Innovation and Community: Research for a Sustainable Future
In early 2025 the Postgraduate Research Student-Staff Liaison Forum, together with the Graduate School and the Research and Postgraduate Office, opened the call for papers for this year's in-person Student and Staff Research Conference.
Date: 9 - 10 July 2025
Abstracts due: 24 April 2025
We invited proposals for two categories of presentations:
- Lightning talk: a brief three-minute presentation on your research topic. Lightning talks also include a physical poster on your research, displayed during the conference (with opportunities for discussion at a set time). Lightning talks are most suitable for PGR students in their first or second year.
- Student paper, staff paper, or a joint student-staff paper: a fifteen-minute presentation on your research, plus five minutes for discussion. This category is aimed at PGR students at an advanced stage of their research and at staff. In keeping with the conference topic, we were particularly interested in receiving proposals on new joint student-staff research projects that go beyond the student's thesis. We also welcomed proposals from alumni.
We welcomed submissions from all PGR students and staff in any area of research, including, of course, interdisciplinary research. While submissions that speak to the conference title were particularly welcome, no area of research has been excluded.
The deadline for submissions was 24 April, with notification of outcome by 31 May at the latest.
Please note that we will only run one call for papers this year. The submissions will be reviewed in a supportive manner, using originality, significance and rigour as criteria. Submissions are now closed.
If you would like to be involved in preparing and running the conference, please contact our our dedicated conference email: researchconference@londonmet.ac.uk
