics of data protection + Data protection in special cases: sensitive data and vulnerable individuals.
Tuesday 14November, 10.15 – 12.00, room Lo107
Preparing necessary documentation: risk assessment, data privacy notice, DPIA.
Tuesday 21November, 10.15 – 12.00, room Lo107
Data archiving, re-use and destruction, open science
The course is organised by the research data management and protection specialist from the Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Oulu Business School, and Faculty of Technology. If you have any questions or need more information, please email Egle Gedrimiene (egle.gedrimiene@oulu.fi).
16.-18.8.2023, University of Oulu, room Lo124, contact teaching only
3 ECTS
Course code DP00AM77
This course focuses on multidisciplinary aspects of human body and embodiment research. The body can be understood here as a living or dead one or an abstract or concrete body. How does a body function, and what a body can tell us about the individual and their life? How are language and embodiment studied in interactions and individuals’ perceptions of their own body or representations of embodiments? The course brings together doctoral researchers from different fields e.g., humanities, education, and medicine, and encourages discussions, sharing knowledge and creating new networks between different fields.
Course includes lectures (see below) and doctoral researchers’ presentations on their research projects relevant to the topic and discussions. In addition, doctoral researchers will write a short summary of their project in advance, emphasizing the body/embodiment aspect in their research. The deadline for the two-page summary is 4.8.2023.
Speakers
Hayley Mickleburgh (University of Amsterdam): Handling the Dead Body: how combined insights from the sciences and the humanities help us to reconstruct and reflect upon past experiences of death and mortuary ritual
Niina Lilja (University of Tampere): Bodies at work: Instructing manual actions at construction sites
Maarit Siromaa (University of Oulu): Ethnomethodological conversation analysis in studying human activity and social interaction in workplace settings
Taina Kinnunen (University of Oulu): Touch and affect from cultural perspective
Virve Keränen (University of Oulu): Embodiment in education
Mika Venhola (University of Oulu): Intersex - sex, gender and ethics
Registration in Peppi (University of Oulu members) is open, please register 15.6.23 at the latest. If you don’t have access to Peppi, please send email: heli.maijanen@oulu or liisa-maria.lehto@oulu.fi More detailed information on the course will be send out to the participants after the registration is closed.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask!
Voiko akateeminen tutkimus edistää inhimillisen ja ekologisesti kestävän työelämän rakentamista?
Symposiumi kokoaa yhteen työelämän ilmiöiden tutkijoita tutkijanuran eri vaiheista Oulun yliopistossa. Haastamme osallistujia pohtimaan, millä tavalla ja missä määrin akateeminen tutkimus osallistuu inhimillisen ja ekologisesti kestävän työelämän rakentamiseen.Symposiumissa kokoonnutaan aamupalan, lounaan ja iltapäiväkahvin rytmittämänä keskustelemaan tästä ja muista tutkijoita liikuttavista kysymyksistä.
Olet tervetullut esittelemään työelämään liittyvää tutkimustasi symposiumissa! Lähetä lyhyt tiivistelmä ilmoittautumislomakkeen kautta viimeistään 25.8.2023 ja valmistaudu pitämään symposiumissa 15 minuutin esitys tehdystä tai työn alla olevasta tutkimuksestasi. Tilojen ja tarjoilujen vuoksi toivomme ilmoittautumista myös muilta osallistujilta. Ilmoittautumislomake: https://link.webropol.com/s/hyva-tyo-symposiumi-1-9-23
Symposiumi alkaa Hyvä työ -verkostossa jo toimineiden tutkijoiden alustuksilla työelämän tutkimuksen keskeisistä kysymyksistä eri tutkimusalojen näkökulmista. Iltapäivä koostuu symposiumiin ilmoittautuneiden tutkijoiden esityksistä ja keskusteluista työryhmissä. Symposiumin päättää yhteenvetävä ja tulevaisuuteen katsova keskustelu.
Symposiumin järjestää Hyvä työ -verkosto UniOGS:n tukemana. Väitöskirjatutkijoilla on mahdollisuus saada 2 op osallistumalla symposiumiin ja esittelemällä omaa tutkimustaan.
Tervetuloa!
