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New Scholars’ Forum was first organized in Canterbury in 1998 and has since then been a part of the annual conferences of FIRT. Its aim is to give the new participants and especially doctoral students an  opportunity to present their research in a special session in which senior scholars in their specialty and other new scholars participate. The New Scholars’ Forum also provides an excellent opportunity to create contacts with other new scholars.
The papers do not need to follow the theme of the conferences, and while they are expected to be shorter than papers in regular sessions the time for discussions and response is longer. The Forum’s work is parallel with Conference sections, and consists of 3-5 sessions with 3-4 papers. Each scholar in the Forum will be allocated a total of 20-30 minutes, 10-15 minutes for presentation of her/his paper, followed by 10-15 minutes’ discussion.
While the New Scholar’s Forum is an integral part of the conferences, the call for papers and application procedure are included in the general information and structure of each Conference. Accordingly the participants will send a 200-word abstract of their papers with their applications to the Conference organizers. They can also send their final papers to the responsible organizer of the New Scholars’ Forum before the Conference, and the papers will be delivered to some senior scholars who will participate in the paper’s discussion.
One of the Vice-Presidents of the Federation is responsible of the New Scholars’ Forum, and the meetings are planned by her/him and the Conference organizers in cooperation.
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