Call for Papers and Contributions:

Tech Abuse Conference
May 19-21, 2026
London
https://www.genderandtech.net/conference

Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 31, 2025

Dear All,

I’m reaching out to share the Call for Papers and Contributions for our upcoming Tech Abuse Conference, taking place 19-21 May 2026 in London:
https://www.genderandtech.net/conference.

Together with my team at the UCL Gender and Tech Research Lab, we’re working to convene a diverse, global community committed to understanding and addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence and abuse. This includes not only academics, but also practitioners, survivors and survivor-led organisations, policymakers, technologists, legal experts, educators, journalists, NGOs, law enforcement, industry professionals, activists, and many others.

Our goal is to create a hands-on, practical, and action-oriented event – one that bridges research, policy, and practice across sectors, disciplines, and borders. We invite participants to come with open minds: ready to expand horizons, engage with unfamiliar communities, and be challenged – gently but meaningfully. The programme is intentionally still in development. Tackling technology-facilitated abuse requires a holistic approach: not just academic research, not just legislative reform, not just technical solutions, and not just frontline support. It demands all of these in dialogue with one another.

That’s where you and your organisations come in!

Our Call for Papers, Workshops, and Alternative Format Submissions is open until 31 October 2025, and we strongly welcome contributions that are innovative, bold, and thought-provoking. Submissions may include (but are not limited to):

• Traditional research presentations
• Case studies or demonstrations
• Interactive workshops
• Tech/cybersecurity training or showcases
• Creative formats
• Reflections on failures (and successes) ? and what was learned

[From https://www.genderandtech.net/proposals:

Topics of Interest for the Tech Abuse Conference

Accepted submissions will be organised into tracks for the conference. The list of relevant topics for submissions are, but are not limited to the following:

• Cyber Aggression
• Cyber Dating Abuse
• Cyber Harassment
• Cyber Violence
• Cyberstalking
• Deepfakes
• Doxxing
• Emerging-Tech-Enabled Abuse (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Extended Reality/Metaverse etc.)
• Image-Based [Sexual] Abuse (“Revenge Porn”, Non-Consensual Intimate Images, Dick Picks, Upskirting etc.)
• Internet of Things (IoT)-Enabled Abuse
• Interpersonal Electronic Surveillance
• Online Harms
• Online Misogyny
• Online Safety
• Online Victimisation
• Online Violence Against Women
• Sexting
• Spyware/Parental Control Software/Spouseware/Stalkerware
• Tech Abuse
• Technology-Assisted Coercion and Control
• Technology-Enabled Domestic Abuse
• Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV)
• Technology-Mediated Intimate Partner Violence ]

If you have work, ideas, or experiences to share, we’d love to hear from you. And if you know someone whose voice should be part of this conversation, please do pass this on – or share the call via your networks, newsletters, or social media.

Thank you for taking the time to read this message.

We hope to see your ideas – and perhaps you – in London next year.

Best wishes

Leonie

Dr Leonie Maria Tanczer
Associate Professor in International Security and Emerging Technologies
Department of Computer Science University College London
Twitter: @leotanczt <https://twitter.com/leotanczt>
Website: http://www.leonietanczer.net/
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