Call for Abstracts: Guidelines

Now Closed - we thank all those that have submitted an abstract to be considered for the PIA 2009 Congress Program.

Invitation to Submit an Abstract

The Planning Institute of Australia’s 2009 National Congress is titled ‘Northern Exposure – exploring new horizons’, and will look at the latest planning solutions around Australia and will encourage you to explore new realms. Our program will look at transit oriented developments, governance and regulatory reform, climate change and extreme weather, cyber cities, intelligent and green buildings, economics of development, social inclusion, indigenous issues, infrastructure and much more.

The 2009 Congress will expose you to international perspectives and look at our closest neighbours and how they are tackling the current environmental threats.

The program will be rich, diverse and directly relevant to you, the contemporary planning practitioner.

We invite you to submit an abstract for presentation. The program committee has developed various themes to help you get started. These themes are a starting block only for you to consider when submitting an abstract for the 2009 Congress. Abstracts are not limited to the suggested themes. We encourage you to submit an abstract even if it does not fall into the categories below. Thought provoking, creative abstracts will be highly encouraged to stimulate delegate’s interest throughout the Congress program.

We look forward to receiving your abstract and working with you to develop a program that will allow us to explore new horizons.

Key Dates

Abstract Submission Open:

Monday 21 July 2008

Abstract Submissions Close:

Monday 1 September 2008

Notification of Abstract Submission:

Mid October 2008

Receive 2 PD Points per hour for a Full Paper

PIA members are entitled to claim 2 PD points per hour for each hour it takes to prepare and present a paper for the National Congress.

Abstract Themes

The congress will address the following themes and we welcome abstracts which explore the concepts embraced under these themes:

1. Transit Oriented Developments
2. Climate Change
3. Housing Affordability
4. Transport
5. Energy
6. Infrastructure
7. Development Assessment
8. Indigenous
9. Economics of Development
10. Health & Ageing
11. International Trends
12. Social Inclusion
13. Green Buildings
14. Cyber Cities
15. Governance
16. Urban Design
17. Rural and Regional

The Program Committee welcomes abstracts that may not fall into the themes above and for the author to nominate another theme to be included into the program.

Presentation Length

Oral presentations will be 20 minutes plus 5 minutes question time (25 minutes in total).

Guidelines

• All presenting authors must register and pay to attend the congress. All authors must attend at least the full day of their presentation and preferably the full congress
• The presenting authors name should be underlined and all author affiliations should be included.
• Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words.
• Abstracts should be submitted in 12 point Arial font.
• The abstract must be single-spaced and a clear line between paragraphs.
• Abstracts should be text only. Graphics, pictures or graphs should not be submitted.
• Abstracts must be free of typographical and grammatical errors.
• Submission of abstracts implies the author’s agreement to publish the full paper in the final congress program and any other publications associated with the congress including the web site and Australian Planner.
• Successful papers must be presented by the author/s.
• Acceptance of abstracts does not imply any payment from the Congress Committee. Authors must arrange and pay their own accommodation, travel etc. to attend the conference, unless otherwise stated.
• Acceptance or otherwise is at the discretion of the Congress Program Committee whose decision is final.
• All abstracts must be submitted by Monday 1 September 2008.

Preparation and Layout

In formatting your submission the maximum 250 word abstract should be submitted in the manner stated above.

Abstracts should comprise of the following elements with each element beginning a new paragraph.

• Title
• Authors
• Address/Affiliations
• Abstract text

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The abstracts must contain sufficient information, so that if it is published, it will be a complete report independent of presentation.

The text should not contain statements alluding to results or conclusions not presented in the text.

Abbreviations

Standard abbreviations may be used for common terms only. Uncommon terms, the abbreviations should be given in brackets after the first full use of the word.

Special Characters

To avoid character corruption any special characters should be entered using either Times New Roman or Symbol font.