[AISWorld] Call for Nominations - PACIS 2015 Doctoral Consortium

[Jungpil Hahn]

Call for Nominations - PACIS 2015 Doctoral Consortium

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Important Dates
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Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2015


Nominations are invited for the 19th Pacific Asia Conference on Information
Systems (PACIS) 2015 Doctoral Consortium. The Consortium will be held on
July 5-6 at University Town (U-Town) at the National University of
Singapore, immediately prior to the PACIS 2015 Conference.


Call for Nominations
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Universities are invited to nominate candidates for the 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
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- 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.
- While priority will be given to students from institutions in the
Asia-Pacific region (AIS Region 3), applicants from other AIS regions will
be considered subject to spare seats.


Nomination Process
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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 below:

- A submitted proposal should outline the research topic, research
question(s), theoretical foundations, proposed methodology, current stage
of the research, and plans for completion.
- The proposal should meet the requirements of research-in-progress (RIP)
submissions for PACIS, since accepted proposals will be published in the
conference proceedings as RIP papers.
- The proposal must not exceed 7 single-spaced A4 pages (12-point Times New
Roman font, 1 inch spacing on all sides) and must conform to the
Research-In-Progress word template (available for download from the PACIS
2015 website). The 7 pages must include all text, figures, tables, and
appendices, but exclude the cover page, abstract, keywords, and references.
Please note that the length restriction is strict; proposals that do not
follow the requirements will not be considered.
- A cover page should show the candidate’s full name, affiliation
(university and school/department), and all contact details including name,
mailing and e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax numbers. The candidate
should also indicate the name(s) of his or her principal faculty
supervisors.
- A nomination letter from either the director of the IS doctoral program,
the IS department’s chairperson, or the candidate’s thesis/dissertation
advisor should certify that that the candidate is the nominee from the
university/institution, and that the candidate meets the eligibility
criteria mentioned above.
- A completed Nomination Information sheet (available for download from the
PACIS 2015 website)


Consortium Schedule
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Consortium activities will commerce with Registration and Panel in the
afternoon on Tuesday, 5th July, followed by a welcome dinner. Full day
event is scheduled all day on the 6th July, which will focus on providing
constructive feedback to students on their research.

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
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Accepted consortium students are required to register for the main PACIS
conference by the early-bird date.  The students will receive further
feedback by presenting their research during a poster session.

There is no registration fee for the doctoral consortium and lodging will
be provided during the consortium (i.e., 1-night stay at U-Town on July 5,
2015). Transport from NUS U-Town to Marina Bay Sands at the conclusion of
the consortium is also provided.  However, the students are responsible for
their own travel (e.g., airfare, transport to NUS U-Town) and
accommodations during the main PACIS conference.  Nominating 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
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- Please contact the Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs, Anandhi Bharadwaj,
Jungpil Hahn and Choon Ling Sia if you have any question about the
consortium.
- You should submit your proposals and nomination sheets by email to all
three co-chairs (Anandhi Bharadwaj: a.bharadwaj at emory.edu, Jungpil Hahn:
jungpil at nus.edu.sg, and Choon Ling Sia iscl at cityu.edu.hk).


Consortium Faculty Mentors:
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- Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick, Ireland
- Susanna Ho, Australian National University, Australia
- Mark Keil, Georgia State University, USA
- Michael Myers, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Finland
- Mikko Siponen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Viswananth Venkatesh, University of Arkansas, USA
- Sean Xin Xu, Tsinghua University, China
- Michael Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong


Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs:
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- Anandhi Bharadwaj, Emory University, USA
- Jungpil Hahn, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Choon Ling Sia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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