Please submit:

• title
• abstract of up to 250 words
• author name(s), affiliation(s) and contact details
• a short biography up to 100 words of each presenting author

We particularly welcome contributions from practitioners, policymakers, professional organisations, charities, healthcare and bereavement professionals, legal professionals, technologists and others working directly with issues of digital death and digital legacy.

These contributions might present:

• an emerging professional challenge
• a case study or example of practice
• policy or regulatory developments
• professional guidance or standards
• service or technology design
• lessons from implementation
• an issue on which dialogue with researchers would be particularly valuable

Please submit a proposal of up to 250 words, explaining the issue, experience or intervention you would like to share and its relevance to the conference theme.

We welcome proposals for complete panels of up to four contributions. Panels may be wholly academic, wholly practice/policy focused, or deliberately combine academic and professional perspectives.

Panel proposals should include:

• a panel title;
• an overall description of up to 250 words
• individual abstracts of up to 250 words each
• names, affiliations, contact details and a short biography (up to 100 words) for all contributors and the proposed chair

We also welcome proposals for workshops, roundtables, facilitated discussions or other formats that encourage dialogue across academic and professional communities. Please explain the proposed format, participants and intended outcomes in up to 250 words.

Submissions may identify themselves primarily with DORS/research, DLC/practice and policy, or both. This will help the organisers develop a programme that preserves the character of both events while creating meaningful points of overlap.

The organising committee may group individual submissions into thematic panels. Where appropriate, we may also develop mixed academic–practice panels in order to bring complementary perspectives into dialogue.

We particularly encourage submissions from doctoral researchers, early-career researchers and professionals at earlier stages of their careers, as well as contributions from disciplines, communities and professional settings that have historically been less visible in digital death research.

The Birmingham event represents a new collaborative edition and a revised conference concept. Abstracts previously accepted or submitted for the planned DORS#8 event in Denmark 2026 will therefore not transfer automatically.

We warmly encourage previous DORS#8 contributors to join us in Birmingham, but all proposals must be resubmitted through the new 2027 submission process. Authors are welcome to resubmit their previous proposal unchanged where appropriate, or revise it in light of the new conference theme and collaborative DLC × DORS format.