CFP: Rethinking Tomorrow: Emerging Research for Social Change

We live in a time of precarity, uncertainty and unrest: the climate emergency is escalating, far-right ideologies are mainstream, political and social systems and society is becoming increasingly post-digital and artificially intelligent. How are we – as researchers, professionals, advocates, activists – responding to the challenges of our time? What innovations could enable a more equitable and sustainable society for younger generations? How might we imagine, foster, and enable social changes that are lasting, resilient, and sustainable? How might we share and collaborate to build what Pierre A. Lévy calls our collective intelligence, that is our capacity as human communities, to cooperate in creation, innovation, invention and we should add, interventions? And importantly, how might we communicate our creation, innovation, invention and interventions? Rethinking tomorrow: Emerging research for social change provides a platform to tackle these questions and have robust discussions.  

Call for abstracts is now open. We invite submissions focusing on the following themes:

-          Artificial Intelligence & Social Change

-          Technologies & Everyday Life

-          Gender, Sexual Diversity & Social In/tolerance

-          Race, Racism & Cultural Differences

-          Structural Inequalities

-          Migrants, Refugees & Lived experiences

-          Indigeneity in Aotearoa and the Pacific

-          Climate emergency

-          Social Policy & Governance

-          Advocacy & Education

-          Wicked problems in Aotearoa and beyond

Abstracts (between 300-350 words) and a 100-word bio can be submitted to [email protected]. Please also indicate which theme your abstract relates to.

Successful applicants will be allocated 15 minutes for their presentations along with 5 minutes for Q&A.

Deadlines:

Abstract submission: August 1st, 2025

Notification of abstract acceptance/decline: September 1st, 2025.