2021 Academic Submission Guidelines
Submission deadlines:
Please note that the LHRD Academic Submission Guidelines have been substantially updated for the 2021 event. Ensure you read through the information carefully before submitting your abstract.
General Information & Participation Requirements
Abstract Submission Details
Abstract Submission Format
Abstract Research Categories
Feature Platform Presentation - General Guidelines
Poster Presentation
Submit Your Abstract
The Lucille & Norton Wolf LHRD Trainee Publication Awards
Contact Information
LHRD 2021 will be held on Tuesday, May 11, 2021.
Abstract submissions for London Health Research Day are open to:
The deadline for abstract submissions is Wednesday March 3, 2021, 4:00 p.m. EST. Only one submission per person is permitted. The submitted abstracts must represent the trainee’s research.
New this year, our event is entirely virtual. We will allow an opportunity for all eligible students or research staff to present their research. The LHRD Academic Committee has also decided that submissions will not be judged in the traditional LHRD way. This year, the LHRD Academic Committee will come up with ways to celebrate the research presented, and the scholars who attend. More information on prizes will be forthcoming as our event platform can be modified/updated for our event.
Also new this year, we no longer require the abstract format to be uniform. The abstract submission process will allow our administration teams to set up unique booths for each trainee/presenter. We require information ahead of time so that we have the capacity to do so. While we do not require abstract submissions to be uniform, the abstract submitted will be used for searching all information in the sessions.
New this year, you are required to submit both a scientific abstract and a lay abstract. The online system contains mandatory fields such as: trainee’s/scholar’s full name, work email, organizational affiliations, academic program, area of research, abstract title, author names, and name(s) of supervisor(s). Trainees/scholars must only present work they completed themselves.
Scientific Abstract
The maximum length for your scientific abstract is 3500 characters. Do not include your name, title, supervisor, role and authors in this field. Please also note that the 3500-character limit includes spaces. Images will not be accepted at this stage (abstracts at your individual, virtual station may include images).
Lay Abstract
Your lay abstract will be catered towards a general scientific audience and should avoid the use of jargon and abbreviations. The maximum length of your lay abstract is 1000 characters. Your lay abstract must be formatted as one single paragraph without headings.
Keywords
Your 5 keywords will be used in the searching functionality, so please be sure to carefully select up to 5 keywords that best represent your research.
All abstracts will be searchable with the virtual platform; therefore, no categories will be used at this time.
Each trainee will have an opportunity to present your research orally and upload a video to the platform in your individual booth. Please see below for guidelines with regards to oral presentations:
*Please note that guests and other participants will be encouraged to provide you with feedback on your poster and presentation. This will be done virtually and at your individual booth.
Guest Feedback
All attendees, presenters and registrants will be given access to all of the research presentations. They are encouraged to visit posters/presentations often and will have 1 week prior to the research day to ask questions or give feedback. Presenters (trainees) will be notified of feedback given on their research directly.
Go to the Submission Form to submit your abstract.
The call for abstracts closes on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 4:00 p.m. EST.
Thanks to the personal generosity of Lucille and Norton Wolf, we are pleased to issue a call for The Lucille & Norton Wolf London Health Research Day Trainee Publication Awards. These awards will be announced at London Health Research Day on Tuesday, May 11, 2021.
The Lucille & Norton Wolf London Health Research Day Trainee Publication Awards have been created to recognize the outstanding research discoveries of trainees, postdoctoral scholars, medical residents and clinical fellows working in labs across Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, including Robarts Research Institute, and Lawson Health Research Institute.*
*Please note that undergraduate students and Faculty of Health Sciences trainees are not eligible to participate.
Up to four awards in the amount of $1,000 will be provided to the top-scoring trainee peer-reviewed publications that have appeared in press from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2020. Please note that the eligible time period has been increased to two years for the 2021 academic program to reflect that LHRD 2019 was cancelled.
All trainees and students as described above are eligible to apply. To do so:
For general/academic questions, please contact Janelle Pritchard at jpritch7@uwo.ca. For the Lucille and Norton Wolf London Health Research Day Trainee publication award, contact Sheila Fleming at sheila.fleming@lawsonresearch.com.