Doctoral Colloquium Description
The C&T 2025 Doctoral Colloquium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to discuss their research in an international forum under the guidance of a panel of experienced researchers.
We invite candidates who are working broadly in the field of communities and technologies 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.
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 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 C&T community.
Finally, if time allows, students will have the opportunity to participate in a DC panel with distinguished researchers, who will share their experiences in completing their PhDs and provide career advice in becoming an influential scholar.
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 C&T 2025 template for your proposals (the Latex (Overleaf template), or MS Word template).
- 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 C&T 2025 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 dc@comtech.community. This should indicate that they support your application to the C&T 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.
Submission
Please use this link to go to the submission page to submit your work. After logging in (you might need to make a user account? if you don’t have one), select Author submission, and in the overview of tracks select “Doctoral Colloquium”.
Submissions should include author names and follow the template provided below.
Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs
For any queries, please, do not hesitate to contact the C&T 2025 Doctoral Colloquium Chairs at dc@comtech.community.
University of Siegen
Université de Technologie de Troyes
After the Conference
Accepted Panels are slated for publication in the European Society for Embedded Technologies (EUSSET) digital library as an edited collection with an ISBN. Each paper will be assigned a DOI.
