Features

Panel/Symposia/Debates provide an interactive platform to:

• challenge or defend a position, theory, model or concept
• identify areas of dispute
• offer alternative interpretations of well-known studies and findings
• bring together experts or impassioned colleagues to explore a topic while involving the audience
• typically involves a panel of presenters in discussion or debate of a topical issue
  

Presentation format  

• 55 - minute presentation including Q&A (then 5 minutes enabling a changeover for rooms). 

Submission format 

• 2 pages maximum (including APA references) using the supplied template 

Review Criteria  

Double blind peer review based on the following criteria: 

• Presents on a contemporary topic relevant to the conference theme and streams
• Presents different perspectives of the chosen theme
• Poses questions and/or raises points for participants to debate
• With the contributions from the delegates, extends an aspect of knowledge or that new ways of understanding may emerge.

The contact author will be notified in writing of the Committee's decision in September 2025.