1st Call for Doctoral Forum Applications for the 13th ISSI 2011 Conference Announcement, Durban, South Africa, July 4-8

[Jesper Wiborg Schneider]

CALL FOR DOCTORAL FORUM APPLICATIONS AT ISSI 2011 

SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU ISSI 2011 - 13th International Conference on
Scientometrics and Informetrics 

July 4th, 2011, Durban, South Africa 

http://www.issi2011.uzulu.ac.za/ 

***Deadline for Doctoral Forum applications: March 1, 2011*** 

The biannual ISSI conference is the premier international venue for
research within the areas of informetrics, scientometrics and
bibliometrics. For more information on the scope of the conference and
the areas of interest please visit the conference web site. 

For the fourth time a Doctoral Forum is offered at the ISSI conference.
The primary objective of the Doctoral Forum is to provide doctoral
students with a forum to present and discuss their research projects
with senior researchers and fellow students and to develop their
relationships with other scientists. The Doctoral Forum is a one-day
event that will take place prior to the main conference on 4 July 2011. 

Due to the time consuming form of the Doctoral Forum, the number of
participants is restricted. The doctoral forum is only open to the
invited senior researchers and the accepted students. There is no
separate fee for attending the doctoral forum, but participation
requires the students to register for the conference 

Doctoral forum committee (senior researchers): To be announced later 

Doctoral Forum organizers 

Dr. Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha (Department of Information Science,
University of South Africa, South Africa) 

Associate Professor, Jesper W. Schneider (Royal School of Library &
Information Science, Denmark) 

Time & location: 9:00 - 16:00, Durban University of Technology, Hotel
School, Durban, South Africa 

Doctoral forum applicants 

Applicants should be doctoral students, from any country, conducting
ongoing PhD research on any of ISSI 2011 conference themes and related
fields (see: http://www.issi2011.uzulu.ac.za/). To apply to the Forum,
please submit an application of up to 1500 words containing: 

                                            Description of doctoral
research project - including research questions and planned methodology;
and 

                                            Motivation for student
participation at the Doctoral Forum, and importantly the issues you wish
to receive feedback on from the senior researchers. 

 

The first page of the application must contain the name, affiliation and
full address of the doctoral student including phone and fax numbers and
email address, as well as the name of the supervisor(s). 

Applications should be submitted in RTF or PDF format to Dr. Bosire
Onyancha at: onyanob at unisa.ac.za and Professor Jesper W. Schneider at:
jws at iva.dk 

Important dates 

Submission deadline is March 1 2011 and notification of acceptance April
1 2011. 

We encourage doctoral students to register for the ISSI 2011 main
conference. Early bird registration is April 15 2011. 

Further information 

Please visit the conference website for additional information on the
Doctoral Forum.

 

Kind regards Dr. Bosire Onyancha, University of South Africa, South
Africa  & Associate Professor Jesper W. Schneider,  Royal School of
Library & Information Science, Denmark

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