Alustava ohjelma
9.00–9.30 Aamupala ja vapaata keskustelua
9.30–11.30 Kohti monitieteistä työelämän tutkimusta
9.30 Symposiumin avaussanat (Mirka Rauniomaa ja Teemu Suorsa)
9.40 KT Heli Kiema-Junes (psykologia): Miksi moni uupuu työssään, entä miten työn imua voisi kokea?
9.55 FT Päivi Kekkonen (tuotantotalous): Monipaikkainen ja -organisatorinen työ tutkimuskohteena
10.10 FT Anna Suorsa (informaatiotutkimus): Tieto ja informaatio työnteon ytimessä: Tietotyön ideaaleista organisaation keholliseen todellisuuteen
10.25 Dosentti Mirka Rauniomaa ja FT Maarit Siromaa (kielet ja kirjallisuus): "Lääkäri otti lasit nenältään ja katsoi minuun ja sanoi..." Kieli ja vuorovaikutus työelämän arkisissa kohtaamisissa
10.40 Dosentti Teemu Suorsa (kasvatuspsykologia): Välinpitämättömyys ja sen vaihtoehdot organisaatioarjessa
10.55 Dosentti Arto Reiman (tuotantotalous): Miten toimintaa muutetaan? Osallistavan suunnittelun lähtökohdat ja käytänteet
Multidisciplinary Doctoral Student Course 6-9 November 2023
Layers of time, place and landscape: Multidisciplinary perspectives
We warmly invite doctoral students from Humanities, Business and Economics, Education and Human Geography as well as Engineering to participate in a doctoral student course on time, place and landscape. During the course we discuss the latest methodological solutions for studying the interrelations between time, place and landscape and hear keynote lectures on topics of e.g., linguistic landscapes, sensory geographies, virtual places, and Indigenous landscapes. We learn how to study the ways people experience both virtual and real landscapes and places. The topics are discussed in the classroom, during urban trekking and at two excursions in Oulu region.
The course will be organized at the University of Oulu, Tellus Backstage, between 6-9 November 2023. Contact teaching only. 5 ECTS. Course code DP00AM92-3002: Layers of time, place and landscape
Maximum number of participants: 15
The course includes lectures (see below) and doctoral researchers’ presentations on their research projects relevant to the topic as well as discussions. In addition, doctoral researchers will write a short summary of their project in advance, emphasizing the topics of the course, and read the assigned articles. The deadline for the 3-page summary is 2 October 2023.
The speakers are:
Marxiano Melotti is professor of Contemporary History at the University of Niccolò Cusano, Rome. His research interests include e.g. the use of the past in contemporary society, heritage tourism, edutainment, archaeology and virtual reality.
Mags Adams is a Senior Research Coordinator at the institute Citizenship, Society and Change, at the University of Central Lancashire. Her particular focus has been sensory geography, and she has recently published several works on food, cycling and other topics related to mobility and food distribution.
Leena Kolehmainen is the Professor of German language at the University of Turku. She has focused on the impacts of industry on language. Her broader research interests include linguistic landscapes and language as heritage.
Paula Alavesa, a postdoctoral researcher from the Center for Ubiquitous Computing, in the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering in the University of Oulu. She has done extensive research on hybrid spaces, gaming and virtual environments.
Kirstine Eiby Møller works at the department of Cultural and Social history in the University of Greenland. She has focused especially on decolonization, identity issues and practices and different cultural encounters and has expertise on Indigenous perceptions of place and landscape.
Registration in Peppi (University of Oulu members) is open, please register 29 September 2023 at the latest. If you don’t have access to Peppi, please send an email to tiina.aikas@oulu.fi or tuuli.matila@oulu.fi. More detailed information on the course will be sent to the participants after the registration is closed.
Python for processing and analysis of behavioral data
2 study points, timing: 2.–23.2.2023 (each Thursday 12–16 on campus)
This course is principally targeted to doctoral researchers (= PhD students) in Business and Economics, Education, Humanities, and Human Geography.
Target audience & Relevance
Any researcher (ranging from master student to full professor) who deals with behavioral data obtained in various conditions from multiple participants knows the problem. Reading in and combining the data may be laborious. This should be done automatically with a computer. Let your computer work for you!
Learning Objectives
After taking this course, the participant of the course is able to carry out automatic data processing and analysis with a computer using the Python programming language.
The course focuses on
Reading and manipulating scripts from others for own use.
String handling (e.g., being able to manipulate text with Python).
Analysis of data from a large experiment (multiple conditions, many participants) and automatic reading of data from multiple data files (participants). For example,
combining the data into group averages or
summarizing the data in one file. The method taught can be applied to data from small to large experiments.
