Qualitative Research Methods

Qualitative research methods are well suited in order to study personal experiences, understanding, reflections and reasoning. The course will provide an overview of questions concerning theoretical background, collecting data, analysis and reporting of relevance for clinical and health sciences research in a medical researh tradition.

After completing KLH3015, the student:
- Should have knowledge about methods and norms for acquiring data, analysis and rapporting of qualitative data in a
medical research tradition
- Should have extensive knowledge about what qualitative research methods are
- Should be able to plan and conduct individual qualitative interviews
- Should be able to analyze texts
- Should be able to plan, conduct and analyze small qualitative studies

Lectures and assignments (both individual and group assignments). The subject is only carried out if there are enough of students registered. Both of the individual assignments must be passed in order to pass the whole subject.

The subject is taught in Norwegian in the spring semester and in English in the autumn semester.

The teaching is delivered during one week from Monday 08.30 o'clock to Thursday 14.00 o'clock, usually in week 4 (Norwegian) and week 38 (English but then with code PH3001). A one day compulsory exam seminar is held approximately 8 weeks later which is used to adjust the grade on the group assignment. In the time between the teaching and the exam seminar the students works in groups.