iDocQ 2020 is underway! We've dusted off the social media accounts and are starting to tweet out the good news! So save the date May 14, 2020 to join us in Edinburgh for this doctoral colloquium for PhD students.
iDocQ is an annual doctoral colloquium meant for PhD students of information science, related fields, and more broadly the social sciences. It is important to note that attendance at this event and participation in the committee is for students at all stages of their PhD, whether they're close to submitting or in their first month. The event this year will be hosted by Edinburgh Napier University at their Sighthill campus and is funded by SGSSS, and guess what, I'm on the planning committee! We're still in early stages of forming the committee, which will preferably be made up of students from multiple Scottish universities, and will start the detailed planning come January. The broad theme of this year's iDocQ will be methods, an important topic no matter the stage of your PhD, and there have already been some broad agenda ideas tossed about. There is a plan for a keynote speaker, a One Minute Madness session coupled with a poster session for student attendees, workshops on qualitative and quantitative methods, and a panel discussion/Q&A session with professors who have been in our PhD shoes. Nothing is set in stone yet, so if you have some great ideas for this type of event you can still take a role in planning one! Are you a doctoral student in the SGSSS STIC-ICS pathway or similar subject? Do you want to bolster your CV with conference planning experience? Or just get out of the drudgery tasks of the PhD for an hour once in a while? Contact me at [email protected] or get in touch some other way (to quote my fellow iDocQ committee member, Twitter, LinkedIn, carrier pigeon, drone, mysterious voicemail all accepted). In terms of time-commitment of committee members, it isn't strenuous.
We aren't able to pay student organizers for their time but we can pay for travel expenses to the meetings and travel expenses for *all* student attendees for travel to the event itself. Join us in bringing iDocQ back in 2020 and making it a truly student-focused colloquium (and don't forget to follow us on Twitter, @iDocQ, for updates about the event).
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