[Students-l] Fwd: [SIGMETRICS] 1st Call for Doctoral Forum Applications for the 13th ISSI 2011 Conference Announcement, Durban, South Africa, July 4-8

[M.J. Menou]

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Subject: 	[SIGMETRICS] 1st Call for Doctoral Forum Applications for the 
13th ISSI 2011 Conference Announcement, Durban, South Africa, July 4-8
Date: 	Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:49:53 +0100
From: 	Jesper Wiborg Schneider <JWS at IVA.DK>
Reply-To: 	ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
<SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>
To: 	SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU



*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