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
- Impossible Expectations: Family Law Courts and Survivors of Domestic Abuse
Wednesday 17 April 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Building the Well-being of the Workforce and the Organisation
Tuesday 23 April 2024, 1.30 – 3.00pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Book Group for Children’s Social Care Practitioners
Friday 26 April 2024, 10.00 - 11.00am - Understanding and Responding to the Impact of Trauma on Social Workers
Tuesday 30 April 2024, 9.30 – 11.00am
- Unpaid Carers and Domestic Abuse
Wednesday 1 May 2024, 11.00am – 12.30pm - Engaging with the Perennial Challenge of Working Effectively with Men
Thursday 9 May 2024, 9.30 – 11.00am - Participation of Young People in Fast-paced Policy Development: Learning From the Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Programme
Wednesday 15 May 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Book Group for Children’s Social Care Practitioners
Friday 24 May 2024, 10.00 - 11.00am
- In Whose Interests? Policy Development and Implementation
Thursday 6 June 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Practice Principles For Responding to Child Exploitation and Extra-Familial Harm
Thursday 13 June 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Reimagining Collective Responses to Significant Harm: The Development of Child Protection Pathways for Risk Outside of the Home
Tuesday 18 June 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Book Group for Children’s Social Care Practitioners
Friday 21 June 2024, 10.00 - 11.00am - Contextual Safeguarding and Inequalities: From Parks and Peer Groups to Poverty and Patriarchy
Thursday 27 June 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- Singing from the Same Hymn-Sheet: Creating Multi-Agency Partnerships within Contextual Safeguarding
Thursday 4 July 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Serious Case Reviews and Extra-Familial Harm: Missed and Emerging Opportunities to Develop Contextual Practices
Thursday 18 July 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Book Group for Children’s Social Care Practitioners
Friday 19 July 2024, 10.00 - 11.00am
- The Absent Voice: Domestic Abuse and Child Contact in Scotland
Wednesday 25 September 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- Explaining Victim Disengagement from Statutory Services
Thursday 10 October 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Championing Communication
Tuesday 22nd October 2024, 11:00am - 12.30pm
- Constructing, and Reconstructing, Childhood in Care
Wednesday 27 November 2024, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- ‘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
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