Doctoral Consortium

The ISC Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who are in the dissertation proposal stage (typically 3rd year of the PhD program) or later in their PhD programs. The objective of the consortium is to support doctoral students as they shape their dissertations and job market papers.

Students will have opportunities to discuss their work in small groups with distinguished faculty and peers, to meet and interact with future colleagues, and to enhance their scholarship and overall development. The agenda of the panel includes the following:

• The making of a globally respected scholar
• What makes a good dissertation?
• Managing your first job
• A paper’s journey
• Publishing using non-standard data
  
  

The ISC New Faculty Consortium will run concurrently, addressing topics relevant to junior faculty, such as publishing their dissertation and managing teaching and research responsibilities. Faculty within three years of PhD completion are welcome to apply.

The 2025 Doctoral Consortium co-organisers are Kannan Srikanth (The Ohio State University) and Vivek Tandon (Temple University).

Interested scholars should apply via the application website no later than November 1, 2025. All applicants will be notified of admission decisions by the end of November 2025.

Doctoral and New Faculty Consortium

Date

       December 15, 2025

Time

       09:00 am - 04:00 pm

Venue

       Hyderabad, India

Application Submission

Instructions for the applicants:

As part of the application, you need to send a single pdf file containing the items below. The file should be named LastName_FirstName_ISC_2025.pdf:

1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Dissertation Summary or Working paper

We have a limited number of travel scholarships for PhD students available to cover some of the costs of attending the conference. If you wish to be considered for these, please mention it in your application and email it to ConsortiumISC2025@isb.edu