Call for papers
July 9-11, 2025
Geelong, Australia
Abstract submissions are now closed.
Overview
Presentation formats:
Presenters have the choice of three alterative presentation formats. Full presentation, Speed talk, or Poster. For each of these presentation formats, abstracts should adhere to the guidelines below. During submission, authors will be asked to indicate their preferred presentation format. In some cases, however, we may offer an alternative format to the preferred format indicated.
Full presentation
Full presentations are 15 minutes long, including 12 minutes to present plus 3 minutes of questions. Full presentations enable presenters to provide details of their research, including context, methodology, results and conclusions.
Speed Talk
Speed talks are 5 minutes long and enable presenters to summarise their research in a way that demonstrates its significance value and impact. This format enables you to showcase your research as well as your communication skills. Ideal for research with one key idea or result.
Poster
Posters will be displayed for the duration of the conference, providing the opportunity for your work to be showcased to a broader audience. Posters are an ideal way to showcase key results.
Interdisciplinary themes:
Themes have been chosen highlighting key overarching topics that cut across research disciplines. Our aim is to maximise the diversity of discipline areas within session themes to provide the opportunity to learn about alternative methods and strategies that they might not usually be exposed to, but which addresses similar questions or contexts in drought resilience. When submitting an abstract, authors will be asked to nominate which theme or themes their presentation fits into.
- Resilient landscapes
Presentations focusing on resilience of built, natural and human-impacted landscapes and ecosystems.
- Resilient communities
Presentations focusing on resilience in communities including physical and mental health, education, childcare, entertainment, connections, creativity and social capital.
- Resilient industries and economies
Presentations focussing on resilience of businesses including, but not limited to farms, industry and tourism.
- Resilience technologies and practices
Presentations focussing on novel, little known, or underutilised technologies or strategies that support drought resilience.
- Predicting and planning for drought
Presentations that focus on predicting the onset or frequency and severity of drought or planning responses ahead of time, especially in the context of a changing climate.
- Lessons from the past
Presentations focussing on the effects of past droughts, their continuing effects and the lessons that we have learnt or should learn from them.
- Emerging issues and opportunities
Presentations focussing on less well understood, known or predicted effects of drought in the context of a changing climate.
Submission details
Please note:
Early submission of abstracts is encouraged. Note that you WILL NOT be able to save and return to your submission so you should collate the required information (below) prior to opening the online form. The online form requires the following information for an abstract to be submitted.
Title:
A brief, interesting and explicit description of the presentation. Titles should be less than 200 characters and should not contain bold or italic text, superscripts or subscripts.
Abstract text:
Your abstract should contain a summary of your presentation, including methodology, key results, and conclusions. Abstracts must not contain bold or italic text, superscripts or subscripts and must be less than 1500 characters.
Discipline area(s):
Indicate which academic discipline or disciplines the presentation relates to. More than one discipline may be selected for interdisciplinary research.
Key words:
Provide up to five key words that describe your presentation.
Poster, Speed talk or Full presentation, or Any. In some cases, we may offer an alternative format to the preferred format indicated, if sufficient positions in the preferred format are unavailable.
Indicate which interdisciplinary theme area or areas the presentation best fits into. Note, many presentations may be appropriate for multiple themes.
Authors and affiliations:
Provide the first name, family name and affiliation of all authors in the order you would like them to appear when referenced.
Presenting author:
Indicate which author will present the presentation, their career stage and a brief (< 700 characters) biography.
Correspondence details:
Indicate which author will be the corresponding author and provide their contact email.
Media:
Indicate whether you would be happy for your work to be featured in Victoria Drought Hub social media or newsletters and whether you would be willing to speak with media about your research or project during the conference.
Notification of Acceptance:
Authors will be advised whether abstracts have been accepted in April 2025. Note, in some cases, authors may be offered an alternative presentation format (Full presentation, speed talk or poster) to that which they have nominated.