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ADA Summer School 2023
18 January - 3 February 2023
Full programme dates, costs and further information are listed here
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Course
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Fundamentals of Research Design and Methods
Course 2: Conducting a Literature Review: The key to a successful thesis
Course 3: Research Ethics: Understanding the ethical decision-making process in the planning and execution of research
Course 4: Project Management Principles: Planning and execution for your PhD
Course 5: Preparing for the PhD: First steps towards doctoral success
Course 6: Introduction to Quantitative Research Design and Methodology
Course 7: Academic Writing Skills for Doctoral Students
Course 8: The Productive PhD: Driving insights, overcoming blocks & making progress
Course 9: Introduction to Qualitative Research Design and Methodology
Course 10: Introduction to ATLAS.ti v9.1.5 (Windows version)
Course 11: The Fundamentals of Grant Proposal Writing
Course 12: Introduction to Data Visualization with Tableau Public
Course 13: How to Argue and Write an Effective Proposal for your Master’s or Doctorate
Course 14: Advanced Qualitative Research Design and Implementation
Course 15: Introduction to SPSS
Course 16: Good Practice in Postgraduate Research Supervision: On and off campus
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Presenter |
Prof Tim Guetterman (University of Michigan, USA) |
Duration
| 3 day course
Course takes place over the period 18 - 20 January 2023 at Stellenbosch University campus.
Delegates will be expected to be available for the programme from 08:30 - 16:30 daily (excluding tea and lunch breaks). |
Cost
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Early Bird: R6250 | Standard: R6550
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close.
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Requirements
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Delegates are expected to log in to the SunOnline system before the course commences to ensure that they have access to the module online, and can access the different sections and materials needed for the course. |
Target audience
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This course will help delegates who are developing a research proposal. It aims to provide a useful preparation for either of the week long Introduction to Quantitative or Introduction to Qualitative Research courses. It is also designed to benefit delegates who are embarking on independent research for the first time or delegates who need a refresher before starting their PhDs. For example, if you have taken time after your master’s, are changing directions, or simply need a refresher, this course provides an accessible introduction to research fundamentals. In particular, it will be helpful to delegates planning to start their PhDs imminently, who are in the early phase of their PhD, or preparing for a research degree or project.
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Course Description
This course offers a preparation on the fundamentals of research from a research methods and research design orientation, and will provide an overview of research in general along with a brief overview of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. The goal is to exit with an understanding of the basic elements of research and to be able to apply concepts to develop a research plan. The course will also prepare you for future courses, such as the Introduction to Qualitative Research or Introduction to Quantitative Research.
Our major topics include:
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Defining research
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Understanding the importance of research
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Identifying a research problem to study of appropriate scope
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Reviewing the literature
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Specifying an objective, purpose, research questions, or hypotheses
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Collecting quantitative data
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Analysing and interpreting quantitative data
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Collecting qualitative data
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Analysing and interpreting qualitative data
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Selecting a research design
- 3 Major quantitative designs
- 3 Major qualitative designs
- Mixed methods designs
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Writing and evaluating research
Course outcomes
At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
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Describe and apply fundamentals of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research to a plan or proposal
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Identify a research problem to study of appropriate scope
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Write an objective, purpose statement, aim, or research question as appropriate to your discipline
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Develop a plan for data collection and analysis
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Defend their choice of methods and research design
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Apply criteria to evaluate research
Course material
The course material are slides, which will be made available electronically through SUNOnline. Some readings will also be supplied.
Course format
The course will be delivered in-person at Stellenbosch University.
- There will be periods of lecture with time for questions and answers followed by periods to work on assigned exercises. Many of the exercises involve working on the delegates projects (e.g., writing research questions)
- Delegates may work electronically on their laptop or on the paper worksheets provided
- Delegates will be required to deliver a brief, informal presentation or your proposed or actual research design during the workshop using the assigned worksheets
- Prof Guetterman will give feedback on the research design
Presenters
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Dr Alet Olivier (Freelance academic and plagiarism consultant)
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Duration
| 3 day course
Course takes place over the period 18 - 20 January 2023 at Stellenbosch University campus.
Participants must be available on all three days between 08:30 and 16:30 (excluding tea and lunch breaks).
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Cost
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Early Bird: R6250 | Standard: R6550 SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close.
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Requirements
| Delegates are expected to log in to the SunOnline system before the course commences to ensure that they have access to the module online, and can access the different sections and materials needed for the course. Participants should have a basic understanding of the research process. It is critical to come with an idea for a research project and if possible, a topic and title for their envisaged dissertations or theses, which will also be discussed and refined throughout the course.
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Target audience
| The course is designed for postgraduate students, particularly master’s and doctoral students in the process of planning or writing their dissertations/theses, or even at the proposal/protocol phase. The course will also be useful for supervisors and researchers interested in acquiring insight in the process of designing and writing a literature review.
