Schedule
Registration and abstract submission for the meeting will open on this website soon.
Registration
Registration for the 20256Annual Meeting will be limited to 360 delegates. Key dates are:
18th September (23:59 GMT): Deadline for early-bird registration and abstract submission
Late October: Abstract decisions
6th November (23:59 GMT): Deadline for late-bird registration
Registration fees are shown below. These include the symposium andd icebreaker reception on 8th December, and scientific sessions and catering during breaks and lunch on 9th and 10th December.
Non-member | Member | Student Member | |
Early-bird
| £295 | £170 | £100 |
Late-bird
| £345 | £220 | £150 |
Workshops, tours, annual dinner, field-trip
At registration you will also be able to register to attend workshops, tours, as well as the Annual Dinner and post-meeting field trip (members only). For details, including costs see relevant sections of this page below.
Printed abstract booklets
All delegates will be provided with a paper reference copy of the meeting programme (including talk titles and presenting authors) as part of the registration fee. The full programme and abstract booklet will also be available to all delegates in electronic pdf form. However, if you would prefer a traditional printed abstract booklet, you will need to choose this option at registration, which will incur an additional £6.00 charge.
Dietary and accessibility requirements
Please include all dietary and accessibility requirements within the registration form.
Queries
For queries related to registration, please contact annualmeeting2025@palass.org.
How to register
Please note: Registration for this meeting is not yet open.
In order to register for the Annual Meeting, please log into the new Palaeontological Association website. Conference registration is available via a link in the Events tab at the top of your user dashboard, shown below (for a logged in member).
Members: All members automatically have an account: please click on the black button below left to visit the dashboard.
Non-members: In order to register for the conference, you will first need to create a user account on our website. This will provide access to the user dashboard, via which registration and abstracts are processed. Please click on the yellow button below right, to create a user account, and when you have done so, visit your dashboard.
Problems?
If you encounter any problems when registering or submitting an abstract, please let us know by clicking on the button below, and we will do our best to fix these quickly. We’re grateful for your patience and support if we do run into snags.
Abstracts
The deadline for abstract submission is 23:59 GMT on 18th September. After this date abstracts will not be considered. Delegates will be notified late October, via e-mail, regarding decisions on their abstracts. To submit an abstract, please first register as an attendee. Once you have done so, you will be able to submit an abstract via your dashboard on the website: look to the tab Abstracts at the right-hand side at the top of your dashboard, the tab to the right of the one you used to register.
General abstract guidance
Abstracts are limited to 200 words in length. Abstracts that are not formatted correctly according to the template will not be considered. During abstract submission, delegates will be able to select whether they are applying for a standard talk, lightning talk, or poster. Delegates may submit only one abstract for which they are first author / presenting author. All presentations are required to be in English.
Oral presentations (standard and lightning talks)
Standard talks will be allocated 15 minutes in total, and you should prepare your talk to allow for 3 minutes of questions. Lightning talks will be allocated 5 minutes in total, and you should prepare your talk to allow for 1 minute of (brief) questions.
If you do not wish for content from your poster or talk (or specific slides/sections therein) to
be shared electronically or on social media, please use the PalAss social media symbols in
your presentation.
Poster presentations
Dedicated poster sessions will take place on 9th and 10th December. Posters will be displayed in A0 portrait format.
If you do not wish for content from your poster or talk (or specific slides/sections therein) to be shared electronically or on social media, please use the PalAss social media symbols in your presentation.
Abstract review
Delegates submitting abstracts are kindly asked to consult the process, guidelines, and rubric for reviewing abstracts on the Association website.
Standard and lightning talk and poster abstract decisions are competitive; slots are oversubscribed yearly owing to the ongoing success of the Annual Meetings. All abstracts will be reviewed double-blind and we will consider how developed the research is, career stage, and whether the presenter has presented last year.
We wish to enable as many delegates as possible to present their work. Consequently, we reserve the right to reject a submitted abstract or change the preferred presentation format between standard talks, lightning talks, or posters.
Priority for oral presentations will be given to third- and fourth-year PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. Undergraduate, Masters, and first- and second-year PhD students are encouraged to submit posters or lightning talks.
International delegates and visas
For international delegates who require visas to enter the UK, please contact us at annualmeeting2026@palass.org, so that we can provide a formal letter of invitation from the conference organisers (if required) and a decision on your abstract in a timely manner.
Research ethics
All research presented at the meeting should abide by policies outlined in the page Palaeontological Association Ethics Code. For further details on the Palaeontological Association’s stance, please see the article in Newsletter 108, “Palaeontology and Papers in Palaeontology – policies, ethics and the way we operate”. If authors believe that their research may raise potential concerns, a pre-submission enquiry may be made to annualmeeting2026@palass.org.