Doctoral Colloquium

We invite doctoral students to participate in the 2020 ASIS&T Doctoral Colloquium, which will take place as part of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday, October 24, 2020 from 1:00-5:00 p.m.. This half-day event is intended for doctoral students in the later stages of dissertation research, i.e., students who are post-proposal, begun data collection and analysis, are writing, or have defended their dissertations before the conference. Students who are writing their proposals and have a completed research design will also be considered.

The goals of the 2020 ASIS&T Doctoral Colloquium are to provide doctoral students with a supportive and critical learning opportunity to discuss their work, highlight theoretical and methodological problems/issues for further discussion and inquiry with senior mentors and Colloquium participants. As in previous years, the organizers will invite a group of prominent professors and experts to serve as mentors during the Doctoral Colloquium. Participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback and comments about their work, in one-on-one sessions with mentors.

There will also be an open discussion session where students can ask the mentors questions about the job search, managing an academic career, developing and maintaining a research agenda, and other topics of interest. Another goal of the Colloquium is to develop a supportive community within which students can begin to develop a professional network, interacting with peers and senior scholars in information science and related disciplines.

Individuals selected for the Doctoral Colloquium will receive complimentary registration to the Annual Meeting.  They will also be assigned to work for 10 service hours during the Annual Meeting to staff sessions and provide other support as needed. This service component provides the students leadership experience, professional networking and visibility, knowledge about association work and its organization, and scholarly community building.