This PhD course aims to acquaint PhD students with narratives methods and its relations to discourse analysis.
We start from the premise that narratives and storytelling are essential means of sensemaking in management and organizations and it is critical for PhD students to acquire and master knowledge, skills and competences in this area.
By the end of the course the PhD students will have gained:
- Knowledge in narrative and storytelling in organizations and how they relate to ethics, power, sustainability, and materiality
- Skills in doing narrative and storytelling analysis in organizations
- Competences in applying narrative and storytelling for thinking and judging organizational performances as ethical and sustainable.
During the course, PhD students will gain experience and knowledge in (a) theorizing storytelling as more than social construction of sensemaking, (b) seeing the importance of thinking new thoughts in Management Thought that is beyond short-term enactment, and (c) understanding why together-listening to what Gaia is telling is more important than together-telling about prospective sensemaking futures.
The course engages with different methods for critical narrative and storytelling inquiry: deconstruction, ethnography, auto-ethnography, gaia-graphy and other (ante)narrative methods. The course will engage students in discussions and group work.
The PhD students will practice how to write about stories in organizations and how newer performative methods have implications for thinking while theorizing and conceptualizing. The students will practice writing before and after the course.
The students are expected to write an essay where they relate narrative and discourse analysis to their PhD studies (pre-coiurse assignment). The students are expected to write an essay of app. 5,000 words (post-course assignment) to be handed in no later than 20th June, 2022. The instructions will be provided via course Intranet.
Registered PhD students will have full access to the course programme and material via course Intranet. Upon paying the registration fee, each student will get an e-mail with log-in instructions. Any queries about course intranet shall be directed to Michael Simonsen, PhD Course Secretary.
This is a 5 ECTS PhD course. The course admits maximum 20 students. It attracts, as primary target, PhD candidates in their first eighteen to twentyfour months of the doctoral programme. However, we also welcome PhD candidates in their later stages of their studies.
The course will take place in-person only on May 16-20, 2022 and be hosted by TBRP of the Aalborg University Business School.
Deadlines:
- DL1: Apr 04, 2022 - Application essay submission.
- DL2: Apr 08, 2022 - Nottification of acceptance.
- DL3: Apr 25, 2022 - Registration and payment of course fee. Early registration is strongly encouraged.
Participation fee is 300 EUR. The fee will cover costs related to lunches, coffee breaks, two dinners, and course material. Participation: in person only. Each participant is responsible for his/her own travel and accommodation.
Queries
For any queries about the content of course, please contact Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen.
For any queries about application, registration and course administration, please contact Michael K. Simonsen.
The PhD course in Narratives and Discourse Analysis is part of TBRP Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training.
