South-East European Research Centre (SEERC)

This volume consists of papers presented at the 8^th Annual SEERC Doctoral Student Conference (DSC2013). The Conference, organized by the South East European Research Centre (SEERC) was successfully held on the 16^th and 17^th of September 2013 at CITY College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield, in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The 8th Doctoral Student Conference (DSC2013) was organised by SEERC, with consistency to the common aim of the former conferences, to bring researchers from different countries closer and to explore collaborative links between disciplines, for testing the ground for innovative ideas and for engaging the wider academic community.

This particular conference attracted a great number of submissions and resulted in 60 presentations of full papers. Once again the conference was multidisciplinary in nature, and was organised around three following themes which map to the research areas in which SEERC is active:

• Enterprise, Innovation and Development
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Society and Human Development: Psychology, Politics, Sociology & Education

You can access the digital proceedings of the 8^th South East European Doctoral Student Conference here.