DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM

The Doctoral Colloquium is a full-day forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with
each other and with senior faculty from a variety of disciplines associated with digital government
research. The colloquium is planned for Tuesday, July 11, 2023.

We welcome applicants from a broad range of research areas relevant to digital government. Ideally,
student participants will have completed one or two years of doctoral study or progressed far enough
in their research to have a structured proposal idea and perhaps some preliminary findings, but have
not reached the stage of defending their dissertations. We expect students at this stage of study will
gain the most value from feedback on their work and from the general discussions of doctoral
programs and scholarly careers. Although there is no fee for the colloquium itself, students are
expected to register for and attend the full conference. Participation is limited to 6-8 students.

The colloquium will encompass three kinds of activities:

  • Presentations of individual student research followed by in-depth discussions led by faculty
    mentors.
  • Informal discussions and networking activities.
  • If time permits, brief plenary presentations by senior faculty on digital government research
    themes as well as on planning and managing dissertations and careers.

The colloquium is built around discussion of each student’s work. To accomplish this, each student will
read and give a short presentation and commentary on another student’s paper. Each author will then
add to the presentation of his or her work, followed by extensive small group discussion. Material
provided in applications to the doctoral colloquium will not be published in the proceedings. However,
we encourage students to submit finished research to one of the paper tracks or as a poster or demo.
(Please see the NOTE below about submitting additional work to the regular conference tracks).

The application deadline is April 1, 2023. Accepted students will be notified by May 1, 2023. To apply,
please submit the following information as a single PDF document to the doctoral colloquium track of
the dg.o 2023 submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2023.

  • A paper describing your planned or in-progress doctoral dissertation covering the following
    elements. The paper should be no less than five or more than 10 pages (not including
    references, tables and figures). Papers outside these limits will not be considered. The paper
    should include:

    • Abstract
    • The problem domain addressed and why it is important
    • A brief overview of related work
    • Theoretical frameworks for your study
    • The research questions and methodological approach
    • Empirical setting, if applicable
    • Preliminary research results, if any
    • *Discussion of the author’s own intellectual and practical challenges inherent in the
      study
    • *The next steps or future direction of the research
      References*These two items are essential to the discussion of each student’s paper and must be
      included.
    • A short personal statement stating what you personally hope to gain from the Doctoral
      Colloquium and how you can contribute to the colloquium experience of others.
    • A 1-2 page CV

The language of the colloquium is English, and all submitted materials must be in English. Students
must have sufficient proficiency in English to participate in the presentations, discussions, and other
activities.

The Digital Government Society has established a scholarship fund thanks to a bequest from Valerie J.
Gregg, a founder of the Society and of the digital government research community. The fund provides
full conference registrations at no cost to accepted doctoral colloquium students.

NOTE: As mentioned before, material included in applications to the colloquium will not be published
in the proceedings. Instead, we encourage colloquium participants to submit papers and/or posters to
the regular conference tracks. Completed work can be submitted to either the research track or the
management/policy track by January 20, 2023. Work in progress can be submitted to the poster and
demo track by April 1, 2023. Submit to the appropriate track through the conference submission site
at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2023. Accepted papers and posters will be presented
in the regular conference sessions and published in the conference proceedings.

Colloquium Chairs

  • Dr. J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
  • Dr. Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden
  • Dr. Gabriela Viale Pereira, Danube University Krems, Austria