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School of Information Sciences
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Calls For Participants: Doctoral Forum & Poster Presentation
DOCAM / RAILS special event
DOCAM 2015 and RAILS 2015 are pleased to invite submissions from doctoral students in information/document studies or a related discipline to attend a joint
Doctoral Forum on the afternoon and evening of 22 July, 2015. Prospective doctoral students developing a PhD application for 2015/16 are also invited to apply. The aim of the forum is to provide a supporting environment where students can discuss
their research and receive mentoring and advice from an international panel of senior researchers.
This is a special shared event co-hosted by the 12th Annual Conference of the Document Academy, 20-22 July, 2015 and the Research Applications in Information and Library
Studies Conference (RAILS), following DOCAM from 22–24 July, 2015. Both conferences are sponsored by the
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of
Technology, Sydney (UTS), and the School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University (CSU).
The doctoral forum is open to students enrolled in a doctoral program in any of RAILS and DOCAM’s cognate disciplines (e.g. Information Science, Information Systems, Librarianship,
Museum Studies, Rhetoric, Document and Media Studies, Information and Computer Science).
The forum is included, at no additional cost, for students registered to attend DOCAM 2015 or RAILS 2015.
The doctoral forum will be led by Professor Pamela McKenzie (University of Western Ontario, Canada) who will be joined by senior academics in the field, including Dr Michael Olsson
(UTS, Australia) and Professor Lisa Given (CSU, Australia). To be considered for this event students must submit an abstract outlining their Doctoral research, including the stage of their research that they are currently undertaking and the particular challenges
they are facing that they would like to discuss and seek advice about . In addition students attending DOCAM will be given the opportunity to present a poster that introduces their PhD work during DOCAM 2015. Space in the Forum will be limited and, given the
interactive nature of the forum discussion, students should be prepared to present on and talk about their research.
The forum schedule will be finalised in conjunction with DOCAM’s co-provider RAILS once the number of attendees has been determined. Notifications of decisions will be made by
February 15, 2015. If there are any queries regarding submissions, please email Dr Michael Olsson ([log in to unmask])
DOCAM/RAILS submission process for Doctoral Forum
Abstracts of 500 words must be submitted through Easychair by
midnight (23:59:00 Australian Eastern Daylight Time) on Friday,30 January 2015.
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=docam2015
Students should provide a brief overview of the nature of their project (research problem, methodology/method, theoretical framework, etc.), a description of their intended poster
and explain why they would benefit from participating in the event. Please see the EasyChair Submission Instructions for details, prior to submitting your abstract to the system. Note in front of your title proper, please type these words:
Doctoral Forum.
Criteria for Selection
Submitted abstracts of 500 words should address the following criteria:
EasyChair Submission Instructions
The submission deadline for all DOCAM doctoral forum proposals is
midnight (23:59:00 Australian Eastern Daylight Time) Friday
30 January 2015. Proposals must be submitted via the EasyChair system
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=docam2015).
To submit your abstract at EasyChair, please follow the steps below:
6.
upload your abstract (500 words) for your proposed forum contribution
Doctoral forum abstracts (a combined 500 word description max.) must be in the word format. References may also be included, beyond the allowed 500 words.
We look forward to meeting you at DOCAM 2015 and RAILS 2015.
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Mary Anne Kennan, PhD | School of Information Studies | Charles Sturt University - Sydney | Locked Bag 450 | Silverwater NSW 2128 | Phone: +612 6933 4893 | Fax: +612 6933 2733 | email:
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Mary Anne Kennan, PhD | School of Information Studies | Charles Sturt University - Sydney | Locked Bag 450 | Silverwater NSW 2128 | Phone: +612 6933 4893 | Fax: +612 6933 2733 | email:
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http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/staff/profiles/Info-Studies/mary-anne-kennan &
http://maryannekennan.com | Twitter:
http://twitter.com/MaryAnneKennan | Publications:
http://tiny.cc/aqjt4 | Higher Degree Research and Honours Coordinator | Co-editor, Australian Academic & Research Libraries
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