Forthcoming project management events and links

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(2010), "Forthcoming project management events and links", International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Vol. 3 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijmpb.2010.35303dac.001

Forthcoming project management events and links

Article Type: Forthcoming project management events and links From: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Volume 3, Issue 4

Useful general links

For readers who either supervise research students, or are researchers the Australian Digital Thesis Library (ADTL) http://adt.caul.edu.au/ is a highly useful resource. The home page of the ADTL web site states the following which should explain its value.

“The aim of the ADT program is to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities. The theses will be available worldwide via the web. The ideal behind the program is to provide access to, and promote Australian research to the international community” (accessed January 30, 2008). This library contains hundreds of doctoral theses and so is of immense value in providing examples of theses and for record through the theses of current research work of PhDs, DBAs and DPMs, etc. from across a wide range of disciplines, many highly relevant to the PM discipline.

Another useful organisation for those engaged in doctorates is The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM). This organisation has created a web site that is intend to promote as the web site of a European job market for business academic positions: see www.eiasm.org/r/about-eiasm. One section of their web site is devoted to the candidates. They will have to enter their names and profiles (including CVs, areas of expertise, papers). Another section is for the institutions. They will have to indicate the assistant professorship positions (one or more) that they plan to open (field, starting date, possibly information about the contract, e.g. salary). Demands and applications can be in any area of the business academic community. EIASM holds a range of events including doctoral symposia and meetings.

Conferences to the end 2010

A number of conferences that occurred in 2010 still have URL links that readers may like to follow up on for future consideration and for access to information about papers presented.

The inaugural Asia Pacific Research Conference on Project Management held at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, February 25-26, 2010 with a Doctoral Consortium being held on February 24. Details may be found on: www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/news/conferences/aprpm/dates.html

EURAM 2010 (Back to the Future in Rome, Italy) May 19-22, had a project track called “Project futures – in research and practice”. Readers interested in this conference that spans many areas of management with a special track in PM should keep abreast of forthcoming events, particularly related to the 2011 Tallinn, Estonia conference. See www.euram2010.org/r/default.asp?iId=EGGMKK

The CIB World Congress was held at Salford, May 10-13, 2010 at “The lowry” Salford Quays, UK. This is a major conference for those in Construction PM the link to their web site is www.cib2010.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1

The 5th International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics (Matera, Italy – June 24-25, 2010) IFKAD 2010-Track 13 www.knowledgeasset.org/IFKAD/Tracks/tp013.asp IFKAD 2010 aims to encourage discussions about intellectual capital research and management practices for addressing complexity, uncertainty and changes of today’s business landscape.

The happy projects 2010 conference was held on the topic “Projects and Sustainability” and took place in May 2010. See below for 2011 conference details.

The Project Management Institute (PMI) research conference is held every two years (even years) in 2004 it was held in London, in 2006, in Montreal and in July 2008 in Warsaw, Poland. It was held in Washington, DC in 2010. Readers may also be interested in PMI regional congresses and events they can access through the PMI web site (www.pmi.org/Pages/Calendar.aspx) the PMI regional conferences are global.

The 4th Conference of Excellence in Teaching and Learning Project Management will be held at Lille, ESC in August 2010. The timescale is as follows:

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  complete initial papers to arrive by January 8, 2010;

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  please send to Roger Atkinson at rogeratkinson@bournemouth.ac.uk

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  reviewer comments will be returned to the lead author by April 2, 2010; and

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  final papers are to arrive by July 2, 2010 selected papers from the conference will be considered for a special issue of the International Journal of Project Management by Elsevier. Contact Dr Roger Atkinson for more details.

The 24th IPMA World Congress was held in Istanbul, Turkey November 1-3, 2010. The IPMA World Congresses incorporate research, development, practical nature as well as case-oriented streams that identify the changes that need to be made to tackle the challenges and seize the opportunities brought about by new realities in the world economy. The URL link is www.ipma2010.com/

Conferences for 2011

The happy projects 2011 conference: “Projects and Corporate Social Resposnibility” will take place in Vienna on May 12-13, 2011. This conference is Austria’s largest international conference on project management and offers a huge variety of presentations, panel discussions and different streams for practitioners as well as students and academics. One part of the happy projects’11 conference is the international student paper award for master and PhD students. For more information about the conference and the award please contact claudia.weninger@wu.ac.at or visit the homepage www.happyprojects.at

EURAM 2011 will be held in late May in the beautiful medieval city of Tallinn, Estonia and has a project management track. Readers interested in this conference that spans many areas of management with a special track in PM should keep abreast of forthcoming events through the EURAM web site.

