Call for Self-Nominations
Brief & Brilliant Session
2020 SSWR Annual Conference
Submission Deadline:
Monday, April 15, 2019, 11:59 pm, Pacific Time
Interested in reaching a broader audience with your work?
Invested in sharing your work with the public, decision makers, funders?
Self-nominate to speak in SSWR’s 4th annual Brief & Brilliant Session.
Submission site: https://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2020/brief/cfp.cgi
The Brief & Brilliant session is a TedX-style event held annually at the SSWR conference that showcases social work scholarly talent. Five scholars will be selected to each give a 10-minute lightning talk, highlighting an idea from their area of work that is particularly important, relevant or intriguing.
The Brief & Brilliant session aims to translate social work research in order to engage a broad audience and emphasize the public relevance of this work. The goal is to emphasize the main conclusions of a scholar’s work (or the work of others in their area) rather than the methodological details behind it. Speakers will be provided with two training and support sessions (via video conference) where they will be coached to put aside their traditional academic slides of bulleted methods and, instead, prepare a talk that utilizes photos, images, storytelling, and media to engage their audience in understanding and connecting to their idea.
We are particularly interested in bold ideas related to this year’s conference theme: “Reducing Racial and Economic Inequality.”
To submit, please see author instructions below and complete the self-nomination form (https://sswr.confex.com/sswr/2020/brief/cfp.cgi) by Monday, April 15, 2019, 11:59 pm, Pacific Time. Consider sending your colleagues interested in sharing their work in this innovative format this announcement and encouraging their self-nomination. Selected speakers will be notified late August 2019. Trainings will occur in November and December and talks will take place at SSWR in January 2020.
The Brief & Brilliant submission form includes the following questions.
• Presentation title
• In a sentence or two, how would you describe the focus of your scholarship? (150 word limit)
• Why are you interested in speaking in the Brief & Brilliant session? (250 word limit)
• What successes and challenges have you experienced in translating your work for broader (non-academic) audiences? (250 word limit)
• Please list potential ideas or topics you are excited about sharing through the Brief & Brilliant format.
Submission Deadline: Monday, April 15, 2019, 11:59 pm, Pacific Time