Doctoral Consortium 13th July 2025:
The DC is designed for PhD students studying, working on research or interested in exploring the strategies and techniques to engage and work with communities to co-create, deploy, and evaluate civic technologies that seek to empower citizens in service provision and civic participation. The DC will provide a small and supportive environment for PhD students to present their work, receive mentorship, and engage in in-depth discussions with peers and experienced researchers. This on-site event is free to attend, but to participation is subject to the acceptance of a DC paper submission. Accepted papers will be published as a proceedings on arXiv.
The primary objectives of the DC are for PhD students to:
- Gain new ideas and perspectives on their research directions;
- Support each other by constructively offering their feedback to the other attending PhD students;
- Engage with experienced researchers from other institutions
Themes for 2025:
Our theme for our 2025 training event are “Exploring the relationships between Design, Technology, and Social Justice” and “The Next Generation of Civic Technologies”.
Submission Guidelines: Please submit a research description (up to 4 pages excl. references) in ACM final paper format, ensuring accessibility requirements are met. Submissions should include:
- Next steps, open questions and challenges
- Your name, and the university where you are conducting your doctoral work. (Submissions should NOT be anonymous).
- The background and motivation for your research, including key related work
- Research objectives, goals, or questions
- Research approach, methods and rationale
- Relevance to the Summer School themes