PhD conferences and Regular Academic conferences:
Colin Robson's Real World Research (2nd edition): analogy with architects (plans, concepts, meeting client's needs, implemantation and resources). "The research proposal is the opportunity to persuade the "client" that you know what you're talking about; that you thought through the issues involved and how you're going to deliver, and that it is worth their taking the risk and giving you licence to get on with it" (p.527).
Generic criteria for conference proposal selection:
Scope/Originality/Strong line of research.
Quality of ideas (novelty, robustness, providing research agenda)
Quality of research (design and data)
Quality of academic writing
Reputation of institution
*Point of research and novelty stand out. An outline of the research design and what empirical work was done.
*Non-academic audiences: the work has the potential to expand to users outside the academic scope.
