Submission extension until 16 November for QPR2016

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12^th Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference:
Call for Papers  EXTENDED UNTIL 16 NOVEMBER 2015

Conference theme: Society, Economy & Communities: 21^st Century innovation in Doctoral Education.

Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) is the world’s biggest & longest-standing conference on doctoral education.

Submissions are now being accepted and close Monday 16 November 2015. Details of the 2016 conference (and previous conferences) and how to submit a proposal for a paper, a poster or a pecha kucha presentation can be found on the QPR website at www.qpr.edu.au . Refereed conference proceedings will be published and the conference organisers are seeking and welcome offers for special editions of journals in which selected papers can be published.

Registrations open 16 November!
 

CALL FOR PAPERS
Society, Economy & Communities: 21^st Century innovation in Doctoral Education.

Globally, doctoral education continues to develop rapidly in terms of size, form, diversity and ascribed purposes. Alongside these developments, debates continue over its future, forms of delivery and the nature of the learning and innovation that it facilitates and engenders. These debates involve actors as diverse as individual research students and international bodies such as the OECD and the World Bank.  

Proposals for presentations and full papers are therefore invited on topics including, but not limited to:

• the doctorate relationship with societies, economies and communities in the 21st century
• research degrees, employability and research skills agenda
• governmental and institutional policy on research training
• supervision practice, the pedagogy of supervision and the student experience
• research degrees outcomes and assessment
• diversity in doctoral education
• the management of research degrees
• actors and agency in doctoral education

In addition to full papers, a plenary ‘Pecha Kucha’ session is planned in which up to 15 presenters will be given 5 minutes and allowed a maximum of 10 power-point slides to make their argument. If your proposal is for a Pecha Kucha, please indicate this clearly in the title when submitting via EasyChair. The audience will be invited to vote for the best Pecha Kucha presentation, for which a prize will be awarded.

Proposals for poster presentations are also invited. If your proposal is for a poster presentation, please indicate this clearly in the title when submitting via EasyChair. A prize will be awarded for the best poster. Posters this year will be shown in electronic format throughout the conference venue.

Proposals for other forms of presentation will also be considered.

Submissions must include:
Abstract Name | Keywords | Author name and position | Institution | Abstract |References | 250 words 

Authors must use plain text only (word doc not a PDF document) and separate each category with a double return.  Submissions without all of required details will be returned to authors prior to the selection process. (Instructions to Authors)

For reference, the Easy Chair QPR site can be found at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpr2016conference 
 

www.qpr.edu.au
contact: Any Excuse...Conference Coordinator