Academy for the Future of Health

The purpose of the Academy for the Future of Health is to strengthen the quality of the department's postgraduate education through a larger coherent postgraduate education environment that is common to all doctoral students in the health field.

The structure of the research environment includes subject-based learning activities with a comprehensive health perspective, methodology and ethics in the form of recurring courses and seminar activities. The specific subject depth is in the individual research subjects. The work is conducted in close cooperation with the Norrbotten Region and the municipalities of Norrbotten.

The steering group consists of subject representatives from all research subjects within Health sector, doctoral representative within health sector, head of department HLT and leader of the Academia and representatives from Region Norrbotten and Norrbotten's municipalities.

Courses

• HLT0001 Quantitative research methodology in health sciences ECTS/HP: 5.0
• HLV0002 Qualitative research methodology in health sciences ECTS/HP: 5.0
• HLV0003 Syllabus, Health Interdisciplinary Dimensions 7.5 credits
  

Seminar activities

Within the academy we have regular seminars every month. All doctoral students are invited and the seminar is led by one of the doctoral students + invited experienced researchers. The leader of the Academy is present and takes notes. All seminars are offered to participants both remotely and in person and most are conducted in English.