Call for Abstracts Now Open
Call for Abstracts Now Open
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The Call for Abstracts for the 1st International Conference on Informal Work: Health, Safety and Wellbeing is now open. The conference welcomes submissions for oral presentations and poster presentations across the event’s thematic tracks and from a wide range of disciplines, perspectives, and experiences.
What does this call propose?
What does this call propose?
This call seeks contributions that help advance understanding, documentation, and transformation of informal and precarious work across different contexts. We welcome submissions grounded in research, theoretical reflection, professional practice, institutional experience, collective action, and other relevant approaches to the study of informal work.
The call is part of an international, interdisciplinary, and hybrid conference that will bring together academics, institutions, workers’ organizations, and other strategic actors engaged with questions of health, safety, and wellbeing in informal work.
Who can submit to the call?
Who can submit to the call?
The call is open to individuals and institutions from a wide range of disciplines and fields of practice, including occupational health, ergonomics, public health, epidemiology, medicine, nursing, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, urban planning, geography, design, engineering, social work, and other areas that contribute to the understanding of informal work.
Submissions are also encouraged from workers’ organizations, practitioners, activists, public institutions, and other social actors engaged with this agenda.
Call Themes
Beyond the three main thematic tracks, we also encourage submissions that engage with cross-cutting issues such as health, safety, and wellbeing at work; methods for assessing exposures in informal work settings; prevention and intervention strategies; gender, care, and social reproduction; migration and migrant labor; urban space and infrastructure; technologies and material working conditions; public policy, regulation, and labor governance; and worker organization, collective action, and rights.
Academic Participation Categories
The open call includes the following academic submission formats:
Oral Presentations: Individual academic contributions presented within thematic sessions. These may include research findings, conceptual reflections, or practice-based experiences.
Poster Presentations: Visual presentations of research projects, methodological proposals, applied initiatives, or other experiences relevant to the conference themes.
Experiences in the Informal Economy: The conference will also include a special session dedicated to experiences of informal work. This format is not part of the open call, as participation will be organized directly by the Scientific Committee through invitation or nomination.
General Guidelines for Submission
In general, all proposals must adhere to the following guidelines:
Word Count: Abstracts must not exceed 300 words, excluding the title, author information, and keywords.
Submission Limit: Each presenting author may submit up to three abstracts across the oral presentation and poster categories.
Co-authorship: In the case of multiple authors, a single person must submit the abstract and act as the corresponding author.
Thematic Axes: Each proposal must be aligned with one or more of the conference's thematic axes.
Given the interdisciplinary nature of the event, authors are encouraged to review the full guidelines and adapt the structure of their abstracts to the specific nature of their contribution.
Publications
The abstracts of all accepted and presented contributions will be included in the official Conference Book of Abstracts, which is scheduled as an open-access digital publication.
Additionally, the possibility of subsequent publications is being considered for a selection of contributions, following the criteria defined by the Scientific Committee and the corresponding editorial guidelines. Detailed information regarding these options will be communicated in due course.
Important Dates
Information regarding key dates for the submission, evaluation, and notification process will be published and updated shortly in this section and on the academic platform.
We invite researchers, professionals, organizations, institutions, and all stakeholders interested in this agenda to share their contributions and join this international conversation on health, safety, and well-being in informal work.
We invite researchers, professionals, organizations, institutions, and all stakeholders interested in this agenda to share their contributions and join this international conversation on health, safety, and well-being in informal work.
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