Doctoral Colloquium

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Important Dates

• January 15, 2025 System open for submissions

• February 18, 2025 Submissions due for Position papers (23:59 AoE)

• March 18, 2025 Notification to the authors

• July 2 – 4, 2025 EUSSET CSCW 2025 Conference

Doctoral Colloquium Description

The ECSCW 2024 Doctoral Colloquium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to discuss their research in an international forum under the guidance of a panel of experienced CSCW researchers. 

We invite candidates who are working broadly in the field of CSCW to apply. Candidates at any stage of the PhD process will be considered. However, the strongest candidates will be those who have a well-developed research proposal and have made some progress towards realising it (e.g., produced empirical findings, outlined a conceptual framework, etc.), while still having time to benefit from advice and feedback by peers and senior colleagues. 

Doctoral Colloquium Chairs

For any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the EUSSET CSCW 2025 Doctoral Colloquium Chairs at ECSCW25_DC@easychair.org

Naja Holten Møller

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Maria Menendez Blanco

University of Bolzano, Italy

The colloquium is planned for a full day and will be split into three parts. In the first part, selected candidates will be asked to give short, informal presentations, and will receive feedback from a group of senior researchers. In the second part, students will have the opportunity to interact with each other and discuss their research projects with the other attendees in more depth with the help of a poster. Therefore, students are expected to bring a poster with them. Finally, students will have the opportunity to participate in a DC panel with distinguished CSCW researchers, who will share their experiences in completing their PhDs and provide career advice in becoming an influential scholar. 

In addition to the colloquium, DC attendees will have the opportunity:

  • To present their research during the main conference by means of alternative formats, such as a madness session and/or posters (final formats yet to be determined), to gain extra visibility and encourage conversation and feedback with the ECSCW community. 
  • To attend, free of charge, a one-day program of Masterclasses (dates and availability to be confirmed). 

Submission Format & Process

Candidates must submit: 

An application that includes: 

  • A position paper with an overview of your doctoral research of max. 2000 words, stating your research questions, methodological approach, work/findings to date, next steps, and expected contributions. Please follow the ECSCW template for your proposals (Latex/Overleaf template, RTF, or MS Word). Submissions should include your name, affiliation and contact information. 
  • A short (2-3 paragraph) biography. 
  • A statement detailing what you hope/expect to gain from attending the ECSCW 2024 Doctoral Colloquium and what overall questions/issues you would like to discuss at the DC. 

A supporting letter emailed directly from the lead supervisor to the DC Chairs at ECSCW25_DC@easychair.org. This should indicate that they support your application to the ECSCW 2025 Doctoral Colloquium and that they agree that your research is at an appropriate stage for participation. It should also indicate how you and other candidates might benefit from your participation in the colloquium.   

Publication & Copyright Information

Accepted students will have the opportunity to publish their position papers in the European Society for Embedded Technologies (EUSSET) digital library (http://www.eusset.eu/digital-library) as an edited collection with an ISBN. Each paper will be assigned a DOI. 

Students will be given a choice to either (1) publish their papers in the EUSSET DL using one of the copyright options (see below), or (2) not publish in the EUSSET DL. In both cases they will have the opportunity to present their work at the colloquium.  

The EUSSET digital library (DL) is an open access repository. The EUSSET DL does not ask for a full transfer of copyright from authors. Instead, it requires only sufficient rights that allow “readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose except where otherwise noted” (for full information please see here: https://www.eusset.eu/digital-library/). 

The authors will have several options when it comes to copyright upon paper acceptance: 

  • grant EUSSET DL a non-exclusive and irrevocable license to distribute the article and certify that he/she has the right to grant this license; 
  • certify that the work is available under one of the following Creative Commons licenses and that he/she has the right to assign this license: 
    1. Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 4.0) 
    2. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA 4.0) 
    3. Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) 
    4. or dedicate the work to the public domain by associating the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) with the submission. 

In the most common case, authors have the right to grant these licenses because they hold copyright in their work.