EyelandPsychePhD
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Hello PsyD/PhD community.
I would like to submit a poster presentation to this conference (link here Submissions — 7th IPPA World Congress). However, I do not currently have raw data and since the submission deadline is October 30th it is unlikely that I will be able to do a meta-anal/systematic review. However, at that link you can see there are two types of submission (science & practice) for each format (Poster, Podium, etc.). I had my eyes on a practice submission for a poster, but am confused about the criteria for that. It says practice means:
How on Earth can I measure anything (practice or otherwise), and then present it at a conference, without IRB approval? I was under the impression that anything that is measured and either published in a paper or presented at a conference is considered research, and therefore needs an IRB. I am so confused by this. What would be an example of this type of submission? Can I run a "workshop" and say something like "the response from attendees of the workshop was enthusiastic and positive. In the future I would like to use ______ assessment/questionnaire or ______ survey to measure outcomes?" I looked back at the posters for 2019 and did not find anything that wasn't referencing a study that had been conducted, so I am having trouble finding examples of acceptable submissions of this kind.
I may reach out to the conferences contact e-mail to ask for this clarification, however, one of the major players involved with this conference is someone I would really like to work with, and whose PhD program I am applying to. I don't want to risk my first contact with them occurring in the context of asking a stupid question.
Any thoughts are so appreciated! Thank you
I would like to submit a poster presentation to this conference (link here Submissions — 7th IPPA World Congress). However, I do not currently have raw data and since the submission deadline is October 30th it is unlikely that I will be able to do a meta-anal/systematic review. However, at that link you can see there are two types of submission (science & practice) for each format (Poster, Podium, etc.). I had my eyes on a practice submission for a poster, but am confused about the criteria for that. It says practice means:
- "your submission will relate to activity that has been done outside of a research institute and in a "real world" setting, with "real world" populations. The submission should demonstrate measurable outcomes (at the very least, it includes the plan to measure, if measurement was not actually done) and that the application is been based on, or informed by, a researcher's empirical work and that work has been cited. For example, practice submissions are not original research that creates a new construct. Instead, your practice submission demonstrates application, informed by or based on a researched positive psychology construct that already exists, and using that construct to create a positive intervention in a population in real time, without holding other variables constant".
How on Earth can I measure anything (practice or otherwise), and then present it at a conference, without IRB approval? I was under the impression that anything that is measured and either published in a paper or presented at a conference is considered research, and therefore needs an IRB. I am so confused by this. What would be an example of this type of submission? Can I run a "workshop" and say something like "the response from attendees of the workshop was enthusiastic and positive. In the future I would like to use ______ assessment/questionnaire or ______ survey to measure outcomes?" I looked back at the posters for 2019 and did not find anything that wasn't referencing a study that had been conducted, so I am having trouble finding examples of acceptable submissions of this kind.
I may reach out to the conferences contact e-mail to ask for this clarification, however, one of the major players involved with this conference is someone I would really like to work with, and whose PhD program I am applying to. I don't want to risk my first contact with them occurring in the context of asking a stupid question.
Any thoughts are so appreciated! Thank you
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