The ANZSOC annual conference brings together researchers, academics, students, professionals, practitioners, policymakers and people with lived experience, so we expect a variety of different abstracts to be submitted. This guidance provides some instructions and tips on how to structure your presentation in order to improve the chances of your proposed contribution to the conference being successful. Please note that there is a limit of two abstract submissions per person. Note: abstracts will be blind reviewed so do not use any identifying names in your document.

ANZSOC conference encourages presentations by practitioners and policy makers, as well as researchers. The submission system does not divide between presentations relating to practice, policy or research, so here are some tips about how you can structure your abstract depending on the focus:

For presentations about practice or policy state:

• Background and purpose of the practice or policy initiative;
• A summary of the main points of the practice or policy initiative and any innovative elements;
• Conclusions from and implications of the learning for practice, policy or further research.

If you are presenting results of research:

• Background and purpose of the study: description of the problem, research question(s) and/or hypotheses;
• Methods: study design, sampling, data collection and approaches to analysis;
• Findings: a select few because of the time limit;
• Conclusions and implications: description of the main outcome(s) of the study and implications for practice, policy or further research.

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