Frequently Asked Questions

There are two deadlines this year for the CSAE Conference 2027 call for papers:

09 August 2026 - Deadline for funding. All submissions including an application for funding must be submitted by this date in Oxford Abstracts.

13 September 2026 - General deadline for all papers.

Authors who meet ALL of the following criteria:

• You must be an African national;
• You must be living in an African country;
• You must be working or studying in an African country;
• You must have 100% African institutional affiliation;
• You must be travelling to the Conference from an African country.

Submissions for the CSAE Conference 2027 that include an application for funding will be considered after the funding deadline (09 August 2026) and all applicants will be informed of the decision regarding their funding application by early September.

If you are unsuccessful in your funding application, your paper will be considered alongside the other papers for inclusion in the CSAE Conference 2027 programme, after the general deadline of 13 September. Decisions for the programme will be communicated in October 2026.

You can add your co-authors and their affiliations as part of the submission form. To add more information about you have submitted your form:

• Log into your Oxford Abstracts account;
• Click 'Edit' next to your submission;
• Go to the co-authors question in the form and enter your co-authors' details.
• Click 'Next' and then 'Complete' at the end of the form to submit your changes.

We also ask that all co-authors are clearly listed on the first page of the PDF of the paper.

We are able to review papers written in French as well as English. We are unable to review papers written in any other language. If you are submitting a paper written in French, please note that the abstract and the title must be in English.

If your paper is accepted, the presentation must be given in English.

When you submit your paper, you will be asked to upload a pdf. The word limit for the abstract is 500 words. The remainder of the paper can be any length providing the total size of the PDF file is less than 10MB.

If you would like to see what is considered to be a suitable paper format and length, you can see examples of the types of paper our conference team selects by looking at last year's conference programme. You can read each paper by clicking on the name of the paper.

If you have submitted your paper correctly, you will receive a confirmation email called 'CSAE Conference 2027 Submission Confirmation'. You can also check the status of your submission by logging into your Oxford Abstracts account and viewing the status displayed by your submission title (complete or incomplete).

For more information about complete or incomplete submissions, please see our submission guidance.

You must fill in all required fields in the submission form to submit your paper for consideration. If you have left any required fields blank, your submission will be marked as 'incomplete' and will not be considered for the Conference.

To complete your submission, log back into your Oxford Abstracts account and ensure all fields of the form are complete. If a field is blank, the page number circle will be red when you re-enter the form.

When you have completed the form, click 'next' through to the end and then click 'complete'. You will then receive an email confirming your submission.

Each author can only submit ONE paper for consideration.

If you have co-authored a different paper with someone else, they can submit that paper.

All submissions can be amended (including paper titles, author information and improved versions of the paper itself) at any time until the call for papers deadline of 13 September 2026 when the system with close to allow the refereeing process to take place. Any accepted papers will then have until 03 January 2027 to make any further edits. To amend your paper, log into your Oxford Abstracts account and click the 'Edit' button next to your submission title.

The CSAE Economic Development in Africa Workshop (often referred to as the CSAE Workshop or Pre-Conference Workshop) includes:

• Presentation opportunities with peer feedback;
• One-on-one sessions with Oxford faculty;
• Research training and proposal support.

Please note that if you wish to submit a paper which has recently been accepted for publication you should only do so if your publisher is happy with this. Some publishers embargo content, so you should check with them first. 

All accepted papers will be made available for participants to download as part of the online CSAE Conference programme. 

Registration for the CSAE Conference 2026 is open. Speakers must register by 04 January. General deadline for non-speakers is 22 February 2026.

The fee for the CSAE Conference 2026 is £325.

To update your personal details, all you need to do is log into your registration and click 'modify registration'.

This takes you to the personal information for your registration (name, institution, biography, and so on). Once you have made your changes, click on the Submit button to save them.

If you're a speaker, you can update your speaker profile through the CSAE Speaker Hub: https://cvent.me/g8rw08

All presentations will be conducted in person at the CSAE Conference 2026 in Oxford, UK.

Every speaker will also act as a discussant for another paper and one speaker will also act as the chair for their session. We arrange each session alphabetically by speaker, with the last speaker assigned the role as session chair

Read our session guidance in full for more information.

You can download the CSAE App at any time. The CSAE 2026 event is also now available.

You will need to be registered for the CSAE Conference 2026 in order to access the event in the CSAE App. Make sure that you are using the email address that you registered with to login.

CSAE Conference Mailing List 2026 Privacy Notice

There have been recent changes to the UK's border process which will impact many CSAE Conference attendees.  Electronic Travel Authorisations (ETAs) are being introduced worldwide for visitors to the UK who do not currently need a visa for short stays, or who do not already have a UK immigration status.

If you already have a visa to the UK, you do not need to apply for an ETA.

If you do not require a visa for a short stay (EU, USA, etc) you may have to apply for an ETA.