7th South East European Doctoral Student Conference
24 - 25 September 2012, Thessaloniki - Greece
Thematic Areas
The conference will have an interdisciplinary focus and will cover various topics related to information technology, economics and business, political and social sciences. The following topics are encouraged, but are not exclusive:
Research Track 1 - Enterprise, Innovation and Development (Management, Marketing, Finance, Economics)
- Banking crises
- Foreign Direct Investment
- Corporate Governance
- Defence and Peace Economics
- Applied Econometrics
- Agricultural Economics
- Environmental Economics
- Logistics & Green Supply Chain Management
- Corporate Finance & Financial Systems
- Quality Management & TQM
- Customer Behaviour
- Marketing Planning
- Organisational Analysis & Learning
- Human Resources Management
- Strategic Management Marketing
- Change Management
- Knowledge Management
- Public Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Management of SMEs
- Enterprise Development
- Innovation Management
- Tourism
Research Track 2 - Information & Communication Technologies
- Software Engineering
- Formal Methods
- Testing & Verification of Software Systems
- Modelling and Model Checking
- Service Oriented Software Engineering
- Cloud Computing
- Information Security
- Educational Informatics
- Technology Enhanced Learning
- Information & Knowledge Management
- Information Retrieval
- Semantic Web Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Biologically Inspired Computation
- Robotics
- Health Informatics
- Geographical Information Systems
Research Track 3 - Society and Human Development: Psychology, Politics, Sociology, and Education
- Psychology
- Emotion Regulation of Self and Others
- Emotionality and Well-Being
- Cognition and Emotion
- Motivation and Human performance
- Intelligence, Personality, and Individual Differences
- Health Promotion Interventions
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Attention and Human Performance
- Cognitive Development in Typical and Atypical Populations
- Ageing and Cognitive Functions
- Social Psychology
- Health Psychology
- Quality of Life in Chronically-ill and Healthy Populations
- Alcohol and Drug Use and Abuse
- Smoking Behavior and Tobacco Control Policies
- Sports psychology
- Developmental, Educational and School psychology
- Intervention with Populations with Special Needs
- Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Online counselling acceptance and utilization by mental health professionals and end users
- Education: Language Policy and Practice
- Intercultural Communication
- Ethno-linguistics
- English as a Lingua Franca
- English-Only Europe
- The EU and Language
- Language Testing
- Language Teaching
- Politics and International Relations
- Comparative Politics
- Political Thought: Ideas and Ideologies
- Media and Politics
- Political Violence, Terrorism and Counter-insurgency
- The Politics of Globalization
- Defence and Diplomacy
- Crisis Management
- Public Health and Social Care Policy
- Risk Analysis
- The Politics of Post-Communism and Transition
- Elections and Electoral Systems
- EU Policy and Integration
- International Relations
- Migration
- Public Administration
- Nations and Nationalism
- Conflict and Peace
- Geo-Politics (and Strategic Studies)
- Regional Development
- Environment
- Parties and Party Systems
- Sociology
- Modern Sociological Theory
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Social Mobilization Theory
- Stratification and Class
- Gender Studies
- Urban Sociology
- Sociology and Architecture
- Inequality and Social Exclusion
- Religiosity
- Ethnicity, Identity
- Social Policy
- Genocide Studies
- Post-Socialist Transformation
- Europeanisation
- Family and Community Life
- Crime (Deviance) and Criminal Justice