CALL FOR PROPOSALS IS NOW CLOSED. ARCHIVED INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND BELOW. THANK YOU!

We invite proposals from LIS and RMS students in a variety of formats.

The following formats are included: 

1. Sessions for interactive engagement (SIE) 
2. Posters or Installations
3. Presentations (Ignite or Pecha-kucha)

SUBMISSIONS

Students from both the LIS and RMS Programs are invited to submit proposals for all three formats.

All submissions should contain original work conducted within the past calendar year. However, the work may have been submitted or published elsewhere in the last year.

Details are provided below:

Sessions for Interactive Engagement (SIEs)

SIE’s are workshop-style interactive sessions that engage participants around specific and focused professional or research topics by combining several techniques: brief presentations or demos; small group discussions or hands-on activities; and general discussion/debriefing. Well-prepared and thoroughly planned, these sessions can be effectively delivered in 20-25 min.

Submission Template:

• Names, affiliations, contact information of all the authors
• SIE Title
• 50-word abstract for the conference website and the conference program
• 300-500 word extended abstract for adjudication, including the following:
  • Intended audience
  • A narrative paragraph providing justification and a rationale for this SIE (Why do you think it’s needed? Relevant? Where are the gaps? Who would benefit? What is the novelty and innovation in what you propose/demonstrate? What are some possible applications in the field of practice or academia/higher education?)
  • Three-four intended take-aways
  • Types of activities included
  • Time distribution for the above activities (plan for no more than 25 min, including discussion and concluding remarks)
  • Materials and equipment required (and estimated costs thereof, if applicable)

Posters or Installations

Posters are a good way for a researcher or research team to visually display their data and to engage small intimate groups in unstructured presentations. The poster format will challenge authors to be creative in data visualization and dynamic in their ability to present their research and interact with the audience. Posters can be based on both academic research and practitioner research, including course-related projects.

Installations are electronic or mixed-media displays that feature students’ completed projects or work in progress and usually combine two or more of the following elements: recorded power-point slide shows with the voice-over narrative, looping around or available on demand, on a laptop; physical objects / realia items created by students; creative and artistic work; accompanying materials (flyers, brochures, user guides, and so on).

Procedures for producing posters and Installations will be distributed after proposals have been reviewed. RMIS will cover all costs.

Poster Template – Academic Research and Practitioner Research

• Names, affiliations, contact information of all the authors
• Installation Title
• 50-word abstract for the conference website
• 300-500-word extended abstract for adjudication, including the following:
  • Objectives or purposes
  • Perspective(s) or theoretical framework
  • Methods, techniques, or modes of inquiry
  • Data sources, evidence, objects, or materials
  • Results and/or substantiated conclusions or warrants for arguments/point of view
  • Scientific, scholarly, professional, and/or practical significance of the study or work

Proposal Template – Installation

• Names, affiliations, contact information of all the authors
• Poster Title
• 50-word abstract for the conference website
• 300-500-word extended abstract for adjudication, including the following:
  • Objectives or purposes
  • Content – what is your installation about?
  • Perspective(s) or theoretical framework, if applicable
  • Included modes of presentation (e.g., voice-over PowerPoint; physical objects – describe; posters/drawings; etc.)
  • Intended audience
  • Three-four intended take-aways

Presentations: Ignite Presentation or Pecha-kucha presentations

Ignite sessions, introduced at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) annual conference in 2012, are only 5 minutes in length. Pecha-kucha presentations last exactly 6 min 40 sec and use a 20x20 slide show (20 slides, each of which is shown for exactly 20 sec). Thus, in either case, the presenter must be prepared to give a structured presentation.  Both formats will challenge authors to present the highlights of their research in a way that informs the audience in a very short period of time and ignites their interest in the topic.  It also trains students in the fine art of giving enticing and brief presentations at peer-reviewed, academic and professional, conferences.

Presentation Template

• Names, affiliations, contact information of all the authors
• Presentation Title
• 50-word abstract for the conference website
• 300-500-word extended abstract for adjudication, including the following:
  • Objectives or purposes
  • Perspective(s) or theoretical framework
  • Methods, techniques, or modes of inquiry
  • Data sources, evidence, objects, or materials
    • Results and/or substantiated conclusions or warrants for arguments/point of view
    • Scientific, scholarly, professional, and/or practical significance of the study or work

REFERENCES

References should be included (if applicable) at the end of the proposal and are not included in overall word count. To be considered for review, all six elements described above must be addressed in the proposal even if the results, conclusions, or findings are not complete or final at the time of the submission. The proposal needs to address and provide reviewers with an understanding of the results, findings, or applications to date.

HOW TO SUBMIT

• Please submit proposals electronically in MS word format in APA style.  
• Submit RMS proposals to Nick Cutforth (Nicholas.Cutforth@du.edu)
• Submit LIS proposals to Keren Dali (Keren/Dali@du.edu)
• Students should contact the above professors if they have questions.
• Submissions will be evaluated and selected by the RMIS faculty.

TIMELINE

• Proposal submission deadline: March 6 , 2020 Extended to 11:59pm, March 9, 2020
• Notification: March 20 2020

Download the CFP in .pdf below