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Course Description
This course offers the fundamentals of the process of planning and writing a literature review of a thesis/dissertation or even at the proposal/protocol phase. The literature review as entering the scholarly conversation and engaging with the other writers’ views will entail the following aspects:
- The literature review in the proposal/protocol and a chapter in a dissertation/thesis
- The dissertation/thesis as entry into the academic debate
- The definition and functions of the literature review: Fluidity and ambiguity
- The researcher: How to deal with the anxiety of an unstructured problem
- The provenance of information
- Effective and critical reading at different levels
- Creating a note-taking system
- Complex range of skills needed for writing the review
- Characteristics of a high-quality literature review
- Conceptualisation: Understanding your topic and where a theoretical/conceptual framework fits
- Working with literatures: A knowledge-telling, knowledge constituting and knowledge transferring process
- Types of literature reviews
- Ten steps in compiling a literature review
- The literature review as critical and integrative synthesis of prior research: Who is invited to the dinner party and who will host the conversation (à la Kamler & Thomson)?
- Authorial voice and argumentation in engaging in the scholarly discourse: Build an argument, not a library
- Examiner comments on the literature review
Course Outcomes
By the end of the course participants should be able to:
- Identify the important elements of a literature review, recognise its significance in providing a review of a body of knowledge and the foundation of an academic research project in the research endeavour
- Demonstrate the purpose of a literature review within the contextualisation of the dissertation/thesis
- Understand the processes that precede the actual writing of the literature review – the provenance of information, finding sources, reading and not-taking strategies, interpretive and creative thinking
- Locate the research in the body of knowledge and uncovering existing knowledge about an area and possible gaps
- Take cognisance of the expected structure of the literature review with specific reference to the formulation and writing features on the macro-, meso- and micro levels and to present that knowledge in the form of a written report
- Understand the evaluative and integrative character of a literature review in contrast to listing sources – the difference between reviewing and listing or merely compiling information
- Apply principles of argumentation in hosting a conversation and debate with sources relevant to a particular topic or area of study to justify your own research endeavour
Course Material
Course material will be provided online and/or printed and distributed during the classes.
Course Format
Input sessions will be given by the instructor and a librarian from Stellenbosch University. Participants will have to apply thinking to their own project (literature review), provide and receive feedback in interactive sessions, and groups towards improving their own research project. Please bring your own laptops and note pads. Course material will be provided electronically.
Presenters
| Dr Henriȅtte Van den Berg (University of the Free State)
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Duration
| 1 day course
Course takes place on 21 January 2023 at Stellenbosch University campus from 08:30 to 16:30 (excluding tea and lunch breaks).
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Cost
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Early Bird: R1950 | Standard R2150 SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close.
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Requirements
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Delegates are expected to log in to the SunOnline system before the course commences to ensure that they have access to the module online, and can access the different sections and materials needed for the course. Participants should familiarise themselves with the guidelines for ethics approval of research projects at the institutions where they are registered for their study/employed as an early career researcher.
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Target audience
| The course is designed for postgraduate students and early career researchers who are in the planning stage of a research project.
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What to bring?
| An outline of your research project plan and your institutional ethics approval application document.
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Course Description
Participants will explore the guidelines for informed consent, risk mitigation as well as current issues such as the implications of the POPIA for researchers and the potential risks involved in social media and community engaged research.
Course Outcomes
During this workshop, participants will:
- Gain knowledge about the global principles that shape our understanding of ethical research
- Gain an understanding of the potential ethical dilemmas involved in social media and community engaged research
- Apply the guidelines for respect for the autonomy of research participants, beneficence and social justice to their research projects
- Prepare a draft of different sections of the ethics application document
After completion of the course, the participants will be able to understand:
Global Ethical Principles and Norm Systems Regulating Ethical Decision-Making Processes
- International documents informing ethical review processes including the Nuremberg code, Helsinki Accord, Belmont Report and UNESCO Code of conduct in social science research
- Integration of four norm systems regulating ethical decision-making
- Global ethical principles and how the principles apply to applications in different disciplines
- Positionality and potential conflict of interest in different disciplines
Informed Consent
- Key components of informed consent and exceptions to informed consent
- Criteria for the review of informed consent documentation
- Covert research processes, gatekeeper permission
- Anonymity and confidential in research studies
- Informed consent by proxy, research with children and vulnerable participants
Risk Mitigation
- Determining different levels of risk and the application of risk levels
- Measures to mitigate risk at different levels and the risk-benefit ratio
- Groups in need of special protection and layers of vulnerability
Current Issues
- The POPIA, data storage, access to and curation of research data
- Potential risks in social media and online research studies
- Unique considerations for community engaged research
Course Material
The course materials will be made available online on the day, but delegates will be required to log in before the course starts and complete the course orientation.
The course will be a combination of a presentation, small group discussion and exercises to complete and discuss.
