The University of Bedfordshire (in collaboration with King's College London) offers a stimulating programme of conferences, seminars and workshops. In each session, speakers discuss recent research on the topic and its implications for social work and social care practice.
To book a place at these events please email mrc@beds.ac.uk
Practice Development Events
- Understanding the Relationship Between Risk and Harm: A Strengths-Based Approach to Child Protection
Wednesday 11th September 2024, 3:00pm - 4:30pm - What Do We Mean by Poverty Informed Social Work?
Friday 13 September 2024, 11:00am - 3:00pm - Transnational Marriage Abandonment
Thursday 19th September 2024, 11.00am – 12.30pm - Assessing and Responding to Neglect
Wednesday 20th September 2024, 1:30pm - 3:00pm - The Absent Voice: Domestic Abuse and Child Contact in Scotland
Wednesday 25 September 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Telecare for Older People – Holy Grail or Poisoned Chalice?
Thursday 26th September 2024, 2.00pm - 3.30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Book Group for CSC Practitioners
Friday 27 September 2024, 10.00am - 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Book Group for ASC Practitioners
Friday 27 September 2024, 11.00am - 12.00pm
- Care Planning: Placement Stability and Good Outcomes
Wednesday 2 October 2024, 1.30pm – 3.00pm - What is Good Practice in Supervision When it is Being Carried
Out in a Hybrid Environment?
Wednesday 3 October 2024, 11:30am – 1.00pm - Learning from Serious and Local Safeguarding Practice Reviews
Thursday 3 October 2024, 2.00pm - 3.30pm - Critical Reflection and Analysis
Monday 7 October 2024, 11.30am – 1.00pm - Developing Supervisees’ Capacity for Reflection, Analytical
Thinking and Decision-Making Skills
Tuesday 8 October 2024, 9:30am – 11.00am - Explaining Victim Disengagement from Statutory Services
Thursday 10 October 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Where Next for Social Work and Social Care with Adults?
Monday 14 October 2024, 10.00am - 11.30am - Emotional Abuse
Tuesday 15 October 2024, 9.30am – 11.00am - Managing and Promoting Good Practice: A Strength- Based
Approach to Managing Performance
Tuesday 15 October 2024, 2:00pm – 3.30pm - Responding to the Challenge of Loneliness in Social Care
Thursday 17 October 2024, 9.30am – 11.00am - Intrafamilial Sexual Abuse
Thursday 3 October 2024, 9:30am – 11.00am - Championing Communication: Working With Interpreters to Overcome Language Barriers
Tuesday 22 October 2024, 11:00am - 12.30pm - Building Staff Wellbeing and Professional Resilience
Wednesday 23 October 2024, 9.30am – 11.00am - Think you Know about Communication in Homelessness Settings? Think Again.
Thursday 24 October 2024, 10.00am – 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Book Group for CSC Practitioners
Friday 25 October 2024, 10.00am - 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Book Group for ASC Practitioners
Friday 25 October 2024, 11.00am - 12.00pm
- The Ethical Use of Authority in the Supervisory Relationship
Tuesday 5 November 2024, 1.30pm – 3.00pm - Understanding the Evolving Needs of the Workforce: A Webinar for Those in Workforce and Staff Development
Monday 11 November 2024, 10.00am – 12.00pm - Understanding the Needs of Children Living with Parental Substance Misuse
Wednesday 13 November 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Putting Analysis into Assessment: A Person Centred Approach
Friday 15 November 2024, 1.30 pm – 3.00pm - Rethinking Our Child Protection Enquiries With Learning Disabled and Neurodiverse Children and Young People
Tuesday 19th November 2024, 11:00am - 12.30pm - Constructing, and Reconstructing, Childhood in Care
Wednesday 27 November 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Book Group for CSC Practitioners
Friday 29 November 2024, 10.00am - 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Book Group for ASC Practitioners
Friday 29 November 2024, 11.00am - 12.00pm
- Dementia and Managing Risk
Tuesday 3 December 2024, 9.30am —11:00am - Mental Capacity Assessments: Towards a Social Model?
Tuesday 3 December 2024, 2.30pm – 4.00pm - ‘I Know How It Sounds On Paper’: Risk Talk, Written Reports and Managing Emotionally Charged Child Protection Home Visits Constructing, and Reconstructing, Childhood in Care
Wednesday 11th December 2024, 11:00am - 12.30pm - An Introduction to Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Tuesday 17 December 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- Radical Safeguarding & Homelessness: What Can We Learn From Social Justice Movements?
Thursday 23rd January 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- Reducing Inequalities in People Rough Sleeping, ‘Begging’, Street Drinking or Selling Sex on the Streets
Thursday 27th February 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm (Online)
Attendance is free of charge to members of Making Research Count at the University of Bedfordshire and King's College London. The charge for non-members is £195 per place for seminars and £245 per place for conferences. For online webinars, the cost for non-members is £60/person/1-hour webinar.
If you would like to enquire about becoming a member of Making Research Count with full access to all the seminars/conferences, then please contact the Coordinator, Gayanthi Hapuarachchi at gayanthi.hapuarachchi@beds.ac.uk