Educational Leadership

After years of attending academic conferences as a delegate, organising on an unpaid basis for a number of subject associations, winning external funding to organise events and being employed as an academic events manager, I consider myself to hold a unique perspective into the operation of academic events. I believe a number of problems with…

A recent international conference was an opportunity to network, but I feel guilty about the waste and emissions

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights,” wrote the late Miriam Beard. “It is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas o

Ah, spring–when it’s time to start securing next winter’s conference plans, usually by pulling together abstracts in response to various Calls for Papers. We’ve written a fair amount on conferences in the past, of course, with Erin in particular offering a helpful tactical approach to “The Conference Abstract”.

Today, Catherine Baker does everyone a terrific service by breaking down, in specific detail, “How to Write a Conference Abstract.” She explains a structure she always uses, rooting it an abstract from a few years back, along with a discussion of how the abstract does/does not live up to the idealized structure: