You will be sent (or may already have been sent) an email with a link for you to access your allocated submissions. This email will be from: “EAWOP Congress 22 | Submissions [email protected]” with the subject line “Invitation to review abstract for EAWOP 2022 | Symposia Submissions”. 

Please note: If you are assigned other types of submission as well as symposia, you will be sent a different link to review those.

Once you have clicked on the link in the email you will arrive at the page below.  You will need to click “Log In” in the top right-hand corner. 

IMPORTANT: You will need to use the email address that the reviewer email was sent to in order to login to the system and access your reviews. 

* If you have already submitted a symposium using this email address, you will just need to enter your password.

If you have not submitted a symposium on this site, under this email address, you will need to click “Need to create an account?”, complete the required details and then press “Create”.

Once you are logged in, you will need to click on “My Reviews” which will lead you to your assigned submissions for review:

Here you will see all of the symposia that you have been allocated.  You have the option to filter by “Topic” or by “Status” (reviewed, not reviewed). Once you are ready to begin reviewing a symposium, click on “Review”.

Once you have clicked on “Review” you will see the symposium details at the top of the screen under “The Submission”.

• We have tried to allocate submissions according to your stated areas of interest but occasionally this has not been possible.  If you feel you cannot review the symposium, please contact us at [email protected] as soon as possible.
• If you feel you have a conflict of interest (e.g., one of the authors is/was a close colleague) which makes it inappropriate for you to review the submission please contact us at [email protected] as soon as possible.

Criteria for Rating a Symposium

A Symposium provides reports of empirical research, innovative practice, and/or theoretical advances. Ideally it demonstrates real world impact or potential for impact. 

The overall Submission Abstract should clearly state:

1. Research goals and why the work was worth doing
2. Theoretical background
3. Method adopted
4. Results obtained or expected (if not available, when will they be)
5. Conclusions

Each individual Symposium paper with an empirical base should clearly state:

1. Research goals and why the work was worth doing
2. Theoretical background
3. Design/Methodology/Approach/Intervention
4. Results obtained or expected (if not available, it must be made clear when they will be)
5. Limitations
6. Research/Practical Implications
7. Originality/Value

Each individual Symposium paper with a theory base should clearly state:

1. Theoretical background
2. New Perspectives/Contributions
3. Research/Practical Implications
4. Originality/Value

Judgements you are asked to make

A. You are not asked to provide a separate rating for each of the criteria above, but to make a single rating of:

• Each Paper in the Symposium (up to 5 papers)
• The Symposium as an overall submission, remembering that this rating goes beyond individual paper quality as the submission as a whole may be greater or perhaps less than the sum of the parts

All ratings are made using the same 5-point scale and with regard to the suitability of the submission for a major International Congress:

B. As stated in the table above, if you rate anything as a 3, 2 or 1, you are asked to provide short notes to explain why. This is very important as we have to provide suitable feedback to submitters. We do not expect you to write at length, but around 40 to 100 words would be a reasonable guide and the points should relate to the provided criteria and points to look out for. Think about what you would like to receive in terms of feedback if this was your paper.

C. You are also asked to recommend any changes that you think the author/s could make to improve their submission which could include content change, clarity of expression or grammar. These are encouraged no matter what the rating of the submission.

Symposium Review Site 

A sample of what you see when you select a submission for review is shown below: 

The overall Symposium Abstract is shown first along with information about the Discussant if one is involved, followed by as many individual papers as the Symposium contains (up to 5). The rating part of the reviewing process comes at the end of all the symposium sections and so there could be a degree of scrolling up-and-down in order to read each component, make your ratings and add the necessary text comments. 

Symposium Title, Abstract & Discussant

Symposium Paper Details

Individual Paper Ratings

Overall Symposium Rating: 

Once you are happy that you have completed all of the questions, click “Submit”.

Once you have submitted your review, you will be taken back to the “My Reviews” page where you will now see a rating next to the paper that you have reviewed. 

You have the option to go in and edit your scores/comments until your 3-week review period is over.  At this point, any further amends will not be taken into consideration. 

You will need to complete STEP 5 for each of the submissions you have been allocated.

Once all of your reviews have been submitted and the 3-week reviewing period has finished, your marks and comments will be passed to the Programme Committee who will be in touch should there be any queries. If there are none, you will receive an email from [email protected] thanking you for participating in the process. 

Who should you contact for assistance? 

For any enquiry about using the online system, or the reviewing process itself, please contact [email protected].

Thank you 

The Programme Committee thanks you for volunteering your time to review for the 2022 EAWOP Congress.