Handling of time series data. In the course, the analysis is done on real pupillometry data from a real experiment (40 participants, each 10 trials). The obtained knowledge is generalizable to any other type of time series data (eye tracking, EEG, skin conductance etc.). Even if one does not use time series, the skills taught on this course are handy to deal with any data from any behavioral experiment.
Recommended prior knowledge
Basic Python knowledge. This knowledge may have been obtained with, e.g., the “Python for beginners” course which was held as an UniOGS course in February 2022.
Knowledge regarding the design and handling of behavioral experiments and physiological recordings may be useful. However, in other countries, there have been many participants who have successfully completed the course without this prior knowledge.
Lecturer
Dr. Ignace Hooge has a background in Physics and he received his PhD in 1996. He is an Associate Professor in Experimental Psychology at Utrecht University, Netherlands. He is particularly experienced in programming and eye tracking research. Ignace was awarded the teacher of the university award in 2015. For his publications see: https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=uSRpKW4AAAAJ
The course code in Peppi is HL00AL01-3001, and registration in Peppi will be open till 31.1.2023.
The first 15 registered for the course in Peppi will be accepted to the course. Moodle folder for the participants will open 19.1.2023 so that there is plenty of time to make some preparations needed for the course.
Are you a doctoral student looking to enhance your understanding and skills in reviewing and researching existing research and literature? Join our course on "Reviewing existing research and literature" (DP00AN05, ECTS 5) at the University of Oulu, Finland.
The course will be held in English at the University of Oulu, Finland, and is targeted at doctoral students. Course Goals:
Develop a basic understanding of different types of literature reviews
Learn the literature review process from search and acquisition to interpretation and analysis
Gain insights into methods for literature synthesis and data presentation (especially systematic literature review, bibliometric analysis, and topic modeling)
Understand the criteria for conducting a good literature review
Three international experts will deliver the course. Part 1: Marcin Bartosiak - Different types of literature review, with a focus on systematic literature review (Assistant Professor at the University of Pavia, Italy). Part 2: Mikko Moilanen - Topic modeling (Professor in Economics, School of Business and Economics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway). Part 3: Karl Joachim Breunig - Bibliometric analysis (Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University)
In recent years, it has become more and more clear that the texts that historians and other historical scientists produce do not only give us factual knowledge of the past but that they often also convey specific subjective points of view and argue for political and moral positions. Plus, they are often narrative in form, meaning they have distinct literary qualities as well. In other words, historiographic texts are complex wholes containing (at least) descriptive, argumentative, and narrative elements. These building blocks of historiographic texts and their composition have not been researched yet in any detail; at the same time, they pose the question, what is the point of historiography? Why do we research and write accounts of the past? This is the question of the rationale(s) of historiography.
“The Rationale(s) of Historiography” is a hands-on workshop/course aimed at PhD-students and interested scholars. The idea of the workshop/course is to discuss the different positions on the rationale(s) of historiography, confront them with actual historiographic texts, and to see how they fare. Texts will therefore be closely read and “dissected” layer by layer in a strongly discursive and interactive setting, paying close attention to how individual statements and paragraphs are backed up by evidence or otherwise argued for.
Visiting researcher, Associate Professor (Experimental Psychology) Ignace Hooge from the Utrecht University, is offering a Python course directed at students and researchers who want to learn to program but do not necessarily feel confident about their skills. Python is a programming language that enables one to work quickly and efficiently – and is not too difficult for a beginner to learn! (See more e.g., https://www.python.org/).
The course will be mostly hands-on, with some limited theoretical parts. Doctoral students and staff with limited programming skills or without any programming experience are welcome to attend the course. No prior knowledge of programming is needed. The course is suitable for both those who are interested in and planning to learn programming and those who perhaps have specific questions they need help with.
Mode of delivery: An average session will consist of a short lecture and hands-on working. Participants should bring their own laptops.
Target group: Doctoral students and staff in any field of human sciences. Maximum number of participants is 15.
Language of instruction: English
Credits: 2 ECTS
Registration: Registration – see Peppi and course code HL00AF42.
The course is organised by the Research Unit of Logopedics by Prof. Kerttu Huttunen, Dr. Katja Dindar and MSc, MA Aija Kotila. If you have questions or need more information, please email Aija Kotila (aija.kotila@oulu.fi).
