Call for proposals: Information Science Research During #COVID19 and #Post-Pandemic Opportunities #IST21 @asist_ec

The ASIS&T European Chapter seeks abstracts for the online research and networking event (on June 9-11, 2021, 2pm-5pm UK time, which is, e.g. 9am-12 noon US Eastern time) on Information Science Research During COVID-19 and Post-Pandemic Opportunities. The Deadline for proposals is 28 May 2021 and proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis, as they are submitted. For each day we will have one keynote followed by short online talks and a student poster session. I'm saying "we" as I'm one of the organisers of this event ;-) The extended abstracts will be published at Zenodo, an online repository for research outputs (see here for abstracts from previous years). 

Topics may include, but are not limited to: Information behaviour/practices during a pandemic; Social informatics in a pandemic; Retrieval for pandemic information; Information ethics and society during lockdown; Data in a pandemic; Artificial intelligence (AI), a pandemic opportunity?; Online and remote data collection; Ethical concerns around online research; Research collaboration during a pandemic; Researchers' health and well-being during a pandemic; Funding challenges during COVID-19; Post-pandemic information science research; Research dissemination and discourse during a pandemic.

Contributions can be a presentation talk (15 min) or a poster presentation (10 min; for students only). All contribution submissions require an extended abstract (500-1,000 words, including references in APA format, and written in English). They should be submitted using this template by 28 May 2021 online to Easychair via this submission link: https://easychair.org/cfp/IST2021. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed. 

For the Student Posters, Information Science students (BA/BSc, MA/MSc, or PhD students within Information Science) are invited to submit posters about their research (i.e. it can be on a different theme to the main conference themes). All student posters will be entered in a Best Poster competition. You need to verify your status and name your supervisors.  

Registration (whether you are a presenter or a delegate) is free for members of ASIST&T (Association for Information Science and Technology: n.b. you need to login to the ASIS&T website to see the zero cost registration option); otherwise $10 for students and $25 for others. Registration is here: https://associationforinformationscienceandtechnologyasist.growthzoneapp.com/ap/Events/Register/xP2D478r?mode=Attendee