So I am now the most senior member of my research group (eh how did that happen?). This means that I have the honour of being in charge of our annual postgrad conference.

I have to hand in an outline proposal by the end of the week and I am pretty sorted on topic and the speakers I want to come.

I was just womdering if anyone that any ideas or experiences of really interesting and innovative conferences in terms of the conference structure....?

I went to a conference where each student was assigned an expert discussant, we had to send our papers to them in advance and they gave a 15 min presentation after the students discussing the paper. That worked well but one expert for each presenter is outwith my budget and pretty large scale!

So any ideas? Discussants? panel discussions? Debates? Would anyone like to share any experiences or ideas?

Thanks x