Hi,

I was accepted to present my study at a small conference a couple of months ago. I was expecting at that time that I would have done my 20 or so interviews my study and would have analysed them, and hence would be able to present them. I've had a few difficulties due to which if I'm lucky I'll probably have around 8/10 done interviews done before the conference.

I'm not sure what I should do :$ . Should I analyse the 8/10 quickly before the conference and present that, or should I notify them that I won't be able to present? :-(

It's common to present work in progress. If I were you I would go ahead and present whatever you've got. Don't pull out if you can help it because presenting your work is a useful experience, and it's hassle for the organisers to find new speakers. You may, however, wish to amend your abstract if the original sounded like it would be final results being presented.

Don't worry too much about it, my advice would be to do what you can and present that. I've presented incomplete work at a conference and have seen some were things didn't work out and it was more a 'this is not the way to do this experiment' type talk. At one small conference I went to I had to change the topic at the last minute and emailed the conference organiser (who happened to be someone I knew) to check it was ok. They were fine with it and actually told me they had a few cancellations and much preffered that I had actually done a talk than nothing at all. Just be honest about it and say you have more interview planned

Thank you very much to both of you for your advice, I will notify them and see what they say.