Bridging Science and Societal Needs Through Design Thinking

Third-cycle level | 4.5 credits (HEC) | Course code: H1F3180
VT 2025
Study period: 2025-03-05 - 2025-05-21
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: The course is given in English
Application period: 2024-10-15 - 2024-11-05
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Course description

The PhD course, number 3180, titled "Bridging Science and Societal Needs," is an online international and interprofessional course, that is part of a collaboration within a consortium of four universities known as Openlab.

The course content lean on Design thinking ideology and methodology that inform research as well as developmental work and form a practice-based foundation for innovation aimed to meet the needs of societal and scientific environments. As a student, you work  individually from your own research perspective, and get helpful insights for future research.  

The course apply a problem-oriented teaching and learning style,  with a pedagogy that enables students to take active responsibility for individual and also group learning in a multi-disciplinary context.

Prerequisites and Selection

Prerequisite courses, or equivalent

No prerequisite courses, or equivalent, demanded for this course. 

Selection

Selection will be based on:  
1) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant’s doctoral project (according to written motivation). 
2) start date of doctoral studies. 

 

Educational partnership

The collaborative partners are: 

KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm

Stockholm University

Södertörn University

Openlab https://openlabsthlm.se

Course director

The professor representing Karolinska Institutet in this course is Dr. Sofia Vikström, whose contact is sofia.vikstrom@ki.se.

Course syllabus

H1F3180

Department

Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society

Doctoral programme

Health Care Science (Puf-V)

Type of course

**Other course

Keywords

integration science society, design thinking

CONTACTSofia Vikström
08524 838 02
sofia.vikstrom@ki.se