The Call for Proposals for the 2027 Researcher to Reader Conference is now open and will continue throughout July and August 2026. The Conference will take place in London on 23-24 February 2027; please put these dates in your calendar now.

We welcome proposals from all members of the scholarly communications community and research management, but particularly encourage proposals for our very popular Workshops and from people who are typically under-represented on conference platforms.

·     The proposals that you make are a key contribution to our programme

·     Any topic relevant to people working across scholarly communications or research management is of interest

·     High-quality, early and pre-reviewed proposals have a higher acceptance rate

· There are TWO deadlines:
  31 July 2026 – with pre-review, revision opportunity and higher acceptance probability
 31 August 2026 – with no time for revisions, just passed to the committee (or rejected)

·     Accepted contributors are entitled to discounted registration.

More information about the Call for Proposals process is given on the R2R Website.

The Advisory Board looks forward to reviewing your proposals.

(Tiberius Ignat, 2026-06-26)

Researcher to Reader (www.r2rconf.com) is pleased to announce that Daniel Ebneter has joined the R2R Advisory Board. Daniel brings extensive senior-level experience in scholarly communication, scientific and medical publishing, digital transformation, and the development of information services. Across his career, he has worked at the intersection of leadership, innovation and impact.

Most recently, Daniel served for almost nine years as CEO of Karger Publishers, the Basel-based scientific and medical publisher, where he helped lead the organisation through a period of significant change in scholarly publishing and science communication. Before joining Karger, he held senior roles at another publishing group, as well as in business consultancy and other knowledge-intensive sectors.

Daniel’s experience will be especially valuable as R2R continues to develop as a meeting place for the wider Researcher to Reader cycle: from research creation and management, through publishing and communication, to the use, transfer, and impact of research outputs.

We warmly welcome Daniel to the Advisory Board and look forward to his contribution to R2R 2027 and beyond.

Tiberius Ignat

(2026-06-25)