CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Sidan granskad:  2026-04-10

Call for Abtracts for the national research conference "Ruralities and Regions in Transition - Renewing thinking and action for new times" in Örebro on 11-12 November 2026.

Welcome to submit your paper proposal to one or several of the conference working groups. You find a list of the working groups here and a link to where you can learn more about the working groups’ scope and aim. 

Use the registration form below to send your abstract no later than 31st of May 2026.

The proposals have a word limit of 300 words, excluding contact information to at least one author. Do not include references in your abstract.

Proposals will be evaluated by the working group coordinator(s), and a letter of acceptance or rejection will be sent out after the 15th of June.

For any questions regarding the groups, please reach out to the coordinator(s).

If you are unable to find a suitable working group but still want to contribute to the conference, please submit your proposal to the Open working group. Your submission will then be evaluated by the conference’s scientific committee and upon acceptance will be sorted into a panel with other open session proposals with a similar focus.

The working groups

WG 1 Rural Work Futures: Flexibility, Equality, and Skills Provision

WG 2 Rural housing: Markets, mobilities and the politics of rural dwelling

WG 3 Rural Landscapes in Transition: Digital Technologies, Land Use, and Local Knowledge

WG 4 CANCELLED 

WG 5 Scaling Nature Restoration in Sweden: Reshaping Ruralities from Individual Practice to National Policy

WG 6 Rural Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Value Chains in Transition

WG 7 The role of rural areas in Sweden’s migration paradigm shift: local mobilization and counter-narratives for rural development as resistance

WG 8 Transitions by Design, Care by Default: North–South Dialogues on Rural Green Transitions

WG 9 Quantitative Approaches to Segregation in Rural Areas 

WG 10 Perspectives on Justice, Inclusion, and Legitimacy in the Local Climate and Energy Transformation

WG 11 Debating rural and regional development – where do we stand today?

WG 12 Age-Optimized Living Environments

WG 13 Disrupted Ruralities: Open moments in times of transition

WG 14 Open session: Renewing thinking and action for new times

You can read more about each Working group here