Peder Hjort-Madsen

Research Learning: How Students and Researchers Learn from Collaborative Research

Among new developments in the Roskilde University project work model, this chapter reports the experiences from an experiment of undergraduate students working on subprojects within the framework of their supervisors’ (the authors’) research project. The experiment builds on and enhances the ideal of research based learning, by placing the students at the center of actual research processes, and by organizing their learning processes through their interaction with ‘real’ research problems, empirical and theoretical fields, informants, researcher colleagues etc. This model enhances and explores a relationship, based on shared practice and collaborative learning processes inside and outside of the university, between the students as research learners and the researchers as project managers as well as supervisors.