Abstract submission

Call for abstracts

We warmly welcome submissions from researchers at all stages of their journey, from those just beginning to those who are established academics. You do not need to be an expert on naming practices to have something valuable to contribute.

This includes people who are still planning their research. If you are at an early stage and have started thinking about how you will approach naming, pseudonymisation, or anonymisation. What do you think you will do and why? We would love to hear about that process too.

Equally, you do not need to have been consciously thinking about naming at the time of your research. Retrospective reflections, realisations, or questions that have emerged only afterwards are just as welcome as accounts of deliberate decision-making.

We are also equally interested in hearing from research participants, not only researchers. If you have experience of being named, pseudonymised, or anonymised as part of a research project, your perspective is (the most) important in this conversation. We would love to hear about your experience of that process.

If you have a story, a question, or a concern connected to naming in research, we want to hear from you.

Important dates

Submission deadline:

11^thMay 2026

Notification of acceptance:

22^ndMay 2026

Topics we're interested in

We invite abstracts for the short talks and welcome proposals on any topic related to naming practices within Applied Linguistics. Suitable topics may include, but are not limited to:

Methodological and Ethical Considerations: How researchers make, document, and reflexively account for naming decisions, including navigating the gap between procedural and relational ethical practice.

Participant Agency and Power Dynamics: Collaborative and participant-led naming practices, power imbalances in researcher-assigned pseudonymisation, and participants' experiences of being named or rendered anonymous.

Identity, Representation, and Culture: The cultural, linguistic, and gender dimensions of naming, and how pseudonymisation choices shape or distort participants' identities and voices.

Risk, Confidentiality, and the Limits of Anonymisation: The boundaries of pseudonymisation as a protective measure, the risks of deductive disclosure, and tensions between confidentiality and transparency.

Rethinking and Moving Beyond Pseudonymisation: Real names, participant-chosen identifiers, and community-based approaches as alternatives to conventional pseudonymisation.

Submission guidelines

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words (excluding references). Your abstract should include:

Your name, institutional affiliation, and contact email address
A clear title for your proposed talk
A description of the topic and its relevance to naming practices in Applied Linguistics qualitative research
Your planned presentation mode (online or face-to-face)

Please use the form below to submit your abstract.

For enquiries, please contact: k.webb@warwick.ac.uk

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