Innovation and Community: Research for a Sustainable Future
The Postgraduate Research Student-Staff Liaison Forum, together with the Graduate School and the Research and Postgraduate Office, have opened the call for papers for this year's in-person Student and Staff Research Conference.
Date: 9 - 10 July 2025
Abstracts due: 24 April 2025
We invite proposals for two categories of presentations:
- Lightning talk: a brief three-minute presentation on your research topic. Lightning talks also include a physical poster on your research, displayed during the conference (with opportunities for discussion at a set time). Lightning talks are most suitable for PGR students in their first or second year.
- Student paper, staff paper, or a joint student-staff paper: a fifteen-minute presentation on your research, plus five minutes for discussion. This category is aimed at PGR students at an advanced stage of their research and at staff. In keeping with the conference topic, we are particularly interested in receiving proposals on new joint student-staff research projects that go beyond the student's thesis. We also welcome proposals from alumni.
We welcome submissions from all PGR students and staff in any area of research, including, of course, interdisciplinary research. While submissions that speak to the conference title are particularly welcome, no area of research is excluded.
The deadline for submissions is 24 April, with notification of outcome by 31 May at the latest.
Please note that we will only run one call for papers this year. The submissions will be reviewed in a supportive manner, using originality, significance and rigour as criteria. To submit your abstract please complete an abstract submission form.
We also welcome suggestions for features and panels. If you would like to be involved in preparing and running the conference, please contact our our dedicated conference email: researchconference@londonmet.ac.uk
