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Introduction to the conference
The
adoption of children is a phenomenon of interest to scholars in numerous fields
and across the globe. However, opportunities to meet and exchange ideas with
other people studying adoption are limited. At ICAR2:
The goal of the conference is to bring together distinguished and emerging adoption researchers, to enable sharing of research findings and theoretical perspectives, and to encourage interaction and debate about the future research agenda. Conference participants will be drawn from a wide range of disciplines such as psychology, psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, social work, history, social policy and law. The number of conference attendees will be limited to 120, to maximise interaction and retain focus. If pressure on places requires us to do so, we reserve to right to give priority to people actively involved in adoption research.
The conference aims to draw together the most important messages from research about adoption as a psycho-social phenomenon. Debate will be encouraged about methodological and conceptual challenges and the future direction that research into adoption should take.
The primary topic areas will include (but will not be restricted to):
The
conference will be held over 5 days from Monday, 17th to Friday, 21st July 2006.
The first keynote presentation, by Professor David Howe, will be held in Norwich’s
medieval cathedral on the Monday evening. For the next three days the morning
sessions will be devoted to keynote speakers. Three linked papers will be presented
by eminent adoption scholars, and a chaired debate will follow.
The programme for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons includes four 90 minute concurrent sessions (two on Tuesday, one each on Wednesday and Thursday). During these sessions we hope (depending on submissions) to offer delegates the choice of attending one of about 4 or 5 different events which could include workshops, innovative sessions or paper symposia. There will also be two poster sessions, one on Tuesday and one on Thursday.
We welcome proposals for the following presentation formats:
We hope that most conference delegates will take an active role by presenting their research in one form or another. You are invited to submit an abstract about your work and to indicate in which format you would like to present. The reality is that about one third of delegates will be able to present in a paper symposia or workshop, and two-thirds in a poster format. Whilst the main focus of the conference is adoption research, we will also consider proposals to present other material relevant to adoption research, e.g. descriptions or analyses of adoption policies or practice.
We anticipate that some people may like to attend the conference but will not wish to submit an abstract for any of the formal presentation categories. They may like the opportunity of having an informal information exchange to share information about adoption related work or experience (e.g. information about their department or a programme or project they are working on). If you would like to participate in the conference in this way you are welcome to do so. We will make arrangements for table space to be available for such informal information exchange. If you would like to take advantage of this opportunity, there will be space for you to indicate this on the registration form. You do not need to submit an abstract unless you wish to present in one of the formats below.
Abstracts will be reviewed by the conference academic committee and you will be notified of the outcome by Friday, 27th January 2006. The committee will judge abstracts by the following criteria:
Members of the conference committee: Dr Beth Neil (University of East Anglia), Dr Gillian Schofield (University of East Anglia), Professor June Thoburn (University of East Anglia), Professor Hal Grotevant (University of Minnesota), Professor Gretchen Miller Wrobel (Bethel University), Dr Martha Rueter (University of Minnesota), Dr Jenni Rice (Victoria University, Australia) and Jesus Palacios (University of Seville).
Abstract Submission Instructions
1. The submission deadline is 19th December 2005. Abstracts submitted after
this date will not be considered.
2. Authors are required to prepare abstracts in a word document and submit them
by email to n.skivington@uea.ac.uk
3. Abstracts for workshops, papers, posters and innovative sessions should contain:
4. Abstracts for paper symposia should be submitted by the convenor as one word
document containing:
5. Correspondence will be sent to the main author only, at the email address
provided by the author.
6. You may only submit one abstract as the main author.
7. The Conference Committee
will select submissions for papers, paper symposia, workshops, innovative sessions
and posters, and will inform all applicants of the outcome by email by 27th
January 2006. Conference registration is required to confirm acceptance of abstracts,
and presenters must pay the full appropriate delegate rate. We encourage authors
to register by 24th March 2006, in order to take advantage of the Early Bird
registration rate.
8. The official language of the conference
is English, and all abstracts must be presented in English.
Publication of conference abstracts on CD-ROM and conference website
All accepted abstracts for all formats will be published on the conference website,
and made available to conference delegates on CD-ROM.
Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit a summary (1,000 words) of their paper to be included on this CD-ROM. Those who chose to do so may alternatively submit their whole paper (maximum 6,000 words) for inclusion on this CD-ROM. For your summary or paper to be included, it must be emailed as a word document to the conference co-ordinator n.skivington@uea.ac.uk by Friday, 2nd June 2006. All registered delegates will be sent the CD-Rom in advance of the conference.
You should also note that Adoption Quarterly (Haworth Press) will be publishing a special double issue devoted to empirical research presented at ICAR2. Deadline for the submission of completed manuscripts will be September 15, 2006. For more details see the "Frequently Asked Questions page".
| Deadline for submission of abstracts: | 19th December 2005 |
| Notification of acceptance of abstracts: | 27th January 2006 |
| Early bird registration opens: | 28th February2006 |
| Early bird registration closes: | 19th May 2006 |
| Registration closes: | 30th June 2006 |
| Deadline for submission of summaries and papers for inclusion on CD-ROM: | 2nd June 2006 |
| Dates of conference: | 17th – 21st July 2006 |
| Deadline for papers to Adoption Quarterly: | 15th September 2006 |
Centre for
Research on the Child & Family, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4
7TJ, UK
Tel: 01603 592068 Fax: 01603 593552
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