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
- Building Staff Wellbeing and Professional Resilience
Monday 10 November 2025, 10.00am - 11.30am - Teenage Relationship Abuse: System Responses, Gaps and Challenges
Tuesday 11 November 2025, 11:00am - 12.30pm - Supporting Older People’s Moves into and between Social Care Settings: Co-Production of Practice Guidance
Wednesday 19 November 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Promoting Use of Self, Relationship-Based Practice, and the Ethical Use of Authority in the Supervisory Relationship
Monday 24 November 2025, 10.00am - 11.30am - Child Sexual Abuse in British South Asian Communities: Understanding the Barrier of Shame and Honour
Wednesday 26 November 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Children’s Services
Friday 28 November 2025, 10.00am - 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Adult Social Care
Friday 28 November 2025, 11.00am – 12.00pm
- Exploring Racial Disparity In Diversion From The Youth Justice System
Thursday 4th December 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Child Protection Conferences: The Evolving Role of the Child Protection Chair
Friday 12 December 2025, 10:00am - 11.30am - Care Planning: Placement Stability and Good Outcomes for Children Looked After
Friday 12 December 2025, 1.30pm - 3.00pm - Learning from Serious and Local Safeguarding Practice Reviews: Messages from Practice and Research
Monday 15 December 2025, 10.00am - 11.30am - Understanding the Evolving Needs of the Workforce in a Period of Uncertainty and Challenge
Tuesday 16 December 2025, 10.00am - 12.00pm
- ‘Dual-Use’ Technologies In The Lives Of Victim-Survivors Of Domestic Abuse
Thursday 15 January 2026, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Eloping: Autistic Perspectives on Departure and Well-being
Tuesday 20 January 2026, 3.00pm - 4.30pm
- Findings and Recommendations from the Second National SAR Analysis and Subsequent Developments
Tuesday 3 February 2026, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Empathic Leadership in Social Work
Thursday 12 February 2026, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- Innovations for Care-Experienced Parents
Tuesday 17 March 2026, 11.00am - 12.30pm
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 £70/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