[Asis-l] CfP: iFutures postgraduate conference "Research into Practice"

[Sheila A Webber]

iFutures, a one-day conference organised by doctoral students, for doctoral
students in the Information Science community, returns (after last year's
inaugural conference) on Tuesday, July 22 2014, at the Information School,
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. The theme of the 2014 conference is
"Research into Practice." To make the conference accessible to doctoral
students, registration costs only £20 and is waived for authors of accepted
full papers. Deadline for submissions is 7 May.

Our keynote speakers are:
Dr. David Bawden
Professor of Information Science, City University, London,

Dr. Mounia Lalmas
Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo! Labs

The event will include the presentation of student research papers,
workshops on issues relating to research dissemination and impact, and
student poster and Pecha Kucha sessions. More details, including a
tentative programme for the day, can be found on the conference website:
http://ifutures.group.shef.ac.uk/.

We are inviting the following types of submissions:
a) Papers: Intended as a means of introducing your current research in a 15
minute presentation followed by 5 minutes for questions and answers.
Abstracts should be no more than 500 words; final papers should be no more
than 1500 words.
b) Posters: Display your research for discussion with fellow PhD students.
Abstracts should be no more than 300 words; final papers are optional (no
more than 1000 words).  [on what, or does it matter]
c) Pecha Kucha Presentations: How do you envision your research, or IS
research in general, impacting or influencing society? You have 20 slides
lasting 20 seconds each to address this question. For more information
about the Pecha Kucha format, see http://www.pechakucha.org/. Abstracts
should be no more than 300 words; final papers are optional (no more than
1000 words).

Authors are requested to submit abstracts by Wednesday, May 7th. Abstracts
are being reviewed by a panel of PhD students, and accepted submissions
will be notified by Monday 26th May.  Successful authors of papers will be
invited to submit a short paper of up to 1500 words, for publication in our
open access conference proceedings. Poster and Pecha Kucha presenters will
also have the option of submitting a paper for publication.

To begin the submissions process, go to:
https://conferencepapers.shef.ac.uk/index.php/iFutures/if2014/about/submissions
N.B. When creating a profile please be sure to tick "Author" at the bottom
of the registration page. Once you have created a profile, clicking on the
User Home tab will allow you to begin a New Submission.

We hope that the conference will offer you a valuable opportunity to gain
conference presenting experience, network with your peers from other
institutions, and get feedback on your work in an encouraging environment.
Registration for the conference will open soon, with details available from
the conference website.

For more information please contact the iFutures team (
ifutures at sheffield.ac.uk).

Registration is now open http://ifutures.group.shef.ac.uk/
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Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer & Director of the Centre for Information
Literacy Research, Information School, The University of Sheffield, 211
Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP. UK
s.webber at sheffield.ac.uk
Phone: +44 114 222 2641
Second Life & Twitter: Sheila Yoshikawa
The Information Literacy Weblog http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/
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