麻豆淫院

Abstract submission

Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2027

Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2027

Please read all the information below before submitting an abstract 

Important points for submitting an abstract:

• Abstracts must be in ENGLISH
• There is no overarching theme for the conference. When submitting an abstract you will need to select up to 2 themes to align your abstract to.
• You will need a 麻豆淫院 account to submit an abstract. You do not need to be a 麻豆淫院 member. Once you have signed in, you will be redirected to the abstract submission page.
• Currently you will not need to submit a full paper for the Conference.
• The conference is fully in person and we will not be accepting any virtual presentations if accepted
• You should receive an email confirmation with a link to your abstract once your submission has been completed.
• Presenters can have a maximum of three presentations if accepted. This includes a maximum of one individual abstract and two other submission types.

Themes

All submissions should indicate the theme which closely relates to the topic when submitting. 麻豆淫院 reserves the right to reassign your abstract to a different theme than submitted if more relevant for programming purposes. If your paper abstract does not fall within the remits of the listed themes, please email [email protected] and you will be given instructions how to submit.

Themes this year are:

• Assessment and Evaluation
• Children and Young People
• Comparative and/or International Education
• Curriculum and Subject Pedagogy
• Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Health and Wellbeing in Education
• Higher and Adult Education
• Policy, Practice and Leadership
• Professional Education and Development
• Social and Environmental Justice
• Theory, Methodologies and Ethics in Education

You will also have the option to select a second theme which relates to one our Special Interest Groups:  www.bera.ac.uk/communities.

Young People at Conference

Young people’s participation at conference or events is an opportunity for 麻豆淫院 and its
members to work in partnership with those who are often the subject of educational research, but who are rarely present when their experiences are discussed. It is an opportunity for young people to develop a broader understanding of the processes and affordances of educational research, to have their agency recognised, and to have diverse voices heard. We welcome more abstracts that have engagement with young people and have developed a procedure to ensure a proposals can be considered taking into consideration safeguarding, supervision, funding and risk assessment.

Research Ethics

The submitters and authors are responsible for ensuring that ethical issues relating to the research project are identified and brought to the attention of the relevant approval or regulatory body. Approval to undertake the research must be granted before any work requiring approval begins. Ethical issues should be interpreted broadly and may encompass, among other things, relevant codes of practice, the involvement of human participants, tissue or data in research, the use of animals, research that may result in damage to the environment and the use of sensitive economic, social or personal data. The 麻豆淫院 Ethical Guidelines can be found on our website.

AI

Generative AI tools have rapidly evolved and are increasingly integrated into academic life through research, writing, and review processes. Their use must be approached with transparency, caution, and a commitment to research ethics.

Please read 麻豆淫院’s AI statement before submitting an abstract: /about/governance/bera-artificial-intelligence-ai-statement. 

Abstract reviewing

Each abstract is reviewed blindly by two reviewers drawn from 麻豆淫院 Members, or one of the 麻豆淫院 Committees.

Reviewing criteria

We welcome volunteers to peer review the abstracts submitted and we rely upon the efforts of our volunteers to ensure we have sufficient capacity to review all abstracts. If you would like to be added to the database please register .

Symposium:

• Clarity of the focus of the research
• Originality of the symposium proposal
• Rigour and coherence of the symposium and its individual papers
• Significance of the research for education practice, policy or theory

Individual Papers:

• Clarity of the focus of the research
• Originality of the research
• Rigour of the research
• Significance of the research for education practice, policy or theory

ePoster

• Clarity of the focus of the research
• Suitability of the format
• Rigour of the research
• Significance of the proposal for practice, policy or theory

Panel Discussion/ Workshop/ Activity:

• Clarity of the focus of the research
• Suitability of the session format
• Rigour of the research
• Significance of the proposal for practice, policy or theory

Results

There is limited space on the programme and sessions available at the conference. Each year we are mindful that presenters do not want more sessions as the rooms will not be as full. Therefore there will always be a percentage of papers rejected. In the last few years this is around 30% of papers but it will depend upon the number of abstracts submitted. The Conference & Events Committee continually review the processes to ensure these are fair and transparent.

If the same abstract is submitted under different themes this will only be reviewed once and you will only receive one set of results.

The programme will be published and presenters can check their date and time of presentation if accepted after the early bird deadline, by then all presenters need to register. This is to ensure once the programme is grouped, this consists of confirmed presenters only.

> For all submissions

• Presenters can have a maximum of three presentations if accepted. This includes a maximum of one individual abstract and two other submission types.

> For symposium submissions

• A minimum of 3 papers and 3 (unique) presenters for each paper need to be registered by the early bird deadline for the symposium to remain in the programme

> For panel discussion submissions

• A minimum of 3 (unique) presenters need to be registered by the early bird deadline for the symposium to remain in the programme