Abstract Submission
Abstract Submission Guidelines
Abstract Submission Opens: Monday 19th May 2025
Abstract Submission Closes: Monday 16th June 2025
Presenters
The GAMeS Conference recognises the power of interdisciplinary collaboration among all who are interested in the promotion of mental health in and through sport. We invite and welcome submissions from academic researchers, applied practitioners (e.g., sports psychologists, clinical psychologists, athletic therapists, sports medicine physicians, and educational and developmental psychologists), sport leaders, and industry and community partners.
Topics
We invite original research, case studies, implementation studies, and knowledge translation initiatives to increase psychological safety, mental health and wellbeing in and through sport from grass roots community sport clubs to elite Olympians and Paralympians. Examples of topics include, but are not limited to;
- Psychological safety in sport
- Best practice in mental health and wellbeing promotion through sport
- Clinical cases in top performance sport (individual and team-based sports)
- Efficient team action
- School-based sport psychology initiatives
- Sport over the lifespan
- Programs involving mental health in sport
- Prevention of psychological sport injuries
- Impacts of COVID-19 on exercise and sport
- Performance in sport
- Sport psychology
- Cognitive functioning, mental health and physical activity
- Motor skills learning and acquisition, with a connection to mental health
- Sport for development: Psychological impact
Presentation Types
Oral presentation (Research): This presentation style consists of a multi-slide visual presentation (e.g., PowerPoint) with a limit of 10 minutes speaking time, with 5 minutes for questions and discussion at the end. You can submit your abstract without results, however, preliminary findings (at a minimum) must be presented at the conference. This presentation type is ideal for academic research.
Oral presentation (Practical): This presentation style consists of a multi-slide visual presentation (e.g., PowerPoint) with a limit of 10 minutes speaking time, with 5 minutes for questions and discussion at the end. This presentation type is ideal for practitioners and industry-based delegates who wish to present on practical experiences, reflections, and lessons learned.
Rapid communications: This presentation style is a modern version of a traditional ‘poster’ presentation. It consists of a single static visual slide (formatted however you please), with a limit of 3 minutes for speaking time and 2 minutes for questions and discussion at the end. This presentation type is ideal for protocols and student academic research.
Symposium: This presentation style consists of 4-5 oral presentations within the same topic area. Symposium submissions must contain presentations/speakers from at least two different organisations, ideally from different countries. The session is chaired by a member of the symposium.
Abstract submission guidelines
Abstracts must be written in English and relate to an area of mental health in and/or through sport.
ORAL (RESEARCH)/RAPID SUBMISSIONS
- Abstracts should be structured, using the headings: background/aims, methods, results, conclusions.
- Abstracts must not exceed 250 words (not including author/s name, affiliation or abstract title).
- Abstracts that do not currently have results will be considered, however results must be included in the final presentation (if abstract is accepted).
- Research must not have been presented at another conference.
- Abstracts must not include tables or figures but can include references (the provision of a reference list is not required).
- Authors are advised to please proofread their abstracts before submission for grammatical and spelling errors.
ORAL (PRACTICAL) SUBMISSIONS
- Abstracts must not exceed 250 words (not including author/s name, affiliation or abstract title).
- Abstracts must clearly explain and introduce the area/topic you will discuss.
- Abstracts must not include tables or figures but can include references (the provision of a reference list is not required).
- Authors are advised to please proofread their abstracts before submission for grammatical and spelling errors.
SYMPOSIUM SUBMISSIONS ONLY
All symposia submissions MUST be submitted as a whole symposia, rather than individual submissions. You must have:
- An overarching symposium title.
- An overarching symposia abstract (same guidelines as above).
- Individual presentation titles and abstracts, with accompanying presenter name/s and affiliation/s.
- ALL symposium submissions should be submitted in a single word document or PDF via the submission portal.
*Submission of abstracts does not mean you are automatically registered for the conference. Registration for the conference is separate and will open in June 2025.
**All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Scientific Organising Committee, and authors will be advised of the outcome of their submission in July 2025.
We look forward to welcoming you into our global hub as we connect, share and empower each other to implement best practices in mental health promotion in sport.