early career workshop
Last update: Jan 26, 2026
Overview
The IH ‘26 Early Career Workshop is an event for early career researchers, up to 5 years post-PhD, to explore together their professional activities and goals, to learn from one another, and to discuss topics most important to the participants. Participants will also have opportunities to strengthen their professional networks with one another, and with the senior IH mentors. It will consist of a physical event taking place in Porto before the on-site conference. The primary goal of the Workshop is to provide a forum for in-depth discussions and to build a mentoring and peer network for participants.
Unlike the Doctoral Consortia, we will focus on professional and career challenges, and not on the contents of research programs per se. We are particularly interested in topics unique to careers at the intersection of health and technology, examples may include:
- Building a cohort group of IH colleagues (local, institutional, and virtual)
- Finding your research identity
- Establishing a successful career path in academia, industry, and/or the nonprofit sector
- Fitting into departments and a post-doc role
- Navigating research/positions at the intersection of disciplines
- Selecting and developing a research trajectory
- Identifying potential funding sources and preparing proposals
- Getting involved in professional service
- Communicating your work and strengthening your public profile
- Balancing work, family and social life
Important Dates
- All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Check your local time in AoE.
- Submission deadline: April 1, 2026
- Notification date: April 22, 2026
Submission Details
- Online submission: PCS Submission System
- Template: ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column) for research description. For more details, see the Publication Formats page.
Submission Format
All submissions will remain confidential (not published), but will be shared with other ECW participants.
- Submission of a single PDF document that collates: a 3 page personal statement (excluding references), a benefits statement, and CV (see detailed instructions below).
- Submissions are not anonymous and should include the author’s name, affiliation(s), and contact information.
Preparing and Submitting your Early Career Workshop Proposal
Each proposal should be a single PDF with three components: (1) a three-page description (see below), (2) an expected benefits statement, (3) a curriculum vitae.
To be considered, you must submit your Early Career Workshop proposal by the submission deadline.
1. A single-authored document (maximum of 3 pages) in ACM Master Article Submission Templates format describing:
- Educational background and current position
- Current research (brief overview, for context only)
- Current challenges/experiences as an Early Career Researcher
- Career, research and professional service goals for the next 5-7 years.
2. Benefits and Contribution statement
- Describe what you hope to gain by participating in the Early Career Workshop, and how your participation will benefit other early career researchers and faculty.
3. Curriculum Vitae:
- Provide a current curriculum vitae, including links to your webpage, other public web presence, and social media profile (if available).
Please ensure that your submission is complete and conforms to the format and content guidelines above. Because the Early Career Workshop chairs expect to receive many applications, submissions that do not meet these requirements will be desk rejected.
Accessibility
Authors are strongly encouraged to work on improving the accessibility of their submissions, using recommendations found in the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for their paper. For any questions or concerns about creating accessible submissions, please contact the Accessibility Chairs at accessibility2026@ih.acm.org.
Selection Process
Overview: As soon as the submission deadline passes, the Early Career Workshop committee will review and select candidates with the goal of identifying a set of early career researchers who will benefit significantly from the event and support each other. We will seek diversity in backgrounds, identities, abilities, intellectual viewpoints, topics, and geographic areas.
Supporting a wide group of institutions: Besides the selection criteria above, kindly note that even if your submission is excellent, we might not be able to accept you because of our goals of having attendees across many institutions.
Upon Acceptance to the Early Career Workshop
The participant will receive information about registration and attending the conference.
They will also receive further information from the chairs on any prework that should be completed before the workshop.
For specific template instructions for the publication ready version of your submissions, see the Publication Formats page.
At the Conference
The author of each accepted submission will be present at the physical Early Career Workshop event in Porto. The in-person event will take place Sunday in Porto on July 5, 2026.
The format will be highly interactive. Participants may also be asked to do some pre-workshop reflections (~30-60 mins). Instructions for this will be sent at least two weeks prior to the event.
