Session
PhD Pre-conference seminar
The day before the NISPAcee conference begins, a PhD seminar will take place where the NISPAcee conference also takes place, enabling PhD students to improve their paper concerning structure and content. The seminar aims to discuss ways to improve their papers with the students.
Important information
From participants of this working group full paper is required before the conference.
10/04/2024
Deadline of presenters registration (obligatory for all Paper Presenters, Coordinators and Chairs)
* 05/05/2024 - Late registration (available for all participants without: Paper Presenters, Coordinators and Chairs)
10/04/2024
Deadline of full paper submission
Register for 32nd NISPAcee Annual Conference 2024
Call for papers
The seminar will discuss preparing papers, formulating a relevant research question, putting the research question within a theoretical framework, and conducting the necessary research validly and reliably to answer the research question. It is about more than just writing everything down but much more about a substantial discussion about what it means to have a coherent structure in a paper. This part of the seminar is also open for discussing process-related issues and other pressing issues put forward by the PhD students themselves. Beforehand, PhD students can put forward issues they would like to have discussed in this regard.
During the first part of this seminar, PhD students will receive information and advice from the Chairs and discuss how to improve the presentation of a paper and how to organise papers so that these papers conform to the standards required to have them published. Hence, three sessions will be organised, during which PhD students learn how to improve their papers within a trusted environment. One of these sessions focuses on the structure of the introduction and conclusion of papers, the second on the theoretical section, the third on the methods section and the presentation of outcomes.
Selection conditions:
- Being a PhD student from the programme realised in a country in the NISPAcee region
- Having a paper in the field of Public Administration, the participant is willing to present and discuss a draft of a research plan for a dissertation
- Interest in participating in the entire seminar
- Interest in participating in discussions about the papers and research plans of others
All kinds of papers are accepted as long as they have an empirical component, be it a case study or a comparative study, irrespective of whether it is a draft or a final version.
PhD students who submitted a paper proposal for other conference WGs/sessions/panels can also apply.
Fees:
All accepted students should register online for the conference and pay the relevant conference fees. There will be special reduced fees for PhD students with a paper presentation. Registered students can participate in all other conference activities afterwards.
Coordinators
Michiel S de Vries
Chair of the department of Public Administration, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
m.devries@fm.ru.nl
Michiel S de Vries holds the chair in Public Administration at the Radboud University of Nijmegen and is visiting professor at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He is president of IASIA, full member of the Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government of the Council of Europe and member of the editorial board of numerous journals on Public Administration. His research concentrates on local government, public sector reform, policy evaluation, policy change and comparative public administration.
Iwona Sobis
School of Public Administration, Gothenburg University, Sweden
iwona.sobis@spa.gu.se
Her research over the period 1995-2010 can be summarised as a collection of in-depth case studies on Western assistance to Central and Eastern Europe during the transition from socialism to a market economy, seen from the perspective of recipients, foreign advisors, donor organisations and responsible politicians.
Her later empirical research concerns: public sector reforms with a special focus on care for the elderly, performance management, policy evaluation, job satisfaction, and free movement of EU citizens. She lectures on leadership, management, and governance in public administration.
Information for Paper holders
In order for paper to be published in e-proceedings it is required to comply with the e-proceedings structure.