BIT Graduate Seminar Series

Brian Fitzgerald
Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre,
University of Limerick, IRELAND
BIT Professor

Overview

BIT Graduate Seminar Series

5 days lectures each one lasting 2.5 hours

Speaker: Prof. Brian Fitzgerald -- University of Limerick

Schedule

SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS A PHD?

4th May (1st session) , 9:30 -12:00

SESSION 2: GETTING TO GRIPS WITH RESEARCH

18th May (2nd session), 9:30 -12:00

SESSION 3: THE ACTUAL CONDUCT OF RESEARCH

31st May (3rd session), 9:30 -12:00

SESSION 4: PAPER WRITING AND REVIEWING

1st June (4th session), 9:30 -12:00

Location:

Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Piazza Domenicani 3, Bozen-Bolzano

Seminar Room (first floor left)

(for a map check http://www.unibz.it/inf/faculty/howtoreachus/index.html?LanguageID=EN)

Reference Person: Prof. Barbara Russo

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Slides

- Session 1

- Session 2

- Session 3

- Session 4

Readings

Session 1

• Davis, G (2003) - Advising and Supervising Doctoral Students
• Fitzgerald, B (2000) - The Rough Guide to the PhD

Session 2

• Fitzgerald, B. and Howcroft, D (1998) - Towards Dissolution of the IS Research Debate: From Polarisation to Polarity
• Medawar, P (1963) - Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

Session 3

• Braa, K., & Vidgen, R.T., (1999) - Interpretation, intervention and reduction in the organizational laboratory: a framework for in-context information systems research. Information and Organization

Session 4

• Lee A. S. - Reviewing a Manuscript for Publication
• Kock N. - A Case of Academic Plagiarism: The Perils of Internet Publication
• Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: Exploring Opensourcing as Offshore Sourcing Practice

Detailed Description

A detailed description and further readings can be found in the following document:

Description and further readings

Link to the main page of the BIT program http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/bit/about.html