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Presenters
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Prof Joubert van Eeden (Stellenbosch University)
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Duration
| 1 day course
Course takes place on 21 January 2023 at Stellenbosch University campus. Delegates will be expected to be available for the programme from 08:30 - 16:30 daily (excluding tea and lunch breaks).
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Cost
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Early Bird: R1950 | Standard R2150
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close.
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Requirements
| There are no prerequisites. Delegates are expected to log in to the SunOnline system before the course commences to ensure that they have access to the module online, and can access the different sections and materials needed for the course. |
Target audience
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The course is designed for PhD candidates planning to complete their research in minimum time. |
Course Description
The course will provide participants insight into the following aspects of project management: project management theory; scope management; stakeholder engagement; quality management; time management; risk management; project control and progress monitoring.
The course has a specific focus on individual research projects for participants that are involved in research towards a degree.
Course Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
- Understand how the basic principles of project management relate to individual research projects
- Argue the importance of time management within research project delivery and describe the cost and quality interdependency
- Plan a research project at a high level and provide a clear scope statement and project plan
- Apply the basic risk management process to rank and mitigate risk on research projects
- Compile a (brief) report on project progress against defined key milestones
Course Format
The presenter will use a blend of teaching and learning styles.
Course 5: Preparing for the PhD: First steps towards doctoral success
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Presenter | Dr Nicoline Herman & Prof Susan van Schalkwyk (Stellenbosch University) |
Duration
| 5 day course
Course takes place from 23 to 27 January 2023, from 08:30 to 16:30 daily (excluding tea and lunch breaks) at Stellenbosch University campus.
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Cost
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Early Bird: R8950 | Standard: R9450
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close
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Requirements | Participants
should have a basic understanding of the research process, including having
completed studies at master’s level. It is critical to come with an idea/topic
for your envisaged doctoral studies as we will work with this idea/topic
throughout the week. Delegates are expected to log in to the SunOnline system before the course commences to ensure that they have access to the module online, and can access the different sections and materials needed for the course.
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Target audience
| The course is designed for those who are in the early phase of their PhD journey, who want to understand the background and context to the doctoral process, and who seek to take intentional steps towards setting up their own doctoral studies.
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Course Description
In most countries, the PhD is the highest academic qualification that can be achieved. The specific goal for this hands-on, one-week workshop is to set participants on a path towards achieving this singular academic qualification. Over the course of the five days, participants will explore the following:
- The doctorate as an academic qualification: what it is comprised of
- The doctorate as a personal investment: what it expects of the student
- Research at doctoral level
- The Research Proposal
- Research design and methodology
- Doctoral writing
- Intentional steps to doctoral success
Course Outcomes
At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
Day 1: Introduction to doctoral studies
- Position themselves within the doctoral landscape
- Explore ‘doctorateness’ and identity development as key to doctoral studies
- Articulate their individual needs and expectations in terms of selecting a supervisor
Day 2 to Day 4 : Conceptualising the Research Proposal
- Identify the principles and key components of a well-constructed Research Proposal
- Explore the role of literature in conceptualising a research project
- Develop a clear research question and appropriate research design
- Employ sound academic writing principles in the context of the doctoral thesis
Day 5: Thinking about dissemination of your research right from the start
- Justify the importance and responsibility of effectively sharing their research with various audiences utilising different platforms
- Plan research with a focus on dissemination from the start: From the oral examination to the conference presentation to writing an article
- Apply the basics of academic writing in own writing practices
- Appreciate the value of publishing from the PhD
Course Material
Supporting literature, recommended readings, and all worksheets and PowerPoint slides will be made available via SUNOnline.
Course Format
This interactive, hands-on workshop will provide input and guidance on how to prepare oneself and one’s research proposal across the course of the five days. The focus will be on introducing key concepts and ensuring definitional clarity, followed by opportunities for participants to engage with one another, and practically apply what has been discussed to their own envisaged studies.
Presenters
| Prof Timothy Guetterman (University of Michigan, USA)
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Duration
| 5 days course work. Course takes place over the period 23 - 27 January 2023 at Stellenbosch University campus. Delegates will be expected to be available for the programme from 08:30 - 16:30 daily (excluding tea and lunch breaks). Delegates will submit a work sheet/assignment at the end of each day that will be marked by Prof Guetterman. |
Cost
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Early Bird: R8950 | Standard: R9450
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close
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Requirements
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Participants should have a basic understanding of the process of research. It is critical to come with an idea for a research project and topic. We will refine and work on it throughout the course. Delegates are expected to log in on the system before the course commences to ensure that they have access to the slides and course material online, and can access the different sections and materials needed for the course. |
Target audience
| This course will benefit delegates who want to learn more about quantitative research design and methods. It is ideal for students who are at the early phases of their PhD, who can actively develop their proposal through the course. The course is highly interdisciplinary, as is the instructor, and will use examples from the education, social, and health sciences conducted across nations and settings. Those conducting natural science experimental research may be better suited by an experimental design course.
