This year, we are excited to facilitate poster presentations at the FSPA conference!
This will allow members of the fire service psychology association to showcase the best research on psychology topics that are related to fire or emergency medical service industries.
With any poster submission, you must explain the rationale, theoretical and/or applied significance of results (or predicted results), and general principles. State whether the research is exploratory or confirmatory. It is not acceptable to say, “The results will be discussed.”
The poster submission form accepts plain text only, but you should incorporate illustrative materials such as tables, graphs, photographs, large-print text, and materials in your final poster presentation at the Convention.
Authors present their posters using a visual medium with key excerpts from the papers displayed in landscape/horizontal orientation on a 4′ high x 8′ wide/1.2 m high x 2.4 m wide free-standing bulletin board. Your poster can be printed in any size that fits within those dimensions. Poster presentations should incorporate illustrative materials such as tables, graphs, photographs, and large-print text, and materials should be clearly readable from a distance of three feet (primary text font should be 20 points or larger, and headings font at least 30 points). Posters are assigned a session number and bulletin board number and are organized by keyword when possible. No audio visual equipment can be used.
You are NOT required to submit your final poster before presentation. If your poster proposal was accepted for presentation, you simply need to bring your printed poster to the conference for presentation.
Sample Poster Configuration:
Program Participant Registration Policy
All program participants must register and pay the appropriate registration fee. Students receive discounted convention registration rates. All poster presenters must present on-site at the Conference in Portland, OR. No remote or virtual presentations can be facilitated.
FSPA seeks poster presentations showcasing the latest findings in psychological science in the Fire Service or topics that apply to the Fire Service. Below are some guidelines that can assist in the preparation of your poster submission.
To submit a poster, you’ll need to enter the following information:
- Submitter information: When you begin your poster submission, you’ll fill out the online form. FSPA membership is not required to submit.
- Poster title: The title should be succinct and descriptive because it will be listed without the abstract in Conference materials. The title should indicate the important result, rather than the experimental question.
- Poster type: Standard Poster, Research Proposal Poster, Teaching Poster or Cross-Cutting Theme Poster.
- Abstract: A brief, high-level overview of the research that will be presented; describes the findings (50-word maximum, plain-text format).
- Area of focus: Related area of research; used to match the proposal with the best-suited reviewer. Secondary subject area may also be selected.
- Subject areas: Operations, Consultation, Assessment, Intervention.
- Keyword: Select the keyword that best represents the poster (limit 2).
- Supporting summary: Provides a more in-depth overview of the completed work and includes the following: the background/theory tested, the methods used, a summary of the major findings, and the implications for the work on the field as a whole. (500-word maximum, plain-text format).
- Standard Poster submissions should include the background/theory tested, the methods used, a summary of the major findings, and the implications for the work on the field as whole. You must clearly state that data collection is from an empirical study and is complete.
- Research Proposal posters should include hypotheses, experimental design, plan for participant recruitment, procedure, plan for statistical analysis, and expected results.
- References are required and will not count against the 500-word maximum.
- Emphasize the rationale, theoretical and/or applied significance of results (or projected results for a Research Proposal Poster), and general principles of the research.
- Author Information: The university or business affiliation, individual e-mail address and highest degree earned must be included for all presenters/co-authors. Maximum of 10 co-authors may be included.
- An individual may be a first author on only one poster proposal.
- The first author is the person who contributed the most or led the research study and should be listed first (even if first author is not attending the Conference).
The presenting author will present the poster on-site at the Conference. The presenting author must register for the Conference.