6th ILA Women and Leadership Conference

Call for Proposals

Submission Deadline: 07 January 2022

Decision Date: Status Notifications Will Be Emailed by or on 14 March 2022

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Program Team
Conference Theme
Streams
Submission Types (Presentation Formats)
Evaluation Process & Criteria
Information Needed When Submitting
Tips for Submitting
General Information & Requirements
Acknowledgement of Terms

Questions?
If you have questions about or need assistance with submitting to the Call for Proposals, please contact us at WLC2022CFP@theILA.org or call +1 (202) 470-4818 ext. 106.

If you have trouble logging into your ILA profile, please contact our membership team at membership@theILA.org or call +1 (202) 470-4818 ext. 104.

Program Team

Conference Chair

Liza Howe-Walsh, Reader in International Human Resources Management, Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management, University of Portsmouth

Program Co-Chairs

Sue Kirk, Senior Lecturer in International Human Resource Management, Leadership, Work and Organisation, Newcastle University
Victoria Pagan, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, Business School, Newcastle University  

Stream Co-Chairs

Reflection and Rejuvenation: Inspiring Women Leaders 
Sally Elizabeth H. Deck, PhD Candidate, School of Leadership Studies, Gonzaga University
Rita Gardiner
, Assistant Professor, Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies, Faculty of Education, Western University
Liza Howe-WalshReader in International Human Resources ManagementOrganisation Studies and Human Resource ManagementUniversity of Portsmouth

Leadership Across Culture and Context
Wendy Fox-Kirk, Assistant Professor, Business Administration & Marketing, Weber State University
Dionne Rosser-Mims, Vice Chancellor, Troy University – Phenix City 

Advancing Leadership Development and Education Globally
Karen Perham-Lippman, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Manager, Talent Acquisition and Global Diversity, Lumen Technologies
Randal Thompson, President & CEO, Dream Connect Global

Helping Girls and Young Women Become Leaders
Chrys Egan, Associate Dean, Fulton School of Liberal Arts, Fulton Dean’s Office, Salisbury University
Hayley Finn, Student, Faculty of Education, Western University 

Conference Theme

The 2022 ILA Women and Leadership Member Community Conference Committee is proud to announce its 6th conference scheduled for 15-17 June 2022 at the University of Portsmouth, UK. The conference theme is Reflection and Rejuvenation: Inspiring Women Leaders.

We are living in an exhausting period of time with constant demands, deadlines, and daily dilemmas, further heightened by global sustainability challenges and the pandemic. The theme and aim of the conference is to provide space and time to reflect and rejuvenate whilst developing our research and practice as leaders for today and tomorrow.

The women and leadership conference committee invite you to spend some time exploring our theme and streams for the conference. We want to support your development and the development of others to provide an opportunity to support reflection in leadership practice.  Whilst we have provided a list of possibilities, please do remember we are an inclusive community and welcome submissions that fit broadly within our streams. Whether you are at the early, mid, or later stage of your career, we welcome both scholarly and professional practice submissions. We encourage submissions that start and continue leadership conversations to support women’s leadership and promote diversity, equality, and inclusion for all.

Streams

Aligned to the theme of the conference to provide time to reflect and rejuvenate ourselves, we welcome participants who would like to develop their reflective practice. Whether you have engaged in reflective practice on a regular basis and want to share your experiences or those you have supported, we welcome submissions aimed at inspiring leadership practice from scholarly and professional practice.

This stream supports the development of women through their reflection of leadership experiences and practice.

Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Approaches to achieve reflection in practice including ourselves, others, and the global environment
  • Methods for developing reflective practice such as: stress management, meditation, mindfulness training, journaling, artwork, music, mind-body exercise, visualization, etc.
  • Research and case studies of women leaders around the globe who have developed their leadership practice through reflection of crucible experiences
  • Best practices and skill sets for developing solutions to support rejuvenation of self, leadership practice, etc., such as creating safe spaces, dialogue across differences, building consensus, and/or resolving conflict, i.e. intergroup dialogue, mediation, negotiations, restorative practices, and peacebuilding
  • Work/life balance

Submission Types (Presentation Formats)

In order to best fit the specific needs of ILA’s diverse conference participants, there are different types of sessions at ILA’s Women & Leadership Conference ranging from experiential workshops to quantitative research presentations. Please review our definitions here to be sure you select the right format for your proposal.

In the online proposal system (All Academic), presentation formats are divided into two categories to delineate between complete, stand-alone sessions and individual presentations, which are submissions that are meant to be grouped with others to form stand-alone sessions. Detailed descriptions of these categories and proposal types follow.

Pro Tip: Be sure to review participant role definitions and the evaluation criteria used for each submission type prior to submitting!