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What to bring? | It will be helpful to bring a laptop computer to access slides. We will have in-class exercises that can be finished on your computer or using paper worksheets. Please be prepared to work on your project either through paper or electronically on your computer.
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Course Description
Introduction to Quantitative Research Design is an introductory course to develop foundational quantitative research design knowledge and skills. Quantitative research may be broadly defined as an inquiry approach useful for describing trends and explaining the relationship among variables generally through collecting and analyzing numeric, closed-ended data.
The primary expectation is that delegates will work on their project and exit with the building blocks of a quantitative research design. As a group, we will actively work on the major aspects of quantitative research designs, including the statement of the problem; purpose statements, research questions, or hypotheses; a specific quantitative design; data collection and analysis plans; and limitations. The course is interactive in that you will have short periods of time to work on your project and receive feedback live in addition to the lectures. The course will also include live demonstrations of using statistical software for analysis. Each lecture and demonstration will have a dedicated time for question-and-answer. The instructor is available for individuals consultations for a period of time daily. In addition, the instructor will provide written, individualized feedback about your research project.
At the completion of the course, students will have skills to:
- Understand the process of conducting research using a quantitative approach
- Specify a quantitative purpose, research question, or hypothesis
- Plan quantitative data collection procedures
- Select appropriate statistical analyses
- Understand how to interpret and read statistical output
- Understand the types of quantitative research designs including
- Survey design
- Correlational design
- Quasi-experimental/ Experimental designs
- Select and plan a research design
- Understand threats to validity in quantitative research
The course material are slides, which will be made available electronically through SUNOnline. Some readings will also be supplied.
.The course will involve hands-on, active learning.
- There will be periods of lecture with time for question and answer followed by periods to work on assigned exercises. Many of the exercises involve working on delegates' projects (e.g., writing research questions)
- Delegates may work electronically on their laptop or on the paper worksheets provided
- Delegates will be required to deliver a brief, informal presentation or your proposed or actual research design during the workshop using the assigned worksheets.
- Prof Guetterman will give feedback on the research design
Presenters
| Ms Selene Delport (Stellenbosch University)
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Duration
| 5 day course
Course takes place from 23 to 27 January 2023. Delegates will be expected to be available for the programme from 08:30 - 16:30 daily excluding tea and lunch breaks).
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Cost
| Early Bird: R8950 | Standard: R9450
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close.
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Requirements
| There are no prerequisite requirements for this course as the facilitator and consultants focus on the individual needs of each delegate.
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Target audience
| Delegates who have already started writing their doctoral proposals or dissertations and want practical support to improve their texts as well as develop their own writing skills.
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What to bring?
| Delegates are encouraged to share drafts of their own writing during the workshop, if they feel comfortable doing so. All writers and their writing will be treated with kindness and respect.
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Course Description
The facilitator takes an 'outside in-' approach. The facilitator will start with the general conventions of academic writing and then look at the external structure - how to build a skeleton for your text. She will then move onto the internal structure - how to pack the meat onto the bones so that you eventually have a functioning body of text.
Monday
- Gaining and keeping momentum in writing
- Features of academic writing
- Audience and purpose
- Academic writing style
- Writing discussions and exercises
Tuesday
- External structure: Titles and headings
- External structure: The table of contents
- Writing introductory and concluding chapters
- Writing discussions and exercises
Wednesday
- Writing the literature review
- Ethical writing practice: Plagiarism and referencing
- Developing you own academic voice
- Writing discussions and exercises
Thursday
- Internal coherence: Paragraphing
- Constructing an academic argument
- Writing discussions and exercises
Friday
- Unlocking the research report: Writing the abstract
- How to do self-revision and give peer feedback
- Writing discussions and exercises
Course Outcomes
At the end of the course, the delegates will be able to:
- Develop their own writing practice
- Critically read their own texts
- Develop their skills as editors of their own texts
- Refine their own academic voices
Course Material
The course materials will be made available online on the day, but delegates will be required to log in before the course starts and complete the course orientations. Delegates will also be provided with hard copies of the examples to be discussed during the workshop.
Course Format
The course will feature a blend of teaching and learning styles. This course will be taught face-to-face, using a blend of asynchronous and synchronous teaching. The course will start in the morning with face-to-face interactive class lectures, followed by exercises to be completed in class during the afternoon. The facilitator will be available to offer support during the afternoons. The exercises are designed to help participants work on their own writing as well as collaborate and share ideas with each other. You should allocate about 6 hours for the day (excluding breaks) to the course so that you can sufficiently go through the materials and apply what you have learned or incorporate feedback from the lecturer.
Presenters
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Prof Sebastian Kernbach (University of St Gallen, Switzerland) |
Duration
| 5 day course at Stellenbosch University campus
Course takes place from 23 to 27 January 2023. Delegates will be expected to be available for the programme from 08:30 - 16:30 daily excluding tea and lunch breaks.
