Field studies abroad – Minor Field Studies (MFS)
The MFS prepares students for work in global contexts and organisations through a fieldwork scholarship.
The scholarship provides the opportunity to collect data for a master's or bachelor's thesis in a low- or middle-income country. The fieldwork is carried out for at least 8 weeks with the help of a supervisor at the Department of Human Geography and a contact person in the fieldwork country.
If you are studying on one of the Department's master's programmes, you can do the fieldwork in the third (or second) semester of the programme within Field Studies in Geography, 15 credits, Field Studies in Human Geography, 15 credits, or Field Studies in Urban and Regional Planning, 15 credits.
The alternative is to do the MFS as part of a thesis for a master's or bachelor's degree. However, it can be difficult to spend at least 8 weeks in the field, as the total time for the thesis is 20 and 10 weeks respectively.
Regardless of which course you do MFS in, you are insured through Kammarkollegiet's Student UT.
Examples of fieldwork carried out by the Department's students with the support of MFS grants
- Burial space evolvement in rapid growing city, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Consequences of relocation of street vendors in Nairobi, Kenya
- Crossing borders, creating boundaries, Rundu, Namibia
- Fuelwood and protected areas, Borjomi-Kharagauli, Georgia
- Impacts and feasibility of solar water heaters, Cape Town, South Africa
- Landscape changes in southern Ukraine since land reform
- Local dynamics and external drivers of agro-ecological change in Southwestern Ethiopia
- Processes of Namibian identity making and ethnicity in Namibia
- Rural livelihoods in change, Efuti, Ghana
- Small scale farmer’s tree planting practices, Thuti, Kenya
- Socio-economic effect of tourism and nature conservation in Namibia
- Socio-economic impact of flower plantations in Kenya
- Solid waste management in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- Traffic planning in Bangalore, India
- Vulnerability to storm related flooding in Nicaragua
Contact
If you cannot find the information you are looking for via the links above or have questions about MFS within the Department of Human Geography's programmes, please contact the Department's international coordinator. If you have questions about a course that includes field studies or a degree project, please contact the teacher responsible for the course, see the respective course description.
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Last updated: December 18, 2024
Source: Department of Human Geograpghy
