We embrace and encourage diversity in many forms and are committed to promoting greater inclusivity amongst our members and community. We define diversity as people of different cultural backgrounds, races, genders, sexual orientations, body sizes, religions, socio-economic statuses, abilities, and more. We place a special emphasis on equitable health outcomes for indigenous populations who may experience an eating disorder or who may supporting someone with an eating disorder. We urge you to consider how your practice and/or research will positively impact the indigenous population of the land that you reside and ensure their voice is heard. We define inclusivity as an approach where we respect, welcome, encourage and engage diverse perspectives, and in particular are highly committed to deeply listening to the perspectives of those with lived experience and from marginalised groups. We are committed to upholding inclusivity by speaking and acting in ways which afford every person respectful and considerate care, free of bias and stigma. In delivering your presentation we invite you to read and consider this Inclusivity Invitation. We invite you to consider the language that you may be using to describe bodies (including size, gender, age, sexual orientation, ability etc.) and be inclusive and considerate. Specifically, we invite you to be mindful of any medicalising or pathologizing of bodies (e.g., “obese”, “anorexic”) and instead consider other ways of describing bodies in a more neutral and inclusive way. 

Some examples you may consider are:

• Rather than using terms such as “anorexic” or “bulimic” we invite you to use the terminology “person with anorexia” or “person with bulimia”.
• Rather saying “obese” or “obesity” or “person with obesity” we invite you to consider using terms such as “person with a BMI over 30” or “person at higher weight” or “people in larger bodies.” Similarly, we may say “low weight” rather than “underweight” or we may say “BMI under 20”.

If you are interested in learning more about the topic of inclusivity, please refer to this article on terms to avoid or reconsider in the eating disorders field.

A Presenters guide will also be made available by ANZAED.

Abstracts ​are limited to 250 words and must provide a succinct overview of your presentation. Define all abbreviations and concepts in your abstract at first use.

Abstracts should represent original work. This does not preclude the use of data that has been previously submitted, however, some aspect of the abstract should be unique. 

​It is the presenters' responsibility to ensure that any research, dissemination of findings, and presentations adhere to ethical standards (e.g., does not include identifying information of any participant or client)

Note that the Abstract becomes the copyright of ANZAED, and will appear in the Conference Program in written &/or electronic form, on the conference website and/or in any conference proceedings or related publications. The presentation may also be videotaped for dissemination by ANZAED for free or at cost, unless expressly refused by the presenter/s. 

Please ensure the following before submitting an abstract:

• All authors are aware that their name will appear with the abstract and associated publications and all authors agree to the submission and presentation.
• All copyright issues are resolved by all authors before submission.

The following areas will be considered by reviewers when scoring your abstract submissions:

1. ​Scientific quality - Your abstract should be well-structured with:
    * ​A focussed background
    * Succinct and clear aims
    * Summary of methods
    * Results followed by conclusion(s)
    * Key findings ​or outcomes and implications should be clearly stated
2. Importance and relevance to field 
3. ​Consistency with the conference theme/s​​

Note:  Presenting authors for Oral, Poster, Reseach Intensive and Workshop presentations are required to register for the conference and pay the full/applicable fee. Presenting authors should be listed under "List all Presenters" section of the submission form.

See these tips by Phillipa Hay & Lois Surgenor

PRESENTATION TIPS:

• Practise your time - remember when you are overtime you are taking from other people’s presentations. Leave time for a few questions
• Keep to your topic/project – do not meander into your other PhD papers or research interests
• Structure the talk - e.g.,  include background, research question, methods, results, discussion/conclusions and limitations/future research slides. 
• Think about your audience – they will not be experts in  your favourite multivariable methods, but at the same time they will not be ignorant about common basic issues in disorders
• Take care with tables for slides – “cut and pasting” from a word or pdf file can produce tables that appear crowded and unreadable in power point
• Avoid cutting and pasting results from an SPSS output.
• Figures are good (a picture tells a 1000 words...) but keep them  simple and then explain to your audience
• Font sizes need to be large – can you read it from the back of a room?
• Respond to questions thoughtfully rather than defensively or dismissively. ​​

Oral presentations should be of 15 minutes duration (10-12 minute presentations & 3-5 minute discussion). Depending on submission numbers, presentations may be shortened to 10 minutes. Presenters will be advised of this upon acceptance. 

Presentations will be concurrent sessions and grouped together around broad themes, like:

• Epidemiology and Health Economics
• Risk & Maintenance factors; Biology, Psychology, Gender, Ethnicity and Sociocultural Influences
• Prevention, Identification and Initial Response
• Body Image, Weight Attitudes, Weight Stigma
• Service and Workforce Initiatives, Protocols and Program Evaluation
• Emerging Ideas in Research and Clinical Practice
• Psychological and other professional discipline informed interventions (OT; mental health; social work, nutrition and dietetics; lived experience & peer worker; medical care and pharmacological interventions) 
• Diverse & emerging intervention modes (eg creative, somatic, dialogical, non-western health traditions (eg yoga))
• Diagnosis, Classification, and Measurement: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, ARFID, OSFED, Disordered Eating
• Carers, support and social network involvement
• Diagnosis, Classification, and Measurement
• Children, Youth & Families​​​​​​
• Working with and meeting the treatment needs of underserved and diverse (eg males, LGBTQA+ Gender and diverse, neurodiverse people, indigenouse and CALD) & EDs

Papers submitted for presentation will be 'peer-reviewed' by members of the scientific committee. Should the number of submissions exceed the number of places available, acceptance will depend on both overall rating scores and ranking within the presentations on the same topic. Non-acceptance may reflect the possibility that other paper topics are deemed more suitable for the audience, rather than quality. This is particularly true for workshops.   

Oral papers that exceed the ranking and topic constraints may be offered a Poster presentation instead.

All posters should be no larger than  Standard ISO A0 size (841mm   x 1189mm). The poster will be mounted on VERTICALLY ASSIGNED  boards.

Suggestions

• Posters should be professionally printed and on one sheet only. 
• The top line(s) should give the title of your abstract with lettering not less than 2.5 cm/72 points high.   
• The next line(s) should indicate the authors and their affiliations. 
• Continue with the introduction, methods, results and discussion as appropriate. A poster should end with conclusions. 
• Handouts and/or reduced photocopies of your poster for distribution to interested delegates, are always appreciated and should be prepared in advance of the meeting.

Workshops will have a substantial practical element. They are usually clinical in focus, but research based workshops will be considered if they focus on research methodology.

They will have an interactive format to facilitate active learning, such as discussion, activities, small group role plays. They must include practical material such as "how to" guides and vignettes.   

Workshops will be 90 minute duration including a minimum of 30 minutes of activity and discussion.

In your submission please add information about the proposed format, including activities (including time allocated) and roles of each presenter (maximum of 4).

New in 2025, Research Intensives will include three research presentations on one connecting theme. Research Intensives will be 90 minutes in duration (total) with each research presentation going for approximately 20 minutes, followed by a 30 minute engagement and participation section.

The interactive engagement and participation section may explore research methodologies, implications for findings, or potential future research ideas. This section may also include discussions, activities or small group work. 

One abstract will be submitted per Research Intensive and include information on all three research presentations. In your submission please add information about the proposed format, including engagement/interactive section and roles of each presenter (maximum of 3).