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**** Early Career Development Symposium CHI 2018
*** Applications due *15 Jan 2018*
** Details: *https://chi2018.acm.org/authors/career-development-symposium/
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This one-day Symposium will help post-PhD researchers/academics develop
their careers in HCI. Participants will get the opportunity to engage
with senior HCI mentors and peers, and will come away with a better
understanding of how they want to develop as HCI researchers. The event
is open for applications from all members of the international HCI
community who have received their PhDs in the past five years.
*Format*
The Symposium will be modelled after the CHI Doctoral Consortia and the
Career Development events at CHI 2016 and CHI 2017. The format will
include individual presentations, whole-group and small-group
discussions, and guest speakers. We will develop the specific topics to
be discussed through pre-workshop communications with participants,
working from their written applications.
Participants will also have opportunities to strengthen their
professional networks with one another, and with the senior CHI mentors.
Unlike the format of Doctoral Consortia, we will focus more on career
challenges, and less on the contents of research programs. We will also
hold a series of panels on specific topics, facilitated by senior
researchers discuss. Topics may include:
* Building a cohort group of HCI colleagues (local, institutional, and
virtual)
* Establishing a successful career path in academia, industry, and/or
the nonprofit sector
* Fitting into departments e.g., what if I am the only HCI person in
my department
* Selecting and developing a research trajectory.
* Identifying potential funding sources and preparing proposals.
* Getting involved in professional service.
* Communicating your work and strengthening your public profile.
* Balancing work, family and social life.
*Submissions*
To apply, please submit the following by email to:
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1. A single-authored paper (maximum of 3 pages) in SIGCHI Extended
Abstract format describing:
Educational background and current position
* Current research (brief overview, for context only)
* Current challenges/experiences
* Career, research and professional service goals for the next 5-7 years.
* What you hope to gain from participating in the Symposium.
2. Your long-form CV, including links to your website, blog or other
public web presence (if available).
*Timeline*
Note: Submissions will be distributed only among the participants, and
will be considered confidential. There will be no publication of
submissions to the Symposium.
15 January 27 2018: Submissions due
29 January 2018: Decisions announced
12 February 2018: Final versions due
21 or 22 April 2018: Early Career Development Symposium
Michael Muller, IBM Research

Geraldine Fitzpatrick, TU Wien
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