Dear colleagues,

I would like to attract your attention to the a couple of vacancies for the CONFENIS 2011 Doctoral Consortium October, 14-16. See http://www.confenis2011.aau.dk/Doctoral+Consortium/ for details.

It is with great pleasure that the organizing committee of CONFENIS 2011 and Aalborg University invites International doctoral students to participate in a Doctoral Consortium taking place in the weekend leading up to the conference.

Design Science Research and Design Thinking will be the themes of this year’s doctoral consortium. Both schools of thoughts have gained much interest within the area of Information Systems research recently, and at this year’s doctorial consortium the aim is to explore if Design Science Research could be a new approach to EIS research that may integrate the engineering approach and conceptual design thinking.

Selecting participants

All PhD students interested in learning more about Design Science Research are welcome to apply for admission to the Doctoral Consortium. Participation is however limited to 15 students. In case more than 15 candidates have applied for admission at the deadline (June 1th 2011) then participants will be selected based on the quality of the essay/position paper, the potential contribution the student is likely to make to the Consortium, and the potential benefit of the Consortium to the student’s research.

Participants in the course should currently be enrolled as a PhD-student at a university and conduct research within the area of Enterprise Information Systems. It is not a prerequisite that students use or intend to use design science research as part of their PhD project.

The language for the Consortium is English, and all submitted materials must be in English. Students must have sufficient proficiency in English to participate in the presentations, discussions, and other activities.

Payment

The doctoral consortium is free for Ph.D. students from Denmark. Ph.D. students from other countries pay EUR 50.

The Doctoral Consortium is approved as a 3 ECTS PhD course. Participating in the whole course and handing in the course assignment is a prerequisite for receiving the course diploma.

The written assignment has two parts. The first part is the essay/position paper handed in prior to the start of the course. After the course the assignment can be completed in one of two ways:

a) The student can go together with other students to transform their essays into a workshop at the CONFENIS 2011 conference (following the guidelines on the web). The process will be facilitated by one of the faculties form the Doctoral Consortium.

b) The student can update their own essay based on the new knowledge acquired at the course and hand it in a second time. Essays handed in after the course will be evaluated (past/not past) by one of the faculties.
Submission format and instructions.

Previous to the start of the students are expected to submit an essay/position paper reflecting on his or hers position on future directions in research on Enterprise Information Systems and the role Design Science Research could play in the future envisioned.

Proposals must have a cover page with the following information:
• Title of the essay/position paper
• Contact information for the candidate, including name, university, email address, mailing address, phone number, and fax number.

Contend of the course

The course invites students to discuss and reflect on the potential and constraints using design science as a research paradigm within the area of Enterprise Information Systems.

The doctoral consortium will have three main parts:

1) Foundation for design science research
2) Critique of the design science approach
3) A new paradigm for DSR in EIS

The teaching style of the course is a mixture of lectures, small workshops, written assignments and presentations by the students. The first day will be used to present and discuss a number of influential papers on design science. The second day a few cases and examples will be presented and critiques, and finally the essays developed by the student will be discussed in smaller groups.

Learning Objectives

This course should enable the participants to understand, execute and evaluate design science research.

Faculty

Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Lene Pries-Heje, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Charles Møller, Aalborg University, Denmark

Program

Friday, 14. October: 19.00 Doctoral consortium informal get together
Saturday, 15. October: 09.00-22.00 Doctoral consortium
Sunday, 16. October: 09.00-15.00 Doctoral consortium

Important dates

15-08-2011 Deadline for submitting essay/position paper (Note: new deadline)
15.08-2011 Noification to participants (Note: new deadline)
01-09-2011 Reading materials will be distributed to participants
01-10-2011 Deadline for late submission of essay/position paper
14-10-2011 Doctoral Consortium
16-10-2011 CONFENIS 2011 opening
01-12-2011 Deadline for final submission of written assignment

 

Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards

Charles

 

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Professor Charles Møller, PhD

Center for Industrial Production, Aalborg University

Fibigerstræde 16, DK-9220 Aalborg Ø, DENMARK

Phone: +45-61677786, Mail: charles@production.aau.dk

 

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The IFIP WG 8.9 working conference CONFENIS 2011

Aalborg, Denmark, 16-18 Oktober, http://confenis2011.aau.dk