Call for Late Submissions

81st Annual AAPOR Conference

An LA Love Story of Data, Innovation, and the Quest for Truth

May 13 - 15, 2026

Impacted Call for Papers, Posters, Panels, Roundtables, and Skill-Up Sessions

Submission Deadline: Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. ET

AAPOR 2026, "An LA Love Story of Data, Innovation, and the Quest for Truth", is dedicated to reaffirming the critical role of public opinion and survey research in society. In an era of shifting perceptions and evolving methodologies, the conference will focus on connecting our work to the broader public, rebuilding trust in data, and ensuring that insights from polling and survey research remain an essential pillar in informed decision-making.

AAPOR 2026 will open with a thought-provoking keynote that will set the stage for a dynamic panel discussion with key AAPOR experts, delving into the challenges and opportunities of restoring confidence, embracing change and innovation, and communicating and maintaining relevance.

A new debut this year from AAPOR are the Skill-up Sessions, sessions that provide a unique opportunity to gain insights and practical skills from leaders in the field, along with tangible takeaways that provide a launchpad for professional growth.

Skill-Up sessions should be submitted with the goal of providing tangible professional development takeaways, and fresh skills, for conference attendees as our sector experiences more employment insecurity. Some examples of sessions currently being planned include resume roundups, speed interviewing, volunteer leadership summits, presentation practice, mentoring sessions, etc.

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. To promote broad conference participation, an individual may not submit more than three proposals as first author, regardless of the proposed format of the submission. For specific descriptions and requirements for each proposal type, as well as to submit your proposal, please use the expandable sections below.

All abstracts should be submitted electronically by Thursday, January 15, 2026 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. Panels and authors of individual papers will have a great chance of acceptance if they are also willing to be accepted into another presentation format. Decisions for acceptance will be sent in mid-February.

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.

Once you have set up the account and verified your email address, please return to this page to submit your abstract.

Steps and Instructions:

1. Impacted 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.

2. Impacted 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.

3. Impacted Roundtables

   Roundtables encourage live facilitation conversations among AAPOR members about professional development and current issues facing our field (such as being a peer reviewer, interacting with the media, leadership issues, diversity and inclusion training, presenting oneself professionally, etc.) The proposal should identify the leaders of the round table as well as identify discussion topics and questions, and the need for such a discussion.

4. Skill-Up Sessions

   The goal of these groups is to facilitate informal discussion (not formal research presentations) of shared topics and questions with which AAPOR members are engaging. These groups are not meant to be meetings of individuals who are already collaborating on a project or idea, but to bring together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners to discuss a topic of common interest.

5. Impacted 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.

6. 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.