Guidance for Presenters

Uploading presentations prior to attendance

All presenters will be sent a link to a folder to upload their presentations. We kindly request that you upload your talks prior to attending. This will ensure the smooth running of the conference. Folders for the oral presentations and workshops will be only accessible to the named presenters and the Horizons organising team.

There will be a single folder for all posters so that those attending online can view them. The link to the posters will be made available to the online attendees on the day. Please upload these are a pdf.

A ‘no pictures’ icon has been included in each folder. If you would prefer that your presentation/poster is not photographed please include the icon on your slides.

Posters (Abstract 250 words max)

Posters can be submitted for display during the conference.  A dedicated poster session will be scheduled where authors can discuss with delegates attending in-person. Poster presenters can choose to also make their poster available online for remote delegates to view.

Note posters must be printed in A1 portrait (841 mm height x 594 mm width) to fit our boster boards. A2 landscape will also fit.

Oral presentations (Abstract 250 words max)

Oral presentations are part of a chaired session, which includes a number of short presentations (20 minutes each; 15 mins talk + 5 mins for questions). Presentations should analyse innovative work, must be clearly linked to the conference themes and relevant to the STEM disciplines.

Workshops and demonstrations (Abstract 250 words max)

Workshop sessions are up to 1 hour and should provide participants with an interactive or simulated experience, e.g. using new e-learning tools or devices, immersive environments, etc. You may wish to allow time for debriefing with participants in order to discuss the activity. Abstracts should provide a brief description of the activity/session.

Full papers (2,000 – 4,000 words)

We are proposing to publish papers based on presentations at the conference in the Society for Natural Science’s New Directions in the Teaching of Natural Sciences e-journal. Papers will be considered from any STEM discipline and all speakers are invited to contribute papers based on their presentations or posters after the conference. Papers for the journal are published online once accepted. Authors should add a note to the paper that it was presented at the conference if they wish this to appear in the published version. Papers can be submitted at any time after the conference, but to appear in the annual volume for 2026 (published in early 2026) the closing date for submissions of full conference papers is December 20th, 2026.