Abstract Submission Guidelines

Abstract Requirements

1. Your abstract should be a minimum of 200 and a maximum of 250 words.

2. The presenting author is required to ensure that all contributors and funding organisations are aware of the content of the abstract before submission.

3. All abstracts accepted for presentation will be published prior to the Conference.

4. Presentations can draw on social scientific research, community projects, the application of social science in policy, projects, or other issues relevant to the Symposium theme - "Reimagining Reef Futures: Stories of Creativity, Cooperation, and Courage". Potential presentations might address:

  • Understanding and managing the multiple and contested values of the Great Barrier Reef
  • Enhancing the social, economic, and cultural well-being of Reef communities
  • Understanding the risks and benefits of Reef management and policy
  • Novel approaches to collaboration, co-design and participation
  • Creative research methodologies
  • Any other ideas that relate to the Symposium theme - "Reimagining Reef Futures: Stories of Creativity, Cooperation, and Courage"

Possible Formats

We welcome the submission of abstracts for three presentation formats:

  1. Group presentations (20 minutes): Two or more speakers present on a theme in a non-conventional/ storying-telling format.
  2. Conventional presentation (10 minutes): One speaker, conventional research format.
  3. Speed talk (5 minutes): One speaker, speed talk: maximum 6 slides including title slide.

While we will make every effort to accommodate your preferred format, the final decision rests with our expert panel of reviewers.

Abstract submission is now closed

Abstract Evaluation Criteria:

1. Abstracts will be double-blind peer reviewed by no less than 2 reviewers.

2. Abstracts will be considered/evaluated according to the following criteria:

  • Research value and/or Reef management value
  • Clarity and quality
  • Content and methodology
  • Fit with symposium theme/s - "Reimagining Reef Futures: Stories of Creativity, Cooperation, and Courage"
  • Connections to Human Dimensions framework (see Figure 1)

Figure 1. Human Dimensions framework  for the Great Barrier Reef (Adapted from: Assessment and monitoring of the human dimensions within the Reef 2050 Integrated Monitoring and Reporting Program: final report of the Human Dimensions Expert Group, 2019)

3. You may submit more than 1 abstract. However, presenters that are accepted for oral presentation will be permitted to give only 1 oral presentation.

4. The panel will evaluate each abstract and assign formats based on the quality of submissions and overall program balance.