Sessions (Pre-Grouped Submissions)

Session submissions are complete, stand-alone sessions for which one or more presenters have agreed in advance to group their work. These sessions are given a full timeslot in a presentation room, if accepted. ILA strongly prefers submissions of this nature and encourages all individuals interested in presenting at the conference to reach out to and collaborate with others to submit a complete session. ILA members are invited to use the HubILA discussion group on ILA Intersections for this purpose.

IMPORTANT: Panel and workshop submissions are not double-blind reviewed; presenter qualifications will be considered during the review process. Symposium submissions are double-blind reviewed and should be free of participant-identifying information. Symposium submissions that do not adhere to this rule may be subject to immediate rejection.

A Symposium is a group of three to four concise, oral presentations on a specific common topic that have been pre-grouped into a session and submitted with a Chair and Discussant identified, with time reserved for a moderated discussion by the Discussant, as well as Q&A from the audience. The Chair is non-presenting and will introduce and thank each presenter, keep time so none of the segments (presentation plus any questions) go over, and moderate any discussion after all have presented. The role of the Discussant is non-presenting and analytical; they help deepen the discussion and provide useful feedback. They read the abstracts and/or papers before the conference, noting at least one interesting aspect of each, drafting a few questions, and identifying the links between the papers/presentations. At the session, the Discussant shares   brief and constructive feedback, suggests areas for further exploration or implications for the field, and offers themes or questions that bridge the papers.

A Symposium submission must include a Title, Short Description, and Detailed Abstract (identifying the overarching framework for the session and how the individual presentations fit within that framework) for the overall symposium. The submitter will gather and enter titles, short descriptions, detailed abstracts, and references for each of the proposed presentations within the symposium. (Note: In All Academic, you will need to click on “Add a Paper” on the second page of the form to enter the information about each presentation.) Available participant roles for the overall symposium are Chair (1 required) and Discussant (1 required). Available participant roles for each presentation within the symposium are Presenter (1-3) and Contributor. Be sure your proposal addresses the criteria used to evaluate symposiums prior to submitting! 

Individual Presentations (Ungrouped Submissions)

Individual presentations are proposals that have not been submitted as part of a larger pre-grouped session but will be grouped by the Program Team, if accepted.

  • For Presentation and Developmental Roundtable Discussions (DRD) submissions, the program committee will group three or more accepted submissions together to form a complete session in which the presentation and Q&A time will be shared equally and at least one chairperson will be assigned to moderate.
  • For Interactive Roundtable Discussion (IRD) and Poster submissions, accepted submissions will be grouped into special, stand-alone sessions that take place outside of the concurrent session time slots where participants present simultaneously (either at a roundtable or in front of a poster).

NOTE: If a presentation proposal is accepted, the program committee may choose to re-categorize it as an interactive roundtable discussion or poster.

IMPORTANT: Individual presentations are double-blind peer reviewed; therefore, all submissions in this category should be free of participant-identifying information. Proposals that do not adhere to this rule may be subject to immediate rejection.

Academics and practitioners are invited to submit their research and/or practice-based work to be presented in a concise, oral manner. Three or four related accepted submissions will be grouped together by the Program Team to  make up a complete session.

Submissions for a Presentation must include a Title, Short Description, Detailed Abstract, and References. Available participant roles are Presenter (1-3) and Contributor. Be sure your proposal addresses the criteria used to evaluate presentations prior to submitting!

Evaluation Process & Criteria

Submission Review Process

The ILA Women and Leadership Conference review process is a rigorous 3-step process. Proposals submitted on time and fulfilling all of the requirements will be forwarded for peer review.

Step 1: During this first round, each submission is read in a single-blind (for Panel and Workshop) or double-blind (for Symposium, Presentation, Developmental Roundtable Discussion, Interactive Roundtable Discussion, and Poster) review by up to three reviewers and then ranked. The criteria used to review submissions during this step are listed below.

Step 2: Stream Co-Chairs will then read both proposals and reviewer evaluations to identify and recommend a diverse collection of quality submissions that meet the stream’s goals.

Step 3: Finally, the Conference Program Co-Chairs, Conference Co-Chairs, and ILA Staff will review the recommendations of the streams, ensure that nothing was overlooked, and work together to create the overall conference program. Care is taken to scan for any proposals for which review work may have been incomplete, English may not have been the submitter’s first language, or the assigned reviewers erred in the review process.

Evaluation Criteria

There are seven (7) general review criteria, each worth a maximum of five points. Each submission type is referenced separately within each of the seven criteria.

After reading each proposal, the reviewer will score each criterion (Excellent = 5pts; Very Good = 4pts; Adequate = 3pts; Not Very Good = 2pts; Poor = 1pt) based on the following elements. Specifics about each are included below.

