ALL CALLS FOR PROPOSALS ARE NOW CLOSED
REQUEST FOR SESSION PROPOSALS
We are extending the deadline. Be sure to send in your session proposals and poster/oral presentation submissions by June 7 at the latest.
The Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN) will host its 13th Annual Conference on October 21-24 at Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, Ontario. The theme for this year’s conference is Celebrating 14 years of helping kids live their best lives.
We are looking forward to highlighting the outstanding accomplishments that have been achieved by both KBHN-funded research teams and the broader research ecosystem in the field of neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Why submit a proposal?
The KBHN conference brings together trainees, researchers, practitioners, educators, family members and people with lived experience to exchange and share their experiences, practice, and research results on all aspects of neurodevelopmental disabilities. The conference also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted in the broad field of neurodevelopmental disability research.
The conference provides opportunities to:
- Network with researchers, community workers, policy makers, clinicians, clinician-scientists, advocates, people with lived experience, caregivers and families, and organizations in the field of neurodevelopmental disabilities;
- Keep up-to-date with advances in research methodology and findings from brain health research, highlights and/or major strides made in the field of neurodevelopmental disabilities; and
- Support and enhance the implementation of research findings into practice.
Who can submit a proposal?
KBHN invites submissions from individuals, research groups and organizations that encompass diverse types of neurodevelopmental disability-focused research and levels of experience (e.g., trainees, early career and senior researchers and clinicians, community partners, people with lived experiences, family members, and professionals).
We encourage submissions from non-academic researchers and community advocates.
What types of proposals to submit?
KBHN invites submissions for a 90-minute session or individual oral/poster presentations. Each session will occupy one of the concurrent sessions that will run in the morning and afternoon of the main conference days (October 23 and 24). The format of these sessions may be either:
- Symposium: Several experts/community members (3-5 maximum)) give individual presentations (or co-present) on a topic area of key interest with the usual audience Q&A discussions on the materials presented.
- Panel Discussion: A moderated discussion on a specific topic area with several experts (3-5 panelists) often from different sectors (e.g., academic/industry/community researchers, policy maker/government, and/or caregivers/persons with lived experience, etc.). Panelists give short presentations on the topic from their perspectives, and address questions from the moderator and audience.
- Workshop: Workshops include elements of a symposium or panel discussion, but with the largest portion being emphasized on interactive audience participation or hands-on practice. Presentations and engagement should be designed to inform the audience perspective through implementing or practicing the actual concepts that are discussed and demonstrated.
Those wishing to submit a concurrent session proposal, you should prepare the following:
- A short abstract (300-word maximum) describing the content and purpose of the session. If the session proposal is accepted, this abstract will appear in the conference program.
- Full names and affiliations of the session participants/presenters and, if applicable, the titles/topic of each presentation. Please indicate whether all participants have confirmed in-person attendance at the conference.
- A Diversity statement (300-word maximum) briefly describing the diversity considerations in relation to the representation of the panelists as well as the reflection of the discussion areas being covered for the broader audience. For example: cross-disciplinary representation of the topic; regional diversity of institutional affiliation; differences in career stage, ethnicity, and/or gender of participants.
- If funding is required to support travel costs for session participants, please provide a detailed budget and budget justification.[Note: Principal Investigators holding awards from KBHN are expected to cover their own travel costs from grant funds.]
Session proposals that include lived experience perspectives and/or a community partner will be given preference. These elements should be clearly identified in the abstract and/or diversity statement.
CALL FOR POSTER/ORAL SUBMISSION
Deadline for submissions: June 7, 2023
Guidelines for submission
- Abstracts must not exceed 250 words (not including title and authors’ names).
- Abstracts must be submitted in English.
- Research Investigation abstracts should include an introduction/background, purpose, hypothesis (if applicable), methods, findings/results, and a conclusion or implications for practice.
- Education/Clinical/Evaluation Program/Knowledge mobilization abstracts should include background information, a description of the program/project, implications for practice and recommendations.
- For all presentations, product promotion is not permitted. All sources of funding for the research/project should be specified on the abstract form.
- Applications must be received no later than June 7, 2023 by 5 p.m. PST.
- It is acceptable to submit more than one abstract.
- If multiple abstracts are submitted by the same first author, please submit each abstract separately.
CONTACT
For all conference related questions, please contact us at conference@kidsbrainhealth.ca.
