RC33 Eighth International Conference on Social Science Methodology

Papers on all aspects of social science methodology are welcome, including but not restricted to: critiques and analysis of the philosophical paradigms that underpin the logic of social research; issues in the formulation of research questions; the design of social research; methods of collecting data, and analysing them; research technologies; and issues relating social science methodology to research consumers.

The call for abstracts of papers opened September 2, 2011, and we are accepting submissions until December 1, 2011. Session convenors or the conference organisers will inform you of your abstract acceptance by December 19, 2011 and registrations will open on that date.

Abstracts will only be accepted through the online submission form, and submission in any other form will not be accepted.

Abstracts should be no longer than 400 words.

To submit an abstract for consideration, you will need :

• a user account for this website. If you have not created an account you can do so by following the "Create new account" link on the right side of this page
• to select the session to which you want to submit your abstract. You can review the sessions by following the "Tracks and sessions" link, below the Conference Information on the right

Then follow the steps in "Proposal Submission" on the right.

Please direct any queries to: rc33conference@acspri.org.au

Note, Sydney is on Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) -- UTC +10

Author Guidelines

Published conference papers:

Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings. If you wish to publish a full in the proceedings, manuscripts must be submitted by April 18, 2012 and authors must have paid their registration fee by that date. Manuscripts must conform to the following formatting and style guide.

• Paragraphs should use 1.5 spacing throughout, with 2.5cm page margins;

• Main sub-headings should be typed with initial capitals, in bold, aligned  against the left margin. Minor sub-headings should be treated in the same way and italicised. No further levels of headings should be used.

• All illustrations, tables and figures are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

• Type styles should be 12-point font, avoiding over-use of italics, boldface or capitals.

• Acknowledgements should be given under a final sub-heading immediately preceding the References.

• Endnotes should be used only in exceptional circumstances. Instead, place explanatory notes parenthetically in the text if required.

• References should be used sparingly, and should follow the author-date Harvard system.

Submissions for this conference were closed on 2011-12-05.

RC33 Eighth International Conference on Social Science Methodology