RLAS Call for Submissions

The call for submissions is now open. Deadline 23:00 30 September 2026.

The Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium 2027: Designing Landscape Projects for Impact: Developing, monitoring and defining outcomes at scale aims to build a more cohesive community around landscape-scale transformation, sharing knowledge and best practice, connecting projects across the UK and providing mutual support.

The Symposium will take place on Wednesday 3 February - Thursday 4 February 2027, at the King’s House, Manchester Edinburgh and will include themed presentation sessions across the two days:

• Landscape and Sea projects: Challenges and Success stories

• Designing evaluation approaches for outcome and impacts

• How to monitor & measure with poster and exhibitor pitches

• How to evaluate and use data

• Telling stories with impact

• Inspiring Impact Stories from Landscape and Seas

We are seeking submissions for:

• Short themed session talks - 8 minutes (2 minutes Q&A) with or without slides

• Posters (A0 portrait format) - to be displayed in a communal space on both days, and for a dedicated session on Wed 3 Feb (with a <2minute elevator pitch for each poster before the session begins).  

• Monitoring Technology Exhibitor - to be set up in a communal space on both days, and for a dedicated session on Wed 3 Feb (with a <2minute elevator pitch for each exhibitor before the session begins). 

With the focus on monitoring and evaluation at this year's Symposium - we are keen to provide the opportunity for monitoring technology and instrumentation companies to showcase their products to the network of large scale projects. We are specifically looking for those who have lower cost technologies (as many projects at scale need repeatable low cost solutions to monitor change). The Exhibition space will have a designated area with table for a simple exhibitor stall (so bring pop up banners, leaflets, products to demonstrate, etc). The stall is by application only with spaces limited, yet is free of charge with the expectation for each member of the exhibition team to purchase a symposium ticket and pay thier own travel and expenses. 

Spaces are limited and we expect to receive more proposals than we can accommodate, so proposing a talk or poster does not guarantee inclusion in the Symposium programme. You may submit abstracts for all format options, but successful applicants will only be invited to present one talk or a poster. 

There is no fee for submitting a proposal for a talk or a poster. However, it is expected that all speakers and poster presenters will register to attend the Symposium and pay for their own ticket (standard price £99 for both days, early-bird £79 before 31 October), travel and accommodation.

Deadline: 23:00 GMT 30 September 2026

Successful applicants will be notified as soon as possible.

For more information, please contact Alan Radbourne