Jan 23, 2011

6 PhD positions, the BPM Research Group, QUT, Australia

Positions under the ARC Linkage project Facilitating Business Process Standardization and Reuse

Up to 3 new positions (1 Research Fellow and up to 2 PhD students) are available at the BPM Research Group within the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. The positions are under a new research project on ?Facilitating Business Process Standardization and Reuse.

Project background

One of the most pressing management challenges of today's organisations lies in the reuse and standardisation of best practices across different sectors, products or units. This project aims to design and develop an innovative process model repository and appropriate governance structures to efficiently and effectively support the standardisation and reuse of best practices. The project is co-founded by Suncorp, one of Australia's top 25 listed companies and Queensland's largest listed corporation. Suncorp provides a range of banking and insurance products directly to customers through an extensive branch and agency network, call centre operations, on-line facilities, and through intermediaries and corporate partners. The collaboration with Suncorp will offer the successful applicants an opportunity to work with real-life business process models, and the possibility to conduct case studies to validate the outcomes of their research.

Research Fellow

The role of this research fellow is to work on algorithms and techniques to facilitate standardization of proven practices in large collections of business process models. Moreover, the fellow is expected to take a key role in the management of the research project. S(he) will assist in the supervision of research students where required, and participate in the development of the project by preparing and collating publications, reports and articles, as appropriate. Furthermore, s(he) will develop, and oversee the development of, prototypical software.

Position Title: Research Fellow
Closes: 14 February 2011
Organisational Area: Information Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology
Campus: 126 Margaret Street, Brisbane
Salary Range/Classificatio n: $AUD75 521 to $AUD89 690 pa (Level B)
Superannuation: 17% employer contribution
Status: Fixed-term for up to 2 years
Start date: mid 2011
Position Contact and Title: Dr Marcello La Rosa
(07) 3138 9482 or m.larosa@qut. edu.au
Open to: Australian and International Applicants.

PhD 1
The role of this PhD student is to work on algorithms to reuse best practices within large process model collections. Within this work, the PhD student will be required to conduct requirements analysis, formal algorithm specification, implementation and testing.

Position Title: PhD in Computer Science
Closes: 14 February 2011
Organisational Area: Information Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology
Campus: 126 Margaret Street, Brisbane
Scholarship: $AUD27,222 pa (tax exempt) + tuition fee waiver
Status: Fixed-term 3 years
Start date: March 2011
Position Contact and Title: Dr Marcello La Rosa
(07) 3138 9482 or m.larosa@qut. edu.au
Open to: Australian and International Applicants.

PhD 2
The role of this PhD student is to examine theoretically and empirically the use, appropriation, governance and impact of the process model repository to be built within this project, in contexts of process standardization and reuse. To that end, the PhD student will be required to examine managerial aspects of process modelling, the use of process modelling in actual organisational task settings, as well as important organisational decision-making structures.

Position Title: PhD in Information Systems
Closes: 14 February 2011
Organisational Area: Information Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology
Campus: 126 Margaret Street, Brisbane
Scholarship: $AUD27,222 pa (tax exempt) + tuition fee waiver
Status: Fixed-term 3 years
Start date: March 2011
Position Contact and Title: Dr Jan Recker
(07) 3138 9479 or j.recker@qut. edu.au
Open to: Australian and International Applicants.

Positions under the ARC Discovery project ?Risk-aware Business Process Management.

Up to 5 new positions (1 Research Fellow and up to 4 PhD students) are available at the BPM Research Group within the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. The positions are under a new research project on ?Risk-aware Business Process Management.

Project Background

This project will increase risk awareness in corporate process management and, in so doing, will lead to increased process awareness within corporate risk management. It will investigate, evaluate and enhance current approaches for the identification, analysis, evaluation, treatment, and overall management of risk as it relates to business processes. Informed by relevant mathematical foundations, conceptual-analytic al research, and empirical evidence from a range of case studies, the project will extend established process management approaches by explicitly including the concept of risk as an integral part of process definition and enactment.

Research Fellow

Position Title: Research Fellow
Closes: 14 February 2011
Organisational Area: Information Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology
Campus: 126 Margaret Street, Brisbane
Salary Range/Classificatio n: $AUD75 521 to $AUD89 690 pa (Level B)
Superannuation: 17% employer contribution
Status: Fixed-term for up to 2 years
Start date: mid 2011
Position Contact and Title: Prof Arthur ter Hofstede
(07) 3138 9474 or a.terfhostede@ qut.edu.au
Open to: Australian and International Applicants.

PhD 1/2

Position Title: PhD in Computer Science
Closes: 28 January 2011
Organisational Area: Information Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology
Campus: 126 Margaret Street, Brisbane
Scholarship: $AUD27,222 pa (tax exempt) + tuition fee waiver
Status: Fixed-term 3 years
Start date: March 2011
Position Contact and Title: Prof. Arthur ter Hofstede
(07) 3138 9474 or a.terfhostede@ qut.edu.au
Open to: Australian and International Applicants.

PhD 3/4

Position Title: PhD in Information Systems
Closes: 28 January 2011
Organisational Area: Information Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology
Campus: 126 Margaret Street, Brisbane
Scholarship: $AUD27,222 pa (tax exempt) + tuition fee waiver
Status: Fixed-term 3 years
Start date: March 2011
Position Contact and Title: Prof. Michael Rosemann
(07) 3138 9473 or m.rosemann@qut. edu.au
Open to: Australian and International Applicants.

More information on all the above positions can be found at
http://www.bpm.fit.qut.edu.au/about/opportunities/index.jsp#positions.

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