Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs

Doctoral Consortium Faculty (A-Z)
 

	Henri Barki Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales
	Wendy Currie University of Warwick
	Prabuddha De, Co-Chair Purdue University
	Alan Dennis Indiana University
	Debabrata Dey University of Washington
	Paulo Goes University of Connecticut
	Lorin Hitt University of Pennsylvania
	Laurie Kirsch University of Pittsburgh
	Ann Majchrzak University of Southern California
	Lynne Markus Bentley College
	Vijay Mookerjee University of Texas, Dallas
	Christina Soh, Co-Chair Nanyang Technological University

Doctoral Consortium Students (A-Z)

Call for Nominations

The International Conference on Information Systems invites nominations for its Doctoral Consortium in 2006. In case of problems or for further clarifications about the submission process, please contact one of the consortium co-chairs.

Nomination Information Sheet: To get the Nomination Information Sheet for nominating a student for the doctoral consortium, click here. Nomination deadline: midnight US EDT, June 4, 2006. All nominations will be acknowledged. Incomplete or late nomination packages will not be reviewed. No exceptions.

The Consortium will take place at the Grand Geneva Resort, about an hour from Milwaukee. The Consortium will begin at 5  PM on Thursday,  December 7, and end at noon on Sunday, December 10. The Consortium provides doctoral students working on their dissertation research with an opportunity to share and develop their research ideas, to explore issues related to academic and research careers in the Information Systems field, and to build relationships with other IS PhD students from around the world.

Please note: All accepted students to the Doctoral Consortium will be required to pay $300 to help defray part of the cost of their attendance at the Consortium. As the costs for the Consortium continue to escalate, the Milwaukee Conference Committee has felt compelled to require attendees to pay a small portion of the costs of running the Consortium.  Students attending the ICIS 2006 Doctoral Consortium will receive free registration to the ICIS 2006 conference.

The ICIS 2006 conference in Milwaukee immediately follows the Consortium.

Eligibility

Participation is by invitation only. Each university can nominate only one candidate. Each student selected for the Consortium is expected to attend all Consortium meetings and activities, from the opening on Thursday evening to the closing at noon on Sunday. Candidates who are not able to make this commitment to the Consortium (for example, because of a desire to present at or attend one of the ICIS pre-conference workshops), no matter how impressive these candidates may be, should not apply.

Ph.D. students currently working on Information Systems dissertations are eligible for nomination. Candidates should successfully defend their dissertation/thesis proposals before December 2006, although they need not have defended their proposals before the nomination deadline. Students who will have completed their dissertations by December 2006 will not be accepted because such students would benefit less from the Consortium compared with those who will still be actively working on their dissertations in December. Nominated candidates should intend to pursue an academic career in Information Systems following the completion of their Ph.D.

Prospective candidates should also note that the Consortium is designed as an intensive personal development experience, and therefore, participants should not bring guests to the Consortium.

Nomination Letter Requirements

• Students must be nominated by an IS faculty member/academic.

• There can only be one nominee per university or institution.

• The nomination should be in the form of a nomination letter from the nominating faculty member and should certify:

  • that the candidate is the sole nominee from the university/institution;

  • that the candidate meets the eligibility criteria mentioned above; and

  • whether the nominating institution will provide travel funds to the nominee in the event that she or he is admitted to the consortium.

• Ideally, the nominating faculty member should be the director of the IS doctoral program or the IS department’s chairperson. If these individuals are not available, the student may be nominated by the candidate’s thesis/dissertation advisor.

• In case multiple nominations are received from a university/institution, all these nominations will likely be rejected.

Selection Process

Selection to the ICIS Doctoral Consortium is very competitive: over 80 nominations each year are typical. Participants will be selected based on the apparent quality of the proposed research, its potential significance and contribution to the IS discipline, the potential contribution the student is expected to make to the Consortium, and the potential benefit of the Consortium to the student's research and professional development. This assessment will be based upon a review of the proposal paper prepared by the doctoral student. Previous attendance by other students from the nominating school is not a criterion for selecting Consortium participants.

The Consortium will include a balance of students representing diverse research topics, methods, schools, and cultures. Participation is limited to 40 students. 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. Students must also have access to the Internet prior to their arrival at the Consortium.

As stated earlier, students must commit to being involved in the Consortium for its entire duration from 5 PM on Thursday December 7, to noon on Sunday,  December 10, 2006.

Proposal Submission Format

The paper outlining the candidate's research should be in the form of a short report summarizing the student’s dissertation/thesis proposal. This paper should provide the research question, a justification for why and to whom the research is important, a brief literature review, a presentation of the theoretical basis for the work, a research model and hypotheses (if applicable), and a description of the research design. This part of the paper should not exceed 12 double-spaced pages. Formatting for this part of the paper must be as follows:

• Times New Roman or equivalent font

• 11- or 12-point font

• Double-spaced (not 1.5)

• 1 inch margins all around

• 8.5 x 11 inch paper (or A4)

• Pages must be numbered

This 12-page limit does NOT include tables, figures, or references. Tables and figures should not be embedded in the text, but must be included separately, to immediately follow the text. References should appear last.  The complete document, including the main text, tables, figures, and references, should not exceed 20 pages.

Two appendices of no more than one page each may be added, at the discretion of the student and the person nominating her or him. (These appendices must also follow the formatting guidelines outlined above.) The first appendix would be a summary of any findings the student may have as of June 4, 2006. The second appendix would be an estimation, as of June 4, 2006, of what still needs to be done to complete the dissertation.

Instructions on how to prepare presentations for the Consortium will be provided to those students who are selected to participate.

Submission Process

All submissions must be made through the online submission system. The nominated doctoral student, not the nominating faculty member, should register with this system and make the submission. Upon registration and email notification of the system-generated password, the student will be able to proceed with the submission by uploading the submission package.

The submission package must consist of a single file, containing the three items mentioned earlier, namely, the Nomination Information Sheet, Nomination Letter, and Proposal, in that order and with each item starting on a new page. The file must be prepared in English, using PDF or MS Word (version 2000 or higher).

The submitter will receive a system-generated acknowledgement upon successful uploading of the submission package. Since that point, the review status can be seen on the system.

All submissions must be received by the system no later than midnight, US EDT, June 4, 2006.  A previously submitted proposal can also be modified until this time.

Incomplete or late submissions will be rejected.  In case multiple submissions are received from the same university (or the same person), all of them will likely be rejected. 

In case of problems or for further clarifications about the submission process, please contact one of the consortium co-chairs.

To get to the online submission system, click here.