Attendance at In-person Event at IH 2026
Individuals accepted to the Early Career Workshop are expected to attend the workshop in full.
early career workshop
Last update: Jan 26, 2026
Overview
The IH ‘26 Early Career Workshop is an event for early career researchers, up to 5 years post-PhD, to explore together their professional activities and goals, to learn from one another, and to discuss topics most important to the participants. Participants will also have opportunities to strengthen their professional networks with one another, and with the senior IH mentors. It will consist of a physical event taking place in Porto before the on-site conference. The primary goal of the Workshop is to provide a forum for in-depth discussions and to build a mentoring and peer network for participants.
Unlike the Doctoral Consortia, we will focus on professional and career challenges, and not on the contents of research programs per se. We are particularly interested in topics unique to careers at the intersection of health and technology, examples may include:
- Building a cohort group of IH colleagues (local, institutional, and virtual)
- Finding your research identity
- Establishing a successful career path in academia, industry, and/or the nonprofit sector
- Fitting into departments and a post-doc role
- Navigating research/positions at the intersection of disciplines
- Selecting and developing a research trajectory
- Identifying potential funding sources and preparing proposals
- Getting involved in professional service
- Communicating your work and strengthening your public profile
- Balancing work, family and social life
Important Dates
- All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Check your local time in AoE.
- Submission deadline: April 1, 2026
- Notification date: April 22, 2026
Submission Details
- Online submission: PCS Submission System
- Template: ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column) for research description. For more details, see the Publication Formats page.
Submission Format
All submissions will remain confidential (not published), but will be shared with other ECW participants.
- Submission of a single PDF document that collates: a 3 page personal statement (excluding references), a benefits statement, and CV (see detailed instructions below).
- Submissions are not anonymous and should include the author’s name, affiliation(s), and contact information.
Preparing and Submitting your Early Career Workshop Proposal
Each proposal should be a single PDF with three components: (1) a three-page description (see below), (2) an expected benefits statement, (3) a curriculum vitae.
To be considered, you must submit your Early Career Workshop proposal by the submission deadline.
1. A single-authored document (maximum of 3 pages) in ACM Master Article Submission Templates format describing:
- Educational background and current position
- Current research (brief overview, for context only)
- Current challenges/experiences as an Early Career Researcher
- Career, research and professional service goals for the next 5-7 years.
2. Benefits and Contribution statement
- Describe what you hope to gain by participating in the Early Career Workshop, and how your participation will benefit other early career researchers and faculty.
3. Curriculum Vitae:
- Provide a current curriculum vitae, including links to your webpage, other public web presence, and social media profile (if available).
Please ensure that your submission is complete and conforms to the format and content guidelines above. Because the Early Career Workshop chairs expect to receive many applications, submissions that do not meet these requirements will be desk rejected.
Accessibility
Authors are strongly encouraged to work on improving the accessibility of their submissions, using recommendations found in the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for their paper. For any questions or concerns about creating accessible submissions, please contact the Accessibility Chairs at accessibility2026@ih.acm.org.
Selection Process
Overview: As soon as the submission deadline passes, the Early Career Workshop committee will review and select candidates with the goal of identifying a set of early career researchers who will benefit significantly from the event and support each other. We will seek diversity in backgrounds, identities, abilities, intellectual viewpoints, topics, and geographic areas.
Supporting a wide group of institutions: Besides the selection criteria above, kindly note that even if your submission is excellent, we might not be able to accept you because of our goals of having attendees across many institutions.
Upon Acceptance to the Early Career Workshop
The participant will receive information about registration and attending the conference.
They will also receive further information from the chairs on any prework that should be completed before the workshop.
For specific template instructions for the publication ready version of your submissions, see the Publication Formats page.
At the Conference
The author of each accepted submission will be present at the physical Early Career Workshop event in Porto. The in-person event will take place Sunday in Porto on July 5, 2026.
The format will be highly interactive. Participants may also be asked to do some pre-workshop reflections (~30-60 mins). Instructions for this will be sent at least two weeks prior to the event.
Attendance at In-person Event at IH 2026
Individuals accepted to the Early Career Workshop are expected to attend the workshop in full.
