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Researching Professions: Contexts, Practices, and Collaboration

The course consists of lectures, seminars and assignment relating to five major themes, discussing basic approaches and theories in research of professions, their contexts, practices, and collaboration and, as well as contemporary trends affecting professional work and contexts.

Course information

Number of credits

7.5 credits

Given by

Department of Social Studies

Open to

Admitted to doctoral studies.

Teaching language

English

Location

Växjö or Kalmar

Next course occasion

Not decided

Study rate, or the equivalent

50 %

Prerequisites

To be eligible to entry the course, the student is required to be admitted to doctoral studies.

Teaching method

The course consists of lectures, seminars, and assignment.
The course can be attended via Zoom.

Subject

Pedagogics, Social Work, Sociology, Political Science and Sport Science.

Course content

The course includes five major themes:

  1. Approaches to the analysis of professions.
  2. Professional work and current trends: managerialism, evidence-based practice and AI.
  3. Changes in professional discretion performed through organisations and institutions.
  4. Interprofessional collaboration and boundary work.
  5. Individual student specialization, in which the student may choose to read in depth either on a certain theme in theory and research on professions, or on a specific profession.

Read more about the course's objectives, course literature, etc. in the course description.

Course description