[AISWorld] HICSS Doctoral Fellows and Doctoral Consortium: Call for Participants

[Dennis, Alan R.]

The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences invites doctoral students (irrespective of stage in the program) to apply to become a HICSS Doctoral Fellow and participate in the HICSS Doctoral Consortium. The Consortium will be held on the day before the main conference on Tuesday, January 3, 2017. The Consortium is free, but all participants must register for the HICSS conference. HICSS is the longest running technology conference and will celebrate its 50th year with the 2017 conference.
First and foremost, the HICSS Doctoral Fellow program will build a community of scholars. Students will be known as HICSS Doctoral Fellows and will begin to build life-long relationships with other Doctoral Fellows and Faculty Mentors to help them become leaders within the HICSS family and the field as a whole. Each year, HICSS will hold special events for returning Doctoral Fellows as they move forward in their careers to provide ongoing networking and mentoring. Returning Doctoral Fellows will be expected to contribute to the HICSS family by providing advice and mentoring to the newest generation of Doctoral Fellows.
Second, the HICSS Doctoral Consortium will help Doctoral Fellows advance one paper closer to journal publication. HICSS is a top research conference because it focuses on interesting and breakthrough ideas. We welcome student papers that cover the breadth of topics addressed at HICSS such as systems science, information systems, information science, and computer science. Virtually everyone who attends HICSS is an author of a paper at HICSS (about 95%), so it is one of the most research-focused academic conferences. Many new research projects begin at HICSS through discussions at coffee breaks or social events. We encourage the development of new research projects among Fellows and Mentors with shared interests, although this is not a formal part of the program.
Schedule

  9:00      Welcome
  9:15      Keynote: Rookie Mistakes
10:00     Break
10:30     Group Discussions of Student Papers
12:00     Lunch
  1:00      Group Discussions of Student Papers
  2:30      Break
 3:00      Panel: How I got Tenure
  6:00      Reception

Faculty Mentors

*         Roman Beck, IT University of Copenhagen
*         Bob Briggs, San Diego State University
*         Liz Davidson, University of Hawaii
*         GJ de Vreede, University of South Florida
*         Alan Dennis, Indiana University
*         Peter Eklund, IT University of Copenhagen
*         Rick Kazman, University of Hawaii
*         Stacie Petter, Baylor University
*         Gerhard Schwabe, University of Zurich
*         Jason Thatcher, Clemson University
*         Christian Wagner, City University of Hong Kong

Application Instructions
Students should submit their CV and a Summary of a completed research project or one that is a work in progress (5 pages single-spaced, inclusive of all items). This Summary should begin with the research question, and why it is important. The key reason for rejection at top journals is not because of problems with theory or method, but because the research question is not interesting.  The Summary should also include (where applicable) theory, methods, and results.

The deadline for submissions is September 21, 2016 by 11:59PM Hawaiian time. Students will be notified of acceptance by September 30, 2016.  To submit your application, use the link below: https://form.jotform.com/62011151663140.

For questions, please contact any of the HICSS Doctoral Fellows & Consortium Chairs: Bob Briggs (rbriggs at mail.sdsu.edu<mailto:rbriggs at mail.sdsu.edu>), GJ de Vreede (gdevreede at usf.edu<mailto:gdevreede at usf.edu>), Alan Dennis (ardennis at indiana.edu<mailto:ardennis at indiana.edu>), and Jason Thatcher (jthatch at clemson.edu<mailto:jthatch at clemson.edu>).


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Alan Dennis
Professor and John T. Chambers Chair of Internet Systems
www.kelley.iu.edu/ardennis<http://www.kelley.iu.edu/ardennis>
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Editor-in-Chief, AIS Transactions on Replication Research (aisel.aisnet.org/trr)<http://aisel.aisnet.org/trr>
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