[ecrea] CFP Doctoral Workshop in connection to M4D conference Dakar Senegal 2014

M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar, April 7, 2014
We invite applications to the M4D Doctoral Workshop in Dakar Senegal. The
workshop will provide a forum for PhD students in the area of mobile
communication technology in and for development to present their work and
receive constructive feedback from experts in the field as well as from
peers. PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies are invited to
submit papers. The workshop will host about 15 attendees besides the experts
in the field. We expect submissions to be from current PhD students who have
selected a clear research topic within M4D in the broadest sense.
Participation for selected PhD students are free for M4D2014 conference
delegates who have registered and payed the conference fee. The doctoral
workshop is sponsored by the   International Network of Post Graduate
Students in the area of ICT4D (IPID).
Goal of workshop
The goal of the workshop is to provide professional development in M4D with
critical, but constructive, feedback and advice to PhD students on their
ongoing research from senior researchers. The workshop will also offer the
opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and suggestions with peers in the M4D
field.
Submission
Submissions should address the student's PhD research area, specifically:
a well-defined formulation of the problem statement, objectives and aims of
the research,
explain the research context and why the research is important,
give details of research design and data collection techniques,
present preliminary results and research findings, do clarify the state of
the research work,
a brief sketch of the intended theoretical/disciplinary approach and
audience(s) for the work, as well as the related theoretical and practical
contributions to the multidisciplinary area of  'M4D'.
Your name, affiliation, email address, PhD supervisor's name and affiliation
and year when you started PhD should be included. The submission should be
max. 5000 words in length. Please note that the workshop is  not  a venue
for publication; there will be no published proceedings. However, we
encourage workshop participants to also submit to the M4D2014 main
conference (poster, full or short paper seewww.m4d2014.net).
Doctoral workshop participants are asked to submit their papers to m4d
@kau.se with the subject line [M4D2014 doctoral workshop].


Workshop Format
Participants will be divided into two groups depending on their research
topic. Group A will be led by Anne Shongwe  and Jonathan Donner and Group B
by Laura Stark and Richard Ling. Participants will be asked to read the
group member’s papers prior the workshop so that focus can be on
discussing each paper in depth rather than listening to presentations. We
will reserve around 15-20 minutes for comments and 10-15 minutes for general
discussion.
Important Dates
Submission by: 23:59 (GMT), February 1, 2014
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2014 (by this date the M4D conference
fee should be payed)
Workshop date: April 7, 2014


Jakob Svensson, Ph. D.
Ass. Prof. Media and Communication Studies
Director, BA Programme in Media&  Communication Studies
Director, MA Programme in Global Media

Karlstad University
SE-65188 Karlstad, Sweden
Telephone +46 54 700 1893
Mobile + 46 73 443 48 04

www.kau.se/media
www.kau.se/en/humanit
twitter.com/Centre4HumanIT
facebook.com/karlstadsuniversitet
KAU.SE


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