Symposiums, Presentations, Developmental Roundtable Discussions, Interactive Roundtable Discussions, Posters

Theoretical-Based Submissions: The proposal states a leadership problem, issue, need, or new idea and describes its significance. The content has a scholarly perspective and is based on research/theory, literature reviews, etc. The intended contribution is clearly articulated.

Experiential/Practice-Based Submissions: The problem, issue, need, or possibility is well articulated. The organizational context and why the practice is significant is clearly described. The intended contribution is clearly articulated.

Panels

The proposal states a significant leadership problem, issue, need, or new possibility, along with the purpose and goals of the panel discussion.

Workshops

The proposal states a significant leadership problem, issue, need, or new possibility, along with the context, purpose, and goals of the workshop.

Information Needed When Submitting

BEFORE YOU BEGIN the submission process, please be sure that all the participants involved understand and agree to the Terms, then proceed to gather/prepare the information listed below.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN, read over the tips for submitting.

NOTE: The submission portal (All Academic) only allows for plain text to be entered into the text boxes. If you paste in formatted text with different font sizes, colors, bolding, italics, etc., it will reformat to  plain text. Please do not include tables, graphics, photos, etc. They will not display in All Academic.

The following items appear in All Academic and are required for all proposals, unless otherwise note.

Submission Items

Select the stream that best fits the topic of your proposal.

  • If the proposal’s topic crosses streams, please pick one of them.
  • Do not submit the same proposal to multiple streams.
  • The program committee reserves the right to change a submission’s stream selection.

Participant Roles

Participants do not have to be ILA members (although members receive the best rates on conference registration); however, all participants must have a profile in the ILA database in order to be added to the submission. You can check to see if they are already in the ILA database and add them if they are not. It is important to do this at least one hour prior to beginning the submission process. Please see “Adding a Participant” for complete details.

Not all roles are available for all submission types. All Academic will show you only those roles available for the submission type you have selected.

A contributor to, author of, or co-author of the proposal/research who will attend and present at the conference.

Tips for Submitting

Adding a Participant

In order to be listed on a submission, all participants (Presenter, Contributor, Chair, Discussant) must have a profile in the ILA database. Individuals will be in the ILA database if they are a current or past member, have ever attended an ILA conference, or if they have ever been listed on a proposal for an ILA conference. As you organize your submission, ask your co-participants if they are already part of the ILA database.

You also can go here and type in their email address to see if they are already in the ILA database and can add them if they are not. If they are not already in the ILA database, you should add them or ask them to add themselves at least one hour before you submit the proposal. To add a participant to the database, you’ll need their email address, name, title, organization, and country of residence. IMPORTANT: It takes up to an hour for the ILA database and All Academic to sync, so create new profiles at least one hour prior to beginning the submission process.

If or once participants are part of the ILA database, enter their last name in the search box on the second page of the submission form in All Academic, then click the applicable role under the Action column in the search results to add them as a Presenter, Contributor, Chair, or Discussant.

Other Tips

  • It is important to review the evaluation criteria before submitting as more details about requirements are included in this section based on the review criteria. Read evaluation criteria here.
  • Create your submission in a word-processing program first and save it. Use only plain text (i.e., no bold, italics, headers, etc.). Copy and paste information into All Academic. This will save you valuable time and effort – and ensure that you do not lose your proposal information if the system times out (see next bullet point) or you encounter technical difficulties.
  • The online submission system (All Academic) will timeout after 60 minutes if you stay on the same page. You can refresh your session by clicking on the timer in the gray header at the top of every page. Note: If you time out of the session and have not finished submitting your proposal, you will have to start over. A proposal is not saved until it is completely submitted.
  • All Academic only allows for plain text to be entered into the text boxes. If you paste in formatted text with different font sizes, colors, bolding, italics, etc., it will reformat to plain text. Please do not include tables, graphics, photos, etc. They will not display in the proposal system.
  • Be sure to click on “Accept and Continue” at the bottom of each page of the form until you reach the “Review your submission” page, then click the “Save Submission” button at the bottom page to ensure you submission has been saved into All Academic. When a proposal is successfully submitted, the system will display a confirmation page and will send a confirmation message to the email address in your ILA profile. PROPOSALS WILL NOT SAVE TO THE SYSTEM IF YOU EXIT BEFORE REACHING THE CONFIRMATION PAGE.
  • IMPORTANT: Symposium, Presentation, Developmental Roundtable Discussion, Interactive Roundtable Discussion, and Poster proposals undergo a double-blind peer-reviewed evaluation Therefore, proposal titles, descriptions, and detailed abstracts must not include specific, participant-identifying information. Participant information is entered in separate fields that will be hidden during the blind review. Proposals of these submission types that include participant-identifying information may be subject to immediate rejection. Accepted proposals will have the opportunity to revise and include identifying information at a later date.
  • IMPORTANT: Panel and Workshop proposals can and should include participant-identifying information. In order to properly assess the proposals, reviewers and the program team need to have a clear picture of who will be participating and the level of their expertise.
  • Please follow the ILA Style Guide when entering your proposal. This two-page document covers the most common style issues such as serial commas, capitalization, and more. If it’s not covered in the style guide, we prefer AP for its readability and APA for references and citations
  • You can edit your proposal until the 07 January 2022 submission deadline. Log in to All Academic with your ILA credentials, click on “Submit or Edit a Proposal” on the Submitter Menu, then click on the “edit” link next to the title of the proposal you wish to edit. In order to save all changes, click on the “Accept and Continue” button at the bottom of each page until you are returned to your list of submissions. If you exit the proposal without clicking on all the “Accept and Continue” buttons, your edits will not be saved.

