2008 Colloquium
Date: Friday 6 June 2008
Venue: UQ Business School Downtown, Level 19, Central Plaza One, 345 Queen Street, Brisbane.
Registration Form: Download Form
Purpose of Colloquium
- an opportunity to present research at an in-house conference venue
- a supportive environment for fostering academic discussion
- fostering of peer-support and networking between students and staff across the whole school
Program
- address by a keynote speaker
- student presentations in parallel streams
- drinks and nibblies after the Colloquium
Colloquium Coordinator:
Coral Cochrane c.cochrane@business.uq.edu.au
Report on 2008 Colloquium
The Colloquium on 6 June 2008 was attended by 113 registrants with all clusters of the School represented by staff and students. Over thirty-six presentations were available from which staff, students and guests could select their program for the day. The program overview shows the variety of topics covered.
The opening plenary session was delivered by Professor Iris Vessey who spoke on 'What is Good Theory - Really?' and the closing plenary session was delivered by PhD graduate David Ireland whose topic was 'Bench to Market - The Trials and Tribulations of Novelty'.
Awards for the best abstracts were judged by the School's Director of Research, Janet McColl-Kennedy, and the Head of School's nominee, Peter Liesch, on the following criteria:
- significance of problem/topic;
- rationale for study(ies);
- critical analysis of the literature;
- appropriateness of methodologies used as applicable to the paper; and
- coherence of overall argument.
The winners of the abstract awards for 2008 were:
- Best abstract by an honours student - Daniel Gold;
- Best abstract by a provisional RHD student - Lisette Pregelj;
- Best abstract by a confirmed RHD student - Sarah Kelly;
- Highly commended abstract by a provisional RHD student - Madeleine
McKechnie: and
- Highly commended abstract by a confirmed RHD student - Marissa Edwards.
A detailed listing of winners of the abstract awards from 2006 to 2008 indicates the spread of expertise across the School's clusters.
