Registration to SEM2010 PhD-course is now open!

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The registration for SEM2010 will open soon. We offer up to 12 places in each parallel track. Participants should be PhD students with a completed master's degree. The registration proceeds in two stages:

1. Fill in the registration form right away. The tracks are filled in the order we receive registrations.

2. Confirm your participation by submitting a short (or full) paper by email to sem2010 (at) tkk.fi, as soon as possible. We fill in the remaining places in the order we receive short papers.

3. In case you wish to revise your paper later during the summer, you can send a more sophisticated version of it by August 30, 2010. In other words, you can confirm your registration with a decent work-in-progress-version of your term paper.

Submitting your paper

You can choose to send either a short paper or a full paper. The paper will be read by the instructor and the other participants of your track. Likewise, you are expected to skim trough the other papers in your track in advance as well as act as an opponent for one paper.

Based on your paper, you will prepare a presentation for the track session. At least a short paper is required to gain the ECTS study credits diploma from the course as there is no exam in the course.

• Short/full paper: A short paper can be a theoretical or an empirical one.

• In a theoretical paper you can formulate an argument or point out an important research question, i.e. you can prepare the foundation for your own research topic. Theoretical papers are not supposed to contain information about empirical data or specific methods and research projects. (Yet you can include that information in your seminar presentation.)

• In an empirical paper you report a study with a brief theoretical framework, research problem and empirical findings with a concluding discussion.

• The style and format of the paper should be of an academic research paper - please do not send research plan type of papers. If you do not have empirical findings yet, choose the theoretical/conceptual paper. If you are still developing your research plan, it is a good idea to submit a paper that analyses the research problem and the concepts you are considering.

• The length of the short paper may vary from 2000 to 4000 words for a short paper, or up to 6000 words for a full paper. Use Harvard-style citation.

• Send the paper in MS Word format by email to sem2010 (at) tkk.fi.

• After SEM2010, you can revise your paper in order to further integrate it with the Service Engineering and Management perspective and to take advantage of the feedback you receive in the seminar. Best papers will be chosen for publication in an edited book on service engineering and management published by Aalto University School of Science and Technology.

The tracks are parallel. This means that you will participate in all keynote lectures and only one track. You cannot switch between the tracks. Each track participant is requested to present their paper.