We welcome abstracts from academics, practitioners and those with lived experience. We value lived experience co-production within our conference and welcome abstracts from any of the categories below from those with lived experience either as leads or in co-production.
Please read guidelines & submit online at the bottom of this page
- All submissions must be received by 5pm on Wednesday 22nd of January 2025.
- Abstracts will be judged anonymously so please do not include names on your document.
- Email receipt of submission will be provided.
- You will be informed of the decision of the evaluations after the 12th of February 2025.
- All presenters and co presenters must register to attend the conference by the 28th of February 2025.
The relevant word counts for each category can be found in the templates. Any abstracts submitted over the word limit will be rejected.
They should not include references and unless submitting a “work in progress” poster, should be written in the past or present tense.
Abstracts for the various forms of submissions should be structured as follows. They must incorporate the information detailed, ideally with suggested headings but this is not a requirement.
Abstract Submission Categories
Purpose: State the aim, primary objectives or what the question for the review paper was.
Background: Give a concise summary of information that puts the paper into context.
Methods: Describe the procedures used for the review, including inclusions/exclusion criteria, analysis adopted and key factors of consideration.
Conclusions: Summarise the conclusions that can be drawn from the review and if relevant, where gaps exist. Describe limitations of the review and where relevant, mention implications.
Objectives: State the primary objective of the research, and either the research question or hypotheses.
Design: Describe the design that was adopted and why this was chosen.
Methods: Briefly explain participant information (number and how selected). If secondary data, explain the data used. Mention key measures used, how data was collected and analysed. If applicable, describe the intervention being tested. State whether there was any co-production in the research and if so, briefly describe the level of involvement.
Results: Include numerical and/or textual data. Very briefly, summarise any quantitative findings. Where qualitative analyses have been employed, briefly describe your findings (e.g., themes identified).
Conclusions: State what can be concluded from this study/empirical research. Mention the limitations and briefly describe the key implications (considering various disciplines).
These abstracts will focus on applied clinical practice and individuals perspectives of practicing and/or receiving care. These abstracts are not designed to simply showcase a service. While there does not have to be formal evaluation with this, there should be some critical appraisal and evidence of service development or improvements made.
Background/the initiative: Describe the clinical practice or initiative of focus, and set the context.
Co-production: State whether there is/was any co-production within the service and to what level that involvement takes place (including lessons learnt/critical appraisal)
Critical appraisal: Detail what critical appraisal and/or evaluation of the service or initiative has taken place. Include any methods used for evaluation.
Recommendations/changes implemented: Summarise the lessons learnt and any changes made as a result of the critical appraisal.
Conclusion: Summarise the conclusions that have taken place as a result of the service development work, and any next steps.
Objectives: State the primary objective of the research, and either the research question or hypotheses.
Design: Describe the design that is being adopted and why this has been chosen.
Methods: Briefly explain how participants are being/were selected. If secondary data, explain the data. Mention key measures used, how data is being collected and analysed. If applicable, describe the intervention being tested. State whether or not there is any co-production in the research and if so, briefly describe the level of involvement.
Results: Outline the proposed analysis, explaining how you are confident that it will address and answer the research question.
Conclusions: Briefly identify how the research will be used and where implications may apply.
Background: Summarise the area of which the session will take place, setting its context. State what the aims of the proposed workshop are.
Outcomes: What do you hope to achieve from the workshop/interactive session? What are the outcomes?
Key points: Provide the key activities and/or content that will be covered in the workshop. Include how the workshop will be used as an interactive session. If the activity is intended as in-conference participatory research, the process for consent must be outlined and relevant ethical approvals must be confirmed prior to the conference.
Who will deliver this workshop/interactive session? – Please state if this session will be delivered by professionals, lived experience individuals or a mix.
Conclusions: What will you be able to conclude at the end of the workshop? In what areas might implications apply?
Applicants should provide a description of the proposed symposium (max 250 words). This should clearly detail the key theme and how the proposed papers are linked.
Three or four individual abstracts in separate word documents applicable to the relevant themes above should follow this template when submitting your application online These can be a combination of abstract types.
Description of proposed symposium: Clearly detail the key theme and how the proposed papers are linked.
Presentation Methods
Papers are allocated a 20-25 minute timeslot within the programme – this should be a 15 minute talk and 5 minutes for questions.
Posters give opportunities to present work in progress or small-scale work. Posters may include ongoing research, pilot studies, research protocols or examples of practical application.. Further information regarding the dimensions of the poster boards and suggestions of how to display poster material will be supplied to presenters who have their posters accepted. We reserve the right to ask some individuals who have applied to give an oral presentation, to instead present their work as a poster.
Workshops are interactive sessions that can be carried out in various formats that move away from the conventional style of presentations. They are often designed to address a specific goal or problem. They may be more informative in nature, be used to reach consensus on an area or provide a creative way to showcase learning and experience. These different formats can be things such as workshops, debates, roundtables, world cafes, creative performances. They can be structured or unstructured but would ideally incorporate some form of interactive component(s) and the intended format should be stated in the application.
These sessions are designed for smaller audiences (max 40 people) and unless a specific audience is required for research purposes or similar, slots will be filled on a first come, first serve basis at conference. Should a workshop wish to have limited attendance by either number or expertise, these intentions must be clearly justified in the application. They will run as part of parallel sessions.
A symposium is a number of focused presentations on a particular topic or linked by a particular theme. They are typically 90 minutes in length and should consist of three or four oral presentations from different authors. A symposium should have a Convenor – someone who organises the symposium and is the main contact. There is also the option to have a Discussant (and this can be the same person or a different person to the Convenor). Discussants provide an overview of the main issues discussed after the presentations and facilitate a general discussion of the topic by the audience and authors. The symposium submission must include an overview plus a structure abstract for each presentation. All the submission forms for the symposium must be submitted together by the symposium convenor.
Submission Templates
Please download the relevant template, complete and submit as part of your online submission.
Review/Theoretical Paper (oral presentation/poster) Template
Research/Evaluation (oral presentation/poster) Template
Perspectives from Practice (oral presentation/poster) Template
In recent years, the reasons that abstracts are not successful include:
- Failing to meet the suggested submission criteria
- Failure to comply with the submission system (e.g. not adhering to wordcount) or the wrong format used (e.g. power-point presentations)
- Lack of empirical evidence for research submissions
- Submissions that are not relevant to the categories identified above
- Unprofessional or potentially offensive titles. Whilst we accept discursive debate, challenge and critical commentaries, use of language that could be offensive are likely to be rejected.
