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
- Diabetes and Homelessness: Responding to a Complex Safeguarding
Challenge
Tuesday 25 February 2025, 10:00am – 11.00am - Reducing Inequalities in People Rough Sleeping, ‘Begging’, Street Drinking or Selling Sex on the Streets
Thursday 27 February 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum A ‘Book Group’ for Children’s Social Care Managers and Experienced Practitioners
Thursday 27 February 2025, 10.00am – 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum A ‘Book Group’ for Adults' Social Care Managers and Experienced Practitioners
Thursday 27 February 2025, 1.30pm – 2.30pm
- Public Perceptions of Social Work: Myths and Realities
Tuesday 4 March 2025, 10.00am – 11.30am - The Evolving Nature of Hybrid Working: What are we Learning about the Opportunities and Challenges?
Tuesday 4 March 2025, 1:30pm – 3:00pm - Putting Analysis in Assessment
Wednesday 5 March 2025, 9:30am – 11:00am - Understanding and Responding to the Impact of Secondary and Vicarious Trauma on Staff
Wednesday 5 March 2025, 1:30pm – 3:00pm - Learning for Practice from Domestic Homicide Reviews
Tuesday 11 March 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Auditing for Quality: How the Quality Assurance Process Can Support Good Outcomes for Children and Young People
Thursday 13 March 2025, 1:30pm – 3:00pm - Explosive And Harmful Impulses: A Subsection Of Child and Adolescence To Parent Violence And Abuse
Tuesday 18 March 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Palliative and End of Life Care and Homelessness
Tuesday 25 March 2025, 10:00am - 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum A ‘Book Group’ for Children’s Social Care Managers and Experienced Practitioners
Friday 28 March 2025, 10.00am – 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum A ‘Book Group’ for Adults' Social Care Managers and Experienced Practitioners
Friday 28 March 2025, 11.00am – 12.00pm
- Rendering Them Responsible: Clare‘s Law 10 Years On
Thursday 3 April 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Disability, Disparity and Demand: Understanding and Improving the Experiences of Children in Care and Care Leavers with a Disability
Thursday 24 April 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Harmful Sexual Behaviours Among Boys – Learning from Research
Wednesday 30th April 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- Family Time Between Children In Care And Their Birth Family: What Should Inform Our Decisions?
Tuesday 6th May 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Are Unregulated Children’s Homes Criminogenic?
Thursday 22nd May 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- Social Work Responses to Child Sex Trafficking
Tuesday 3 June 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews – Findings From The Second National Analysis
Wednesday 18 June 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- Abusive Sexual Behaviour Between Child Siblings: Characteristics And Professional Responses
Tuesday 8 July 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- Voices of Neurodiversity: Exploring an Inclusive Encyclopaedia of Neurodivergent Experiences for Professionals
Thursday 25 September 2025, 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 £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