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To apply for a research degree, please make sure you fulfill the entry requirements and then complete the online research degree application form and upload your supporting documents.
You should have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or masters degree or equivalent in the relevant subject area.
International applicants should be aware of our research degree English language requirements
This annual conference was first convened in 1994 held at the University of Luton’s Putteridge Bury campus. It was a beautiful summer’s day.
The conference was convened as an opportunity for students on the ‘Becoming a reflective and effective practitioner’ course led by Christopher Johns at the University of Luton – to share their assignment work with the wider community, both local and national.
The conference was a mixture of students concurrent sessions and invited paper presentations from Fran Biley, Philip Darbyshire, and Christopher Johns , chaired by Mary Watkins from the University of Plymouth.
In 1995, the conference was expanded into a two-day event to enable reflective practice workshops on developing reflective skills and knowledge alongside student concurrent sessions and invited speakers. The speakers were Barbara Carper and Lynn Wagner chaired by Fran Biley and Anthony Palmer from the University of Wales (Cardiff).
The 1996 conference was planned as a 3 day event including an International ‘call for papers’.
The conference was held at Robinson College, Cambridge, where on-site bedrooms enabled the planning of a ‘total event’ unfolding through the three days – a mixture of key-notes papers, concurrent sessions, workshops and entertainment that maintain a reflective or therapeutic theme.
This is the format that continues today with the exception that students are now required to submit abstracts alongside other abstracts replacing the protected student concurrent sessions.
Key-note speakers included Judith Lumby from Australia, Jean Watson from USA.
Professor Jean Watson became a keen supporter of the conference , making significant links between reflective practice and human caring
