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KMC Research Seminar Series Fall Term 20212021HT
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Course plan
Recommended for
Doctoral students interested in research in societal safety and security, with particular focus on research topics within disaster and emergency medicine.
Course objectives
The goal of this course is to provide an overview of current research challenges connected to the general topic of societal safety and security, with particular focus on research topics within disaster and emergency medicine.
Course structure
The Center for Disaster Medicine and Traumatology (KMC) runs a research seminar
series each semester. The seminar series typically consists of about six 2-hour
seminars on various topics. This course is offered in conjunction with the
seminars.
Doctoral students from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences that
participate in the seminar series are offered 1.5 ECTS credits within the
seminar block of their course requirements. This course is intended for
doctoral students from other faculties at LiU to provide the same function.
The students are expected to attend the seminars and prepare by reviewing
material before each seminar. A final written reflection assignment is given at
the end of the semester.
Course content
The seminars in this course focuses on
1) general academic topics such as research ethics, academic writing,
presentation techniques, or invited talks from support functions at LiU (e.g.,
the library, communication department),
2) specific topics within the scope of disaster medicine and societal safety
and security, such as Kamedo-reports, invited talks from researchers and
stakeholders, current research project at KMC or CARER, reviews of current
important publications, and current events such as mass casualty incidents, and
finally
3) review and support for current, on-going projects and manuscript produced by
KMC or associated research groups, e.g. in the form of presentations of current
projects, peer review of manuscripts, trial runs of conference presentations,
PhD defense trial runs (provdisputation), and similar.
The specific topics for the seminars are sent out with the course information
after registering for the course.
Course schedule
The dates for the seminars during fall term 2021 are:
27/8 13:00-15:00
24/9 13:00-15:00
22/10 13:00-15:00
26/11 13:00-15:00
17/12 13:00-15:00
Course examination
To pass this course, the students must:
1) Attend at least 80% of the seminars,
2) Prepare for each seminar by reviewing associated reading materials,
3) Produce a written reflection that reflects a) a relevant topic based on the
seminars and b) the student's own research area.
The final reflection paper can be written in Swedish or English. The content
should be novel and not re-used from other assignments or otherwise plagiarized
or self-plagiarized. Common academic guidelines apply (correct, academic
language; proper referencing according to an established reference system). A
suitably insightful reflection is required to pass - that is, the reflection
cannot merely recount the topics of a seminar without further analysis. The
reflection must showcase the student's understanding of the seminar topic, and
relate this at an intellectually non-trivial level to their own research topic.
Specifics concerning page requirements, formatting and similar is provided with
the course information.
Credit
1.5 ECTS credits.
Recurring courses
The KMC research seminar series continues each semester with new topics. A new course is created for each semester. Students can sign up for each course and receive credits, up to a maximum of 6 credits total.
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