The face to face congress will allow for the following types of submissions: game changers, individual papers, individual posters, dream team. The online congress has individual papers and individual posters. Please see the ‘Information and key dates’ page to ensure you submit your abstracts on time!
Details of the submission types:
- Game changers: Game changers serve as inter-, multi- or transdisciplinary think tanks that will run over three days and will end up in a plenary where findings, strategies or lines of argumentation can be shared with the congress delegates. Game changer topics are meant to address broader political or strategically important domains that cut across the community of qualitative researchers and inquirists and demand the attention of these communities. They are also meant to initiate discussions and the further development of qualitative responses to major challenges or newly emerging trends in society. Leaders of think thanks are encouraged to propose a topic. Delegates that subscribe to a game changer session are encouraged to attend at least two sessions as well as the plenary. The group will work together to create a viewpoint, policy brief, strategic paper or response to the topic that can be shared via the European Network of Qualitative Inquiry. Where necessary, the Network can serve as a collective platform through which these viewpoints are disseminated simultaneously in relevant journals or provide further support to carry on with the work beyond the congress. The time slot provided for a Game Changer is 90 minutes.
You will have to insert a title and an abstract of 750 words, and give a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 keywords. After acceptance it will be requested that you submit a full paper, but you will not be obliged to do so.
- Individual papers: Individual papers can cover a substantive topic link to qualitative inquiry and the congress theme. They can be delivered by a single researcher, or group of researchers, and can be either empirical or theoretical in nature. The time slot provided for an individual paper is 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions.
You will have to submit a title and an abstract of 500 words (maximum), and give a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 keywords. After acceptance it will be requested that you submit a full paper, but you will not be obliged to do so.
- Online individual papers: Individual papers can cover a substantive topic link to qualitative inquiry and the congress theme. They can be delivered by a single researcher, or group of researchers, and can be either empirical or theoretical in nature. The time slot provided for an individual paper is 10 minutes plus time for questions.
You will have to insert a title and an abstract of 500 words (maximum), and give a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 keywords. After acceptance After acceptance it will be requested that you submit a full paper, but you will not be obliged to do so.
- Individual posters: Individual posters can cover a substantive topic link to qualitative inquiry and the congress theme. They can be created by a single researcher, or group of researchers, and can be either empirical or theoretical in nature. Posters will be displayed in the congress space and can be removed at the end of the proceedings. We will also request an online version of the poster which will be shared as part of the digital conference.
You will have to insert a title and an abstract of 500 words (maximum), and give a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 keywords. After acceptance it will be requested that you submit a full paper, but you will not be obliged to do so.
- Online individual posters: Individual posters can cover a substantive topic link to qualitative inquiry and the congress theme. They can be created by a single researcher, or group of researchers, and can be either empirical or theoretical in nature and we ask that these be submitted online at a pre-agreed date so they can be added to the online website.
You will have to insert a title and an abstract of 500 words (maximum), and give a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 keywords. After acceptance After acceptance it will be requested that you submit a full paper, but you will not be obliged to do so.
- Dream Teams: Dream Teams are meant to bring delegates together around a specific topic of interest in an open session to advance their thinking on a particular subject, challenge or theme. Dream Team sessions are meant to be interactive, inviting delegates into a thinking or working exercise. Preferably, dream team sessions should result in a writing collective to valorize the outcome of the session in a joint effort of presenters and participating congress delegates. They can be dissolved afterwards to create space for new dream teams at upcoming congress editions. The time slot provided for a Dream Team is 90 minutes.
You will have to insert a title and an abstract of 750 words, and give a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 keywords. After acceptance it will be requested that you submit a full paper, but you will not be obliged to do so.