iDocQ 2017
Location
Robert Gordon University iSchool
Aberdeen Business School Building Garthdee Road Aberdeen AB10 7QE United KingdomDescription
The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science welcomes postgraduate research students to the following advanced training event:
iDocQ 2017
(Information Science Doctoral Colloquium)
26 June 2017
Robert Gordon University
The partner universities of the ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science information science pathway have hosted an annual doctoral colloquium (iDocQ) since 2011. The colloquium is aimed at students studying towards PhDs in information science and other related disciplines. This year’s event takes place on Monday 26th June at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. The event is suitable for doctoral students at all stages of their studies. Attendees will be offered the opportunity to showcase their work to leading academics, researchers and other doctoral candidates as well as networking opportunities throughout.
The 2017 programme will include:
- A keynote presentation from Dr Luke Sloan from Cardiff University He will be talking about representation on Twitter and what Twitter can tell us about the social world.
- An opportunity to network during a PhD related exercise
- One Minute Madness presentations
- Break-out workshop sessions for different challenges of the doctoral journey
- Q+A session where students can anonymously ask questions to the panel of academic pathway members
Further Information
The main contact address for the event is idocq2017@gmail.com. Contact details for the individual committee members will be listed on the iDocQ 2017 official website: https://idocq.wordpress.com/
If you are a doctoral student from outside of Scotland, or an academic, you are welcome to attend and can contact Dr Elizabeth Tait (e.j.tait@rgu.ac.uk) to make arrangements. A fee of £15 will be charged to cover catering and will be payable to Robert Gordon University.
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The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science is the UK's largest facilitator of funding, training and support for doctoral students in social science. By combining the expertise of sixteen universities across Scotland, the school facilitates world-class PhD research. The school is funded jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Scottish Funding Council.
SGSSS is a highly attractive environment for doctoral research. Not only do our partner universities offer an excellent research environment, we also offer comprehensive and world-class research training in a number of discipline-specific and interdisciplinary pathways. In addition, the school manages a programme of advanced training courses and an annual summer school which together offers our students further opportunities to develop their research, knowledge exchange and transferable professional skills.
At the heart of the SGSSS is the Doctoral Training Partnership (formerly the Doctoral Training Centre) in Scotland. The SGSSS was established in 2011 and is the biggest of 14 Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) accredited DTPs in the United Kingdom. The bid for renewed funding has been successful and from 1 October 2017 the SGSSS will be one of the ESRC's 14 Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTP).