Paper Presentation Guidelines

  • WAPOR 2025 conference will be held in in-person format; both presenters and audience are required to attend in person. No online attendance or presentation is possible.
  • For every paper to stay on the program, it is required that at least 1 author is registered for attendance. To remain on the program, the presenters’ registration must be completed by April 30.
  • WAPOR conference program consists of concurrent sessions; each session includes 4 papers. Each session duration is 90 minutes. Authors should count with up to 15 minutes presentation per paper. Discussion to follow with the remaining time. We ask that all presenters adhere to these time limits. Several co-authors can present one paper together; in this case the overall presentation time should be divided by the number of presenters. Before the start of every session, the Chair shall check the number of presenters in presence and adjust the time of presentation if necessary.
  • When preparing your presentation of public opinion research findings, we recommend consulting the WAPOR Code of Professional Ethics and Practice (in particular, section “Rules of Practice Regarding Reports and Study Results”). 
  • It is advisable that oral presentations are accompanied by PowerPoint or PDF slides. To ensure smooth logistics, please, arrive 10-15 minutes prior to the session start to load your presentation onto the laptop provided. For this we recommend using a flash drive, online file storage, or sending your presentation to yourself in an email.
  • Full papers or presentations in PDF format can be uploaded via your WAPOR account. For this, please, login at https://access.wapor.org/, and proceed to Events => WAPOR 2025. You can find the upload button in the bottom left corner. You can upload several files if necessary.  On the presentation day, please, bring a copy of your presentation on a flash drive. Alternatively, you can access the presentation through the conference program.
  • The working language of the WAPOR 2023 conference is English. All presentations and discussion shall take place in English.

Panel Chair Guidelines

  • The main function of Panel Chairs is to moderate and facilitate the presentations and the discussion.
  • Please, arrive some 10-15 minutes prior to the session and remind all speakers to upload their presentations to the PC/ laptop provided in the session room. Please, check if all presenters are in attendance and, if necessary, adjust the time slot for every presenter. Each session duration is 90 minutes. If all 4 presenters are in attendance, the recommended presentation time is 15 minutes per paper. The remaining time shall be used for Q&A and discussion.
  • Check the computer in the meeting room to locate the folder containing the presentations for your session so that it is easily accessible for speakers.
  • Please, start the session on time to ensure all presenters will have sufficient time to deliver their research. Introduce each speaker before their presentation. Keep track of time, make sure the session does not exceed its scheduled end time.
  • As the Chair, you can decide to have a brief discussion after every presentation – or one general discussion at the end. Help guide discussion by calling on people to speak and monitoring the room for questions to pose to the speakers.
  • If possible, plan to reach out to presenters in advance of the conference to obtain brief background information to use when introducing each speaker.