National PhD course – Challenges in research on health and welfare technology: from user needs to sustainable implementation
This digital 7.5 credits, one-quarter time PhD-level course provides a broad introduction to health and welfare technology, and theories and methods within co-production and participatory research design, and within implementation research.
This course is a collaboration between Halmstad University, Jönköping University and Mälardalen University in Sweden.
This digital PhD-level course provides a broad introduction to theories and methods within co-production, participatory research design and implementation research. Using current societal challenges as point of departure, the course aims to convey an insight into the complexity of implementation of health and welfare technology in different settings. The course also aims to help students acquire in-depth analytical and critical approaches to theory and familiarize them with research methodologies that are of practical use in the PhD-students’ own research. The course consists of three modules: Societal challenges and participatory innovations in health and welfare; Coproduction and method development in participatory research; Implementation and participatory digitalisation.
The course is planned for week 40 2024–week 10 2025 and will be given digitally.
The general learning outcomes of the course are that the PhD-students will deepen their knowledge of the complexity in implementation of health and welfare technology in different settings and convey in-depth knowledge of theories, models and research methods that are of practical use in the PhD students own research.
Primary contents
- The complexity in research on health and welfare technology
- Evidence in relation to health and welfare technology
- Theories, models and frameworks related to co-production, participatory design studies and implementation research in the field of health and welfare technology
- Methodology connected to co-production, participatory design studies and implementation research in the field of health and welfare technology
- Ethical aspects in health and welfare innovation research
More information:
Margit Neher, Halmstad University, margit.neher@hh.se
Viktoria Zander, Mälardalens University, Viktoria.zander@mdu.se
Sofi Fristedt, Jönköping University sofi.fristedt@ju.se
