Sharing your research and the lessons you learned from conducting that research is critical to the evolution of this area of study and contributes to the overall well-being of our scholarly community. We invite submissions of complete research, research-in-progress, and research ideas and proposals. We welcome innovative, inspiring research that explores topics related to entrepreneurship and innovations that advance the employment of neurodivergent people. Submitted work may be conceptual, analytical, design-oriented, or empirical in nature. One goal of the conference is to provide an opportunity to receive constructive feedback to advance and improve your work. We strongly encourage submissions relevant to the conference's theme but continue to accept general papers relevant to the preparation, recruitment, persistence, and/or advancement of neurodivergent people in the workplace more broadly.

Evaluation Criteria

The primary criteria for acceptance of a submitted paper are the scientific quality of the paper and the potential contribution to neurodiversity employment research and practice. To this end, consider these three criteria:

• Relevance to the conference: The extent to which a paper meets the conference goals and may relate to the preparation, recruitment, persistence, and advancement of neurodivergent individuals in the workplace.
• Potential scholarly contribution: The scientific quality of the submission relative to the theoretical grounding and/or methodological clarity and empirical rigor as well as originality of the paper.
• Broader impact: The relevance of the work to neurodiversity employment practice and its potential for impact on society.
• Quality of presentation: The quality of the writing and organization of ideas and conclusions.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee.

Papers submitted to the Neurodiversity at Work Research Conference must not have been submitted or published elsewhere while under consideration for the Neurodiversity at Work Research Conference. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of scientific ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases.

Submission Format

We welcome contributions in the following forms:

• Complete research papers (8-10 pages): Completed research must describe empirical or conceptual work that is fully developed and ready to be communicated to the research community. Completed research papers may be theoretical/conceptual or empirical.
• Research-in-progress papers (3-5 pages): Research-in-progress papers describe empirical or conceptual work that is in the earlier stages of execution or completion. In empirical efforts, the work may contain pilot data or present a conceptual framework with hypotheses to be tested, and research design to execute. In conceptual work, the authors have early versions of their theory development to be shared. Authors may be looking for feedback related to theory or research design they wish to feedback on.
• Research ideas and proposals (1-2 pages): A research idea contains a problem statement and a set of research questions to be investigated.
• For all submission categories, references may extend as many pages beyond the page limit as you need.

All submissions must be written in English. They must include a title, a list of authors’ names, affiliations, and email addresses, and a 200-word abstract. Papers should be single-spaced, single-column, with a font size of 11-12 points in Times New Roman. Papers that do not follow these formatting guidelines will be desk-rejected.

How to Submit

Submissions for the Research Conference are DUE by 5 pm PDT, Monday, February 17, 2025.

Papers should be submitted electronically to EasyChair.

Submissions should be uploaded in PDF or Microsoft Word formats.

Questions regarding submissions should be directed to the Neurodiversity at Work Research Conference co-Chairs by email info@NDAtWorkResearch.org.

Program Committee Members

Karen Krainz Edison, The Ohio State University
Keivan Stassun, Vanderbilt University Frist Center for Autism & Innovation
Vivian Genaro Motti, George Mason University
Tiffany Jameson, grit & flow
Jamie Ahrens Nadjari, The How Skills
Becca Colangelo, Kennedy Krieger
Colin Willis, HireVue Inc.
Shevaun Lewis, University of Maryland
Sungsoo Ray Hong, George Mason University
Tracy Powell Rudy, Integrate
Chloe Cameron, Western University - Ivey Business School
Timothy Vogus, Vanderbilt University
Christine Moeller, University of Washington iSchool
Elizabeth Follmer, University of Washington Bothell