Submissions Process

**The call for papers is now CLOSED**

We invite you to submit an extended abstract and share your research, thinking and findings; we welcome academic research papers (either refereed or working), practitioner papers and case studies for presentation at the conference.
Abstracts should be between 800 and 1000 words plus references as appropriate covering the following points:

Category
Please indicate which of the following categories the extended abstract fits into:

1. Academic research paper (refereed)
2. Academic research paper (working)
3. Practitioner paper
4. Case study
5. Other (please give a short description of what category you think it fits)

Objectives
What is the focus of your presentation? What are you trying to achieve and why?

Approach / Methodology
What approach have you taken? If this is drawn from a piece of research, what is your methodology?

Results
What are the results of this piece of work and why are they relevant?

Implications and recommendations
What are the implications of this piece of work? Do you have any recommendations?

Areas for development / further research
Are there any areas for development or future research?

T he focus of the conference is to generate discussion and share ideas and we welcome a broad range of presentations to meet this aim. The idea of an extended abstract is to help you frame your thinking beyond  the limits of a short abstract and to allow you freedom to focus on your actual practice and develop your thinking further (if desired) into a full paper with a route to publication in a special issue journal after the conference.

Please email your extended abstract to engagehei@lancaster.ac.uk by the 7th November 2011 at the latest. Authors of accepted abstracts will be informed by the 18th November 2011 and will be invited to prepare a presentation (or round table discussion) to be given at the conference.