DC Co-chairs
A/Prof. Paul Bergey, University of Western Australia, WA, AU
Dr. Liang Qu, Edith Cowan University, WA, AU
Dr. Yingnan Shi, University of Western Australia, WA, AU
A/Prof. Vidy Potdar, Curtin University, WA, AU
Prof. Rania Shibl, Southern Cross University, QLD, AU
The ACIS Doctoral consortium provides PhD students with an opportunity to present their work and obtain feedback from other doctoral students and senior IS scholars from other universities. The participants will also be exposed to the academic and research career and pathways from formal and informal sessions. They will also have opportunities to establish friendships and research collaborations with other participants.
Call for Nominations
We invite nominations for the 36th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) 2026 Doctoral Consortium. The Consortium will be held in ECU City Campus, Australia. It is a strictly in-person event. Successful nominees are expected to attend all Consortium activities on both days.
See the Call for Nominations page for details.
Selection Process
Since participation will be limited to 25 PhD students, the selection process is competitive. Participants will be selected based on the following criteria:
- the quality of proposed research
- significance of the research and the potential contribution
- the potential contribution the student can make to the Doctoral Consortium
- the potential benefit of the Doctoral Consortium to the student’s research and professional development.
Submission information
All submitted documents must be in the English language. All submissions must be made via the Call for Doctoral Consortium.
DC Keynotes
Ariadne’s Thread in the Library of Babel: Meaning, Affect, and the Limits of Simulation
Prof. Patrick Mikalef, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Description: This talk examines how contemporary AI is reshaping academic research. AI tools can now draft literature reviews, take on much of the writing, and produce work that performs well against the metrics used to judge scholarly output. These shifts change not only what research looks like, but what it means to be a researcher. The presentation focuses on three areas where this matters for information systems research: how we publish, how we measure impact, and what our role should be in this evolving landscape. For doctoral students, these questions bear directly on the choices they face early in their careers, from how they use AI tools to how they decide which work is worth doing. Drawing these threads together, the talk offers a critical reflection on these emerging developments and opens a discussion about how we might navigate them, what we choose to study, and the broader role we play as researchers in society.
DC Mentors
A/Prof. Wasana Bandara, Queensland University of Technology, QLD, AU
Prof. Rodney J. Clarke, University of Wollongong, NSW, AU
Dr. Raffaele Ciriello, The University of Sydney, NSW, AU
Dr. Madhawa Perera, CSIRO, AU
A/Prof. Vidy Potdar, Curtin University, WA, AU