Doctoral Forum: FINAL CALL

[Jonathan Levitt]

FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS & FOR PARTICIPATION

Doctoral Forum Quantitative 
Research in Information Science
12-13 April 2012, University of 
Wolverhampton, UK.

We are very pleased to announce a doctoral forum on 
quantitative research in Information Science to be held on 12-13 April at the 
University of Wolverhampton, UK.

This event, endorsed by the European 
Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 
(ASIST)
(http://www.asis.org/Chapters/europe/) the Metrics SIG of ASIST 
(http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGMET/) and the International 
Information Issues SIG of ASIST (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/), is the first of two events 
that the European Chapter is endorsing, in celebration of the 75th anniversary 
of ASIST.  The European Chapter is also endorsing Libraries In The Digital Age 
(LIDA) to be held on 18 -- 22 June 2012 in Zadar, Croatia (http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/).

The Doctoral Forum will 
begin with short introductory presentations by Prof Mike Thelwall and Dr 
Jonathan Levitt on the application of quantitative methods to Information 
Science. However, its main emphasis is on the students presenting and 
receiving feedback on their research and on meeting other doctoral students.  
Doctoral students who are either using, or considering using, quantitative 
methods in at least part of their doctoral research are encouraged to 
apply.

The Doctoral Forum is open to all interested parties, including 
those who don't present.

Submissions & intent to 
participate
===================================
If you wish to present 
your research at the Doctoral Forum please submit a description of your research 
project and how you are using or are proposing to use quantitative methods 
(totalling a maximum of 150 words) and key related references.  If you wish to 
attend the event and not present, please submit a description of your relevant 
experiences and reasons for wanting to attend the conference (totalling a 
maximum of 150 words).

Submissions need to be emailed to the Conference 
organiser Dr. Jonathan Levitt, j.levitt at lboro.ac.uk) and the Program manager 
(Prof. Mike Thelwall, m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk) by mid-night UK-time on Sunday, 
February 12, 2012.  If you have any queries, please email Dr. Levitt 
(j.levitt at lboro.ac.uk) and Prof. Thelwall (m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk).

The 
venue
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The University of Wolverhampton is located in 
Wolverhampton City Centre and is very close to Wolverhampton train 
station. Wolverhampton is a thirty minute train journey from Birmingham 
International airport.  The event finishes on Friday afternoon, enabling 
participants to see something of England over the weekend; from Wolverhampton, 
Wales can be reached by train in thirty minutes and London can be reached by 
train in two hours.

Registration & 
accommodation
============================
The cost of the event is 50 
pounds per person, to cover the cost of
- four coffee/tea refreshment 
breaks,
- two sandwich lunch breaks and
- one buffet dinner.
Details of 
the registration procedure will be published on this Web-page closer to the 
event.

Three low price hotels are located within easy walking distance of 
the venue, MC building, City Campus, University of Wolverhampton
(http://wiki.worldflicks.org/mc_building.html); 
LateRooms 
(http://www.laterooms.com) and Travelodge
(http://www2.travelodge.co.uk) provide descriptions of nearby 
hotels and the option of reserving accommodation.  We particularly recommend the 
Britannia and Novetel hostels.

For the latest information, including 
details on how to register please visit the conference Web-page at http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/workshopApril2012.html
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