Call for Proposals

APPAM’s 45th Annual Fall Research Conference will take place Thursday, November 9 through Saturday, November 11 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Atlanta, GA. This year's conference theme will be Policy that Matters: Making Public Services Work for All.

Good policy improves lives. But it’s sometimes easy to miss how policy analysis makes a difference. The 2023 APPAM Fall Research Conference centers our attention on the impact of policy on the daily, lived experience of the public. The theme Policy that Matters: Making Public Services Work for All, encourages us to consciously and explicitly consider how social science theories and empirical research about policy design and implementation has a direct and practical effect on the lives of people.

The following submission types will be solicited in the conference’s 15 policy areas:

• Panel - Panels include a session organizer, chair, one to two discussants, and three to four papers. Panels with four papers are encouraged to have two discussants. Presenting authors may not serve as the chair or discussant on the same panel. Individuals may present on up to two panels throughout the conference, though they may serve as a chair or discussant unlimited times.
  
  
• Poster - Poster submissions are single paper proposals that are presented in a poster format. Presenters will be asked to discuss their work and answer questions during one of two poster sessions.
  
  
• Roundtable - Roundtables do not include papers, but rather feature speakers who will discuss a topic from varying perspectives and draw the audience into a discussion on the topic. Roundtable proposals should include up to four speakers plus a moderator. The moderator cannot also be a speaker in the same session.
  
  
• Single Papers - Single papers are proposals that will later be combined with other single papers to be presented as cohesive panel sessions around a single topic.
  
  
• Student Research - Submitted research must have been conducted by a student. Student research submissions will be combined to form a cohesive panel with four student research papers, a chair, and up to two discussants. These sessions will take place throughout the Fall Conference.
  
  
• Workshops - NEW in 2023! APPAM is seeking workshop proposals that will take place during regular conference programming over an extended 180-minute timeslot. Workshops should be interdisciplinary, hands-on and interactive or focused on a special interest or skill training topic. Workshop proposals must include one moderator/facilitator and up to four speakers.

Abstracts for individual papers and posters should be between 100 and 500 words. If a panel of papers is proposed there should be a summary of each paper plus an overarching description of the panel and its importance. Descriptions for roundtables should be between 100 and 500 words, plus a listing of participants and a summary of their contributions.

All submissions must be completed no later than Wednesday, April 12, 2023 by 11:59 PM US Pacific Time.

Notifications will be sent by late-July 2023.

If you have questions, please email conferencesupport@appam.org.