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Cost
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Early Bird: R8950 | Standard: R9450
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close.
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Requirements
| No particular requirements necessary. Bring an open mind for new creative approaches to tackle your research challenges and to help yourself making this PhD journey worthwhile even if the going gets tough and finish it with confidence.
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Target audience
| This course will benefit participants who want to learn more about and fine-tune their skills in qualitative design and implementation. The course will have a strong holistic and interdisciplinary focus and draw upon examples from the social and health sciences and education over time and across cultures. |
Course Description
In this hands-on one-week workshop, participants will have the opportunity to apply visual thinking and design thinking tools and methods to their own research projects. They will apply simple and easy to learn visual tools to structure their ideas, literature, academic discourses, and potential contributions, among others. Through the process of prototyping and iterating they will gain clarity in their PhDs and for their future research careers. In addition, interventions from the field of positive psychology and positive leadership will help participants to overcome blocks and flourish in their PhD.
Based on the design thinking framework and mind-set established at the d.school at Stanford University, participants will gain creative confidence in their research process and when facing challenges, get problem-solving abilities to better deal with ambiguity using analytical skills and creative intelligence and improve their emotional well-being by being proactive about their emotional needs which ultimately leads to improved productivity.
The goal of this workshop is to recognise the creative, playful mind-set that underlies successful innovation in scholarship and explore how design thinking can improve the research process to make us more innovative scholars or scientists. And with this, to increase the ability of researchers to create quality research and a systematic application of creativity in their own research development. Especially because emerging scholars and interdisciplinary researchers need tools, techniques, support, and inspiration to approach their research in an innovative and playful spirit of design.
Participants will explore a variety of design skills and mind-sets but focus especially on how being mindful of your own research process, work styles, emotional state, and sometimes-hidden assumptions can help you get “unstuck” when facing research bumps in the road. The instructor seeks to help participants to explore potential solutions to problems in their research efforts.
During this workshop, participants will gain:
Creative confidence
- With tools, techniques, and inspiration for an innovative mind-set
- To improve their research process
- To make themselves more innovative scholars
- To become “unstuck” in times of research blocks
Worksheets and class notes will be provided online and/or printed and distributed during the classes.
Course Format
In-person course taking place at Stellenbosch University campus. Participants will be given short input sessions from the instructor and will have time to apply design thinking to their own project(s), giving and getting feedback and improving their research project. Participants will present their prototypes and iterative developments throughout the week and will present their research story in new presentation and storytelling formats such as Visual Storytelling. The Visual Storytelling Canvas will help participants to shape a story of the current research. The workshop is characterized by a positive, intimate, and encouraging atmosphere in which exchanging successful practices and failures (also known as "learning opportunities") is central to the learning success of all participants.
| Presenter | Prof Wayne Babchuk (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA)
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Duration
| 5 day course
Course takes place from 23 to 27 January 2023 at Stellenbosch University campus. Delegates will be expected to be available for the programme from 08:30 - 16:30 daily (excluding tea and lunch breaks). |
| Cost | Early Bird: R8950 | Standard: R9450
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close. |
| Requirements |
No methodology or research design pre-requisites are required: This workshop will be taught as an introductory course. A general understanding of research methodology may be helpful as we will compare key aspects of qualitative research to more historically accepted quantitative methods.
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| Target audience | This course will benefit participants who want to learn more about and fine-tune their skills in qualitative design and implementation. The course will have a strong holistic and interdisciplinary focus and draw upon examples from the social and health sciences and education over time and across cultures.
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Course Description
Introduction to Qualitative Research Design and Methodology is an introductory course presented in two parts.
Part 1 provides fundamental knowledge of several interlocking topics important to our understanding of qualitative research methodology design and implementation including: - The history of qualitative research across disciplines
- The ethics and responsible conduct of research
- The epistemological or philosophical assumptions underlying qualitative designs
- Key attributes and procedures of contemporary qualitative approaches including descriptive qualitative research, narrative, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, grounded ethnography, case study, and participatory action research
Part 2 extends our understanding of these qualitative approaches as participants learn more about the practice and conduct of qualitative research. As a community of learners, we will focus on the core processes of qualitative design and implementation including:- Writing problem statements, purpose statements, and research questions
- Qualitative sampling strategies
- Validity, reliability and trustworthiness in qualitative research
- Data collection and analysis techniques
- Writing qualitative doctoral dissertations and turning doctoral research into professional presentations and publishable articles
This course will draw upon examples from participants’ own research interests that we will hone through collaborative problem-solving and instructional strategies. Upon completion of this course, participants will gain a deeper understanding of qualitative research and will have refined and practiced the skills needed to design and conduct their own studies.
