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Presentation
schedule for all speakers/presenters at
the SSWR 2011 conference have been sent
on Monday, October 18, 2010. If you did
not receive your presentation schedule,
please email DeeJay Garringo, Program
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Abstract
notifications have been sent to ALL authors
on Friday, October 8, 2010. If you did not receive
your abstract notification, please contact DeeJay
Garringo, Program Director, at dj@sswr.org.
Please note all
accepted presenters/speakers are required to
register for the conference and must be current
2011 SSWR members. This includes ALL oral and
poster presenters, symposia organizers, paper
presenters and discussants, and workshop and
roundtable speakers.
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Submission
Deadline was 11:59pm
PDT on Friday, April 30, 2010
The
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL WORK AND RESEARCH is pleased
to announce that its Fifteenth Annual Conference "Emerging
Horizons for Social Work Research" will convene
at the Marriott Tampa Waterside Hotel & Marina
on January 12-16, 2011.
The
Conference Planning Committee of the Society for Society
Work and Research (SSWR) invites submissions for presentations
within all content areas of social work, social welfare
services, and social policy.
The
theme for the 2011 conference is “Emerging
Horizons for Social Work Research”. The
future of research for members of SSWR involves complex
challenges as well as unprecedented opportunities.
Social work offers critically important perspectives
to research priorities such as narrowing the gaps
of translation from science to service, fostering
community partnership and infrastructure development,
deepening assessment of contextual and place factors,
and transdisciplinary collaborations that fuel multi-level
discoveries and applications. This annual conference
provides researchers interested in a wide range of
biopsychosocial, economic, and policy problems and
issues with an opportunity to engage around emerging
scientific frontiers. Submissions for presentations
may include individual paper and poster presentations,
organized paper symposia, round-table discussions,
and workshops.
As
illustrated in the cluster areas, submissions are
encouraged across all areas of social work. These
may span various forms of research. Preliminary cluster
areas are: Adolescents and Youth Development, Aging
Services and Gerontology, Child Welfare, Crime and
Criminal Justice, Disaster/Hazard, Gender and Ethnicity,
Health and Disability, International Social Work and
Global Issues, Mental Health, Organizations and Management,
Poverty and Social Policy, Research Design and Measurement,
Research on Social Work Education, School Social Work,
Sexual Orientation, Social Work Practice, Substance
Misuse and Addictive Behaviors, and Work, Family,
and Family Policy.
2011
SSWR Clusters and Topical Areas (PDF)
SUBMISSION
INSTRUCTIONS
The conference
will focus on original research that has implications
for practice or policy. Research abstracts are encouraged
in all substantive areas, using scientifically sound
qualitative and/or quantitative methodology. The research
may take place in any country and at the micro, macro,
or policy level. You are invited to submit abstracts
for presentations of one of three types of original
research: (1) Oral paper presentation; (2) Symposium
(organized by the applicant) of three or more papers
on the same topic to be presented in the same session;
(3) Poster presentation. Only paper and poster abstracts
reporting completed findings will be reviewed. We
urge that studies with “findings pending”
be submitted for future review after the study is
complete. Abstracts should not be based on research
previously published elsewhere. If applying for a
paper or poster presentation, please submit an abstract
of 500 words or less. If applying for a symposium,
please submit an abstract (500 words or less) for
each symposium paper, along with an overall abstract
(500 words or less) for the symposium session that
describes the symposium theme and its importance.
Preference will be given to symposia that demonstrate
cohesiveness across presentations. Symposia will be
accepted or rejected in total, i.e., abstracts will
not be accepted independently.
Abstracts should
be submitted in a structured format and include the
following: Background and Purpose: description of
the problem, study objectives, research question(s)
and/or hypothesis (es). Methods: study design, including
a description of participants and sampling methods,
data collection procedures, measures, and appropriate
analytic/statistical approach. Results: specific results
in summary form. Conclusions and Implications: description
of the main outcome(s) of the study and implications
for practice, policy, or further research.
SSWR seeks to
optimize as many people participating in the conference
as possible. SSWR, therefore, limits the number of
roles that participants can play in the 2011 conference.
There is a limit of two (2) presenting-author abstract
submissions per person. This limit applies to these
presentation formats: oral papers, both individual
papers and papers within an organized symposium, posters
and workshops. It does not apply to co-authorship.
Participants may, however, perform additional roles
such as chairing an organized symposium, leading a
special interest group, serving as moderator for a
session of grouped oral papers, and a panelist in
a round table session.
The conference
will also include workshop and roundtable sessions
serving a continuing education function to help participants
keep up to date with recent advances in methodology
and other matters. Abstracts on workshop sessions
should be no more than 500 words in length and include
a description of the content and how it will be covered
(pedagogical techniques, etc.) Note: Image(s) and
table(s) are not permitted in any abstract.
Peer
reviews will be used to select submissions based upon
technical merit and importance of findings. Please
note that all abstracts are to be submitted online
using the SSWR online abstract management system,
which will be accessible March 2010.
Submission
Deadline was 11:59pm PDT on
Friday, April 30, 2010
We look forward to seeing you in Tampa!
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