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The aim of the project is to build a long term, persistent and robust South Africa-Sweden Research School for collaborative, multidisciplinary and comparative studies on different aspects of physical activity and capacity building, based on perspectives of inclusion and equality. It will have three thematic focuses: the phenomenon of Sport Schools, the School Subjects of Life Orientation and Sport and Health, and the work conditions of Blue Light personal - firefighters, paramedics and police officers.
The form of Research School involving PhD-students is tested and widely used in Sweden to address research topics that on the one hand are strategically important to the scientific community, and on the other hand are not being researched in a qualitative and/or quantitative enough manner at any Swedish university. PhD-students from different universities are thus organized in a national PhD-education that either is formally organized and administrated by one of the participating universities, or is autonomous in relation to all the participating universities, though administrated by one of them, the latter being the preferred form in this project. Malmö University will be the main applicant and, in case of funding, be the administrative university for the Research School.
The research school will include both PhD-students and Masters students. For the reason of reproduction of the research school it will also involve students at the Bachelor level. The PhD-students will belong to a PhD-education at one of the participating university departments. The Research School will not replace the departments PhD-education, instead it will offer an additional common focus on the three thematic areas/focus areas, several optional doctoral courses, optional co-supervisors or expert supervisors, and inclusive multidisciplinary seminar series with students and researchers in and over the thematic area borders. It will organize students that are either funded by the existing PhD-educations or by external funding. It will be based on a mix of virtual- and in-real-life communication, a mix that after the Covid experience has become a qualitatively new opportunity for international collaboration.
The set-up of the Research School and Capacity Building in Life Orientation is related to the ICM-funding that the department of Sport Science at Malmö University has received for 2023 and for 2023-2025. Building the Research School will both profit from the ICM-funding, as well as further develop the spirit of that funding.
The workshop will entail a brief presentation (30-45 min) on the concept of a research school and the implementation plan for the next three (3) the by the principal drivers of the research school. The remaining time will be free and open discussion between the workshop attendees about the various facets of the research school, such as global concept, memorandum of agreement, roles and responsibilities of the partnering institutions, PG education and communication, staff and student mobility, joint / double degree terms and conditions, research funding, etc.
Keywords: research school, joint / double degree, global student
