*Call for Abstract Submissions*

The Online International Doctoral Research Conference in Education will take place on 8th July 2020 by video conference. This will be a fully online event. The conference is aimed at postgraduate research students around the world who are working in the field of educational research and who wish to present their work to a like-minded audience of doctoral students, early career researchers (those within 2 years of their PhD defence), and academics. The conference is free to attend and free to present at. The event will be a mixture of participant presentations and involve several keynote speakers:

- Dr Peter Kahn, Centre for Higher Education Studies, Liverpool University, UK.

- Dr Gary Motteram, Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK.

Abstracts are requested from research students (PhD, EdD, PhD by publication etc) on a subject related to educational research. They may be submitted in any area of educational research, including but not limited to the following indicative themes:

- teacher training

- educational technologies

- teaching and learning

- social justice

- research methods

- global development

- educational management

- philosophy of education

- language and literacy

- learner motivation and psychology

*Schedule of the Conference*

Call for abstracts opens: 15 March 2020

Submission deadline: 25 April 2020 12pm GMT

Decision on acceptance: 7 May 2020

Online Conference: 8 July 2020

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted in the main body of your email to PGRconf2020@ljmu.ac.uk (not by Word attachment) with the following information in addition:

a) Title of abstract (maximum 20 words)
b) Full names of all presenter(s)
c) Contact details of all presenters to include:
i. organisation/institution, city and country, as you would wish it to appear in the programme
ii. university/institutional e-mail of the submitter(s)
d) Brief biography of presenting author(s) [50 -100 words each]

Abstracts will be peer reviewed prior to a final decision by the Chair of the Organising Committee. Abstracts will be considered for 20 minute presentation slots in the programme followed by 5-10 minute Q&A. Please register on Eventbrite if you intend to be a participant/audience member/presenter at the event.

This event is organised by the Centre for Educational Research (CERES) in the School of Education at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK (https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/research/centres-and-institutes/centre-for-educational-research).