ITP North Island Rangahau & Research Symposium 2026
The 2026 ITP North Island Symposium will be held December 3-4 at the MIT and Unitec’s Manukau Campus in Auckland.
In-person registration for the Symposium is available via this form.
The purpose of the 2026 ITP North Island Symposium is to showcase the diversity of research undertaken by staff and postgraduate students across the vocational sector. All research disciplines and methodologies of inquiry are welcome, including (but not limited to) applied and technological research, rangahau Māori, creative practice, and pedagogical research.
We look forward to welcoming you to the 2026 ITP North Island Symposium.
Abstract Submission Process
Please submit your Abstract through this link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/OPSITARA2026/.
If you do not already have a Microsoft CMT account, you will first need to register for one and verify your email. Please use your institutional email address so we can verify your affiliation (please do not use a personal email address). After creating your account and logging in you will reach the Author Console page. Click on the ‘Create a New Submission‘ button and fill out all the required fields as instructed, then click ‘Submit‘ at the bottom. You will be taken to a printable confirmation page, and will also receive an email confirmation of submission.
If you make a mistake during submission, you can edit any part of your completed submission from the Author Console page up until the submission deadline. If you are submitting a creative practice presentation and would like to upload supporting documentation, you can add Supplementary Material to a submitted presentation on the Author Console page.
All abstracts will be peer reviewed.
Key Dates
Abstract submission will be open from September 15 until October 13 2026 through the following link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/OPSITARA2026.
| 15 September | Call for abstracts opens |
| Abstract submission deadline extended | |
| 29 October | Notification of initial abstract decisions & reviewer comments |
| 10 November | Deadline for revisions and responding to reviewer comments |
17 November 24 November | Registration for presenter attendance closes Registration for non-presenting attendees closes |
| 26 November | Programme release |
| 3-4 December | In-person event begins |
Presentation Options
This year the ITP Research Symposium is being run as an in-person symposium in which people can share their rangahau and research. There are no options for remote or pre-recorded presentations. Corresponding authors may submit at most one abstract per category. The organizing committee may offer to accept a submission in a different format than the type selected.
Type | Format / Description | Submission Guidelines |
Research Presentation (in person) | A fifteen-minute in-person presentation plus five minutes for questions. | Submit a title and an abstract (maximum 300 words). The following information should be included:
Citations and references should NOT be included in your abstract. |
Creative Practice Presentation | A display, performance, or interactive presentation of creative work. Examples include (but are not limited to):
| Submit a title and an abstract (maximum 300 words) explaining the creative practice that you intend to present. Please also include any technical requirements needed for the creative presentation (e.g. space requirements, piano, sound system, audio visual system). Optionally, you may also upload supporting documentation such as photos of the artwork, audio files of music, links to games or video clips of films, animations or performances (up to 20MB per file). Hyperlinks to larger files may be included at the end of the abstract if needed. |
Research Poster | Posters must be A1 size (portrait or landscape). The presenter will be expected to stand by the poster during the poster session(s) so that conference attendees can ask questions while viewing the poster. | Submit a title and an abstract (maximum 300 words) containing the following:
If you are presenting in-progress work, results from a literature review, teaching practice, or useful tools, methods, or resources feel free to submit a shorter abstract with a different structure. Citations and references should NOT be included in your abstract. |
Research Community of Practice Meeting | A meeting of a Research Community of Practice in a particular field (e.g. Health and Wellbeing, Business etc.). Accepted meetings will be assigned a slot during the symposium. The submitting author(s) will be expected to organise the meeting with support from the symposium chairs. We will allocate a timeslot for your meeting in the conference programme that does not clash with talks on the same topic. | Submit a title (preferred form ‘RCoP Meeting: Field of Research’).Submit a title (in the preferred form ‘RCoP Meeting: Field of Research’) and a short abstract (maximum 150 words) containing the following:
Please include any confirmed co-organisers or panel members as authors when making your submission. We will follow up with all ‘authors’ for further organisation. |
Talanoa (Pacific Stream only) | 10-minute presentation plus five minutes for questions. This option is available to Pacific postgraduate students and staff. | Submit a title and a short abstract (150 words) Briefly discuss the content/ aim/ objective (s), methodology, results, and implications of your research. Citations and references should NOT be included in your abstract. |
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.