Upcoming ph.d.course: https://phdcourses.dk/Course/135230
PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH
The Royal Danish Academy, the PhD School
This course offers introductions to, exercises in and reflections on the methodological approaches of practice–based research with a particular focus on arts– and design-based research.
A common challenge in academic research is how to mitigate between various forms of knowing. How may practice-based knowing be accounted for academically? This question addresses the relationship between research and practice – and is relevant for practitioner-researchers from across a range of fields: artists, designers, communication professionals, journalists, administrators, teachers, nurses etc.
The course introduces a cluster of methodologies which all interrogate doing in research. These methodologies are arts-based research, design research, research-creation, action research, performance as research and practice as research – and they all explore the entanglements of making, doing, and knowing in academic work
From this broad contextualization, the course zooms in on arts- and design-based methodologies and provides each participant with the opportunity to work tangibly and concretely with his or her own practice as research, for instance by visualizing, drawing, designing, embodying, modelling, and writing. Exercises will be tangible and concrete, and we will employ props such as photographs, visual and physical artefacts in processes of making and translating knowledge.
Students will, among other things, gain insights into the methodologies of practice–based research, be capable of analysing and discussing the specific advantages and challenges of applying practice–based research approaches in a PhD project and, develop an understanding of and strategies for how practical experience can be integrated into academic knowledge production.
Dates:
16-18 september, 2026.
Venue
Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen
ECTS
3
Application deadline
17 August 2026
COURSE DATES
16 September 2026 – 18 September 2026
LECTURER
Connie Svabo, Ph.d., professor, centerleder, Institut for Matematik og Datalogi, SDU. Silje Alberthe Kamille Friis, Ph.d., lektor, Institut for visuel design, Det Kongelige Akademi. Lars Bang Jensen, Associate professor at VIA University College.
PLACE/VENUE
Philip de Langes Allé 10 Auditorium 14, ’Croquis’ – D, stuen
CITY
Copenhagen K.
ECTS
3 points
LINK
https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php
Installation created with practice-based doctoral students, Odense October 2025. The image shows former research assistant (now FNUG ph.d.-student) Katrine von Bornemann as audience, exploring the portfolio installation of the 2025 course participants. (Image: Connie Svabo)