Ersta Sköndal University College
certificate in Research Design and Scientific Writing
Stockholm, Sweden
Certificate
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Swedish, English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: This postgraduate certificate, compulsory for third-cycle courses, trains doctoral students in research design and scientific writing. You’ll learn to explain and compare qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method designs; summarise scientific writing styles; prepare and defend design strategies; assess implications of validity, reliability and generalisability; and apply principles for structuring scientific texts. The course covers design across research traditions, critical analysis of texts, and practical work on your own research issues.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue research-focused roles using methods, writing and critical appraisal skills; common roles include academic researcher, clinical researcher, research officer, policy analyst, research consultant, and scientific writer.
The course is at a postgraduate level and is compulsory for third-cycle courses and study programs.
After completing the course, the doctoral students shall have the ability to explain and compare various qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method designs in research studies; summarise fundamental aspects of writing in various scientific styles.
After completion of the course, the doctoral students shall have the ability to prepare and argue for relevant strategies based on different trends in research design; build an opinion on different implications and possible applications of the concepts of validity, reliability, and generalisability in research design; apply principles for the structural organization of a scientific text.
After completing the course, the doctoral students shall have the ability to evaluate scientific quality based on the design of different research studies; critically investigate scientific texts with a view to forming, structural organization, and normativity.
The subjects covered by the course are as follows: the significance of research design within different research traditions; different research designs concerning research studies' demand for validity, reliability, and generalisability; critical investigation of scientific texts concerning form and contents; practical work on the student's own choice of research issues concerning the design of research study.
