Keynote Speaker

Conference Format

RoSE 2025 is a free, online conference aimed at statistics education researchers at any career stage, from any discipline, and from anywhere in the world. 

We are aiming to run this conference over a 12-15 hour period. Whilst we appreciate this means most delegates won't be able to attend the full conference, we are an international network and have designed it this way so that presenters and delegates from different time zones have the opportunity to engage with at least some of our sessions live. To reduce FOMO, we will also be asking permission from our presenters to record their presentations (where appropriate) so they can be viewed asynchronously, and there will be plenty of breaks for anyone planning a RoSE 2025 marathon!

To get a feel for how RoSE eConferences work, you can check out last year's conference, including session recordings on our YouTube channel!

Conference Theme

There is no overarching theme for RoSE eConferences, but we will be especially interested in submissions that align with one of our six Special Interest Groups (SIGS):

• Statistics Pedagogy

• AI in Statistics Education

• Active Learning in the Statistics Classroom

• Statistics Software

• Statistics Education Research & Scholarship

• Statistics Anxiety

The only stipulation is that your session is focused on research. This does not mean you have to be presenting original research. We are also looking forward to hosting presentations about topics that inspire, provoke, and inform research (e.g., a discussion about the current state of research on a topic, a hack-a-thon aiming to launch a project to solve a particular problem, a workshop that tackles an important research tool/technique etc.).

Submission Guidelines

To submit, you will need to complete a form (link below) and provide a summary/abstract of between 200 and 500 words (excluding references).

You may submit multiple contributions, but we may only be able to accept one as we will only be running one stream this year.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the statistics education community. As well as providing general feedback, reviewers will be asked to rate submissions on their research focus, likely interest/importance to the field, overall quality and appropriateness (e.g., the clarity of the key message, suitability of intended session type), and inclusivity (e.g., do presenters use inclusive language and do presenters consider ways to ensure everyone can participate, regardless of identity or other personal characteristics?).

Submission Timeline:

March 14th -  Submissions open

April 15th - Submissions close

May 15th - Decisions communicated to contributors

Submission Portal:

Submit here: https://forms.gle/5z6rnfZn5vUVVCNj9  

Code of Conduct:

All presenters and attendees should read and adhere to the RoSE Code of Conduct.

Types of Contributions

We call for summaries or abstracts along the following lines: 

• 5-7 minute lightning talk on your own unpublished work: This may be a proposal, a work-in-progress, or even a completed but yet to be published work. Choose this option if you want to have a quick way of soliciting comments and disseminating findings. Include as much detail as possible. Make sure to explicitly state the stage of development of your contribution.

• 20-25 minute talk on your own unpublished work: This may be a proposal, a work-in-progress, or even a completed but yet to be published work. Choose this option if you want more incisive comments or are perhaps preparing for your work to be published. Include as much detail as possible. Make sure to explicitly state the stage of development of your contribution.

• 20-25 minute talk on your own published work: This is inspired by the Journal-to-Conference track in some machine learning conferences (an example is linked here). Choose this option if you have a published paper from the past 2 years in a peer-reviewed journal which focuses on statistics education and want the opportunity to have some post-publication exposure and commentary which may lead to future collaborations. Specify the details of the published work – what it is, where it could be accessed, and the motivation for presenting it post-publication. 

• 20-25 minute talk on someone else's published work: Choose this option if you would like to dig deeper into a published paper from the past 2 years in a peer-reviewed journal which focuses on statistics education. This may be an opportunity to really understand a paper thoroughly and could be a starting point for future research. Specify the details of the published work – what it is, where it could be accessed, and the motivation for presenting it post-publication. You may like to spend 10-15 minutes of your session facilitating discussion to solicit audience perspectives.

• 30-45 minute collaborative idea development session: Choose this option if you want to meet like-minded people who share the same research interests as you do, with a view to working together. This may be an opportunity to have a more focused and more organic networking session where participants know the topic - and the motivation for it - in advance.

• 45-60 minute workshop: Specify what the workshop is going to be about, why you should facilitate the workshop, and why the workshop is relevant for audiences doing research and scholarship in statistics education. 

• 45-60 minute panel discussion: Choose this option if you have gathered and confirmed three to five members (plus a Panel Chair) agreeing to provide commentary or a point of view on the panel topic related to research on statistics education. Specify, in sufficient detail, why the panel topic should be discussed and why the speakers are the most appropriate individuals in this endeavor.

• Hackathon: Choose this option if you want to set aside a large chunk of time to collaboratively and intensively work on a project with delegates at the conference. The project must be related to research in statistics education. Specify, in sufficient detail, why a hackathon is necessary, how many participants would be ideal, and why you would be the most appropriate individual to facilitate this endeavor. Please also give us an indication of the minimum and maximum amount of time you need for the session. To learn more about hackathons, a writeup can be found here. 

Join the Conference Committee!

If you would like to join the committee and help plan the conference, please contact our Conference Chair, Andrew Pua for more information.

Everyone is welcome, but we are especially keen to work with statistics education researchers from outside the Global North.