Abstracts

The submission portal for abstracts for the Australian Homelessness Conference 2026 is now open.

Your abstract submission is warmly welcomed and will be received as an expression of interest to speak at the conference and as providing information on what you may be able to speak about.

The conference program is carefully curated to ensure it is as engaging and relevant as possible, and to maximise opportunities for the sharing of ideas and perspectives. 

During the review process, abstracts will be evaluated considering the following:

• relevance and fit with the conference themes
• originality of ideas
• relevance and usefulness to the homelessness sector audience and to addressing contemporary issues 
• significance of results
• application of existing ideas in ways that provide new insights and progress
• usefulness to audience, clarity and timeliness.

Pilot projects should be completed before AHC26 and comprehensive results, not preliminary, should be available and shared at the conference. We also invite abstracts that focus on a program, project or pilot that didn’t work, sharing the reasons why and what was learnt. This is a great learning opportunity, especially for other organisations who may be heading down a similar path.

You are also encouraged, where appropriate and applicable, to include people with lived experience as presenters.  If you intend to include someone with lived experience as part of the presentation, please indicate that in your abstract submission and ensure you have read our Terms and Conditions.

Please read through the Submission Guidelines before you submit an abstract. 

This year, AHC26 will include a dedicated research stream, allowing academics and researchers to present at the conference and hear from their peers working on homelessness research at universities and other research institutions across the country or internationally - click here for the research and academic abstracts.

If you have any questions please email events@ahuri.edu.au or call 03 9660 2309.