Social Work Doctoral Seminar (10cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content

The doctoral students of the Faculty of Social Sciences must actively participate in the faculty’s joint doctoral education seminar throughout their studies and present their thesis research in the seminar at least once a year. In addition, doctoral students must present their research at least once a year in thematic seminars organized by academic subjects, national/international networks, etc. The number of earned credits is defined by the student’s participation in the seminars and conferences organised by academic networks.

Location and time

2024-2025

31.10 15-19 (A220/Zoom)

12.12 15-19 cancelled

20.1. 10-12 (A140 & zoom/teams) Sosnet Get together 10-11.30, after that lunch followed by our postg seminar 12.30-16.30 (A140/Zoom) cancelled

27.2 15-19

3.6. 15-19

Teaching methods

POSTG seminars are held hybris (Rovaniemi & Zoom).

For more information about the postgraduate studies in social work and the postgraduate seminars, you can access the Moodle workspace of the course by following the instructions below:

Find the University of Lapland Moodle workspace: Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön jatko-opinnot.

In the first login, you will need a password: sostyojatkoopiskelija

All the materials in Moodle are in Finnish and English.

Further information

We hope for an active participation on the discussions, so please read the papers in advance. All kinds of papers (conceptual reflections, descriptions and questions related to the implementation of the research (data collection, analysis), progress reports of your own process, manuscripts of articles, drafts of chapters) can be submitted for the seminar. The most important thing is that you bring to the seminar an output that will help you to move the process forward and for which you need the group dialogue to support you at that particular moment.

If you are attending to seminar, please let us know by using "group choice" tool in Moodle
-You may join the seminar even if you forgot to do this!

Please return your papers one week before the seminar

You can attend the seminar in Rovaniemi or via Zoom.