Courses and conferences
PhD courses
The PhD courses are free of charge and open for all PhD students as far as space allows. The courses are held in English and in real life if nothing else is specified.
You can sign up to the courses via the link below each course until the last date of application. Those who have signed up will get an answer soon after the deadline.
Before you can be registered to the course you need to hand in a certificate of registration from your home university which shows that you are registered as a PhD student. To get access to the course page you need to activate a student account at Uppsala University.
Do you have questions about the content of the course? Please contact the course director.
Do you have questions about the application to the PhD courses? Please contact Golondrian Janke administrator, third-cycle studies.
Obligatory research school courses in the autumn
Perspectives on Science and Research - FHS0021, 7,5 hp
The next time the course will be given: ca 2024-08-29 -- 2024-09-25.
Course director: Fredrik Tell
The course is obligatory within the SUBS programme (Stockholm Uppsala Business Studies) and within the Research School of Management and IT and these PhD students are given priority.
You can apply to Perspectives on Science and Research until 2024-06-28.
Seminars and Thesis Work - FHS0040, 7,5 hp
The next time the course will be given: Second half of 2024H in Uppsala.
Course director: Christina Keller
The course is obligatory within the Research School of Management and IT and these PhD students are given priority.
You can apply to Seminars and Thesis Work until ca 2024-10-13.
Obligatory research school courses in the spring
Research in Information Systems and Informatics (coming pdf/link) - FHS0091, 7,5 hp
The next time the course will be given: First half of 2025V in Visby, Uppsala and Lund.
Course director: Pär Ågerfalk
The course is obligatory within the Research School of Management and IT and these PhD students are given priority.
You will be able to sign up to the course during the latter part of the spring. It will be possible to sign up to Research in Information Systems and Informatics until ca 2025-01-12.
Research on Information Technology in Organization and Management - FSA0002, 7,5 hp
The next time the course will be given: Second half of 2025V in Uppsala, Stockholm, Karlstad and online.
Course director: Einar Iveroth
The course is obligatory within the Research School of Management and IT and these PhD students are given priority.
You will be able to sign up to the course during the latter part of the spring. It will be possible to sign up to Research on Information Technology in Organization and Management until ca 2025-02-16.
Other courses offered to PhD students in the research school
Here you can see information about other courses which are offered to PhD students in the research school.
Theorizing the Digital: Foundational debates Pdf, 76 kB. - IT00022, 15,0 hp
The course is given online at the Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg, 2024-09-02 -- 2025-02-21.
Course contact persons: Juho Lindman and Daniel Curto-Millet.
Applicants should be enrolled as PhD students. All students are required to be fluent Englishspeakers and writers at an academic level.
You can apply to Theorizing the Digital: Foundational debates until 2024 06-16.
Current issues in financial reporting and auditing - ENFE114, 7,5 hp
The course has three meetings:
- 9-10 September 2024, Gothenburg, about regulation.
- 15-16 October 2024, Sundsvall, about sustainability
- 27-29 November 2024, Uppsala, about digitalisation
Course directors: Jan Marton, Univerity of Gothenburg, Peter Öhman, Mid Sweden University and Fredrik Nilsson, Uppsala University.
You can apply to Current issues in financial reporting and auditing until 2024-06-20.
Emerging Topics in Information Systems - EIN003F, 7,5 hp
The course will be given on campus. The course has an hybrid option that means that it can be possible to take some parts of the course from distance in discussion with the course director.
The course is given during the Autumn term and is offered in English.
Study pace: 25 %.
Course director: Saonee Sarker
Please apply no later than August 16, 2024, via e-mail to carla.bohme@ics.lu.se.
Theory and Research in Service Management - 1FEK002, 7,5 hp
The course is given in a hybrid format at Roma Tre University and Karlstad Business School/Service Research Center (CTF) and starts 2024-09-14 and will continue during September and October.
Course leaders: Bo Edvardsson och Samuel Petros Sebhatu.
Please apply no later than August 20, 2024, via email to britt-marie.shandrew@kau.se.
Innovation and Value Creation in Research – INT001F, 4,0 hp
The course will be given on the LTH campus in Lund 2024-09-18 -- 2024-10-09.
Course supervisors and contact persons: Jessica Wadin, Innovation, LTH and Anders Warell, Innovation, LTH.
Please apply no later than September 6, 2024 via email to education administrator Cilla Perlhagen at cilla.perlhagen@design.lth.se. Please state which year you started your PhD studies, and to which department you belong.
Qualitative Methods - FHS0022, 7,5 hp
The next time the course will be given: ca 2024-09-26 -- 2024-10-31.
Course director: Linda Wedlin
The course is obligatory for PhD students from the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University as a part of the SUBS programme (Stockholm Uppsala Business Studies) and is offered within the Research School of Management and IT and these PhD students are given priority.