General Information & Requirements

Conference Registration is Required

If your submission is accepted, all presenters, chairs, and discussants are required to register and pay published conference fees by a deadline (tentatively 04 April 2022) that will be provided in acceptance messages. Accepted proposals will not be scheduled until registration is complete.

IMPORTANT: The  ILA does not pay honoraria, reimburse expenses (e.g., travel, lodging, copying, or poster production), or waive or discount conference registration fees for presenters, chairs, or discussants.

Proposal Guidelines

Please be sure to review all proposal requirements prior to submitting. Submissions that do not follow the requirements will not be considered.

Consent of Presenters

All participants listed in a proposal must have given their consent to be part of the proposal prior to submission. It is the responsibility of the submitter to adhere to this rule for all individuals listed in the proposal, whether or not they will present. IMPORTANT: All participants must be made aware of the registration requirement (see above) prior to submitting.

Scheduling Requests

The ILA does not take scheduling requests. If accepted, concurrent session presentations will be scheduled on Wednesday, 15 June (all day), Thursday, 16 June (all day), or Friday, 17 June (no later than noon). By submitting a proposal, submitters are confirming the availability of all presenting participants (Presenter, Chair, Discussant) for these days. 

Affiliation Listings

The names and affiliations (e.g., title, department, organization) of all scheduled presenters, contributors, chairs, and discussants will be listed in the program book. The information will be pulled directly from an individual’s ILA profile. Participants can edit their profiles at https://ila.memberclicks.net/edit-profile. Note: it is not possible to edit this information in All Academic.

Questions?

If you have questions about or need assistance with submitting to the Call for Proposals, please contact us at WLC2022CFP@theILA.org or call +1 (202) 470-4818 ext. 106.

If you have trouble logging into your ILA profile, please contact our membership team at membership@theILA.org or call +1 (202) 470-4818 ext. 104.

Acknowledgement of Terms

By submitting a proposal to the Call for Proposals, I understand and agree to the following:

  • For Panel and Workshop submissions: Participant-identifying information is required in the detailed abstract and also may be included in the short description.
  • For Symposium, Presentation, Developmental Roundtable Discussion, Interactive Roundtable Discussion, and Poster submissions: The titles, short descriptions, and detailed abstracts are free of names, affiliations, and any other identifying information related to submitters, presenters, contributors, chairs, or discussants. Submissions that include any identifying information may be subject to immediate rejection.
  • All participants listed on a proposal have given their consent to be part of the proposal.
  • Accepted Individual Presentation proposals may be assigned a different presentation format (submission type) than was originally submitted. If a proposal is accepted, it is incumbent upon the submitter/participants to make note of the assigned presentation format before confirming participation in the conference. 
  • If accepted, each presenting participant (Presenter, Chair, Discussant) must confirm their participation by registering for the conference by the registration deadline (tentatively 04 April 2022), which will be provided in the acceptance notice. Failure to register for the conference may result in a submission’s or a presenting participant’s removal from the program.
  • ILA does not pay presenting participants (Presenter, Chair, Discussant) honoraria, reimburse expenses (e.g. travel, lodging, poster production, copying, etc.), or waive or discount conference registration fees.
  • As the submitter, I have communicated the registration requirement outlined above to all presenting participants (Presenter, Chair, Discussant) listed on this submission.
  • The ILA does not take scheduling requests. If accepted, concurrent session presentations will be scheduled on Wednesday, 15 June, Thursday, 16 June, or Friday, 17 June. By submitting a proposal, submitters are confirming the availability of all presenting participants (Presenter, Chair, Discussant) for these days. 

Thank You & See You in Portsmouth!