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Here some interesting courses to take for PhDs at CIRCLE:

Getting my research into journals - Faculty Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics
Format: phd course, 2 days, 350€, 1,5 ECTS

Course Coordinator: Professor Peter Maskell, CBS

Prerequisite/progression of the course: Continuous publishing in academic journals has increasingly become not only a criterion for initial employment, subsequent tenure, and possible promotion, but also a necessity for most academics employed by universities and business schools. This workshop is intended to deal with the basic issues of the process of publishing in the learned journals and will address questions such as: How to choose a journal? What constitutes a valuable contribution? In what style should it be written? How do I address an editor? What do the reviewers look for? At the end of the workshop, students will be familiar with the requirements for publishing articles in various types of outlets in management and related fields.

Lectures: Professor Keld Laursen, Professor Peter Maskell, CBS and invited editors from relevant journals.

Content:
 * What is a good scientific contribution: Some criteria and examples
 * Developing a publication project
 * Publishing strategies
 * The pros and cons of publishing in edited volumes contra in journals
 * Co-authorship, acknowledgements, credit-management
 * How to deal with reviews and reviewers
 * Web tools: Assessing journals and authors using ISI Web of Knowledge
 * Editors' Round-Table.

Literature: Enrolment
 * Journal of Management Studies Guidelines for Authors
 * Industrial and Corporate Change Guidelines for Authors
 * Regional Studies Guidelines for Authors
 * Huff, A.S. (1999): Writing for Scholarly Publication, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage [this is the most important item on the reading list]
 * Floyd, S.W., Schroeder, D.M., Finn, D.M. (1994): "Only if I'm first author: Conflict over credit in management scholarship", *Academy of Management Journal, 37(3): 734-747
 * Starbuck, William H (2003): “Turning lemons into lemonade: Where is the value in peer reviews?” Journal of Management Inquiry, 12(4): 344-351
 * Whetten, D.A. (1989): "What constitutes a theoretical contribution?", Academy of Management Review, 14(4): 490-495.

Website: http://uk.cbs.dk/forskning_viden/forskeruddannelser/alle_ph_d_kurser/ph_d_kurser_paa_cbs/phd_courses_2009_spring/getting_my_research_into_journals_june_2009

English for Research Writing
Format: distance course, 8 ECTS, no fees

Comment: good course/material, teacher very committed to help students.

Teacher: Rowena Jansson, Kalmar University  (Rowena.Jansson@hik.se)

How do I learn? You learn by studying basic guidelines for writing the different sections of specific research articles. There are different practical tasks to do, both individually and in groups. There are exercises in grammar points which are particularly useful for writing research papers. You will need to have an article you have written previously or one that you are in the process of writing. You will evaluate it and improve on it where necessary. Most of the texts used in the course are articles in medical and environmental sciences. These are analysed so that you learn first from a good model, then from other people's mistakes and successes, and finally, by doing it yourself. It should be noted that these texts can present some difficulty for some students who do not have a background in the natural sciences. However, the aim of the course is to study the language of writing research articles and not the language of science in itself.

What do I learn? Essentially, the course consists of guidelines for structuring the different sections of academic papers. Structure can mean the overall discourse patterns relevant to scientific writing, for example, problem - solution, or general - specific - detail - example. Other structures are grammatical - specific points of grammar, and lexical - specific vocabulary relevant to each section of an article.

Website: http://www.hik.se/pages/cgi-bin/PUB_Latest_Version.exe?allFrameset=1&pageId=8333

National PhD Course: Research Frontiers in Contemporary Economic Geography
Format: PhD course hold 2 days each in Uppsala/Stockholm, Lund and Göteborg; 7.5 ECTS Credits

Course coordinators: Claes G Alvstam, Göteborg University (Co-ordinator) Bjørn T Asheim, Lund University Anders Malmberg, Uppsala University

Course description: The course is jointly arranged by the professors of economic geography at the universities of Göteborg, Lund and Uppsala. It builds on a format developed during four previous courses on the same theme, held at Uppsala 1999, 2001 and 2007, Göteborg 2003 and Lund 2005. The course should be seen as an introduction to contemporary research perspectives and approaches in economic geography. While it primarily targets PhD students working on theses within economic geography, the course is designed to be accessible also to PhD students in human geography generally, as well as in related economic and social science disciplines. PhD students who took the course in 2007 can follow also this course, since the contents and literature have been renewed. PhD students affiliated with Swedish geography departments taking part in the national collaboration on PhD courses in human geography are given priority, but also students from other universities in Sweden and beyond will be accepted if there are slots available. We aim at getting 15-25 students in the course. The course will be taught in English.

The course gives an introduction to research questions, concepts and theories in contemporary economic geography. The core questions of this discipline – related to the role of place and space in processes of economic development – have in recent years attracted interest not just from geographers but also from economists and others who study industrial and technological development, firm innovation processes, effects of economic integration and globalization etc. Themes dealt with in the course include: economic geography as a (sub)discipline, regional specialization, agglomeration, industrial systems, networks, clusters and regional innovation systems, the geography of creativity, uneven regional economic development, industrial, innovation and regional policy etc.

The course is literature-based. Connected to the themes dealt with during the course, there is a core curriculum of texts that will be read by every participant, and also a list of reference literature from which each participant makes his/her own selection. The lectures and seminars during the course will not cover every aspect of this literature. The participating student is expected to read the literature, take active part in the sessions arranged and to up write a course paper (4000-5000 words), related to the literature. The basic reading consists of a couple of recently published collections of papers (see below). There will be a mix of lectures and seminars held by the three organizers and other teachers in the organizing departments, alongside a series of guest lectures held by invited, mainly international, colleagues.

Infos from 2009: http://www.kultgeog.uu.se/futb/ProgramEcongeo2009.pdf

DIMETIC training sessions
Format: three sessions of two weeks each year, taking place in Strasbourg, Pecs and Maastricht

Objectives:
 * To offer younger researchers a specific training in the new developments of the Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe
 * To provide an opportunity for direct interaction between younger researchers and "seniors" known for their expertise in the field.

Public Concerned
 * Younger researchers, in particular PhD students at an early stage in their research work. However other applications will also be considered.

Format of Training and Calendar: Three sessions of two weeks (Spring, Summer and Fall) each year. Participants are expected to attend two sessions at least. Each session includes a series of seniors’ lectures, PhD presentations discussed by one PhD and one senior, and various forms of Round Table or Summary Meetings.

Thematic Coverage Each session will try to keep a balance between different disciplinary fields as well as theory and empirics and between formalised and “softer” approaches.
 * Micro-Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Management,
 * Evolutionary Modelling of Technical Change,
 * Economic Dynamics, Innovation Networks and Spillovers,
 * Clusters and Systems of Innovation (NIS/RIS),
 * Science, Technology and Innovation Policy,
 * Economic Geography,
 * Spatial Econometrics,
 * Macro-growth.

Website: http://dimetic.dime-eu.org/