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• Abstracts should be no more than 300 words
• Use sub-headings to structure your abstract (e.g. Title, Background and aim, Methods, Results, Conclusions).
• Abstracts could relate to:
  • audit work,
  • Service reviews
  • Interesting cases/management dilemmas – please adapt the headings accordingly
  • ongoing audit, if results are not yet known, please adapt the headings accordingly to discuss planned results and next steps.

• On your abstract, please include the names of all authors, and a contact email address for the corresponding/presenting author.
• Please indicate whether you have a preference for a poster or oral presentation
• All abstract submissions must be emailed to Dr Kerry Hanna (researchdirector@orthoptics.org.uk) by 5pm on Friday 18th April  2025.
• When submitting your abstract, please include the following as the email subject heading: BIOS Symposium 2025, Abstract submission.
• All abstracts will be scored by the conference committee.
• You will be notified of the outcome of your abstract submission, and information about the format and timing of presentations will be communicated at that time.
• It is a requirement of the presenters to register their place at the conference

For general queries about the BIOS conference, please contact bios@orthoptics.org.uk

Support is available to help members in writing their abstract / presentation: please contact researchdirector@orthoptics.org.uk

There are available resources on preparing conference abstracts and presentations, which can be found in the members section of the BIOS website

BIOS are welcoming abstract submissions from orthoptic students, presenting a research study or review that they have recently undertaken, or are currently undertaking, as part of their degree course. The student research presentation is an initiative designed to enable orthoptic students from across the UK to meet, experience a profession-wide event, and present their work in a supportive environment of peers and future colleagues!

Students’ abstracts may include a literature review, a project/review proposal, or a research study undertaken alone or as part of a group project. One student from each of the five Universities courses in the UK will be chosen to present their work at the Symposium.

The students will present their work as short presentations (timings and instructions for the number of slides etc will be confirmed when you are notified of acceptance).

The five winners will have their conference fee, travel and accommodation covered, and will benefit from seeing the other talks and updates from the profession.

The abstract guidelines are included below:

• Abstracts should not exceed 300 words
• Use sub-headings to structure your abstract (e.g. Title, Background and aim, Methods, Results, Conclusions). If your research work is ongoing, or you wish to submit a research proposal and results are not yet known, then please adapt the headings accordingly to discuss Planned results and next steps.
• On your abstract, please include your name (the corresponding author), your university, your supervisor/module leader for the research project, and any other authors (e.g. if the research was part of a group project, then the other group members should be named as authors). Please see the abstract template on the last page for further guidance.
• All abstract submissions must be emailed to Dr Kerry Hanna (researchdirector@orthotpics.org.uk) by 5pm on Friday 4th April 2025.
• All abstracts will be scored by the conference committee.

For general queries about the BIOS conference, please contact bios@orthoptics.org.uk

For any queries about your abstract submission, please contact researchdirector@orthoptics.org.uk

There are available resources on preparing conference abstracts and presentations, which can be found in the members section of the BIOS website