PhD week

NVivo is a powerful tool for organizing and structuring your material for qualitative analysis. Learn how to code and retrieve in NVivo and get an introduction to useful NVivo functionalities.

Open research is the new normal, but how to navigate this landscape? This course will help you map out some key concepts by giving you an introduction to UiO policies, infrastructure, and support for open research.

Learn about what Data Management Plans (DMPs) are and how to write one!

Zotero is a smart reference and research tool suitable for collaboration. In this workshop, you will learn how to collect, organize, and share your bibliographies, cite as you write, and mark up and annotate your research material. 

The PhD week program offers introductory and advanced courses in theories of knowledge, research ethics and methods, as well as writer's hours and skills-oriented courses and workshops - and social events.

Advanced course in Research Ethics: Course participants will learn about and discuss various kinds of fieldwork in different social and political settings. This includes attention to how we navigate the sometimes conflicting demands between open science and the ethical imperative of protecting informants and anyone else contributing to data gathering in the field.

This workshop gives an overview of the elements and genre expectations of the curriculum vitae (CV) and time for hands-on work developing the participant’s own CV.

Learn how your research paper can benefit from a strategic use of storytelling to make it clear, engaging, and readable.

Are you writing something? Of course you are! Join Writer's Hours, a low threshold, socially guaranteed artificial environment for concerted writing during HF PhD Week and get some work done!

Advanced course in Research Ethics: Scholars in the humanities are expected to contribute knowledge to the society. Their work and insights often call for or aims at social change. This course critically examines research for social change and debates about scholar activism.

Advanced course in methods: This is part two of a two part course on texts in historical contexts. Each course can be taken independently, but it is strongly recommended to take both. 

The compulsory course for all PhD candidates takes a broad approach to ethical issues in the humanities. It ensures that all candidates are familiar with the norms that constitute and regulates scientific practice and secures research integrity.

How do young researchers write clear and well formulated research descriptions? How do they get funding for their research projects? This one-day workshop aims to provide young researchers with the necessary tools to write competitive applications and get funding.

Advanced Course in Theories of Knowledge: This course seeks to equip PhD candidates doing research into social and political issues to understand the epistemological assumptions underpinning adjacent research in the social sciences. It invites them to reflect on the formulation of research questions, case selection and ambitions for generalisation in their own research. The goal is to make PhD candidates able to critically reflect on the various ways to generalise, and what may be useful and relevant in their own research. 

Advanced Course in Theories of Knowledge: Scholars in the humanities generate knowledge for society in a variety of ways and engaging with several disciplines when doing so can sometimes yield particularly novel, path-breaking research. This advanced course in theories of knowledge critically examines the virtues and limits of working across disciplines.

Advanced course in theories of knowledge: This is part one of a two part course on texts in historical contexts. Both can be taken independently, but it is strongly recommended to take both. 

Are you writing something? Of course you are! Join Writer's Hours, a low threshold, socially guaranteed artificial environment for concerted writing during HF PhD Week and get some work done!

This compulsory course for all PhD candidates at the Faculty of Humanities introduces foundational problems of knowledge-production in the humanities.

Advanced course in methods: Archives are collections of documents and institutions that preserve them. What have been kept, for what purposes, by whom, and how can they be accessed? And how does asking these questions help students of the present and the past shape new research questions and design more thoughtful and better research projects? This course seeks to enable students to engage with the epistemic problems presented by archives. What is it possible to know and represent through archival sources, and what are the limitations to what can be known?  

Advanced Course in Research Ethics: Ethics is essential to good scientific practice. However, rapid technological advances produce new challenges for research ethics. This advanced course in Internet Research Ethics covers both a reflection on norms and an examination of practical, real-world dilemmas with the aim to promote responsible and ethically justifiable research practice.

Are you writing something? Of course you are! Join Writer's Hours, a low threshold, socially guaranteed artificial environment for concerted writing during HF PhD Week and get some work done!