Our Aims and Objectives
We are the UK association for all those who research, study and teach global development issues
Find Out MoreAll proposals MUST be made via the online system including those from Convenors, Discussants and Chairs.
The call is open until 29 December 2025
Proposals to these panels must consist of:
On submission of the proposal, the authors will receive an automated email confirming receipt. If you do not receive this email, please first check the conference system (‘Login’ button, see toolbar above right) to see if your proposal is there. If it is, it simply means your confirmation email got spammed/lost; if it is not, you will need to re-submit, as for some reason the process was not completed.
These might fall outside regular academic paper panels or roundtables and the format should be clear in the panel abstracts. Some possible formats or ideas might be debates, speed-meeting, workshops, asynchronous panels, fire-site etc. To submit a proposal for a contribution to an experimental panel, fill out the online proposal form with:
Note some panels are called roundtables in the panels list. It is possible to submit a proposal for a contribution to a roundtable by filling out the online form with:
Please be aware that a proposal is only needed if you want to be an official named speaker. Registered conference participants can attend any panel/roundtable and participate in discussions and Q&A sessions.
Proposals will be marked as ‘pending’ until the end of the Call for Papers (29 Dec 2025). Convenors will then be asked to make their decisions over the papers proposed to their panel by 19 Jan 2026 and to communicate those to the proposers, marking them up via ‘Login’ on the conference website.
Papers which are neither accepted nor rejected, but marked for ‘transfer’, will be given the opportunity to be re-housed into other panels. The conference organisers will contact the authors of the proposals set to transfer and ask them to modify their abstracts to fit another panel of their choosing. We will advise them to target panels containing fewer than the allowed maximum (4 papers per session), which are thus able to include a few more.
The authors will then inform us of two panels they would like to apply to (in order of preference). We then forward the title, short and long abstracts to the convenors and ask them to consider the proposal. If the first panel rejects the proposal, we contact the second choice. Transfers which get rejected by both panels will then be set to ‘rejected’.
Paper authors can use the login link in the top right of the DSA website to edit their proposals.
Convenor/author email addresses are not shown on the panel pages for anti-spam reasons. However there is an in-built secure email messaging system. If you cannot work that, please email conference(at)devstud.org.uk to obtain relevant email addresses.