Faculty
Kim V. Andersen, Niels Bjørn-Andersen, Janni Nielsen

Course Coordinator
Kim V. Andersen

The course focuses on bringing the PhD-students' research in line with the IS domain by addressing the overall theme: the past and future of information systems. The aim is to have the students reflect, clarify, and take possible actions to bring their research more clearly in line with the information systems tradition. By doing this, they will after the course be able to better focus their research and explicit spell out, what their contribution to the IS domain is, what research gap they are trying to fill, and which part of their research is heavily relying upon / contributing to other diciplines.

PhD-students have the opportunities to build upon a substantial body of research material as the research within the domain of information systems goes back more than 30 years. An important aspect of this course is its coverage of the development of IS research over the past three decades, showing how it has come to represent such a diverse field of activities today, including its impact on health care, HCI, e-business and mobile services. This course looks back on the last 30 years of IS research, as well as glancing towards the future, ensuring that it will be of great interest to any PhD student working within the IS field.

Lecture plan

Time/period	Faculty	Title
November 3, 10-12	All teachers	Introduction to the course
November 3, 12-13		Lunch
November 3, 13-16	Niels Bjørn-Andersen	The overarching themes in IS research
November 3	TBA	Evening program
November 4, 9-12	Niels Bjørn-Andersen	The management stream of IS research
November 4, 12-13		Lunch
November 4, 13-16	Janni Nielsen	The HCI stream of IS research
December 1, 9-12	TBA	Technical stream of IS research
December 1, 12-13		Lunch
December 1, 13-16	Kim Viborg Andersen	Cross-cutting streams
December 1	TBA	Evening program
December 2, 9-12	Speaker tba	The Scandinavian Flavor in IS research
December 2, 12-13		Lunch
December 2, 13-16	Kim Viborg Andersen	Summing up, evaluation, introduction of home work

Evaluation method

The student will have to write a five paper position to pass this course. The outline of the paper is submitted two weeks before the course and will be read and commented on prior to the course. Based on the input of the course, a revised version of the paper is sent no later than two weeks after the course ends. Approval of the revised paper is required in order to pass the course.

For enrolment, please contact Darsis at www.darsis.dk , phone +45 99 40 82 02 or email: admin@darsis.dk