The International Research Network on Organizing by Projects (IRNOP) holds its research conferences on odd years and the next one will be held in Montreal, Quebec on June 6-8, 2011. This organisation would be of great interest to PM researchers and their web site is www.irnop.org/. That site also links well to other research organisations and forthcoming conferences of interest to PM academics and practitioners. Their web site lists the links to these conferences with dates for abstracts, submissions, etc.

The “Making projects critical”, 6th International Workshop on Critical Studies of Project-based Work, Project Management and the Projectification of Society and Life at Large will be held on January 21 and 22, 2011, Bristol, UK. A key concern of this workshop is to employ critical perspectives to analyse and evaluate the practice of project management and decision making as evidenced in the approval, governance and control of project work and project workers. While the abstracts deadline would be missed by the time this journal is available, readers could contact Dr Svetlana Cicmil at Svetlana.Cicmil@uwe.ac.uk or check the BBS web site: www.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/research/mpc/index.shtml about future workshops.

Useful PM links

The International Project Management Association (IPMA) is the world’s oldest project management organisation. It is an international network of national project management societies and their web link is www.ipma.ch/Pages/default.aspx. The advantage of keeping abreast with this web site is that it links to a range of PM associations and (their URL link is www.ipma.ch/membership/Pages/default.aspx) so link through them to find out more about their conferences and events.

The UK Association for Project Management is mounting several national events during 2009. Full details are at available at: www.apm.org.uk/awards.asp and www.apm.org.uk/conference.asp, respectively.

One other example of the associated group is the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) that has an annual conference and also jointly offers one with the PMI Australian chapters. The AIPM web link is www.aipm.com.au/html/default.cfm

The IRNOP web site is very useful for conferences, books and PM journal matters their web site: www.irnop.org/

The CIB is an organisation that is centred in Europe and based in The Netherlands but with global reach and supports and is composed of construction practitioners and academics. They have many conferences and meeting of their specialised working commissions, many of interest to PM readers of this journal the home page URL is www.cibworld.nl/website/

Another useful link for PM students and academics to consider is two groups of collaborating organisations that link universities teaching PM and also students and practitioners:

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  The PMI have formed the Global Accreditation Centre (GAC) that has the aim of accrediting PM courses/programs of study (mainly at the Masters degree level as well as Doctoral level) the URL link to the GAC is www.pmi.org/CareerDevelopment/Pages/GAC-Academic-Network.aspx

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  The other group is PMUni URL www.pmuni.net/. PMUni is an international network of universities, education and research institutions as well as process and project-oriented companies with the overall objective to promote professional education and research in process and project management. They have held a number of workshops, conferences and meetings where the participants meet to exchange experience in research and education. Available at: www.pmuni.net/

Call for applications for the IPMA research awards

IPMA annually recognises outstanding research contributions of individual researchers and research teams. The category Young Researcher Award especially encourages PhD students and master students to apply. For more information please contact martina.huemann@ipma.ch or visit the homepage www.ipma.ch/awards/resawards/Pages/default.aspx

The IPMA research awards to honour excellence in project management research

The IPMA Research awards celebrates several categories of distinguished prizes. The IPMA Young Researcher Award honours young researcher. The IPMA Research Award honours established project management researchers. It is awarded to an individual researcher or a research team. In addition to the award winners, the jury also honours further outstanding research contributions in these two categories with the prize IPMA Outstanding Research Contributions.

Call for IPMA research awards 2011

IPMA calls for applications for 2010 in the categories IPMA Young Researcher and IPMA Research Award. Applications may come from academia, other research institutions or industry. They may come from disciplines other than project management but must contribute to the development of project, program management, project-oriented companies or any element named in the International Competence Baseline. The candidates apply with a research project. The research project must have had at least duration of one year and must be completed, when the application is handed in. For current information, refer to their web site link www.ipma.ch/awards/resawards/Pages/default.aspx or contact Dr Martina Huemann at e-mail address Martina.Huemann@ipma.ch