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Leading Research Assistants, 3 Credits

Leda forskningsassistenter, 3 Högskolepoäng

Established: 2025-06-03

Established by: The Research and Education Committee

Applies from: H25

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the doctoral/licentiate student should be able to independently:

Knowledge and understanding

• describe roles, work task distribution and relevant ethical aspects in research projects

Skills and abilities

• plan and evaluate relevant distribution of work task to research assistants, and support research assistants in their tasks

Judgement and approach

• critically reflect on research project leadership, collaboration, research ethics, and work task distribution related to leading research assistants

Entry requirements

Admitted to studies at third-cycle level.

The forms of assessment of student performance

The course is examined by the PhD student individually, in writing, present a research project leadership diary. 

Course contents

This course provides PhD students with the opportunity to develop and practice research project leadership. This is practiced by guiding a WIL master’s student acting as a research assistant within the framework of the PhD student’s thesis project.

The intention is to provide authentic experience of project leadership with research assistants. At the same time also providing the WIL master student with authentic research project experience as a research assistant. The project is designed and led by the PhD student, who is responsible for planning, delegating and supervising tasks related to the PhD thesis. The main aim of the course is to expand PhD students’ research leadership skills to include leading people involved in research projects. The course builds on tasks related to the PhD student’s thesis projects, thus providing authentic work-integrated learning. Tasks for research assistants should be related to literature organization, data collection, data organizing and likewise (not research writing/co-authorship).

The course consists of online seminars, with planned individual activities between meetings (please see course assignment description). The teaching is conducted in the form of lectures, workshops, and group discussions.

Other regulations

Course grading: Failed or Passed

Course language: The teaching is conducted in English.

Cycle

Third cycle

Field of research studies

Work-Integrated Learning