Early Career Sessions Submissions
17th EAOHP Conference, 15th-17th June, 2026Key information
The EAOHP Education Forum is organising Early Career Sessions for PhD students and young researchers undertaking research in main topic areas of Occupational Health Psychology. Eligible to apply are PhD students of all years, at different stages of completion of their thesis, and early researchers just after completion of their PhD.
The Early Career Sessions are closed sessions for those participating and includes roundtable discussions that will be organized around main Occupational Health Psychology themes. Participants will be assigned to groups based on their main research interests. During the roundtable discussion, participants will provide a brief (max. 10 minute) presentation of their research, which will be followed by open discussion. Roundtable discussions will be facilitated by senior scholars, who are specialised on the specific themes and who will provide feedback to participants.
The aim of the Early Career Sessions is to provide early career researchers an informal context to get feedback on their work by a leading scholar in the field, and also to facilitate networking with other PhD students.
Who should apply for the Early Career Sessions?
Early career researchers (i.e., PhD students or researchers right after the completion of their PhD) may apply for the Early Career Sessions. While submitting their abstract, interested participants must indicate whether it should be considered for the the Early Career Sessions. These sessions will be part of the conference main programme and there will be no extra fee for conference participants. Given that limited places are available, if necessary, participants will be selected based on topic similarity.
Only submissions with a complete registration by April 2026 (including payment of the registration fee) to attend the conference onsite will be considered for the Early Career Sessions.
Submission guidelines
To submit an abstract to the ECR Session, click on the “Submit to the Early Career Sessions” button at the bottom of this page. Then, in the submission form select the option “Early Career Sessions”. Further guidance can be found here.
Below are some suggestions for submitting abstracts to this session:
– Presenters should submit a 200-300 word abstract, depicting the main idea/research questions, methodology and any key findings of their research.
– Abstracts must be submitted and presented in English.
– Authors must provide a title of up to 20 words for their submission (using title case), their name (only initial letters in capitals) and affiliation.
– There is no need for section headers. If used, these should be italicized and on the same line as the following text (e.g. “Introduction: Research indicates that…”)
– The following information should not be in the abstract section: tables, figures, list of references, title, author or institution information, keywords, and any bolded or underlined text (italics are okay)