Lecturer
Dr. Ignace Hooge has a background in Physics and he received his PhD in 1996. He is an Associate Professor in Experimental Psychology at Utrecht University, Netherlands. He is particularly experienced in programming and eye tracking research. Ignace was awarded the teacher of the university award in 2015. For publications see: https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=uSRpKW4AAAAJ
Opintojakso sopii mm. ihmistieteiden tohtoriohjelman väitöskirjatutkijoille ja opinnäytetyötään tekeville perustutkinto-opiskelijoille, jotka ovat kiinnostuneita keskustelunanalyysistä tutkimusmenetelmänä ja vuorovaikutusaineistojen tarkastelusta.
Kontaktiopetusta on 16.3.–11.5.2022 keskiviikkoisin klo 12–16. Kontaktiopetus pyritään järjestämään hybridiopetuksena, johon voi osallistua joko kampuksella tai videoyhteydellä.
FT Pauliina Siitonen ja dos. Anna Vatanen sekä mahdollisesti 1–3 muuta vierailevaa luennoitsijaa
Tavoitteet
Opintojakson kolme eri moduulia suoritettuaan opiskelija
osaa tarkastella vuorovaikutuksen keskeisiä ilmiöitä käyttäen keskustelunanalyysin peruskäsitteitä (perusteet),
osaa litteroida aidoista vuorovaikutustilanteista kerättyä aineistoa kasvavalla tarkkuudella (litterointi) ja
kykenee itsenäisesti perehtymään johonkin vuorovaikutuksen ilmiöön tai keskustelunanalyyttiseen tutkimusteemaan (syventävä).
Sisältö
keskustelunanalyysin perusteet, keskustelunanalyyttinen litterointi, perehtyminen valittuun ilmiöön tai teemaan
Suoritustavat
Suorittaakseen opintojakson kolme eri moduulia hyväksytysti opiskelijan tulee osallistua luento-opetukseen sekä pari- ja ryhmätyöskentelyyn ja tehdä erilaisia itsenäisiä tehtäviä, kuten tutustua tutkimuskirjallisuuteen (perusteet, syventävä), litteroida aineistoa (litterointi) ja valmistella lyhyt suullinen tai kirjallinen esitys valitsemastaan aiheesta (syventävä).
Toteutustavat
Opintojakson kolmeen eri moduuliin sisältyy itsenäistä työskentelyä, työskentelyä Moodlessa sekä kontaktiopetusta seuraavasti: perusteet 5 x 2 t, litterointi 3 x 2 t ja syventävä 7 x 2 t. Lisäksi opiskelijalla on mahdollisuus 2 x 1 t henkilökohtaiseen konsultaatioon opettajan kanssa.
Registration closes when the course is full or by August 5 at the latest. Further information about the course (e.g., a list of recommended readings and the link to Zoom) will be sent during week 32 to those registered on the course.
Teachers
Associate Professor Jacob Davidsen, Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark
Dr Eric Laurier, Reader in Geography & Interaction, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Professor Paul McIlvenny, Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Denmark.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the course participants will be able to
Prepare video data for transcription
Use software tools designed for the transcription and visualization of video data
Have a basic understanding of the theory and practice of transcription for social-interactional research in human sciences
Content
Practice with video-editing and transcription software, transcription of multimodal data, and discussion of theoretical and methodological perspectives on transcription and transcripts.
Schedule
Day 1 – August 22
9.45-10.00 Opening
10.00-12.00 Preparing audiovisual data
13.00-15.00 Basics of transcription
15.30-18.00 Visualising video data
Day 2 – August 23
10.00-12.00 Using transcription software
13.00-15.00 Theoretical and methodological issues
15.00-15.30 Discussion and closing
Assessment methods and criteria
Completion of the course requires attendance in the workshop and active participation in learning activities. The assessment criteria are based on the learning outcomes of the course. Evaluation scale: pass/fail.
Form of instruction
Variable learning activities and teaching methods are used. Getting acquainted with the course materials 20 h; online workshop 16 h; self-study 45 h.
Target group
Doctoral researchers from any discipline in the field of Human Sciences.
The course involves online work and two full-day workshops during 01/08–30/09/2022 (workshops on 16/08 and 25/08/2022 on campus). Between the workshop days, teams organise their activities independently.
