The Leadership Studies Student Research Symposium call for proposals deadline ends this Friday, March 1. We ask that applicants craft their proposals and submit to one of the following four strands or areas:
- Conceptualization of Research in Leadership Studies & Communication – Students who want to discuss a research design are encouraged to apply to this strand. The research is in its inception and one who submits to this strand has an emerging idea, conceptualization, or design to discuss. Perhaps guiding questions or working hypotheses might be explored or discussed.
- Research-in-Progress in Leadership Studies & Communication – Students interested in this strand have a working research project they wish to discuss with the audience. What are exciting methods used in your research? What are preliminary findings that seem intriguing or puzzling given one’s original research questions? What have been research challenges; how have you overcome those challenges?
- Completed Research in Leadership Studies & Communication – Share with the audience findings of your completed research. What was/were your original research question(s)? What were key findings or themes? What are the implications of your research? What suggestions do you have for others, post research?
- Fireside Chats – In this strand, we want students to propose discussion topics they would be willing to facilitate. In the proposal, one would suggest a topic and present a short introduction including a rationale for the topic and possible discussion/conversation questions. If a proposal is chosen in this strand, the student would introduce the topic to the audience with a few guiding questions, and then facilitate the conversation. Ideas for topics might include: facing and conquering writing challenges; choosing research topics; juggling many roles as a Gonzaga student; what is leadership, and so on.
The aim of this conference is to surface and explore emerging questions and/or completed research currently occupying leadership studies undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students at Gonzaga. The conference is intended to stimulate dialogue and critical reflection of the multiple perspectives of our students, our programs and the complexity of the field of leadership studies. The conference is also intended to highlight the theory and practice of leadership studies research methodologies currently alive in our programs.
For more information on call for proposals and registration, click here.