Doctoral consortium

The conference has been cancelled due to the political situation in Thailand. 
Please contact the conference chairperson (Logan Muller, lmuller@unitec.ac.nz) if you wish to pursue the topics of this conference.
More information.

The doctoral consortium at HeartTech08 will follow the pattern established by ICER and ACM SIGCSE doctoral consortia. The structure that has been developed for these doctoral consortia involves the following stages:

  1. Students submit summaries (two pages with key references) of their research by 15 September 2008.
  2. Students and discussants are selected on the basis of information supplied.
  3. Students and discussants are grouped by research interest (one discussant to every three or four students).
  4. Discussants give electronic feedback to students in the two months before the consortium meets.
  5. Students give electronic feedback to other students in the two months before the consortium meets.
  6. Students update their research summaries in response to the feedback and to reflect progress made.
  7. Students make brief presentations when the consortium meets and receive more feedback.
  8. Discussants (including the co-chairs) offer general advice about matters such as methodology, writing up, and employment and publication opportunities.

Please send your summaries, in English, to djoyce@unitec.ac.nz with the subject "HEART TECH PhD Consortium <your name>" (replace <your name> with your name).
Summaries are due by 15 September 2008.

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About the consortium chairperson

Associate Professor Donald Joyce has a PhD from Cambridge University, England, and is Postgraduate Programme Director in the School of Computing and Information Technology at Unitec New Zealand in Auckland, New Zealand. He led the team that developed Unitec's Doctor of Computing (DComp) and has been responsible for directing the DComp programme since it began in 2003.

In 2007 he was a discussant at the SIGCSE doctoral consortium in Covington, Kentucky, USA. Subsequently he was invited to co-chair the 2008 SIGCSE doctoral consortium in Portland, Oregon, USA, and the 2008 ICER doctoral consortium in Sydney, Australia. He has more than 100 publications, including several on doctoral education and research supervision.

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