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early career workshop
Last update: Jan 26, 2026
Overview
The IH ‘26 Early Career Workshop is an event for early career researchers, up to 5 years post-PhD, to explore together their professional activities and goals, to learn from one another, and to discuss topics most important to the participants. Participants will also have opportunities to strengthen their professional networks with one another, and with the senior IH mentors. It will consist of a physical event taking place in Porto before the on-site conference. The primary goal of the Workshop is to provide a forum for in-depth discussions and to build a mentoring and peer network for participants.
Unlike the Doctoral Consortia, we will focus on professional and career challenges, and not on the contents of research programs per se. We are particularly interested in topics unique to careers at the intersection of health and technology, examples may include:
- Building a cohort group of IH colleagues (local, institutional, and virtual)
- Finding your research identity
- Establishing a successful career path in academia, industry, and/or the nonprofit sector
- Fitting into departments and a post-doc role
- Navigating research/positions at the intersection of disciplines
- Selecting and developing a research trajectory
- Identifying potential funding sources and preparing proposals
- Getting involved in professional service
- Communicating your work and strengthening your public profile
- Balancing work, family and social life
Important Dates
- All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Check your local time in AoE.
- Submission deadline: April 1, 2026
- Notification date: April 22, 2026
Submission Details
- Online submission: PCS Submission System
- Template: ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column) for research description. For more details, see the Publication Formats page.
Submission Format
All submissions will remain confidential (not published), but will be shared with other ECW participants.
- Submission of a single PDF document that collates: a 3 page personal statement (excluding references), a benefits statement, and CV (see detailed instructions below).
- Submissions are not anonymous and should include the author’s name, affiliation(s), and contact information.
Preparing and Submitting your Early Career Workshop Proposal
Each proposal should be a single PDF with three components: (1) a three-page description (see below), (2) an expected benefits statement, (3) a curriculum vitae.
To be considered, you must submit your Early Career Workshop proposal by the submission deadline.
1. A single-authored document (maximum of 3 pages) in ACM Master Article Submission Templates format describing:
- Educational background and current position
- Current research (brief overview, for context only)
- Current challenges/experiences as an Early Career Researcher
- Career, research and professional service goals for the next 5-7 years.
2. Benefits and Contribution statement
- Describe what you hope to gain by participating in the Early Career Workshop, and how your participation will benefit other early career researchers and faculty.
3. Curriculum Vitae:
- Provide a current curriculum vitae, including links to your webpage, other public web presence, and social media profile (if available).
Please ensure that your submission is complete and conforms to the format and content guidelines above. Because the Early Career Workshop chairs expect to receive many applications, submissions that do not meet these requirements will be desk rejected.
Accessibility
Authors are strongly encouraged to work on improving the accessibility of their submissions, using recommendations found in the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for their paper. For any questions or concerns about creating accessible submissions, please contact the Accessibility Chairs at accessibility2026@ih.acm.org.
Selection Process
Overview: As soon as the submission deadline passes, the Early Career Workshop committee will review and select candidates with the goal of identifying a set of early career researchers who will benefit significantly from the event and support each other. We will seek diversity in backgrounds, identities, abilities, intellectual viewpoints, topics, and geographic areas.
Supporting a wide group of institutions: Besides the selection criteria above, kindly note that even if your submission is excellent, we might not be able to accept you because of our goals of having attendees across many institutions.
Upon Acceptance to the Early Career Workshop
The participant will receive information about registration and attending the conference.
They will also receive further information from the chairs on any prework that should be completed before the workshop.
For specific template instructions for the publication ready version of your submissions, see the Publication Formats page.
At the Conference
The author of each accepted submission will be present at the physical Early Career Workshop event in Porto. The in-person event will take place Sunday in Porto on July 5, 2026.
The format will be highly interactive. Participants may also be asked to do some pre-workshop reflections (~30-60 mins). Instructions for this will be sent at least two weeks prior to the event.
Attendance at In-person Event at IH 2026
Individuals accepted to the Early Career Workshop are expected to attend the workshop in full.