Head of PhD programme: Associate professor Heidi Bojsen, hbojsen(at)ruc.dk, tlf.nr. + 45 4674 3255

Content
The Doctoral Programme in Intercultural Studies offers an international, cross-disciplinary research environment concerning cultural practices and cultural identities throughout the world with an emphasis on the problematics of cultural encounters and cultural complexity from a global and local power perspective.

The doctoral programme builds upon the research environment in the research group of the same name: Intercultural Studies. Participants in the research group base their work on (the intersections between) parameters such as ethnicity, nationality, language, religion, race, gender, and social class in the study of cultural representation, subject formation, identity constructions and identity politics. Because emphasis is put on capturing the aspect of power in these intercultural issues, research on phenomena and concepts such as minority/majority, exclusion/inclusion, hierarchy formation and othering, and ethnicism and racism takes on a central role. The transnational, global and post-colonial perspective has resulted in an interest in identity theory studies of diaspora, migration and other types of mobility, including, for example, work migration and education migration. There is also an interest in intercultural learning processes and competences as well as citizenship identity, for example, in relation to education and work.

Regionally, the research group in Intercultural Studies comprises research relating to many different places in the world, including Denmark, (Danish colonial history and its present situation as a coloniser of the Faroe Islands and Greenland), the Øresund region, Germany, France, Europe as a whole, Anglophone Africa, the Black Atlantic, the Middle East, Colombia, Latin America as a whole, Australia, New Zealand and South and Southeast Asia.

Methodologically, work is carried out chiefly on representation and discourse analysis in relation to media texts, literature, etc. with ethnographic participant observation, qualitative interviews, interview analysis and conversation analysis from an ethno-methodological and discourse psychological perspective.

Activities
In addition to supervision, the PhD students are offered to participate actively in the Research Group in Intercultural Studies. The doctoral programme arranges courses and seminars, as well as workshops with project presentations as needed.