PLEASE NOTE WE ARE ONLY ACCEPTING POSTER PRESENTATIONS NOW 

Important announcement:  We are opening a special call for Poster Presentations for anyone who has not yet submitted an abstract.  Are you a student, practitioner, researcher, organisation or policy maker that would like to showcase your work with an international and friendly audience.  Call opens 30 March and closes 21 April.

We would love to welcome you to Glasgow.

Call for Posters

SWSexuality23: 5th International Sexuality and Social Work Conference Everyday gender and sexuality: justice, rights and activism in social work and helping professions in partnership with University of Strathclyde

Glasgow, UK, July 18-19, 2023

https://www.sexualityandsocialwork.com/conference/

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IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ

• It is ESSENTIAL that you read all of the instructions below before you submit.
• The Presenting Author must submit the abstract and is required to be the corresponding author for that abstract.
• Abstracts must be submitted in English.

You do not need to register for the Conference prior to submitting an abstract however following acceptance into the programme you must register as soon as possible. You will be provided with a link to register in your acceptance email. Please contact us at SocialWorkSexuality@gmail.com if you have any queries.

Key dates:

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Oral presentation 
• Posters
• Workshop/Symposia (60 minutes)
• Performance 

At the review stage, the Scientific Committee may recommend a change in the presentation type submitted by the author, based on the quality of the submission and to ensure the continuity of the conference programme i.e. oral presentation may be changed to poster presentation OR poster presentation to oral presentation. The presenting author will be informed of any change to their submitted presentation type at the acceptance notification stage and can accept/reject. The decision of the Scientific Committee is final.

When submitting your abstract please keep the following criteria in mind:

• Title of the abstract (please keep it short and concise). Titles must be in title case: this means only using capital letters for the principal words. e.g The Title Must Have a Capital Letter at the Start of Every Principle Word). Please do not include titles in the abstract document. 
• Indicate your presentation type (oral, poster, workshop/symposia)
• Please choose the theme (listed below) that best aligns with your work. If your theme is not mentioned, please specify it in the abstract and add a keyword.
• Include the name, affiliation, and job title of Presenting Author (this person will act as the main contact for this abstract; this person must be listed as the first author)
• Include the name, affiliation, and job title of co-author(s). Please do not add authors and affiliations to the abstract document in order to facilitate in the blind review. 
• Abstract word limit is 300 (no references needed) excluding Title, Authors and Affiliations. Graphs or tables are NOT to be included in the abstract.
• Please specify the corresponding author with whom the conference committee will liaise.

Information under the following sub-headings is required for all Abstract submissions, with the exception of theoretical/discussion papers:

• Introduction
• Aim & Objectives
• Methods
• Findings/Outcomes
• Discussion/Conclusion
• Implication(s) for Practice

Abstracts will be published in the Conference Programme exactly as submitted and no corrections will be made. Please pay particular attention to grammar, spelling and typography.

Format of the conference

The conference will be delivered in person only. 

Oral Format

Oral presentations will be 15 minutes long in total, and a live question and answer session will be facilitated.

Poster Format

Accepted posters will be asked to produce a poster for display at the conference.

Presenters are asked to take note of the following guidelines when producing their poster:

• Maximum poster size is A0 (0.84 x 1.19m) (portrait orientation).
• Keep text to a minimum.
• Ensure any text is in large font.
• Use graphs, charts, and/or tables.
• Ensure contents have a logical flow.

List of Topics

We invite papers on the themes of (but not limited to):

• Every day and lived gender and sexuality
• Justice and rights
• Activism
• Reproductive justice
• Conversion therapy
• LGBTQ+
• Intersectional gender and sexuality that could include: racism, ageism, class issues, neurodiversity etc.
• Disability
• Gender and sexuality across the Lifespan (children and families)
• Education and training
• Health and wellbeing
• Epistemologies
• Systems and state responses to gender and sexuality
• Other [please specify in the abstract] 

Committees

Conference chairs

• Alfonso Pezzella
• Dr Melissa Bird

Organizing committee

• Karl Mason
• Prof Christine Cocker
• Prof Trish Hafford-Letchfield 

Conference management, branding and web

• PURA IDEA LTD

Venue

The conference will be held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Sexuality and Social Work Interest Group socialworksexuality@gmail.com.