Seminarier 2009/2010

September 14: Quality indicator system
13.15-15.00 in Vin Cerf. Associate Professor Ulf Sandström from Linköping University and KTH) is one of the architects behind the new quality indicator system. He will talk about bibliometrics and quality indicators in general.

September 17: Critical IS research
13.15-15.00 in Mark. Seminar with Debra Howcroft, Professor of Technology and Organisations at Manchester Business School.

September 19: Jonas Kuschel defends his PhD-thesis "Vehicle Services".
10.15-13.00 at Torg2. Opponent is Professor Thomas Hellström, CIRCLE (Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy), Lund University.

September 25: Maria Åkesson defends her PhD-thesis "Digital Innovation in the Value Networks of Newspapers".
13.15-16.00 at Torg2. Opponent is Professor Pär Ågerfalk, Uppsala University

September 28: PhD Seminar
13.00-20.00 Half-day seminar with PhD students and their supervisors.

October 19: Crisis Management and the role of IT
13.15-15.00 in Steve Jobs.
PhD student Fredrik Bergstrand gives a start-up seminar on his research interest within the area of IT support for crisis management.

October 26: Reclaim the Science
12.00-14.00 in Steve Jobs.
Sharon Rider, Associate Professor at the department of philosophy at Uppsala University, presents her views on current unfortunate trends in society that she believe are threatening the autonomy of science.
Due to Sharon's travelling arrangements, this will be a lunch seminar so bring your own salads or sandwiches.

November 2: Presentation from visiting PhD students
13.15-15.00 in Steve Jobs. Maria Dascalu, Dragos Palaghita and Bogdan Vintila, visiting PhD students from the University of Economics, Bucharest, Romania, present their research interests.

November 9: The Sustainable Information Society I
13.15-15.00 in Steve Jobs.
Prof. Ilan Chabay will give a talk entitled "From Information to Empowerment - Public Understanding and Use of Science in the Age of the Anthropocene" and PhD student Christian Stöhr will then speak about "Mingling Scientific Advisory and Participatory Politics - The Baltic Sea Fishery as a Case"

November 16: Panel - Quality in qualitative research
10.15-12.00 in von Neumann.
Panelists: Prof. Berner Linström, Prof. Rikard Lindgren, Prof. Michael Christie, and Associate Prof. Palle Dahlstedt.
How do we ensure quality in our research?

November 23: The Sustainable Information Society II
November 23 13.15-15.00 in Steve Jobs.
Dr. Magnus Holmquist, Volvo IT, visits us to talk about "Commute greener".