[AISWorld] Fwd: Announcement: ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner

[Shirley Gregor]

>> Dear All
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>> Apologies for the slight delay in this announcement and apologies that due to pressure of time it was not included in the awards on Monday lunchtime at ICIS, although it was presented later at the AIS Appreciation event.
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>> All the submissions were of very high quality and can be honoured to have been nominated but, by a clear margin, this year's winner is:
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>> ROMAN LUKYANENKO from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
>> Roman's Supervisor/Nominator was Jeff Parsons.
>> The dissertation title is AN INFORMATION MODELING APPROACH TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF USER-GENERATED CONTENT.
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>> The following are a couple of comments from members of the Awards Panel which give a flavour of the work. 
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>> "This research clearly identifies an important problem area, that of “user generated content” for information systems. There is thorough investigation of the problem areas with three experiments and a real-life system developed according to posited design principles. This system was tested in an interesting field experiment in “Citizen Science”. The contributions to theory of data quality and information modelling are clearly shown. I believe it represents work of the highest order in IS".
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>> "This dissertation is a model for all dissertations, not just those in the area of design and design science.  The theoretical framework and reasoning are crisp and, unlike some other instances of information systems research, completely avoids abstruse analysis which is often mistaken for rigor.  The empirical and experimental work is likewise properly sufficient for the purpose of making the dissertation's conclusions credible to the reader, without overburdening the reader with unnecessary data.  The use of successive experimentation, where one experiment builds on the results of the experiment preceding it, is so valuable and common-sensical that I wonder why I have not seen this done more frequently in past information systems research.  Finally, the creation of an artifact — an actual system - that embodies the design principles learned in the preceding part of the dissertation serves well as the empirical pièce de résistance".
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>> The Award is judged by the ICIS Doctoral Consortium Faculty Mentors from the previous year. So it fell to us, as last years Chairs, to organise.
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>> We would like to thank the team for their ongoing work and commitment. They are, in no particular order, Ulrike Shultz, Liz Davidson, Du Rong, Ming-Hui Huang, Benoit Aubert, Allen Lee, Eric Monteiro, Arun Rai, Matti Rossi and Jan Pries-Heje.
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>> So many congratulations to Roman but also to all nominees and their supervisors/nominators.
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>> Shirley and Guy
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>> Shirley Gregor and Guy Fitzgerald
>> ICIS Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs 2014
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>> Guy Fitzgerald
>> Loughborough University, UK