New Preconference Event for 2025

New initiatives are coming to fruition to serve the needs of SIOP members. New for the 2025 annual conference are Research Community Forums (RCF). The brainchild of SIOP Past President Tara Behrend, these new events will be held on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from 1-5 pm and will consist of a mix of invited content (e.g., talks or posters identified via the submission process below) and networking/brainstorming activities to generate future research ideas and collaborations. Behrend explains the reasoning behind the creation of these forums:

As the SIOP community grows, it has become a little harder to find and connect with colleagues who work on similar research topics. Those connections are part of what makes SIOP such a special and worthwhile conference, so we wanted to find a way to create more of those spaces where mutual knowledge sharing and collaboration can happen. This will greatly improve the quality of our science too, by making it easier to discover and share new ideas amongst peers in the scientific community. 

Emily Solberg and her task force have planned three presentation topics for this event (see below). Members may submit for the forums through the same submission portal used for the rest of the annual conference sessions. Because each of the three forums will be using different methods for presentation, the submission requirements vary slightly among them. Please review the requirements before going to the submission portal (requirements are linked at the bottom of the RCF homepage). Registration will be through conference registration, and cost is only $95. Attendees must also be registered for the annual conference. Complete details are available at the RC Forums homepage. 

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