We invite scholars to express their interest in serving as conveners at the conference. The conference will host both symposia and thematic panels. Symposia will be proposed by one or more conveners, who will identify a specific theme beforehand and up to four paper authors. For the thematic panels, one or more conveners must propose a title and a theme that will be included in the call for papers to be launched, as soon as the selection of thematic panels has been made.

Conveners are to organize their work in the following way:

Symposia conveners are responsible for:

• proposing the particular theme of the session, including identification of up to 4 named paper authors
• identifying 1-2 discussants, optionally including the conveners themselves
• planning the panel composition, and guaranteeing the participation of all the paper authors involved in their proposal
• communicating with paper authors (together with organizers) and supervising the submission of the paper well in advance of the conference.

Thematic panel conveners are responsible for:

• proposing the broad theme of a session
• assessing and ranking all abstracts submitted for their own session, finally selecting up to 4 papers
• identifying 1-2 discussants, optionally including the conveners themselves
• communicating with paper authors and supervising (together with organizers) the  submission of the paper submission well in advance of the conference.

Regardless of format, conveners will chair their respective session in the conference, present the theme of the session and provide adequate time for paper presentation and their discussion.

Expressions of interest for both session formats should have a maximum length of 1 page and include:

1. A session title
2. A short description of the session’s theme (max 300 words), including either a description of the topics and/or types of papers that would be expected (for a thematic panel), or a detailed description of the paper’s contributions and the authors who agree to participate (for a symposium). We encourage descriptions of proposed themes that make explicit links to the topic of the conference.
3. Full contact details of the stream convener/s (with a maximum of two conveners per stream): Name/s, affiliation, phone number, email.

Please send your expression of interest by 25^th January 2017 to the following email address:

conference2017@transforming-care.net Information about accepted proposals will be sent out by the end of January.

For more information, contact conference2017@transforming-care.net