The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) and the Association for Information Systems (AIS) invite doctoral students (irrespective of stage in the program) to apply to become a HICSS Doctoral Fellow and participate in the HICSS Doctoral Consortium. The Consortium will be held on the day before the main conference on January 6, 2025. The Consortium is free, but all participants must register for the HICSS conference. HICSS is the longest running technology conference and will celebrate its 58th year with the 2025 conference.
Research Area: Management Information Systems
The HICSS Doctoral Consortium will help each Doctoral Fellow develop one paper toward journal publication and open opportunities for new research partnerships. Almost all HICSS attendees are authors of accepted conference papers (about 95%). Many new research projects begin at HICSS with conversations about mutually interesting topics during research discussions, coffee breaks, and social events. We encourage the Fellows to propose new joint research projects with other Fellows, with their Mentors, and with other scholars at the conference who share their interests.
Further, the HICSS Doctoral Consortium builds a community of scholars. Those accepted will be inducted as HICSS Doctoral Fellows, and will begin to build life-long relationships with other Doctoral Fellows and with their Faculty Mentors to help them become leaders within the HICSS family and academia as a whole.
Application Instructions:
Students should submit a summary of a completed research project or one that is a work in progress (5 pages, inclusive of all items, according to HICSS Final Specifications). This summary should begin with the research question, and why it is important. The key reason for rejection at top journals is not because of problems with theory or method, but because the research question is not interesting. The summary should also include (where applicable) theory, methods, and results.
Schedule
8:30 Networking and Welcome
9:00 Group Discussions of Consortium Papers
10:15 Break
10:45 Meet the Mentors Activity
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Group Discussions of Consortium Papers
14:30 Break
15:00 Mentor Panel
18:00 Reception
Faculty Mentors
Sue Brown, University of Arizona
Michelle Carter, University of Manchester
GJ deVreede, Stevens Institute of Technology
Triparna deVreede, University of South Florida
Sirkka Jarvenpaa, University of Texas, Austin
Jeff Parsons, Memorial University
Chee-Wee Tan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jason Thatcher, University of Colorado, Boulder
Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen
Shirish Srivastava, HEC Paris
Tom Meservy, Brigham Young University
Important Dates
The deadline for submissions is July 22 by 11:59PM Hawaiian time.
Students will be notified of acceptance by August 17.
Inquiries
For questions, please contact the HICSS Doctoral Fellows & Consortium Co-chairs:
Sue Brown, suebrown@arizona.edu
Michelle Carter, michelle.carter@manchester.ac.uk
Research Area: Digital Government
The HICSS Digital Government (DG) Doctoral Consortium aims to provide collegial and affirmative environment where doctoral students currently working on dissertations in digital government research can share their work and receive constructive feedback. The DG Doctoral Consortium is a full-day session in which doctoral students engage in discussions and presentations with peers and senior scholars in digital government.
The Digital Government Doctoral Consortium Committee invites applications for doctoral students whose research is in the field of digital government. Eligible candidates must be currently enrolled in at least year 2 of the PhD program.
We welcome candidates from a broad range of research areas relevant to digital government.
Application Instructions
Candidates apply to the Doctoral Consortium submitting a 2000-words document outlining the thesis structure, theoretical foundations, empirical ground and expected key contributions. Any document and material submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will not be published in the proceedings, and the authors will retain the full authorship rights to their submitted work. When applying, students must guarantee proper funding for to attend the doctoral consortium. Importantly, admitted Doctoral students must register for the HICSS conference.
Schedule
8:30 Welcome and networking
9:00 Papers session 1
10:15 Break
10:45 Meet the mentors
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Papers session 2
14:30 Break
15:00 Papers session 3
16:15 DG Q&A and wrap-up
18:00 Reception
Faculty Mentors
Antonio Cordella, London School of Economics
Anna Domaradzka-Widla, University of Warsaw
Mila Gascó-Hernandez, University at Albany – SUNY
Francesco Gualdi, Regent’s University London – LSE
Christian Schaupp, West Virginia University
Anthony Simonofski, University of Namur
Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz
Important Dates
The deadline for submissions is July 22 by 11:59PM Hawaiian time.
Students will be notified of acceptance by August 17.
Inquiries
For questions, please contact the Digital Government Doctoral Consortium organizers:
Antonio Cordella, a.cordella@lse.ac.uk
Francesco Gualdi, f.gualdi@lse.ac.uk
