8th Nutrition and Health Conference
23rd & 24th November 2007
Olympia Conference Centre, London
DIRECTIONS FOR THE CONTRIBUTORS OF ABSTRACTS
FOR THE POSTER SESSIONS
Submission
We now welcome submissions for the poster sessions at the 8th
Nutrition and Health Conference 2007 on topics related to Nutrition
and Health.
Please email your abstract submission to:
or by post to Nutrition and Health Conference, 26 Hill Top,
London, NW11 6EE, sending 2 copies. One should
be anonymised and the other should have your contact details,
even for email purposes.
Acceptance
All abstracts will be selected by a panel before being accepted
for presentation at the poster session of this conference. The
poster session will have two sections this year A) Practice
Posters B) Research Posters.
We encourage all health professionals, students and researchers
to present their work and best practice examples to their peers
for review and comment. We wish to foster a culture of enquiry
and scientific rigour while at the same time, recognising that
sometimes, examples of good practice, whilst not subjected to
rigorous research, may also have much to offer. We therefore
invite you to submit projects of interest which have not been
the subject of a formal research process to the “Practice
poster” category The following criteria will be used to
select abstracts for the poster session.
Process
Each abstract will be assessed against the relevant criteria
set out below.
A) Criterion for Research Posters
| Criterion |
| Scientific excellence: study methods described,
including sample size, controls etc or of a program then
clearly described why this is being presented. |
Standard of research including: hypotheses, analytical techniques
appropriate for the type of study- quantitative/qualitative,
results etc. |
| Innovation in practice relevant to nutrition
& dietetics. |
| New information presented which is relevant
to nutrition and dietetics. |
| Data/evidence clearly presented and accurate. |
| Written text clear, abbreviations correct,
format, length etc compliant with requirement. |
| Conclusion is supported by evidence presented. |
A) Criterion for Practice Posters
| Criterion |
Rationale (i.e. what was the basis for
this particular project, or
the reason why the practice being shared was developed) |
| Process - this should be akin to methods
in the research category. |
Has the abstract described what was done
in sufficient detail to give
the reader an idea of what this practice/project involved
- and does
this process seem appropriate to the rationale (i.e. does
it meet the goal?) |
If there has been any evaluation of the practice/project
is this
described and accurately reported? Sometimes work isn't
the subject of
formal research but there may be some process of evaluation
or maybe small
amounts of audit type data that could be usefully presented. |
Potential for transfer/generalisabilty
- although this doesn't
constitute an evidence base and therefore suggest practice
ought to be changed on this basis sometimes something looks
like such a good idea that it would be worth trying in other
areas or appears intuitively to be worth generalising. Alternatively
it may be very specialist and therefore not so generalisable
but should show such flair and innovation that
it inspires people to take a creative approach in their
own area of work and credit should be given for this. |
Data/evidence clearly presented and accurate. |
| Written text clear, abbreviations correct,
format, length etc compliant with requirement. |
| Conclusion is supported by evidence presented. |
| |
Closing date for submissions is 20th October 2007.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by the 1st week of November
2007.
Abstracts accepted for the poster sessions may be published
in the conference text book: Nutrition and Health - Current Topics
8, to be published in 2008.
All accepted abstracts will be considered for the Nutrition
and Health Poster Awards 2007.
This year two Awards will be presented at the conference for:-
1. The Best Practice Poster Abstract Award
2. The Best Research Poster Abstract Award
The winners will be invited to give an oral presentation in
the main session of the 8th Nutrition and Health Conference.
PLEASE NOTE: The organisers reserve the right to
determine whether an abstract will be accepted for the poster
session.
GENERAL GUIDELINE FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION OF POSTER SESSION ABSTRACTS
Title:
Authors:
Mailing and email address of where correspondence should
be directed:
Telephone numbers:
Text: Approx 1-2 A4 page of text in Times
New Roman, font size 12, double line spacing (approx 300 words).
References: References should be cited by
author name and publication year. The references should be listed
at the end of the text in alphabetical order, giving the full
list of authors. The name of the journal should be indicated
as suggested below and typed in italics.
eg
Appel, L. J., Moore, T. J., Obarzanek, E., Vallmer, W. M., Svetkey,
L. P. Sacks, F. M., Bray, G. A., Vogt, T. M., Cutler, J A.,
(1997). A clinical trial of the effects of dietary patterns
on blood pressure. N. Engl. J. Med., 336, 1117-1124.
Tables/Figures: Placed within the text labelled:
Table 1.1, 1.2 etc and Figure: 1.1, 1.2 etc