Announcing the annual research forum on postsecondary CTE and workforce development, hosted virtually by the Center for Workforce Development Research and Practice at ODU. This forum will feature presentations of papers, roundtables, and posters. Additionally, the forum will include a keynote by an invited distinguished researcher. We encourage early career and graduate students, as well as more seasoned researchers, to participate in the annual forum.

The post-conference writing retreat will be the full-day following the research forum and will kick-off with a panel discussion of recent doctoral students, faculty members, and researchers to provide insight into writing.  During the day, participants of the writing retreat will have opportunties to ask questions with writing coaches and gain feedback on the process and their writing product.

Paper:  Submit a 750-3000-word proposal (without references).  Suggested sections for the proposal can include Title, Introduction, Problem Statement & Purpose, Literature Review, Framework, Research Questions/Hypotheses, Methodology/Methods, Results, Findings or Anticipated Findings, Discussion, Implications, Recommendations, Conclusions, Limitations, and References.

Roundtable:  Submit a 500-1000-word structured abstract (without references).  Suggested sections can include a Title, Introduction, Literature, Framework, Problem & Purpose, Research Questions, Findings or Anticipated Findings, Implications, and Conclusions.

Poster:  Submit a 500-1000-word structured abstract (without references).  Suggested sections include Title, Introduction, Literature, Framework, Problem & Purpose, Research Questions, Findings or Anticipated Findings, Implications, and Conclusions.

Symposium:  Submit a 500-1000 structured abstract (without references).  Suggested sections include Title, Introduction, Goals, Session Outline, Papers/Presentations/Panel, Contributions, and Conclusions.

Submissions should be in a PDF document.  Those who submit proposals early will be provided early notification of the acceptance decision.