The types of submissions considered include:

1. Presentations where an abstract is reviewed (abstract in the conference proceedings). Plan for a 15 minute presentation with 5 minutes for questions.
2. Short videos - including a student short video competition (abstract in the conference proceedings). Videos must be in a web ready format and be less than
   5 minutes in duration. Videos to be published on the conference website.
3. Poster - including a student poster competition (abstract in the conference proceedings).
4. Panel - 90 minute roundtable / panel discussion
5. Plenary - 90 minute keynote
6. Workshop - 90 minutes or 180 minutes.

Some suggested topics include:

• Social Network Analysis (Abstracts reviewed by the ASNAC committee)
• Multi-method and mixed methods research
• The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA)
• Longitudinal data analysis
• Recentring Reflexivity and Researcher Positionality in Arts-Based Social Science Research: Phenomenological and Ethnographic Perspectives
• Current trends in ethnographic approaches in social and political science
• Cognitive testing / cognitive interviews
• Use of linked administrative data for social and health research
• Applying multiple methods to explore access to justice
• Tools for data visualisation
• Embodied Methods in Focus: Advancing Body Mapping as a Transformative Social Science Methodology
• Panel studies
• Data dissemination and use of secondary data
• Dataset specific sessions (e.g. HILDA, AES)
• Social media network and text analysis
• Computational social science
• Generative AI / LLMs in social research

Please use these topics as guides as papers on any aspect of social science methodology will be considered. The conference attracts a wide variety of papers from HDR students to very established researchers. We encourage researchers at all levels to submit abstracts.

Notifications of abstract acceptance will be delivered by 2 October.

Submissions close on 2026-09-18 23:59 (Australia/Sydney), 3 months, 1 week from now.