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