[AISWorld] PACIS2012: Call for Nominations - Doctoral Consortium

[James Thong]

PACIS2012 Doctoral Consortium, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), 
Vietnam, 11-12 July 2012
http://www.pacis2012.org/index.php?act=info&id=6 
<http://www.pacis2012.org/index.php?act=info&id=6>

*Important Dates:*
Nomination Deadline: April 13, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: May 11, 2012
Camera Ready Copy Due: May 24, 2012

*Call for Nominations:*
Universities are invited to nominate candidates for the doctoral 
consortium. Eligible candidates are Ph.D. students in Information 
Systems (IS), who have developed a plan for pursuing their dissertation, 
and would benefit from constructive feedback from senior faculty in the 
field. The consortium aims to provide doctoral students with an 
opportunity to share their research ideas and network with peers and 
experienced scholars serving as faculty advisors. Participating students 
will receive high quality feedback from faculty advisors, who are 
eminent researchers in the field, associated with leading institutions 
around the globe, serving in senior editorial positions in the field's 
top journals. This consortium will be a significant event for emerging 
IS researchers in the Asia Pacific region.

*Nomination Eligibility:*
- Ph.D. students who are currently working on a doctoral dissertation in 
Information Systems, and whose research has progressed to the point 
where a clear plan of investigation has been laid out, but there is 
sufficient scope for changes to this plan based on feedback from the 
consortium.
- The ideal consortium candidate should have chosen a theoretical 
approach and initiated planning or implementation of empirical work, but 
should have at least six months of work remaining at the time of the 
consortium.
- The nominated candidates must be sufficiently proficient in English to 
participate in the consortium, since the language of the consortium will 
be English.
- Participation is limited to students from institutions in the 
Asia-Pacific region (AIS Region 3).

*Nomination Process:*
- In the interests of diversity and equity, more than one nomination is 
allowed from any single institution, but we require that the nominees be 
ranked. Note that the first-ranked nominees will have equal chance 
against other top ranked or sole nominees. The 2nd ranked nominees would 
only be considered after all 1st ranked/sole nominees.
- Students must be nominated by an IS faculty member. The nomination 
should follow the guidelines given on the website: 
http://www.pacis2012.org/index.php?act=info&id=6

*Consortium Schedule:*
The Consortium will include a balanced mix of students representing 
diverse research topics, methods, schools and cultures. The number of 
attendees will be limited to 20, organized into 4 streams of 5 students. 
Each student will present his or her research in a designated stream led 
by 2-3 faculty advisors, who will have carefully reviewed the student 
submissions. Participants are required to have carefully reviewed all 
proposals in their stream prior to the Consortium so that they are 
prepared to contribute to the discussion on each student's research.

*Registration and Cost:*
- Accepted consortium students are required to register for the main 
conference by the early-bird date, and will receive further feedback on 
their research at a poster session.
- There is no charge for the consortium, but home institutions are 
encouraged to provide financial assistance to successful nominees in the 
form of travel and accommodation aid. More detailed information about 
the consortium will be provided on acceptance.

*Submission Contact Information:*
- Please contact James Thong (jthong at ust.hk) if you have any question 
about the consortium.
- You should submit your proposals and nomination sheets by email to 
both James Thong (jthong at ust.hk) and Tien B. Dinh (dbtien at fit.hcmus.edu.vn).

*Faculty Counselors:*
- Ritu Agarwal, University of Maryland
- Guy Gable, Queensland University of Technology
- Ho Geun Lee, Yonsei University
- Ting-Peng Liang, National Chengchi University
- Shan-Ling Pan, National University of Singapore
- T. Ravichandran, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Peter Seddon, University of Melbourne
- Choon Ling Sia, City University of Hong Kong
- Detmar Straub, Georgia State University
- Viswanath Venkatesh, University of Arkansas
- Doug Vogel, City University of Hong Kong

*Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs:*
- James Y.L. Thong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Tien B. Dinh, HCMUS, Vietnam
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