Upon completion of the course, students will have the skills to: - Identify key traditions and eras in the history of qualitative inquiry
- Recognise important ethical issues in research
- Distinguish among the epistemological assumptions undergirding qualitative research
- Articulate principles and practices of contemporary qualitative research
- Design qualitative research studies
- Develop qualitative data collection, analysis, and interpretation techniques
- Describe how validity, reliability, and generalizability are addressed in qualitative research
- Write, evaluate, and publish qualitative research studies
The course material includes PowerPoint slides, assigned readings, exercises, videos, and other supplemental material. The course materials will be made available online at the start of the course.
In-person course taking place at Stellenbosch University campus. Introduction to Qualitative Research Design and Methodology will meet four and one-half days beginning at 08:30 daily and continue until the afternoon with group and individual exercises to complete for the next day. - Delegates are expected to actively participate in all course activities and help promote a classroom environment as a community of learners throughout the workshop. Learning from peers will be an important part of this course as we jointly discuss key aspects of qualitative research design and implementation.
- Please plan to allocate six to seven hours per day to the course so that we can cover stated topics and meet the course objectives, apply what you have learned or incorporate feedback from the lecturer.
| Presenter | Dr Lauren Wildschut (Stellenbosch University) |
Duration
(In-person Course) | 5 day course
Course takes place from 23 - 27 January 2023 at Stellenbosch University campus. Delegates will be expected to be available for the programme from 08:30 - 16:30 daily (excluding tea and lunch breaks). |
| Cost | Early Bird: R8950 | Standard: R9450
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close. |
Requirements
| Participants should be computer literate and download the demo of ATLAS.ti v9 for Windows prior to the session. Mac users may find it difficult to follow the Windows processes. Stellenbosch students may access the campus-wide licence. |
| Target audience |
This course will benefit delegates who want to learn how to manage and analyse articles for their literature review or do a systematic analysis of the qualitative data they have collected for their thesis or research project. |
What to bring?
| Delegates will maximise the utility of the course if they can use their own data in the practice sessions, but this is not a requirement.
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Course Description
This course introduces some of the key functions of ATLAS.ti for carrying out a literature review or analysing qualitative data. Delegates will learn how to develop a coding scheme, manage their data and develop useful outputs for visualizing their data.
Course Outcomes
After completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Illustrate the various approaches to coding data
- Use ATLAS.ti for a range of analysis tasks
- Compose an analysis of qualitative data in innovative ways
All materials will be shared with delegates electronically prior to the session. Learning guides for each session will be provided.
The course will be taught in-person.
| Presenter | Ms Riana Coetsee (Research Management & Skills Training Consultant) |
| Duration | 1 day course. Course takes place on 28 January 2023 at Stellenbosch University campus. Delegates will be expected to be available for the programme from 08:30 - 16:30 (excluding tea and lunch breaks).
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| Cost | Early bird: R1950 | Standard: R2150
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close. |
Requirements
| Participants should be conducting research or be in the planning phases, be it at postgraduate or postdoctoral level or in full-time academic staff capacity.
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| Target audience | Researchers (including postgraduate students and postdocs) who need to generate research funds.
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What to bring?
| Pen and one piece of blank A4 paper.
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Course Description
It is increasingly expected of researchers to generate research funds. To do so, researchers need to acquire grant writing skills or hone the skills they already have. Although funding organisations and their application requirements differ, there are important elements expected by all funding agencies, whether it relates to small or to large grants. These elements will be addressed in the workshop.
The following elements will be discussed and practised:
- The basic structure of a grant proposal (i.e., how to get out of the starting block)
- Market your research and strengthen your research profile
- Why grant proposals fail
- Explaining peer review panels
- Common core components of grant proposals
- The budget
- Is all research fundable (and where to look for funding)?
Participants will understand the following:
- How to overcome "writer's block" when you start writing a grant proposal
- What basic and core components a grant application should have to make it competitive
- What "peer review" means
- Why it is important to indicate impact and what funders mean by it
- What pitfalls to avoid when writing a grant proposal
- How to approach the budget and what elements to include
- How to identify possible funding opportunities
Notes on what will be presented in the workshop, as well as additional reading materials.
This course will be offered in-person at Stellenbosch University.
| Presenter | Ms Marie Roux (Stellenbosch University) |
Duration
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1 day course. Course takes place on 28 January 2023 at Stellenbosch University campus. Delegates will be expected to be available for the programme from 08:30 - 16:30 (excluding tea and lunch breaks).
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| Cost | Early bird: R1950 | Standard: R2150
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close. |
Requirements
| Delegates are expected to download the Tableau software before 28 January 2023. Instructions will be distributed a few days in advance. Hands-on instruction will take place on 28 January 2023..
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| Target audience | The course will focus on how to create interesting visualisations and stories with your data. It will benefit those who use visualisations in their proposals, dissertations or reports and need to create something more than ordinary graphs.
