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

[Michel Menou]

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Subject: 	[Asis-l] CfP: iFutures postgraduate conference "Research into 
Practice"
Date: 	Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:32:39 +0100
From: 	Sheila A Webber <s.webber at sheffield.ac.uk>
To: 	asis-l at asis.org <asis-l at asis.org>



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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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