10th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference
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10th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference

Following the successful organization of the nine previous conferences, our research centre, SEERC organised the 10th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference (DSC 2015) on 17-18 September 2015 with great success. The event took place at the main campus of the University of Sheffield International Faculty in Thessaloniki.

10th South East European Doctoral Student Conference

The keynote speaker, Professor Ian Douglas delivered his speech entitled “Developing Doctoral Research education for the 21st century: interdisciplinarity, community and impact”. Sixty 60 PhD students and young researchers came together to present their research, exchange ideas and collaborate between disciplines.  With its programme divided in four thematic areas (Research tracks), the  aim of the conference was to further facilitate the exchange of knowledge between young researchers and to consolidate the established network of scholars currently undertaking research in South East Europe.

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The Doctoral Conference brought together researchers and succeeded in establishing collaborative links between disciplines, for testing the ground with innovative ideas and for engaging the wider academic community. All papers presented during the event will be included in the conference’s proceedings and indexed in EBSCO DATABASE.

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10th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

10th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference

Thursday 17th & Friday 18th September 2015

Thessaloniki - Greece

http://seerc.org/dsc2015

 

Building on the success of the nine previous Doctoral conferences which totally attracted more than 900 research papers from countries all over the SE European region and beyond, we are pleased to be launching the Call for Papers for the 10th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference (10th SEE DSC). The aim of the conference is to further facilitate the exchange of knowledge between young researchers, and to consolidate the established network of scholars currently undertaking research in South East Europe. Doctoral students and young researchers in the areas of Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Information & Communication Technologies, Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Politics, Sociology and Education Studies are invited to attend and present papers related to their doctoral research.

The conference will comprise of:

1. Paper sessions

2. Special workshops/training sessions delivered by distinguished academics

3. Panel discussions

4. Social events

 

HOW WILL YOU BENEFIT FROM ATTENDING THE 10TH SEE DSC?

By participating in the 10th SEE Doctoral Student Conference you are given the opportunity to:

  • Present your work in a friendly environment and receive extensive and valuable feedback from experts in your field
  • Strengthen your network with other PhD students as well as with distinguished academics and professionals in your area
  • Apply for the ‘Best Papers’ Award
  • Publish your work in the Conference Proceedings which are indexed at EBSCO database
  • Publish your work in respectable Academic Journals (selected papers only)
  • Further develop your academic and research skills

 

 

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Depending on the stage of your research, you can submit either a short paper (3-5 pages) or a long paper (8-15 pages). All research papers will be reviewed by at least 2 expert reviewers, and authors will have access to the feedback provided. All accepted papers that will be orally presented during the conference, will be included in the conference proceedings and indexed in EBSCO DATABASE. During the presentation at the conference the participant will have the opportunity to acquire additional feedback from two discussants that will participate in the session. For more information including author guidelines please visit the following links (depending on the research area your paper is addressed to):

 

Enterprise, Innovation & Development (EID) @ DSC 2015
URL: http://seerc.org/dsc2015/eid.html Contact: EID@seerc.org

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) @ DSC 2015
URL: http://seerc.org/dsc2015/ict.html Contact: ICT@seerc.org

Psychology in Modern Times (PMT) @ DSC 2015
URL: http://seerc.org/dsc2015/pmt.html Contact: PMT@seerc.org

Politics and Social Sciences (POLSS) @ DSC 2015
URL: http://seerc.org/dsc2015/polss.html Contact:  POLSS@seerc.org

Linguistics and English Language Teaching (LELT) @ DSC 2015
URL: http://seerc.org/dsc2015/lelt.html Contact: LELT@seerc.org

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Short or Full paper submission: Extended Deadline Sunday 26th April 2015

Notification of acceptance: Monday 25th May 2015

Response to reviewers’ comments and submission of FINAL camera-ready paper: Friday 26th June 2015

Publication of Conference Programme: Friday 10th July 2015

Conference fee: 50 Euro (includes coffees and lunches for the two days plus a hard copy of the Conference Proceedings).

 

Get your work published: Selected high quality papers that will be orally presented at the conference will be recommended for publication in the following journals:

 

CONFERENCE TOPICS

The following topics are encouraged, but are not exclusive:

Enterprise, Innovation & Development (EID) @ DSC 2015

Topics

Suggested, but not exclusive, research areas include:

Entrepreneurship

  • The Entrepreneurial Spirit
  • Start-up Phase
  • Funding
  • Managing Growth
  • General Entrepreneurship

Economics

  • Economic Growth
  • Economic Development
  • Behavioural Economics
  • Agricultural Economics
  • Environmental Economics
  • Efficiency Analysis

Finance

  • Accounting & Control
  • Corporate Finance
  • Public Markets, Financial Systems
  • Banking Crisis
  • Financial Regulation
  • Venture Financing
  • Non-venture Financing
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Applied Statistics
  • General Finance

