Top tips for writing an abstract for the BSPHN Conference 2025
Oral presentation and poster abstract submissions are now open!
Thanks for considering presenting your work at the BSHN Conference 2025!
This year the theme is Keeping Ahead of Change, so we’d like all oral presentation and poster abstract submissions to be geared towards one of the three conference sub-themes:
- The Changing World – We’re experiencing unpreceded change in climate, technology, and social changes such as the cost-of-living crisis. How can we use behavioural science to help us to navigate and strive to reduce inequalities?
- The Changing Population – Our ageing population creates new challenges for public health. How can behavioural science help to understand the population changes and how we intervene to manage challenges?
- Advances in Behavioural Science – Behavioural science itself is constantly shifting. As new opportunities arise, the discipline is evolving. How is behavioural science evolving to widen its application and reach new audiences?
Here are our top tips for a successful abstract submission:
- Follow the BSPHN abstract guidelines and keep to the word count. Only abstracts that meet the guidelines will be considered for selection.
- Tailor the abstract so it is related to the conference theme and ensure it is relevant to behavioural science and public health.
- Write clearly and concisely, avoid jargon and acronyms. Assume you are writing to an audience who know nothing about your work area.
- Ensure you have a balance between what you did (methods) and what you found (results).
- Highlight the implications of your work, which can be for research, policy, and/or practice. For work-in-progress, highlight the expected implications.
Oral presentations: These will be 15 minutes comprised of 10 minutes presentation, and 5 minutes of questions.
Poster presentations – Posters will be showcased during the conference and available online on the BSPHN website after the event.
Submit an outline of the project, in no more than 350 words, using the following headings (as appropriate):
- Aim(s)
- Methods / Implementation
- Results / Impact / Learning
- Conclusions / Implications for practice
Thank you for considering the BSPHN conference to present your work. If you have any inquiries relating to the submission or the conference, please email events@bsphn.org.uk