Call for Late Submissions

80th Annual AAPOR Conference

Reshaping Democracy's Oracle: Transforming Polls, Surveys, and the Measurement of Public Opinion in the Age of AI

May 14 - 16, 2025

Call for Late-Breaking Papers, Late-Breaking Posters, and Late-Breaking Panels

Submission Deadline: Friday, March 14, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET

The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) is hosting its 80th Annual Conference at the Union Station Hotel in St. Louis, May 14 through Friday, May 16, 2025.

Our field and our data are constantly in motion with new research being conducted every day. To bring the most up-to-date research to the conference, AAPOR is introducing a Late-Breaking Submission period. We welcome you to submit panel, paper, and poster abstracts across all of AAPOR's conference tracks as well as abstracts specific to the conference theme "Reshaping Democracy's Oracle". We hope to have an event filled with invigorating conversations highlighting the highest standards of data quality and methods, as well as the promises and perils of AI in survey research.

Don't miss this opportunity to participate in the premier forum for the exchange of advances in public opinion and survey research.

Submissions: The proposal submission form is unique to each submission type but generally requests author contact information, title, presentation track, keywords describing the content of the presentation, and an abstract of no more than 500 words. For specific descriptions and requirements for each proposal type, as well as to submit your proposal, please use the expandable sections below. To promote diversity of thought within sessions, we encourage panel submissions to include people from multiple organizations.

All abstracts should be submitted electronically by Friday, March 14, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

Space on the program is limited. There will be some individual submissions that cannot be integrated into a session and will, unfortunately, not be accepted. Authors of individual papers have a greater chance of acceptance if they are also willing to be considered for a poster. Decisions for acceptance will be sent the first week of April 2025.

Inquiries: Questions concerning the AAPOR conference or the proposal submission process should be directed to AAPOR Education Manager, Ryan Green, rgreen@aapor.org.

PLEASE NOTE: You will be required to sign in with your AAPOR.org account credentials after clicking 'Begin a Submission'.

Setting Up an AAPOR.org Account
If you do not already have an account on AAPOR.org perhaps from your membership, merchandise purchase, or past event registration, you will need to create one to begin a submission. You do not need to be a member of AAPOR to create an account. It is free and used for online business transactions and communications with AAPOR. The link to create an account can be found here. You can also find it in the top right-hand corner on most AAPOR.org web pages through the red 'Member Login' button. When prompted to log in, please click 'Set Up an Account' and follow the prompts.

Steps and Instructions:

1. Late-Breaking Panels

   Contributed Panel Sessions are organized sessions that focus on a common theme and include 4-5 participants in addition to the panel organizer. The organizer of the panel should enter up to a 500-word abstract into the system discussing the issues to be addressed and their importance. In addition, the panel organizer should collect the submission details for each of the presented abstracts in the session. The organizer will enter these details into the submission on behalf of the presenting authors.

   An abstract is required for each presented submission in the panel.

   To promote diversity of thought within sessions, we encourage panel & roundtable submissions to include people from multiple organizations.

2. Late-Breaking Papers

   Papers involve original research featuring an oral address of 12-15 minutes. Papers with presenting collaborators will have up to 20 minutes for their presentations. A 500-word abstract is required at submission. Authors are strongly encouraged to prepare a formal paper in advance of the conference (usually 12-15 pages in length) to distribute on request. In addition, authors will ask to make their presentation materials, such as PowerPoint slides, available to session attendees prior to or at the conference.

3. Late-Breaking Posters

   Posters are presentations of original research that relay on visual display (i.e., posters). A 500-word abstract is required for submission. In addition, authors will be asked to make their poster materials available to session attendees prior to or at the conference.

4. General Instructions

   No names or titles should be included in the abstract text. Names will be automatically hidden during the abstract review process and will be automatically inserted and properly formatted upon publication.

   Presenting authors will be automatically informed of the unique ID numbers and passwords assigned to their abstracts. Abstracts may be viewed and modified at any time between submission and the deadline, using the assigned ID# and password.

   Click here to get an overview of all tracks and their descriptions

   Technical Support

   For help in submitting an abstract online, Contact technical support.

Notice to Federal Employees: The AAPOR Annual Conference conforms to the OPM definition of a "developmental assignment." It is intended for educational purposes; over three quarters of time scheduled is for planned, organized exchange of information between presenters and audience, thereby qualifying under section 4101 of title 5, United States Code as a training activity. The AAPOR Conference is a collaboration in the scientific community, whose objectives are to provide a training opportunity to attendees; teach the latest methodology and approaches to survey research best practices; make each attendee a better survey researcher, and; maintain and improve professional survey competency.