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ECA 2025 Convention Health Communication Interest Group Call for Papers
Submission Deadline Dates: October 16, 2024, 11:59 p.m. PST
“Contemporary Problems, Creative Solutions”
Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, NY
March 26-March30, 2025
The Health Communication Interest Group invites submissions for ECA’s 116th Annual Convention in Buffalo, NY. The 2025 convention theme is “Contemporary Problems, Creative Solutions” which encourages communication scholars to offer theoretical and practical insights to address contemporary problems. We call for submissions that interrogate the following:
- How can health communication scholarship, teaching, and practice provide creative solutions to contemporary societal, environmental, geopolitical, technological, and economic problems?
- How can we best prepare undergraduate and graduate students to address these contemporary problems with creative solutions?
- How can we extend health communication scholarship, teaching, and practice to settings and situations outside our traditional contexts?
As you prepare your submissions, we encourage you to reflect on how your scholarship contributes to our collective effort in addressing these meaningful questions.
Submission guidelines:
- Individual Papers:
Only complete papers will be considered. Papers must be no longer than 25 pages and use a 12-point font size; double-spaced; 1-inch margins (abstract, references, tables, and figures are not included in the 25-page limit). Papers must conform to APA 7th Edition guidelines. The paper must be uploaded as a PDF. All identifying author(s) information (names, institutions, hidden document properties) must be removed; if this requirement is not met, submissions will not be eligible for review. Please specify on the electronic submission if any/all authors are student authors.
- Panel Discussions:
These can take the form of a discussion panel of scholars, students, practitioners, or a combination
Please use the following guidelines for panel discussion submissions:
- Include a title, a chair, and a 250-word abstract of each paper/presentation
- Please include names and affiliations (i.e. institution/organization) for each presenter
Additional Submission Information:
ECA utilizes Attendee Interactive to manage submissions and reviews: https://ww4.aievolution.com/eca2501/. To submit your work, you will be prompted to log in using ECA-specific credentials, or to create an account.
Submissions must not have been presented at another conference and can only be submitted to one interest group at ECA. Our division will award Top Paper Awards, including one Top Student Paper Award.
Student-led submissions (i.e. student is first author, faculty member is co-author) are eligible for the Top Paper Awards. And we strongly encourage students to submit your works to ECA health communication division!
You must include the following Statement of Professional Responsibility with all papers and panels:
In submitting the attached paper/panel, I/We recognize that an accepted paper/panel is considered a professional responsibility. If this submission is accepted and programmed, I/We agree to register for the ECA convention, pay fees, and present the work. I/We understand that presenters with last minute emergencies should take all possible measures to arrange an alternate presenter, and communicate their plans to both the Interest Group Planner and ECA VP.
Criteria for Acceptance:
Submissions will be reviewed/assessed based on the following criteria:
-Please rate the quality of the submission’s conceptual rationale. To what extent does this submission have a clear and well-chosen theoretical basis? Does this submission contain innovative ideas? Does the submission address important questions? To what extent does the submission craft a compelling rationale?
-Please rate the quality of the submission’s methodology. To what extent is the method of data collection and/or analysis appropriate for the research question/idea or hypothesis?
-Please rate the quality of the submission’s discussion of findings/analysis. To what extent will the submission substantially improve our understanding of health communication? Does this submission have compelling theoretical and/or practical implications? Does the submission challenge existing paradigms? To what extent are the findings important and compelling?
-How well does this submission reflect the 2025 convention theme of “Contemporary Problems, Creative Solutions”?
Please contact the interest group planner for questions about the submission process.
Yadong Ji, Ph.D.
Health Communication Interest Group Chair and Planner
Western Washington University
jiy@wwu.edu