Conference Submission Guidelines

The basic structure of the program is organised into blocks of 1 hour and 25 minutes. Please note the length of your presentation in your submission.

All submissions must include:

• the following categories about the nature of the presentation:

  • Introductory / Intermediate / Intermediate-Advanced / Advanced

  • Clinical / Research / Community / Workplace

• an abstract (limited to 150 words) for use in the conference program.

• a biography (no more than 150 words) and photo. Submissions will not be considered without these.

Submissions are open until 11:59pm AEST on Sunday 4th of May.

Workshops are training sessions of either 1 hour and 25 minutes or 2 hours and 50 minutes (with a break in the middle) and usually combine experiential and didactic material. Please be a little flexible about the length of your workshop as we may need to adjust times slightly in order to make the program work.

Workshops are opportunities to directly train specific skills rather than to present research findings, discuss conceptual, philosophical, or methodological issues, or share opinions. Submissions that are not clearly focused on training will be considered for other formats. We do encourage you to include research and data citations supporting your topic with your proposal, and to briefly present these during your workshop.

Panel discussions consist of 3 to 5 speakers, plus a chair, selected for a shared interest or area of expertise. Panelists respond to one or more questions or issues, with time allotted for interaction among the speakers and with the audience. A panel discussion is organized by a chairperson who serves as the session’s moderator.

Please ensure that your panel discussion is organised to approximately fit a 1 hour and 25 minute block. Let us know if you need more panel speakers in case we can match you up with other likeminded speakers.

Please indicate who will chair the panel from the presenters when entering your abstract.

Organised by a chairperson who moderates the approximately 1 hour and 25 minute session, symposia are a series of three 20–minute presentations focused on either empirical research or conceptual, philosophical, historical, or methodological issues. A discussant highlights and integrates the contributions of various speakers in the symposium and moderates questions from the audience.

Chairpersons are encouraged to use symposia as an opportunity to integrate related work by: 1) bringing speakers of different affiliations together rather than showcasing the work of a single group and 2) incorporating different kinds of talks (e.g., historical, conceptual and research-based) on the same topic into one symposium.

When submitting, please provide abstracts for all three papers in the 'Abstract' section as well as indicate who will present each paper (as well as any additional authors of each paper), who will act as chair and who will act as discussant. 

Paper submissions are individual, oral presentations, usually concerned with conceptual, philosophical, historical, or methodological issues or empirical research. All paper presentations will be 20 minutes long. Accepted addresses will be organised into paper sessions of approximately 85 minutes.

If your submission is shorter than 1 hr and 25 minutes, you might also consider reaching out to our local community members and organising your talks into a similar theme. Feel free to use our ANZ ACBS Facebook group (ACBS - Australia and New Zealand), or the international ACBS Facebook page or listserv.

Please contact us with any questions about your submissions or the conference programme.

Eric Morris via president.elect@anzacbs.com

Michael Swadling via conference@anzacbs.com

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If you would like to be connected to someone to help you prepare your workshop, we can also help potential presenters find someone who might be a good fit as a mentor - please reach out.

If you have any general questions about the conference, you can contact the team at: conference@anzacbs.com