Researchers, scholars, politicians, practitioners and students are invited to submit abstracts for oral presentations and/or poster presentations.

Oral paper presentation

The oral paper presentation may be authored by an individual or by a group. The abstract should be in line with the main theme of the conference and linked to the conference’s sub-themes. The oral presentation will be grouped in parallel sessions based on the sub-themes. The abstract submitted should be 300 words or less. Each paper is allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. More information about the abstract is provided below.

Poster presentation

The poster presentation may be created by an individual or by a group and is to be displayed on a portable wall. At times, the author(s) of the poster will accompany it, to answer questions that people may have. To apply for a poster presentation, the author(s) must submit an abstract of a maximum 300 words. More information about the abstract is provided below.

Guidelines

The following guidelines for all kinds of presentations are advisory. If you think there are good reasons to amend them, please feel free to do so.

If your abstract is for a presentation based on one og more empirical research projects, it should include the following:

• Background and purpose: Description of the problem, study objectives, research questions and/or hypotheses
• Methods: Study design, including a description of participants and selection strategies, data collection procedures, measures, and analysis
• Findings: Specific results in summary form
• How the presentations address one or more of the conference’s aims and themes
• Conclusions and implications: Description of the man outcome(s), of the study and implications for practice, policy or further research
• If your abstract is for a presentation which is not based on primary empirical research, it should include the following:
• Background and purpose of the presentations
• A summary of the main points of the presentation
• How the presentations address one or more og the conference’s aims and themes
• Conclusions from and implication of the presentation for practice, policy or further research

Submission instructions

All abstracts must be relevant to the central conference theme and subthemes. Preference will be given to abstracts that are strongly linked to the conference theme and subthemes, so we encourage authors to show this explicitly.

Authors are invited to submit abstracts to the conference. Abstracts should be submitted through the abstract submission form. All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by referees.

Submission guidelines for papers

• Abstracts must be written in English.
• Title (max 25 words): The abstract title should be in the initial capital case and then lower case, not all capitals.
• Author(s): Authors’ names should be supplied as abstract registration form.
• Affiliaton: All affiliations should contain institution, city and country.
• Abstract text: Abstract text should not exceed more than 300 words. Table and figures in abstract are not allowed. The only presentation available is oral.

Conference sub-themes

All the abstracts should have a Nordic perspective in a broad sense and/or be of an innovative character. The sub-themes are:

1. CRC 35 year later: Status of the child welfare services/child protection services
2. The Overall Ideology of Child Protection: From Support to the Family to Children at Risk
3. Municipal Child Protection Services: Historical development, changes in services and legal framework, challenges in meeting the need of children and young people with mental health problems, Children and families living in poverty, future role, need for reform and innovation, systemic discrimination, family and network interventions: Possibilities and challenges
4. Child Protection Statistics: Comparison between the Nordic countries
5. Children and young people in out-of-home, foster care, residential care and after care: New directions?
6. Children and Parents Participation – tokenism or reality?
7. Criminal Justice: Children as perpetrators or vulnerable victims, early intervention
8. Unaccompanied Young Refugees/asylum-seeking children: The responsibility child protection services?
9. Family and network interventions: Possibilities and challenges
10. Child protection and climate change?

If you have any questions you can send queries to callforpaper@barnevernsambandet.no. For further information on the conference please check the website frequently. And we recommend that you follow the conference Facebook page.

We hope that your participation in selecting parallel sessions and posters will ensure we have a quality programme.

Abstract submission forms

NBK 2024 Submission form oral paper based on empirical research
NBK 2024 Submission form oral paper based on practice
NBK 2024 Submission form poster presentation

Abstract submission deadline is January 5, 2024