The School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University is organising the 2nd Business Doctoral and Emerging Scholars Conference 2017, which will be held in Perth, Australia on 23 and 24 November 2017.

The conference provides an opportunity for participating doctoral students and early career researchers (ECR) to discuss and share their research ideas and approaches with other doctoral students, researchers and leading academics within the broad field of business.

There will be an impressive list of international and Australian keynote speakers for the conference, who have published in high level journals and are leading experts in their research fields.

Besides the keynote speeches, participants of this conference can also attend two statistical workshops featuring the widely used methods in business analytics – regression and R.

A celebratory cocktail networking session will follow the formal proceedings where the winners of the Best Paper Awards will be announced, with attractive prizes.

The conference is accepting submissions from doctoral students in different stages of their dissertation process, and ECRs who completed their study in the last five years. Submissions are welcome from any field of Business. Selected papers will be considered for special issue in the Malaysian Accounting Review and Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal.

For more information and to register:

http://www.ecu.edu.au/conferences/2017/2nd-busines...

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST, THIS POSITION IS NOW CLOSED

Be part of the team at the Graduate Research School and help out with activities on the lead up to and during Research Week. The event aims to promote ECU’s cutting-edge research to our current and prospective research students, alumni, staff, industry partners, the community and the media.

Why volunteer?

• Improve communication, teamwork and networking skills.
• Be inspired by ECU’s current research projects and learn about further postgraduate study.
• Enhance your resume, have fun and gain events experience!

Tasks

• Distribute brochures and flyers around campus to promote the event
• Assist with event management and logistics
• Set up research poster displays
• General administrative duties

Hours

• Three or more hours per week from Monday 14 August to 29 September
• Hours can be discussed and are dependent on availability.

Contact details

If you are interested in taking part, please contact Sharon Smart on 6304 2802, s.smart@ecu.edu.au

POSITION NOW CLOSED!

A casual Research Assistant position is available in the School of Education at ECU, to start as soon as possible.

The successful applicant must have experience in working with a range of programs, especially Camtasia. Initially, you will be required to work 10 hours in the first week towards the project, with more flexible hours following that. 

Interested applicants should email Susan Main: s.main@ecu.edu.au

Date: Thursday 10 August 2017, 9.30-11.30am

Venue: ML 13.118

Facilitator: Sally Purcell, Macquarie University

The world of work is changing at a more rapid pace than ever before with exponential growth in automation and increasing flexibility and globalisation. The predictions are that higher order thinking and analytical skills will have expanding value which would mean that PhD graduates are well placed to be competitive now and into the future. The challenge will be, for all of us, to remain aware of technological changes, ideally before they impact upon our jobs and ensure that we remain engaged with our ‘industry’ and understand the needs of employers and stakeholders so that we can take steps to build the skills needed for the dynamic world of work. Combined with the need for relevant skills is the need to be clear on our interests, strengths and values - recognising that these can change over time. Within this workshop, we will work together to explore ways of ‘getting in touch’ with your motivations and objectives with the aim of seeking satisfying and purposeful work over the course of your career.

To RSVP please see Events on the left hand column of ResearchHub

Instatruck wishes to engage a PhD student on a short-term contract in order to assist with applying Machine Learning, Data Regression and Chatbot techniques to create methods to convert natural language into data queries and API queries.

The key components to this project are:

• 1.Creating a chat-interface in order to gather transaction information
• 2.Processing of conversation input to create queries on a data set
• 3.Preparing a dataset for use by the chatbot
• 4.Identifying ambiguous data from the chat input and prompting for clarification

Desirable skills:

• Chatbot technology
• Natural Language interpretation
• Fuzzy Matching & searching in datasets
• Techniques for clarifying ambiguous input
• Data preparation and cleansing
• Knowledge of AWS AI-related and data analysis tools for the above
• Knowledge of python AI-related and data analysis tools for the above

If you wish to gain some valuable industry experience with an innovative company in WA, please submit your resume to Steph Delaporte from the Graduate Research School s.delaporte@ecu.edu.au or to discuss please call 6304 2069.