Making Environmental Futures: Ideas, Policies, Practices
Course code: 683777J
Course dates: 8-10 December (9am-4pm)
Course credits: 5 ECTS
Course venue: On campus, University of Oulu (Tellus Galaxy/Frost Club)
Registration deadline: Friday 3 December 2021
Lecturers:
Dr Eeva Berglund (University of Oulu and Aalto University), Dr Juha Hiedanpää (LUKE), Prof Janne Hukkinen (University of Helsinki), Dr Simo Sarkki (University of Oulu), Didier Bouguignon and Vincent Reillon (European Parliamentary Research Service)
Max amount of students: 15 (first come, first serve basis)
Course content:
Environmental policy is essential for coping with, and ultimately solving, many of the challenges currently faced by the planet. However, the process of environmental policymaking itself is faced with challenges, including divergent values, lack of trust between actors, historically derived trajectories, political inaction, and sometimes a simple lack of awareness by much of the general public of how it actually works. This makes it difficult for researchers working on topics related to the environment, ecology and biodiversity to know how to approach the juggernaut of environmental policymaking.
The primary aim of this short intensive doctoral course is to enable doctoral researchers and early-career scholars to learn effective skills for communicating science to policy-relevant audiences. The course will examine environmental problems from a policy perspective, looking at what researchers and scientists can do to better engage with and speak to policy. The focus will be on both local and global environmental issues with an emphasis on EU-level and Finnish policy. The course covers: the history of environmental policymaking, how the science-policy-society system works, and policy relevance of a range of environmental issues relevant to contemporary society. The course will help students understand what constitutes effective environmental policy, and how academic research, engagement, advocacy and activism can be used to help protect the environment. It will include writing sessions where students get to work on their own ideas for environmental policies.
Doctoral researchers and advanced Master’s students (as well as interested postdoctoral scholars) from any background, interest, discipline and faculty are welcome to the course. Successful completion of the course is equivalent to 5 ECTS.
Course texts:
James Meadowcroft & Daniel J. Fiorino (eds): Conceptual Innovation in Environmental Policy. MIT Press (2017); Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century, Vig and Kraft, CQ Press (2010).
Lecturer: Dr. Jaakkojuhani Peltonen (Faculty of Social Sciences, History, Philosophy and Literature, Tampere University). Dr. Peltonen is an exceptional and international expert on Alexander the Great and his impact. In 2018, Peltonen joined the Classical Studies Department in King's College, London where he worked on a two-year contract as a Visiting Fellow. During his stay in London he focused to prepare his next two monographs about Masculine ideals and Alexander the Great: An exemplary man in the Roman and Medieval World and Justification of War in Roman Antiquity. Peltonen was an editor of the volume and co-wrote the introduction and the epilogue Lupa tappaa? — Sodankäynnin ja sotien oikeuttamisen pitkä historia (2019). Recently, Gaudeamus published his book Aleksanteri Suuri: sankari ja myytti (2021).
Course convener: University Lecturer Henry Oinas-Kukkonen;
In modern research, the question of using or abusing history is a delicate one. To put it simply, we, as scholars, tend to categorize a ‘right’ (based on facts, true in moral sense) and ‘wrong’ (popular, untrue and morally harmful) way to use history. However, this categorization itself is not written in stone and it is challenging to define when we are using properly history instead of abusing it. In addition, we must remember that in most periods of history there did not exist such concept as abuse of history. In this course we explore particularly the way past has been used to legitimate conflicts and warfare. In addition, we focus on the way certain famous individuals of the past like Alexander the Great have been set up as paragons and icons to represent ideals or set of values. Figures like Alexander have been posthumously mystified, glorified, or vilified and used as a tool in presenting subjective views and as a vehicle for political propaganda.
Learning outcomes
In this course we will learn how past has been used in different periods of history and how wars have been justified by using historical narratives. In addition, we will learn how famous individuals of the past have used for constructing identities as well as motivate conflicts. We will be reading and analyzing various source materials including both textual and visual data as rhetorical actions. We will learn to approach past and historical narratives from the perspective of use and abuse of history. We will learn methods and approach that can be applied in all periods of history. The course helps to recognize the continuity in the reasoning of wars and justification of war as well as how past has been used to justify war and aggression. It helps us to critically estimate the possible elements in our culture that maintain warfare. It also gives us information on the complexity of exemplarity of past.
Recommended reading
Blåfield, Antti (ed.), The use and abuse of history. Kustannusosakeyhtiö Siltala 2016; MacMillan, Margaret, The Uses and Abuses of History. Modern Library. 2008; Peltonen, Jaakkojuhani, Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire, 150 BC to AD 600, Routledge 2019.
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