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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Nominations are sought for the ECIS 2012 Doctoral Consortium which will take place in Barcelona on 8-10 June 2012 immediately prior to the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The deadline for nominations is <b><span lang=EN-GB>January 31st 2012</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Eligible candidates should be currently enrolled in a University within AIS Area 2 (Europe, Africa and the Middle East). To get as much as possible out of the consortium, candidates should have successfully defended their thesis proposals before June 2012. Students who will have completed their dissertations by June 2012 or are close to completing will not be considered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Participating faculty include:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Pär Ågerfalk (Co-Chair), Uppsala University, Sweden<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Brian Fitzgerald (Co-Chair), University of Limerick, Ireland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Joan Rodon Mòdol (Local Organizer), ESADE Business School, Spain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Ritu Agarwal, University of Maryland, US<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Michel Avital, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Richard Baskerville, Georgia State University, US<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Alan Hevner, University of South Florida, US<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Michael Myers, University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Briony Oates, Teesside University, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Robin Teigland, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Details of the consortium and nomination process are available at <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.ecis2012.eu/doctoral-consortium/">http://www.ecis2012.eu/doctoral-consortium/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - </span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'>Prof Brian Fitzgerald, PhD, FICS, FBCS, CEng</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'>Frederick Krehbiel Chair in Innovation in Business and Technology</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'>Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'>University of Limerick</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'><a href="http://www.csis.ul.ie/staff/BF/">http://www.csis.ul.ie/staff/BF/</a></span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-IE'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>