You can apply to Qualitative Methods until 2024-08-30.
Introduction to Multivariate Statistics - FHS0024, 7,5 hp
The next time the course will be given: ca 2024-12-05 -- 2024-12-20.
Course director: James Sallis
The course is obligatory within the SUBS programme (Stockholm Uppsala Business Studies) and is offered within the Research School of Management and IT and these PhD students are given priority.
You can apply to Introduction to Multivariate Statistics until 2024-11-10.
Design Science Research in Information Systems - EIN002F, 7,5 hp
The course is given as a hybrid course, in Lund and online during the period January - June 2025.
Course director: Osama Mansour
The course is offered within the Research School of Management and IT.
You will be able to apply to Design Science Research in Information Systems from September 2024.
Other conferences
Other conferences to which research school participants are invited
3rd International Symposium on Digital Transformation 2024
11-13 September in Växjö on campus and online.
For questions and information about the symposium, please contact: Emily Hanscam.
Previous conferences held by the research school
MITAC 2023 Uppsala University, Uppsala 2023-10-17 13:00--2023-10-19 13:00
Best Reviewer Award: Oscar Swinden, Uppsala University
Ott Velsbergs webinarium (video) (från 231017).
Uppsala Lectures in Business 2023 2023-10-18--2023-10-19. The lecturer 2023 was Bruce Kogut, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics, Columbia Business School och Professor of Sociology, Columbia University.
MITSC 2023 Mälardalen University, Västerås 2023-04-18--2023-04-20
Best Reviewer Award: Panagiota Peggy Koukouvinou, Umeå University
Welcome to MITSC 2023 in Västerås.
MITAC 2022 Uppsala University, Uppsala 2022-10-04--2022-10-06
Best Reviewer Award: Kristin Svärd, Karlstad University
Uppsala Lectures in Business 2022 2022-10-03--2021-10-05. The lecturer 2022 was Professor Sarah Kaplan, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada.
MITSC 2022 Umeå University, Online 2022-03-22--2022-03-24
Best Reviewer Award: Sara Bomark, Umeå University
MITAC 2021 Uppsala Universitet, Online 2021-10-05--2021-10-06
Best Reviewer Award: Tim Kastrup, Uppsala University
Uppsala Lectures in Business 2021 2021-10-05--2021-10-06. The lecturer 2021 was professor Eero Vaara, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK.
Uppsala Lectures in Business 2021 – programme.
MITSC 2021 Linnaeus University, Online 2021-05-18--2021-05-20
Best Reviewer Award: Jakob Westergren, Uppsala University
Programme MITSC 2021 (pdf).
Gerald Midgleys keynote (pdf), Gerald Midgleys keynote (pptx), An Introduction to Systems Thinking for Tackling Wicked Problems (a video from the lecture held at Linnaeus University 2021-03-12).
Jim Spohrer's keynote (slides).
MITAC 2020 Uppsala University, Online 2020-09-29--2020-10-01
Best Reviewer Award: Emil Åkesson, Lund University, LTH, Faculty of Engineering
MITSC 2020 Mälardalen University, Västerås Online 2020-03-18--2020-03-20
Best Reviewer Award: Frida Magnusdotter Ivarsson, University of Gothenburg
MITAC 2019 Uppsala University, Uppsala 2019-10-21--10-23
Best Reviewer Award: Sebastian Dehling, Karlstad University & Oskar Lundberg Umeå University.
MITSC 2019 Karlstad University 2019-03-27--03-29.
Best Reviewer Award: Anton Borell, Stockholm University & Anna Uhlin, Mälardalen University,
MITAC 2018 Uppsala University, Campus Gotland 2018-09-19--2018-09-21.
Best Reviewer Award: Daniel Skog, Umeå University.
MITSC 2018 Lund University, LTH, Faculty of Engineering 2018-03-12--2018-03-14.
Best Reviewer Award: Chelsey Jo Huisman, Uppsala University & Christina Ghita, Uppsala University.
MITAC 2017 Uppsala University, Uppsala 2017-09-25--2017-09-27
Uppsala Lectures in Business 2017-09-26--2017-09-27
The lecturer 2017 was Nicole Coviello, the Betty and Peter Sims Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Marketing at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.
- Lecture 1: "Informing the dynamics of effectuation with network theory"
- Lecture 2: "No business experience required? The influence of pre-founding R&D collaboration on early internationalization".
MITSC 2017 Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Karlskrona 2017-03-13--2017-03-15
MITAC 2016 Uppsala University, Uppsala 2016-10-03--2016-10-05
Uppsala Lectures in Business 2016-10-04--2016-10-05
Lecturer: Professor Andrew Van de Ven, University of Minnesota.