Course 3: Doing Mixed Methods Research on Climate
Interacting with Poverty, Health and Culture, (HEMIL-UiB)

 

Course Leaders:

• Maurice B. Mittelmark , professor, Centre for Helath Promotion (HEMIL)-UiB
• Gro Th. Lie, Professor, Centre for Health Promotion (HEMIL)
• Elisabeth Fosse, Associate Professor, Centre for Health Promotion (HEMIL)

Course Description, Goals and Objectives:

This course will focus on study designs for the conduct of individual studies, and programmes of study, suitable for research in the context of climate as a force for change in poverty, health and culture. Researchers working in these arenas have traditionally gravitated towards either quantitative or qualitative research, and few researchers have all the skill needed to combine successfully the two approaches. Yet this situation is changing, and mixed methods research is finding acceptance by peers, funding agencies and journal editors. The appeal is that research combining qualitative and quantitative traditions may offer valuable insight about phenomena that would escape a researcher working in just one or the other tradition. This doctoral level course will be comprised of lectures, group work, seminars and a paper. Using their own research, background and experience, and the course readings as the main resources, the students will address three seminar topics, with students taking responsibility for preparing and leading the seminars:

1. “Pros and cons of conducting mixed methods research in doctoral research”
2. “Challenges in judging the quality of reports of mixed methods research”
3. “Communicating the advantages of mixed methods to skeptical audiences”

 

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