On 08/27/2013 06:01 PM, Andrea Forte wrote: > Hi all - The CSCW DC is a great opportunity to meet with outstanding senior > researchers and students. As an alumn of the 2006 cohort, I highly > recommend it! > > -- > > ***Please forward to Ph.D. students at your institution*** > > The Doctoral Colloquium is a forum in which Ph.D. students meet and > discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced CSCW > researchers and practitioners. The colloquium itself will begin with > dinner Saturday night February 15, 2014 and continue all day Sunday > February 16, 2014. > > All submissions must be received by the chairs by 5:00pm (17:00) > Pacific Time on October 7, 2014. Submissions received after this date > will not be considered. All submissions will be acknowledged by email. > > We welcome applicants from a broad range of disciplines and approaches > that inform CSCW, including anthropology, sociology, computer science, > cognitive science, organizational studies, and related fields. We are > particularly interested in applications from institutions and groups > that have not traditionally been well-represented at past CSCW > conferences. > > Applicants should be Ph.D. students with an already well-established > direction of research relevant to CSCW, but whose research would > benefit from guidance provided by peers and senior colleagues at the > Doctoral Colloquium. Preference will be given to students who have a > defined topic and program of work e.g., who have proposed their topics > and are within 2 years of graduation within a 5 year program or are > half way through a 3 (or 4) year program. > > The Colloquium committee will select approximately 15 participants who > will be expected to give short, informal presentations of their work > during the Colloquium, to be followed by extensive group discussion. > Participants will also present their research in an interactive poster > session during the main technical program of the conference. > > Applicants should submit the following items by email to > [email protected] with the subject line "CSCW2014 Colloquium > Submission." All items below should be collated into one PDF file > named YOURNAME_CSCWDC2014.pdf (substitute your full name where it > reads YOURNAME): > > * A FOUR-page overview of your doctoral research that describes your > research question, work in progress, and expected contributions. This > overview should also include (1) a paragraph that articulates what you > hope to gain from attending the CSCW Doctoral Colloquium, and (2) an > abstract of no more than 100 words. Your overview will be published in > the ACM Digital Library and distributed to all attendees as part of > the Conference Extended Abstracts. Please submit your overview in the > Extended Abstracts Format. > * A short (2-3 paragraph) biographical sketch on another page. > * An up-to-date curriculum vitae. > * Optionally, one publication that you feel best illustrates your > progress in your research. > * An email letter from your supervisor sent to [email protected] > indicating that they support your application to the colloquium and > that they agree that your research is at an appropriate stage for > participation. These letters should also make reference to how you > might benefit from the Doctoral Colloquium and how they expect that > you might benefit the other students in this group experience. The > email should have "CSCW Doctoral Colloquium: " + YOUR NAME in the > subject header. > > Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs > > Claus Bossen, Aarhus University > Darren Gergle, Northwestern [email protected] > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/attachments/20130827/7fc49f63/attachment-0001.html>
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