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
- Are Unregulated Children’s Homes Criminogenic?
Thursday 22 May 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum A ‘Book Group’ for Children’s Social Care Managers and Experienced Practitioners
Thursday 29 May 2025, 10.00am - 11.00am
- Use of Self: Working with ‘Sameness’ and ‘Difference’
Monday 2 June 2025, 9:30am - 11.00am - Social Work Responses to Child Sex Trafficking
Tuesday 3 June 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Attachment Theories and Older People
Wednesday 4 June 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Working with People with Learning Disabilities and their Carers
Thursday 5 June 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Managing Risk, Complexity and Uncertainty in Adult Social Care
Monday 16 June, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews – Findings From The Second National Analysis
Wednesday 18 June 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum A ‘Book Group’ for Children’s Social Care Managers and Experienced Practitioners
Thursday 26 June 2025, 10.00am - 11.00am
- Understanding the Evolving Needs of the Workforce in a Period of Uncertainty and Challenge: A Webinar for Those in Workforce and Staff Development
Thursday 3 July 2025, 10.00am - 12.00pm - Reuniting Children and Young People With Their Birth Families
Thursday 3 July 2025, 2.30pm - 4.00pm - Abusive Sexual Behaviour Between Child Siblings: Characteristics And Professional Responses
Tuesday 8 July 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Responding to Concerns About Domestic Violence and Abuse
Tuesday 15 July 2025, 2.00pm - 3.30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum A ‘Book Group’ for Children’s Social Care Managers and Experienced Practitioners
Wednesday 16 July 2025, 10.00am - 11.00am - Criminal and Sexual Exploitation of Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities: Modern Slavery Within England and Wales
Thursday 17th July 2025, 11.00am – 12.30pm
- Addressing Domestic Abuse Related Deaths by Suicide
Tuesday 16 September 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Making Visible Social Work With Older People In Care Homes
Thursday 18 September 2025, 2.00pm - 3.30pm - Voices of Neurodiversity: Exploring an Inclusive Encyclopaedia of Neurodivergent Experiences for Professionals
Thursday 25 September 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- Responding to Professionals’ Vicarious Trauma and Burnout
Thursday 9 October 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Championing Communication: Working With Interpreters to Overcome Language Barriers
Wednesday 22 October 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- Improving the Experience of Care Home Admission for Family Carers: The Value of Care Embedded Social Work
Thursday 6 November 2025, 11:00am - 12.30pm - Teenage Relationship Abuse: System Responses, Gaps and Challenges
Tuesday 11 November 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