South-East European Research Centre (SEERC)

This volume consists of papers presented at the 5th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference (DSC2010) which took place on the 13th and 14th of September 2010, in Thessaloniki, Greece, and was organised by the South East European Research Centre.

The aim of the conference was to initiate an exchange of knowledge between young researchers and to help establish a network of scholars currently undertaking research in South-East Europe. Having identified academic isolation as a problem that many doctoral students face today, SEERC aims to bring researchers together for establishing collaborative links between disciplines, for testing the ground for innovative ideas and for engaging the wider academic community.

The audience of the conference expanded beyond the boundaries of South East Europe and we had presentations from UK, Greece, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Sweden, Serbia, FYR of Macedonia, Belgium and USA, confirming the need for Doctoral Students to come together, discuss their experiences and gain external feedback to their work as well as listen to the progress and methodology of fellow PhD candidates.

The scope of the conference was, again, multi-disciplinary spanning throughout the areas in which SEERC is doing active research and therefore it was divided into four parallel sessions:

• Enterprise and Regional Development
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Governance Politics and Society
• Risk, Well Being and Cognition

You can access the digital proceedings of the 5^th South East European Doctoral Student Conference here.