Speed Paper Submissions Now Closed

This year's Speed Papers session will be held on Wednesday 5 December, 2007.

The speed paper concept is somewhat like speed dating - you get 4 slides and just 4 minutes to tell the assembled audience about a project you are already doing, or would like to do. Everyone in the audience has a form on which they can scribble relevant comments and feedback on your project. You then get to do the same for the other speed papers.

The speed papers session is a fun, fast-paced way to get to know others at SummerFest. Anyone can take part and a template of the slides is available below to help you prepare your session.

Speed papers:

• provide a great way for HCSNet members to learn about our range of disciplines and collaborative opportunities;
• provide a large amount of varied feedback on your research ideas for very little effort; and
• enable subsidised travel to the conference if you are travelling from somewhere in Australia outside Sydney.

Speed paper presentations will be printed for distribution at the conference, and will be made available on the SummerFest website.

Program

The program for the Speed Papers session is now available. Please click here to the download the program. All presenters are asked to please check that the details in the program are correct, and that you will be able to present at the given time. Please send us an email if you wish to make any amendments.

Submission Process

If you would like to present a speed paper at SummerFest '07 you must submit a title and 200 abstract for your proposed paper by Monday 24 September, 2007. Please email your title and abstract submissions to sfest07@hcsnet.edu.au using the following naming convention in the subject line of your email:

[surname]_[initial]_[event]

Where [event] is SP (Speed Paper).

For example:

• Buckley_K_SP = Kym Buckley's abstract for the Speed Papers Session

Important Dates

Title and abstract submission: 24 September, 2007
Notification of acceptance: 19 October, 2007
Final electronic version to be submitted: 2 November, 2007
Speed Papers session: 5 December, 2007

Speed Paper Format

Your speed paper presentation will consist of four PowerPoint slides. Our template shows the basic design and ideas for different types of speed paper content. For example, you may wish to

• outline a project that you are interested in –- a current project, or one that is planned, or maybe even one that has been rejected by a funding body;
• describe and discuss the Big Question in your field;
• describe and discuss a whacky or whimsical idea couched within the safety of a 'Festival of Doubt'-type approach;
• appeal for collaboration; or
• provide an overview of your career so far.

Please download the PowerPoint template for your speed paper. If you are not able to use PowerPoint, please send us an email for advice.

The idea is to adopt one of these approaches and discuss the material within four slides -– there is no need to try to cram all of these different things into four minutes! Select the approach that is most suited to your interest in being part of HCSNet.

Replace the text on the four slides with your own material as follows.

Slide 1: Title Slide

A photo of yourself; project title; your name, discipline, and affiliation; research interests.

Slides 2-3: A Project I’m Interested In ...

• should be forward-looking;
• might be project-based -– a project that is current, planned or has been rejected; or
• the Big Question in my field; or
• a whacky or whimsical idea raised without fear of embarrassment in an HCSNet 'Festival of Doubt'; or
• an appeal for collaboration; or
• an overview of your career so far.

Slide 4: Implications, Applications

What are the implications of the project or ideas for:

• theory
• applications
• further research

Please note that we must receive the final version of your electronic presentaton by Friday 2 November, 2007 to ensure we have enough time for printing. Please email your electronic presentation to the SummerFest Organisers by this date and we look forward to seeing you there!

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