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| What to bring? | Laptop with Tableau Software downloaded. No support for the download will be possible. Contact Tableau’s help desk if you experience any problems.
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Course Description
This course covers an introduction to the free data visualisation software, Tableau Public. You will learn how to create interesting interactive visualisations, stories and dashboards in one of the leading software programmes for data visualisation.
Course Outcomes
At the end of the course participants should be able to:
- Understand the basic principles of data visualisation
- Create a few basic principles of data visualisation
- Execute the basic functions in the dashboard view
- Execute the basic functions in the stories view
- Publish their visualisation onto the online platform, and download, and/or embed their work
The course material will be made available online on the day the course is delivered.
This course will be offered as a face-to-face hands-on class with discussion and presenter feedback.
| Presenter | Ms Selene Delport (Stellenbosch University) |
Duration
| 5 day course
Course takes place from 30 January - 3 February 2023 at Stellenbosch University main campus from 8:30 to 16:30. There will be daily classes, but delegates are expected to work on their writing in between live sessions, and meet with the facilitator.
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| Cost | Early Bird: R8950 | Standard: R9450
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close. |
| Requirements |
Delegates are expected to log in on the system before the course commences to ensure that they have access to the module online and can access the different sections and materials needed for the course. The sessions will be hands-on. |
| Target audience | Masters and PhD students and supervisors.
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Course Description
The facilitator will start with the purpose of the proposal and using micro-writing to plan your proposal.
Monday
- Purpose of a research proposal/protocol
- Planning your research proposal/protocol
- The external structure of a proposal
- Tiny texts as planning tools: formulating a research problem, aims, and hypothesis
- Writing discussions and exercises
Tuesday
- Constructing a title
- Introducing your potential research
- Introduction models
- Writing discussions and exercises
Wednesday
- Writing the preliminary literature review
- Writing the design and methodology
- Writing discussions and exercises
Thursday
- Integrating sources effectively
- Paraphrasing or quoting?
- Developing your own academic voice
- Writing discussions and exercises
Friday
- Using different argumentation structures
- Argumentation problems
- Argumentation strategies
- Writing discussions and exercises
Course Outcomes
At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
- Develop their own proposals/protocols
- Refine their own academic voices
- Use different argumentation structures effectively to create a persuasive proposal/protocol
The course materials will be made available on SUNOnline at the start of the course. Delegates will also be provided with hard copies of examples to be discussed during the workshop.
Participants need to be available from 08:30 to 16:30 (excluding breaks and lunchtime) for the duration of the course. This course will be delivered in-person at Stellenbosch University campus.
| Presenter | Prof Wayne A. Babchuk (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) |
Duration
| 5 day course
Course takes place from 30 January - 3 February 2023 at Stellenbosch University campus. Delegates will be expected to be available for the programme from 08:30 - 16:30 daily (excluding tea and lunch breaks).
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Cost
| Early Bird: R8950 | Standard: R9450
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close.
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| Requirements |
Important for Advanced course: Participants are expected to have had some background in qualitative or mixed methods research and be prepared to discuss their own work they are conducting or planning to conduct in the future.
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Target audience
| Delegates are expected to have a basic understanding of qualitative research so that the primary focus of the course is to help participants make informed and strategic decisions regarding the conduct of their qualitative or mixed methods dissertation research (or other research projects). Delegates are expected to have had some form of prior instruction in qualitative research methodology either through ADA or from their previous training at their host institutions.
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Course Description
Advanced Qualitative Research Design and Implementation is an interdisciplinary advanced course structured to benefit students seeking to improve their qualitative skills and hone their abilities to conduct research at the highest level. Part 1 provides a concise overview of foundational knowledge underpinning the qualitative enterprise including: - The history, ethics, and epistemological foundations of qualitative research
- Key characteristics of qualitative methods
- Differences between qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research
- Underlying assumptions, procedures, challenges, and applications of several popular contemporary qualitative approaches
Part 2 focuses on the systematic conduct of qualitative research including: - Formulating qualitative purpose statements and research questions
- Use of literature and sampling strategies in qualitative research
- Data collection and analysis techniques
- Validation strategies needed to achieve rigor and trustworthiness and evaluate and assess qualitative research studies
Part 3 constitutes the heart of this course and focuses on: - Advancing student research projects through instructor and participants’ collaborative feedback on students’ designs
- Development of expertise in the approach/sub-approach employed by course participants in their individual research projects
- Turning doctoral research into professional presentations and publishable articles
- Presenting individuals’ well-crafted designs to the class
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Course Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
- Identify important traditions, themes, scholars, and publications that define the history and application of qualitative research
- Articulate ethical practices needed to successfully conduct research
- Describe philosophical assumptions, paradigms, and theoretical orientations underlying qualitative research
- Identify characteristics of qualitative research and key differences between qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches
- Describe types, procedures, challenges, and applications of contemporary approaches/sub-approaches to qualitative inquiry
- Develop clearly stated purpose statements and research questions
- Determine effective strategies for sampling in qualitative research (sites and participants)
- Employ validation strategies as appropriate (rigor and trustworthiness)
- Design effective data collection, analysis, interpretation, and representation strategies
- Demonstrate expertise in one or more of the major approaches and sub-approaches to qualitative inquiry
- Design and conduct a rigorous qualitative study that provides a solid foundation for doctoral dissertations and subsequent professional presentations/publications in students’ fields
- Present the design, implementation, and findings (if applicable) of individual research projects to the class
The course material are slides available as handouts and on the course web page. Some readings are also provided
| Presenter | Dr Cindy Steenkamp (Stellenbosch University) |
Duration
| 5 day course
Course takes place from 30 January - 3 February 2023 at Stellenbosch University campus. Delegates will be expected to be available for the programme from 08:30 - 16:30 daily (excluding tea and lunch breaks).
