Doctoral colloquium

Call for submissions

A doctoral colloquium will be devoted to the presentation of thesis work at an early and intermediate stage of progress. Doctoral students wishing to submit for this workshop may send a thesis progress summary of no more than 8 single-spaced pages (including the cover page and bibliography complying with APA standards, see what is said about APA standards for the colloquium's classic papers).

A thesis can take several years to complete. The general observation is that it is difficult to get the research project off the ground. As a result, the early and intermediate stages can often seem unproductive for both doctoral students and their supervisors.

The COLIGES colloquium is therefore a doctoral colloquium that focuses on the beginning of the thesis and the intermediate stage (i.e. before the thesis is defended), in order to optimise the work carried out. In addition to this objective of efficiency, this focus on the early and intermediate stages makes it possible to offer a support system that complements other doctoral workshops, particularly those aimed at doctoral students in the final stages of their research work.

This support for thesis start-up and development projects is also in line with the characteristic feature of COLIGES' research teaching staff: its multi-disciplinary nature. It therefore welcomes transdisciplinary doctoral projects. Whatever the discipline, the emphasis is on the epistemological and methodological aspects of research.

The aim of this doctoral conference is to bring together the community of management researchers, and to welcome research in all its diversity. Like any support system, its aim is to contribute to the improvement, legitimacy and quality of management science research, not the other way round.

This project must be 8 pages long (maximum) with a very precise outline:

1/ Why is this research important and urgent (context and issues)?

2/ What is/are the aim(s) of the thesis?

3/ What is the problem? What are the resulting research questions?

4/ A summary of the literature on which the research is based

5/ Initial proposals and/or hypotheses

6/ Epistemological choices

7/ Methodological choices

8/ The site identified and how to access it

9/ The planned schedule

10/ ALL THE QUESTIONS THAT ARISE AND THE OBSTACLES TO BE OVERCOME

Note: Participation is subject to the prior agreement of the thesis director. All submissions must therefore be accompanied by this agreement (in writing).

Although the form (the above-mentioned plan is compulsory) is not standardised, it is a given that the documents must be written specifically (avoid intermediate copies pasted for other events), with a good quality of writing (style/spelling to be taken care of), a pleasant presentation (times, line spacing 1, figures, diagrams) and with all bibliographical references duly checked (and read).

An acknowledgement of receipt will be sent by return e-mail.

 

Submission of thesis proposals :

Doctoral students wishing to take part in the COLIGES doctoral colloquium must submit their thesis project by 04 September 2023 at the latest, electronically, to the following address: confcoliges@gmail.com

The file name must be named as follows: your surname (not a pseudonym), followed by the extension DOC or DOCX.

For example, MOTINDI would submit the file MOTINDI.DOC

 

Important dates for the doctoral conference :

  • 08 October 2023: Deadline for submitting doctoral projects
  • 05 November 2023: Replies to doctoral students on the selection of candidates
  • 12 November 2023: Deadline for the doctoral student to confirm his/her participation in the conference, deadline for the doctoral student to send in the conference registration form, and deadline for the doctoral student to send in an updated version of the thesis project initially submitted.
  • 12 December 2023: Doctoral symposium in Kinshasa
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