Globalization

  • Countries & Regions
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • Global Strategy
  • General Globalization
  • Managing Multinationals

Leadership & Management

  • Managing Teams
  • Communication
  • Motivation
  • Decision Making & Problem Solving
  • Leadership Style
  • Power & Influence
  • Leading Change
  • Management of SMEs
  • General Leadership

Social Enterprise & Nonprofit

  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Nonprofit Management
  • Funding Nonprofits
  • General Social Enterprise

 

Marketing

  • Marketing Strategy
  • Advertising
  • Market Research
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Brand Management
  • Customer Relationships
  • Strategic Management Marketing
  • General Marketing

Operations

  • Distribution, Sales & Service
  • Production & Logistics
  • Operations Management
  • Supply Chain
  • Outsourcing
  • Green Supply Chain Management
  • Quality Management & TQM
  • General Operations

Organizations

  • Human Resources
  • Governance
  • Corporate Culture
  • Organizational Design
  • External Relations
  • Knowledge Management
  • General Organization

Strategy

  • Competitive Analysis
  • Strategy Development
  • Managing Effectiveness
  • Innovation Management
  • Technology Adoption
  • General Strategy

Other topics

  • Tourism
  • Agribusiness
  • Managing Health Care
  • Intellectual Property Protection
  • Career & Life Balance
  • Career Transitions
  • Creativity
  • Race & Diversity
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Research & Development
  • Gender and Work

Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) @ DSC 2015

Topics

Suggested, but not exclusive, research areas include:

  • Software Engineering
  • Formal Methods
  • Software Verification
  • Model Checking
  • Software Testing
  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Service-oriented Computing
  • Cloud Computing
  • Green Computing
  • Educational Informatics
  • Technology Enhanced Learning
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Information Security
  • Information &Knowledge Management
  • Information Retrieval

 

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Computational Biology
  • Robotics
  • Semantic Web Technologies
  • Social Media Networks
  • Next Generation Networks
  • Wireless Access Networks
  • Mobile Networks
  • Sensor Networks
  • Internet of Things
  • Smart Cities
  • Health Informatics
  • Self Adaptive Systems
  • Geographical Information Systems

 

Psychology in Modern Times (PMT) @ DSC 2015

Topics

Suggested, but not exclusive, research areas include:

  • Counseling Psychology & Psychotherapy
  • Positive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Forensic Psychology
  • Educational/School Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Intelligence, Personality, and Individual Differences
  • Social Psychology
  • Health Psychology
  • Industrial/Organizational Psychology
  • Sports psychology
  • Emotional Intelligence & Well Being

 

  • Cognition and Emotion
  • Motivation, Attention & Human performance
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuropsychology
  • Ageing and Cognitive Functions
  • Quality of Life in Chronically-ill and Healthy Populations
  • Special Needs Education
  • Psychology of Substance Use and Addictive Behaviors
  • Cyber Psychology and Social Networks
  • Cross-cultural Psychology
  • Environmental Psychology
  • Mental Health

     

Politics and Social Sciences (POLSS) @ DSC 2015

Topics

Suggested, but not exclusive, research areas include:

European Studies

  •  European Union Integration
  • European Union regionalism in South East Europe
  • European Union Common and Security Policy
  • European Union neighbourhood policy
  • The future of the European Monetary Union

International Relations and Regional Politics

  • Security issues in the South East Mediterranean
  • Energy Security
  • Exclusive Economic Zones
  • Middle East politics
  • The Syrian civil war crisis
  • Turkey as a regional actor
  • Israel as a regional actor
  • Western Balkans and South Eastern Europe
  • Russia in the world
  • Global Governance
  • International Political Economy

Crisis of democracy and of democratic institutions

  • Electoral Behavior at the local and EU levels throughout the crisis
  • Protest votes, void ballots and abstention  
  • Nationalism and the rise of the extreme right
  • Public opinion
  • Protest movements
  • Civil Society
  • Media and Politics

Greece

  • Public sector reform and changes in the labor market in Greece
  • Greek foreign policy
  • Greek energy policy
  • Greek Politics

Urban Studies and Sociology

  • Urban Sociology
  • Urban Geography
  • Modern Sociological Theory

Environmental issues and development

  • Climate Change 
  • Poverty and vulnerability issues
  • Development and Sustainability

 

Linguistics and English Language Teaching (LELT) @ DSC 2015

Topics

Suggested, but not exclusive, research areas include:

  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Sociolinguistics
  • English as a Lingua Franca
  • Language and Identity
  • Lexicology and Lexicography
  • Computational Linguistics

 

  • Neurolinguistics
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • English Language Teaching) (Methodology
  • New Technologies in ELT
  • Language Policy and Language Planning

 

 

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