WAPOR Asia Pacific Eighth Annual Conference
The World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) Asia Pacific Chapter is pleased to announce its Eighth Annual Conference, scheduled to take place from 21 to 23 November 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. This conference will be hosted and co-organized by the Japanese Association for Public Opinion Research (JAPOR) and Rikkyo University Center for Statistics and Information, with Mr. Tokuhisa Suzuki (President of JAPOR, Japan) serving as the Local Conference Chair and Prof. Seokho Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) as the 2025 WAPOR Asia Pacific Conference Chair.
The conference will commence with a joint session between JAPOR and the WAPOR Asia Pacific Chapter on the first day, conducted in Japanese with English interpretation provided. The second and third days will feature the WAPOR Asia Pacific Chapter Conference, conducted entirely in English.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 21 April 2025.
Notification of Acceptance: Late May 2025
Conference Theme: Let’s Discuss Opinion Polls: Learning from Diversity
The 2025 conference theme invites critical reflection on how diverse cultures, political systems, and social dynamics shape public opinion across the Asia-Pacific region. Submissions that explore these dynamics from contexts outside the Asia-Pacific region are also welcome.
We encourage contributions employing a wide range of methodological approaches, including quantitative, experimental, and computational methods, as well as mixed methods and qualitative research. Please ensure that your abstract clearly outlines the methods and data sources utilized.
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words.
Presentation topics include but are not limited to:
- Protecting the core values of public opinion research
- Freedom to conduct and publish opinion research
- Public opinion and conflict resolution
- Public opinion and public diplomacy
- Public opinion, policymaking, and survey research
- Public opinion, elections, and voting
- Political behavior, participation, and culture in survey research
- Methodological challenges and improvements in the areas of sampling, measurement, survey design and survey response or non-response
- Best practices for stakeholder research and expert surveys
- Panel studies, longitudinal surveys and established survey programs nationally monitoring public opinion
- Qualitative research
- Survey research applications
- Comparative research and international survey projects
- Cross-cultural concerns in data collection and measurement issues
- Data archiving for the advancement of humanity
- News, media, journalism, and public opinion
- New sources of information on public opinion and the use of social media
- Public opinion and misinformation
- Advertising online, media and audience research
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) challenges in public opinion research and survey methods
- Big data, sentiment analysis and machine learning
- Public opinion and virtual reality
- Digitalization and new sources of information in survey research
- E-voting, e-deliberation, e-panels
- The potentials and limits of online-surveys
- New tools for data visualization