Student Research Symposium 2015
Researching the World: Performance, Adaptation, and Impact
School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex
Thursday 18 June 2015
Call for Proposals
We are delighted to announce the Call For Proposals for this year’s student research symposium,
“Researching the World: Performance, Adaptation, and Impact,” taking place on Thursday 18 June
2015 at the University of Sussex. The schedule of the day is designed to be engaging, to be dynamic,
and to generate discussions about social science research in the present and in the future.
Additionally, the second half of the day will be set up as workshops in which participants can actively
create impact around their research.
The symposium committee invites submissions of brief 50 word abstracts for dynamic,
engaging, unique presentations on the topics of Performance, Adaptation, and Impact (select
just one) from postgraduate researchers across the social sciences. We are seeking creative
presentations, such as Pecha Kucha style or Ted Talk style or unique performance interpretations
(such as spoken word/slam poetry, music, dance, comedy, drama based, interactive or immersive
theatre), of the three topics. Presentations are limited to 10 minutes and time will be strictly kept.
Only three presentations will be chosen for each topic and the purpose is for those presentations to
generate spirited discussions about social science research and the ways by which we are encouraged
to perform, adapt, and create impact as researchers.
We invite proposal submissions from researchers at any stage in their doctoral or master’s research
process. If you had just ten minutes to cover the topic of Performance, Adaptation, or Impact, what
would you do or say? How would you make those minutes count? What is the lasting impression you
want to leave?
Proposals could speak to, but are not limited by, subthemes such as:
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Performance within academia (e.g. presenting, teaching, job searching, networking)
Performance within the research process (e.g. data collecting, analysing, theorising, writing)
Adaptation within academia (e.g. presenting or writing for different audiences, adaptation
within the process of becoming a researcher and a scholar)
Adaptation to technology (e.g. research in the world of smart phones and social media)
Creating Impact (e.g. using new and innovative ways to reach different audiences)
Critiquing Impact (e.g. challenging the impact agenda)
The symposium committee also invites poster submissions for display on the day. Posters can
be focused on your research methods or findings.
If you would like to give a presentation about Performance, Adaptation, or Impact or display a poster
about your research, please complete and return the form included with this CFP to
SussexSRS15@gmail.com by 1st May 2015.
Please register for the conference online by 1st June 2015 http://sussexsrs15.eventbrite.co.uk/
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Supported by the Doctoral School’s Researcher-Led Initiative (RLI) Fund:
www.sussex.ac.uk/doctoralschool/internal/funding/rli
Student Research Symposium 2015
Researching the World:
Performance, Adaptation, and Impact
School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex
Thursday 18 June 2015
Presentation and Poster Proposal Submission Form
Name
University
Department
E-mail
Telephone
Mailing Address
Additional Presenters
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If you are presenting
collaboratively, please
list the names and
universities of
additional presenters
Preference
Presentation ☐ or Poster ☐
Note: Presentations are only ten minutes. Posters will be on display in the social room throughout the day
Select one: Performance ☐ or Adaptation ☐ or Impact ☐
Presentation Title
Poster Title
Abstract
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50 words maximum
If you choose to include
in text citations, they
will count towards the
word count
If you choose to include
a bibliography or
reference list it will not
count towards the
word count
Key Words (3 to 5)
Tech Requests
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All rooms will be set up
with a screen,
computer, and
projector.
If you would like to give a presentation about Performance, Adaptation, or Impact or display a poster about
your research, please complete and return this form to SussexSRS15@gmail.com by 1st May 2015 with the
following subject line: Proposal Submission 2015
Decisions on proposal submissions will be communicated no later than 15th May 2015.