[chisigmail] OZCHI Doctoral Consortium 2007

[Margot Brereton]

Calling all doctoral students to apply to the....

OZCHI Doctoral Consortium
http://www.ozchi.org/

Wednesday 28th November 2007
University of South Australia City West Campus
North Terrace, Adelaide
South Australia 5000


The Doctoral Consortium offers PhD students a special forum where  
they can present their research plans and discuss them with their  
peers and established senior researchers. Our goal is to create a  
supportive environment that helps students to think through their  
work. PhD candidates wishing to attend the consortium should submit a  
research proposal in the format below by the submission date below.  
Positions at the consortium will be offered based on a review of the  
submitted proposals.

Important Dates
	• 	7 September 2007: Doctoral Consortium submission date.
	• 	3 October 2007: Notification date

Doctorial consortium Chair
	• 	Dr. Margot Brereton ( doctoral at ozchi.org )
	•	Responders to be announced

Submission

Format for Doctoral Consortium (DC) application Applicants for the  
OZCHI 2007 DC must submit a research proposal of between 1000 and  
1500 words (that's roughly 2 x A4 pages in Times 11 point) under the  
following headings:
	• 	Working Title:
	• 	Brief introduction: What is the research about and why is it  
important to do it?
	• 	Aims and objectives of the research: What do you hope to achieve  
or find out?
	• 	Synopsis of related literature: What do the main writers in this  
field say about your project?
	• 	Proposed method: How do you propose to achieve your aims and  
objectives? Timeline: How long will it take to do all this? (Include  
some dates and milestones)
	• 	Activities to date: What data have you collected? What have you  
designed? How will you work with your data to construct arguments/ 
evidence? If you don't yet have data, say 			how you plan to collect it.
	• 	Contribution: State succinctly the contribution that your thesis  
will make.
	•	Help: Where do you most need help?




Kind regards,

Margot Brereton,PhD
Doctoral Consortium Chair, 2007


School of ITEE
University of Queensland

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