Nordes 2011 conference

Aalto University’s School of Art and Design – and its Department of Design – organized the 4th Nordic Design Research (Nordes) conference between May 29-31. Below you’ll find links to the conference material.

• Conference website: [...]

Elsevier Author Workshop material

Elsevier kept an “Author Workshop” last week (12.4.2011), providing some tips and insights to journal writing. The workshop was also advertising their new tool “SciVerse Scopus”, but that stuff you can google. In the main [...]

How to finish your dissertation process in Aalto and TaiK

In our Monday meet last week (28th of March) Pia Sivenius was explaining the technicalities and the procedure in getting your finished dissertation manuscript through the evaluation and publication process.

See below instructions and information regarding [...]

Manuscript seminar: Building good arguments

In his seminar presentation Salu Ylirisku made a point about creating good arguments. The presentation was based on the specific (perhaps it might be called ‘concept generating’) approach that he is following. The slides can [...]

Manuscript seminar: On personal voice by Petra Ahde

Initial questions to the topic are:
1. How to project your personal voice and the personal voice of your data (e.g. people you interviewed) through out your manuscript?
2. How to retain your personal voice or the [...]

Manuscript seminar: Structuring doctoral thesis (18.1.)

The second manuscript seminar was held on “structuring doctoral thesis” on 18th of Jan. 2010. Different approaches for structuring doctoral thesis, such as allocating chapters, role of cases in structuring, and monograph dissertation versus article-based [...]

Secrets behind succesful paper writing, submission and acceptance by Giulio Jacucci

Writing papers is considered your first and foremost responsibility and obligation as a researcher. To get your paper accepted isn’t easy and deserves further attention. Allow your ideas to fluctuate during the writing process. In [...]