WAPOR 77th annual conference: The Soul of Public Opinion Research: Liberty, Quality and Humanity

The World Association for Public Opinion Research is delighted to announce that our 77th Annual Conference will take place on July 28-31, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. The 2024 WAPOR conference will be conducted in conjunction with the 7^th Annual Conference of the WAPOR Asia Pacific Regional Chapter. The 2024 WAPOR annual meeting will be hosted by Survey Research Center at Sungkyunkwan University (https://kgss.skku.edu) and  co-organized together with the Korean Sociological Association (http://eng.ksa21.or.kr/), KOSSDA-Korea Social Science Data Archive (https://kossda.snu.ac.kr/), the Institute of Social Development and Policy Research, Seoul National University (https://www.isdpr.org/en), and PMI (https://pmirnc.com/). Proposals of papers, posters, and pre-organized panels are accepted untill 29 February. 

This year's conference theme is The Soul of Public Opinion Research: Liberty, Quality and Humanity. As we head towards the mid-2020s, the world is again facing wars and many unprecedented global challenges, and we need to ask ourselves again and again how public opinion research can mitigate these global problems and crises. It is time that we look back at the basic values of our profession and discuss how we can overcome all present-day challenges facing humankind without losing sight of our fundamental beliefs. In the 2024 conference we draw our attention to analyzing the role and application of survey research in monitoring public opinion across the world, and how continuous and ongoing innovations in the conduct, analysis and interpretation of public opinion research has helped to make people’s voices heard across the globe.

As a continuation of the WAPOR tradition, the 2024 conference theme is broad. We will continue our discussion of technology advancement, bring in new topics related to humanistic development, and we will not drop our longstanding ‘classical’ public opinion research topics of importance such as electoral studies, freedom to publish polls, the quality of public opinion research around the world, traditional media research, methodological challenges in public opinion research and so on. For the full list of conference sub-topics, please, check the conference home page: https://wapor.org/events/annual-conference/current-conference/.

WAPOR's annual conference gathers together leading survey research professionals and practitioners. Our attendees hail from academia, media, government, and the private sector. During the four-day event around 300 attendees, panellists, and presenters engage into discussions on various issues of public opinion research.  

Herewith we invite proposals of papers, posters and panels to be presented at the 2024 conference. Proposals for the conference should be submitted electronically by February 29, 2024 through the conference platform (https://2024-wapor-conference.events.wapor.org). WAPOR 2024 conference will be held in in-person; both presenters, co-authors and audience are required to attend in person. The following types of submission are accepted: research papers in oral format; poster presentations in oral format (authors are required to bring a printed poster in A0 or A1 format with them); pre-organized panel proposals. Paper and poster presentations can have up to 10 co-authors; pre-organized panels need to have a chair and can include 4-6 papers. All abstracts should not exceed 500 words. All submissions must be in English, and all accepted works are to be presented in English.

The authors are also invited to nominate their papers for one of the available conference awards: https://wapor.org/events/annual-conference/current-conference/available-paper-awards/

WAPOR warmly welcomes proposals to support the conference. The following sponsorship opportunities are available this year: https://wapor.org/events/annual-conference/conference-support/sponsorships/

Expressions of interest as well as any questions can be sent to WAPOR Secretariat: admin@wapor.org.

We look forward to welcoming you to the WAPOR 77th annual conference in Seoul!