Call for papers: Southampton Solent Student Conference 13 June 2025

This conference will provide you with a safe and nurturing space to present and discuss your research projects, no matter in what stage of completion.

You will have a chance to listen to keynote speakers from experts and academics in industry who will discuss exciting research ideas.

We are keen to hear from as wide a range of presenters as possible. If your research is completed, we encourage you to submit it for a 20-minute presentation or a poster. In-development research projects will also have a chance to be presented as a poster.

There are awards for the best paper and the best poster presented at the conference.

How to contribute

Please send the following details to akash.puranik@solent.ac.uk or whysnianti.basuki@solent.ac.uk with the subject 'Student Conference Presentation/Poster [delete as appropriate]'.  

Offers of poster (for completed projects/in-development projects)

Please provide:

• A three-point summary of the poster, e.g.

the purpose of the investigation,

data collection approach,

main findings/expected findings.

• Each point should be no longer than 50 words, total submission should be under 150 words.
• Provide the title of the poster, the authors’ names, and lead author email address.

Offers of 20-minute presentation (for completed projects)

An abstract is required. The submission should consist of the following formatted as 12-point font, Calibri, single line spacing and full justification.

Please include:

• the title of the paper,
• the authors’ name(s) (if more than one, the author presenting the paper should be underlined),
• the email address of the author giving the paper, and
• an abstract of no more than 250 words that discusses core the research question, methodology and findings, with some emphasis of original contributions.

Note: At this stage, we only need the abovementioned outline from you, we will get in touch with you once your submission is accepted to outline details of final poster/presentation format.

All submissions should be sent as Word documents.

Submission deadline

Send an email stating your wish to contribute to akash.puranik@solent.ac.uk or to whysnianti.basuki@solent.ac.uk by midnight on 2 May 2025. 

A detailed outline of the programme will be sent out soon after the deadline.

Any questions/queries can be sent by email to organisers. We will endeavour to answer as soon as possible.