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
- 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
- Working With Uncertainty: Promoting Critical Reflection and Analysis in Adult Social Care
Wednesday 14 January 2026, 9:30am - 11.00am - ‘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 - The Role of Empathy in Relationship-Based Practice
Thursday 22 January 2026, 9:30am - 11:00am - Successfully Managing Organisational Change in Children’s and Adults Services: Messages From Research, Policy and Practice
Thursday 22 January 2026, 2:00pm - 3:30pm - A Strengths-Based Approach to Child Protection
Monday 26 January 2026, 1.30pm - 3:00pm - What Do We Mean by Poverty Informed Social Work?
Monday 26 January 2026, 3.00pm - 4.30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Children’s Services
Friday 30 January 2026, 10.00am - 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Adult Social Care
Friday 30 January 2026, 11.00am – 12.00pm - Reimagining RSE: Tackling Issues of Sexual Harassment, Harmful Sexual Behaviours, Misogyny and Pornography in Schools, Through Safe Uncertainty
Friday 30 January 2026, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Assessing and Responding to Neglect
Monday 2 February 2026, 9:30am - 11:00am - Findings and Recommendations from the Second National SAR Analysis and Subsequent Developments
Tuesday 3 February 2026, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Understanding and Promoting the Process of Change
Monday 9 February 2026, 9:30am - 11.00am - Intrafamilial Sexual Abuse
Monday 9 February 2026, 9:30am - 11:00am - Empathic Leadership in Social Work
Thursday 12 February 2026, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Auditing for Quality: How the Quality Assurance Process Can Support Good Outcomes for Children and Young People
Friday 13 February 2026, 11:30am - 1:00pm - Working with People We Find Hard to Help
Tuesday 17 February 2026, 9:30am - 11.00am - Emotional Abuse
Monday 23 February 2026, 9:30am - 11:00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Children’s Services
Friday 27 February 2026, 10.00am - 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Adult Social Care
Friday 27 February 2026, 11.00am – 12.00pm
- From DoLs to LPS: Understanding the Changing Context of Assessing Capacity
Monday 2 March 2026, 10:00am - 11:30am - Use of Self: Working with ‘Sameness’ and ‘Difference’, The Role of the Social Graces
Tuesday 3 March 2026, 9:30am - 11:00am - Working with Uncertainty: Promoting Critical Reflection and Analysis in Children’s Social Care
Tuesday 3 March 2026, 11:30am - 1:00pm - Relational Wellbeing and Young Refugees
Wednesday 4 March 2026, 11:00am - 12:30pm - Navigating a Period of Reform in Children’s Services: Messages from Research
Monday 9 March 2026, 2:00pm - 3:30pm - Bridging the Gap: What Early Career Social Workers Need to Know to Support Children and Families
Tuesday 10 March 2026, 11:00-12:30 - Child Protection Conferences: The Evolving Role of the Child Protection Chair
Monday 16 March 2026, 9:30am - 11:00am - Innovations for Care-Experienced Parents
Tuesday 17 March 2026, 11.00am - 12.30pm - ‘Cuckooing’ in the Context of Domestic Abuse & Domestic Homicide
Thursday 26 March 2026, 11:00am - 12:30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Children’s Services
Friday 27 March 2026, 10.00am - 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Adult Social Care
Friday 27 March 2026, 11.00am – 12.00pm
- Deconstructing the Relationship Between Us and the State: State-Sanctioned Violence Against Women and Girls
Thursday 25 June 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