PRESENTATION TYPES

1. Oral Concurrent Presentation

As the main content of the conference program, successful oral concurrent presentations will be grouped by themes where each presenter will be allocated 15 minutes to present content with joint Questions-and-Answer time at the conclusion of the presentations.

Oral concurrent sessions will be delivered in allocated session rooms.

Presentation-specific guidelines

Abstracts will be reviewed according to one of the following categories to ensure diversity of

perspectives across the conference themes:

Research: report on original research, including reviews of original research (e.g., systematic reviews, scoping reviews). Presentations within this category should include conventional elements such as background, aim, methods, results, conclusions, and implications.
Practice: report on innovations in practice while challenging or informing on novel approaches in research and practice.
Lived experience: report on perspectives from community members to discuss topics that need to be addressed with respect to multicultural health and wellbeing, and provide new perspectives to inform practice, policy and research.
Thought-provoking ideas: report on ideas that challenge established practices or beliefs, with each presentation providing evidence and a clear future directions and considerations for research, practice or policy.

2. Symposia

Offered as concurrent sessions, the symposia will allow a group of speakers from diverse research and practice groups to engage in a set of related research and/or case studies on a particular topic relevant to the conference theme. The symposium will be allocated 45 minutes with 15 minutes of Questions-and-Answer time at the end of the session.

Each speaker will need to submit their own individual abstract as part of the symposium (please

refer to the abstract guidelines at the bottom of the document for more details). Symposia

submissions may nominate a final speaker to summarise, comment on and identify emerging themes and future directions arising from the previous presentations.

Presentation-specific guidelines

A speaker from each group will need to submit an outline which would include:

Introduction and background
Purpose or aim
Overview of activities conducted (presentations, presentation styles, etc.)
Expected learning outcomes for the audience

3. Poster

Posters will provide a visual display of innovative ideas, novel discoveries in research, practice, and policy. Posters will be displayed for the duration of the conference.

Presentation-specific guidelines

Refer to the general abstract submission guidelines.

GENERAL ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Abstracts will be reviewed after the closing date and the Abstract Review Committee will decide which abstracts will be selected for each presentation type. Please note that selected presentation types upon submission are preferences only and may be subject to change.

For original research and other submissions that involve case studies or evidence, abstracts must contain information addressing these areas:

o Background

o Methods

o Results

o Conclusion

o Implications

The above structure may not be strictly adhered to if a submission is a non-scientific/research abstract. In this case provide:

o Overview of the problem

o Why it’s a problem?

o Main discussion topics

o Implications

The word limit for each abstract submitted is 300 words.

Do not add any references to abstracts.

ABSTRACT REVIEW CRITERIA

The review criteria will be divided into four sections:

Relevance to multicultural communities
Originality in content
Clarity of abstract and adherence with abstract guidelines
Potential impact on improving and informing multicultural health and wellbeing to address health inequities