Completing the course will give the students the following learning outcome, sectioned into knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• is in the forefront of knowledge on how empirical theological research and systematic theological research may interrelate

• can evaluate with expediency and accuracy how different analytical strategies relate to different epistemological paradigms in theological research on church and practice

• masters different methodological approaches to theology and qualitative research, focusing on church and practice, and has advanced knowledge of what it means that practical theology as a discipline is contested

• can contribute to the developing of new insights on theology and qualitative research, with particular focus on church and practice as research context

Skills

The student

• can formulate reflections on how his/her research project holds capacity to «generate» theology with regard to research design, method and research question

• can map the field of practical theology as a research discipline

• can employ and develop different analytical strategies which may challenge established knowledge and practice in the field of theology and qualitative research in order to develop research of high international standard

• can handle complex academic issues, such as articulating the role of reflexivity in his/her research project

General Competence

The student

• can identify and reflect on how analytical strategies and research design relates to research ethics

• can manage complex interdisciplinary assignments

Emnebeskrivelse

Theology and Qualitative Research – Church and Practice

PHD-TR 907