This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the 7th Pascal Conference - Regional Development: Sustainable Coastal Futures is Monday, 30th June, 2008 and we look forward to receiving your submission.

To register please visit: 

www.kent.gov.uk/pascalconference 

Conference Themes
We invite academic papers, policy and practice papers and demonstration projects, which will be grouped into sub-themes with a specific focus on Coastal Regeneration as follows:

Regional Development
Sustainable Environmental Challenges
Social Capital
Learning Regions

Submitting an Abstract

DEADLINE: Monday 30th June 2008

We welcome submission of abstracts for individual papers and demonstration projects illustrating good practice, which are focused on one or more of the conference themes. They may include reporting on policy development, innovative practice, research in progress or completed research, methodological issues, theoretical issues or conceptual issues. We particularly welcome papers that have an international comparative dimension.

Abstracts should indicate:
The nature of the paper, for example, whether it is a report on completed research, work in progress, an analytical or discussion paper, a demonstration project of practice or a contribution to the Debating Den session. A proposal for the Debating Den session should consist of one innovative idea on Coastal Regeneration which seeks inspirational feedback from the panel, whilst other proposals may be focussed on any of the four sub-themes above.

The issues the paper raises

The relationship of the paper to other literature, research, etc.
The approach to the topic, and where relevant an outline of methodology, sample, etc.

Conclusions and recommendations
Abstracts should not exceed 200 words. The working language for the conference is English. Abstracts must be submitted electronically (Rich Text Format or Microsoft Word) no later than Monday 30th June 2008.

Please send abstracts by e-mail to: pascal@stir.ac.uk

Proposals must clearly state:

Full name(s), job title(s), place(s) of employment, postal, telephone, fax and e-mail address(es) of proposers.
Abstracts will be reviewed and contributors will be notified regarding acceptance of their papers by Monday 21st July 2008.

Each paper will be allocated 25 minutes in duration. Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes, leaving at least 20 minutes for discussion and questions. There is no need to submit a full paper in advance of the conference: rather presenters should bring an electronic version to the conference, as well as 20 hard copies, which can be handed out to delegates attending the session.  Full papers will be considered for publication within proceedings of the conference and will be subject to an anonymous, full refereeing process.  Full papers should be of approximately 4000 words and style guidelines will be sent to all presenters.

Key note speakers:
Keynote speakers drawn from academia and leading practitioners in the fields of social capital, learning regions and community regeneration include:

Simon Bell, Bayswater Institute/Plan Bleu
Steve Weaver, Chief Executive, Blackpool Council
Daryell Nowlan, Director for Community Development, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Roger De Haan/associate of Norman Foster, Creative Foundation, Folkestone