School of Management PhD Conference - 15th May 2009

The University of Southampton’s School of Management is delighted to annouce details of the 2009 PhD Conference. This traditional annual gathering has imposed itself over the last 5 years as THE opportunity not to be missed to meet other School of Management PhD students, Master students and Research staff members in a friendly environment and to gain awareness about each other’s research areas.

The theme chosen this year is the craft of research and we are delighted to welcome Professor Taufiq Choudhry, Professor Christopher Napier, Professor Mike Page and Dr Mirela Schwarz as our guest speakers.

If you are planning to attend the conference or to attend and submit a paper or a poster, please make sure that you have contacted us by using the details below.

Venue

9:00am - 4.30pm, Room 3043, Building 2, School of Management

Speakers

Professor Taufiq Choudhry - University of Southampton
Professor Christopher Napier - Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Mike Page - University of Portsmouth
Dr Mirela Schwarz - University of Southampton

Programme

9.00am	Registration
9.15am	Welcome address and keynote speaker – Professor Taufiq Choudhry - University of Southampton - "The craft of research"
9.35am	PhD presentations, first session, Chair person: Dr Ian Harwood. Jeremy Eng-Tuck Cheah (09:35 – 09:55) “Do Investors in London Stock Exchange Prefer Tory over Labour?” Ian Dawson (09:55 – 10:15) “Lay Perceptions of Synergistic Health Risk” David McDonald (10:15 – 10:35) “A Reinterpretation of the Favourite-Longshot Bias: Estimating the Winning Probabilities of Strong Favourites.”
10.35am	Coffee/ Tea break
11.00am	1st Guest Speaker - Professor Christopher Napier - Royal Holloway, University of London "From Thesis to Publication"
11.30am	PhD presentations, second session, Chair person: Professor Sally Brailsford Mohammad Sohail Yunis (11:30 – 11:50) “Corporate Social Disclosure on Websites: A Study on Listed Companies of Pakistan in Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE).” Reem Albuainain (11:50 -12:10) Banking sector employers’ perceptions of private higher education quality in Kingdom of Bahrain: Employability as quality measure’ Renê Coppe Pimentel (12:10 – 12:30) “Accounting Earnings Properties, Stock Returns and Economic Variables: Evidences from Brazil and Other Emerging Markets.”
12.30am	Lunch & poster exhibition
1.30pm	PhD presentations, 3rd session, Chair Person: Dr Tolga Bektas Seyed Mohammad Javadi (01:30 – 01:50) "Performance-Based Accountability: From Theory to Practice" John Malagila (01:50 – 02:10) “The Role of Public Sector Auditing in Tanzania: Improving Public Services or Legitimization of Power Relations?”
2.30pm	2nd Guest Speaker - Professor Mike Page - University of Portsmouth "Analysing Qualitative Research"
3.00pm	3rd Guest Speaker - Dr Mirela Schwarz - University of Southampton "How to manage and organise your PhD research?"
3.30pm	Coffee/ Tea break & voting
4.00pm	Panel Q&A
4.30pm	Presentation of prizes for best PhD presentation and poster

Want to Attend?

If you would like to attend Please would you let Samia Almehmadi - saa2e08@soton.ac.uk know by Thursday 30 th April , so that numbers for catering can be confirmed.

Submitting presentations or posters

We would welcome all School of Management PhD students to forward their presentation or poster on or before Friday 8 th May 2009 . Please send them to Abbas Alimoradi – aas1e08@soton.ac.uk

Presentations:

Each presentation will take about 15 minutes (10 minutes talk + 5 minutes Q&A).
We would especially encourage the 1st year and 2nd year students to present. This will be an excellent opportunity to practice your presentations and present your research before you go out for international conferences, and even 1st year students can talk about what you want do and what problems/fears you think you may face in your research.
We have all the IT facilities to use in the Lecture Room. Please save your PPT on a removable disk and bring it with you to the conference. If you have difficulties in this, please contact the conference team.
There is a £75 prize for the best presentation!

Posters:

There is no constraint on the size and the colour of the poster. You can do whatever you want (from size A4 to A0, black and white or colour), but please let us know about the size in advance so that we can orrange the display board for you.
For those who want to make professional posters, we would recommend the Cartographic Unit in School of Geography. They do big posters for students but unfortunately not for free.
There is a £50 prize for the best poster!

The deadline for submitting your presentations and/or posters is Friday 8th May 2009.

If you have any questions regarding the conference/presentations/posters/programmes etc, please feel free to contact Abbas Alimoradi – aas1e08@soton.ac.uk . We would be very happy to answer any of your questions.

Contact us

If you would like to attend Please would you let Samia Almehmadi - saa2e08@soton.ac.uk know by Thursday 30 th April , so that numbers for catering can be confirmed.