Overview of submission types

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Symposium / Forum

A Symposium/Forum is a multi-presenter session, either
(a) Scientific Symposium
(b) Practitioner Forum
(c) Scientist-Practitioner Collaborative Forum

A Symposium/Forum provides reports of empirical research, innovative practice, and/or theoretical advancement. A Symposium/Forum includes a chairperson and four to six presentations, which may include a discussant. The person(s) submitting the symposium proposal is(are) the symposium chair(s). He/she/they should submit an integrated summary of the symposium plus all abstracts of the individual presentations. Symposium/Forum chairs are encouraged to strive for international diversity amongst the different abstracts. A Symposium/Forum must have participants from at least two different affiliations and/or from academics and practitioners. A Symposium/Forum will be 60 to 90 min long (depending on the number of presenters and the decision of the program committee). Sufficient time should be allotted for audience participation.

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Examples of submissionsExamples of submissions

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Poster

(a) Scientific Poster
(b) Practitioner Poster
(c) Scientist-Practitioner Poster

Posters are short research or innovative practice presentations displayed on large printed boards (1.20 x 0.84 meter; portrait format). Individual posters will be clustered in poster sessions by the Program Committee. Poster sessions will be 45 or 60 minutes long. At each poster session, many authors simultaneously present their posters and the audience circulates and stops to discuss posters of particular interest with the authors. Presenters of the posters are kindly asked to bring handouts on their poster to the session for interested visitors.

In addition, the program committee will arrange accepted posters with a common theme into Interactive Poster Sessions. An Interactive Poster Session is a dynamic forum among presenters, a facilitator, and the audience, intended to encourage discussion and sharing of multiple perspectives. Each Interactive Poster Session features 6-8 posters on a common theme. In the beginning of the Interactive Poster Session, each presenter introduces her/his poster with a brief statement about objectives and results (approx. 3 minutes each). This round robin intro is led by a facilitator. A brief informal discussion (questions, comments, etc.) follows this introduction. The second part of the Interactive Poster Session is similar to traditional poster sessions, with audience members visiting posters and interacting with the presenters. Interactive Poster Sessions will have the same overall time length as regular poster sessions (i.e., 45 or 60 minutes). Authors who do not wish their posters to be considered for an Interactive Poster Session can indicate this in the “Special Requests” section when submitting the poster. Opting out of the pool for an Interactive Poster Session does not have any impact on the chances of a poster to be accepted to the EAWOP congress.

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Single paper

(a) Scientific Paper
(b) Practitioner Paper
(c) Scientist-Practitioner Paper

Single papers present innovative research or practice projects. Presentation time 15 minutes per contribution including time for questions and discussion. Single papers will be composed of coherent groups by the program committee. One or two participants will be asked to moderate the group.

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Position Paper

Position papers present a new and unique perspective on a scientific/practical topic. Presentation time 30 minutes, discussion 15 minutes.

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Debate (2 persons plus facilitator) / Panel Discussion (4-5 panelists plus facilitator)

Debate / panel discussion sessions include a controversy with up to 5 panelists and one facilitator, discussing a controversial topic from different perspectives. Discussion time will be 75 minutes, followed by 15 minutes open discussion with the audience.

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Model example of a congress abstract

 

 

• Purpose
• It often depends on the abstract whether readers read an article or not. Despite the omnipresence of abstracts in psychology, no research so far has explored which elements make abstracts more informative. Building on the Theory of Scientific Communication by Yu and Me, we hypothesized that abstracts are perceived as more informative if they contain an introductory sentence, a reference to at least one theory, an explicit hypothesis, a description of the design (including the number of participants), a statement about the statistical approach, a summary of the results, and implications for research. Furthermore, we argued that mentioning implications for practice matters only for applied subfields of psychology.
• Design/Methodology
• To test these assumptions, we sampled 50 abstracts from five international psychology conferences. Two subject matter experts rated the above characteristics for each abstract. Master students in psychology (N = 45) rated the informativeness of all abstracts.
• Results
• Multilevel analyses conducted with MLwiN supported all hypotheses.
• Limitations
• It remains to be tested how much our results generalize to other fields of science than psychology and to non-English speaking conferences.
• Research/Practical Implications
• These results imply that submitters of abstracts should follow the conventions of Yu and Me if they want to increase the chances of abstract acceptance.
• Originality/Value
• To our knowledge, the study is the first to systematically analyze abstracts, and it exemplifies how an abstract submitted to the EAWOP conference should look like.