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Cost
| Early Bird: R8950 | Standard: R9450
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close.
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| Requirements |
Delegates must be computer literate and competent to register for this course.
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Target audience
| Postgraduate students, supervisors and researchers interested in acquiring quantitative research skills and techniques. This course is especially useful for participants who make use of surveys or want to conduct secondary data analysis based on survey research.
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Course Description
During this course, participants will be introduced to the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) – one of the most widely used social statistical packages in the world. It needs to be emphasized that this is an introductory course, ideally suited for first time users or participants with limited experience with the software program. Participants should be computer literate and competent as this is a computer-based course with an emphasis on skills transfer. This short course focuses specifically on the knowledge and skills required for quantitative data analysis. The broad objectives of this course are to provide participants with an understanding of the logic of quantitative data analysis and to give participants the opportunity to develop the practical computer skills required for data analysis. |
Course Outcomes
When delegates have completed this course, they should:
- Be familiar with the layout and basic functioning of SPSS
- Be able to create and maintain a database
- Be able to do a summary analysis of a data set: produce frequencies, descriptive statistics, cross-tabulations and comparison of means
- Be able to manipulate data: recode variables, and construct a variable
- Be able to graphically illustrate data using a variety of chart options
- Be able to interpret and present the ensuing results
Class slides; homework exercises and homework memo. No prescribed textbook.
The presenter will cover the content of the course during the two morning sessions (from 09:00 – 13:00). Delegates will have an opportunity to practice their quantitative analysis skills every afternoon (from 14:00 – 16:30).
| Presenter | Prof Gina Wisker (University of Bath, UK) |
Duration
| 5 day course
Course takes place from 30 January - 3 February 2023 at Stellenbosch University campus. Delegates will be expected to be available for the programme from 08:30 - 16:30 daily (excluding tea and lunch breaks).
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Cost
| Early Bird: R8950 | Standard: R9450
SU staff and students paying by OE code/student account, retain the Early Bird price until bookings close.
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| Requirements |
Participants should have some basic understanding and experience of the processes of supervision or being supervised, and of research and a willingness to share experiences and further good practice.
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Target audience
| The course is designed for anyone who intends to supervise, is supervising or has supervised – we will be sharing experience and inform our development through engagement with research and good practice.
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Workshop format
| Participants will be involved in interactive work with research and experience based inputs, ideas, arguments, activities and materials focused on developing as a good supervisor.
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Course Description
In this hands-on research and experience led interactive one-week workshop participants will explore, discuss and engage with sound practices working with the intellectual learning, personal and institutional dimensions of supervision along the whole doctoral journey. The goal of this workshop is that participants will further develop their research and experience informed good practice in doctoral supervision and will feel confident, informed and well equipped in their supervision practices. Participants will explore experience (including their own) and research based ideas and good practices in doctoral supervision along the whole doctoral learning journey. |
Course Outcomes
During this workshop, participants will gain:
- Research and experience underpinned information and effective examples of good practice in supervision along the whole doctoral learning journey
- Research and experience based insights into working with doctoral students to prompt and support their research development in the project and writing processes in the thesis.
- A rich set of understandings about varied good supervision practices face-to-face and remotely which they can put into effect in their own supervision practice
- Insights and practical problem solving strategies from engagement with the activities in the workshop and from discussion with the full community of supervisor colleagues in the workshop
- A research and experience based understanding of what examiners are looking for in good theses and engaged plans about how to work with diverse students to help them reach the quality of a good thesis which passes and makes a sound contribution to knowledge
PowerPoints, reading material, worksheets and class notes will be provided on SUNOnline. Further practical exercises will be PowerPoint led on the day.
The presenter will provide pre access to all PowerPoint slides, her website the goodsupervisor.co.uk and extracts from reading to prompt thoughts about supervisory roles experiences, practices and processes. We will work with PowerPoint slides and research and experience led informed interactive inputs and discussions, small group work with questions, scenarios and cases.
