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
- Child Protection Conferences: The Evolving Role of the Child Protection Chair
Monday 8 September 2025, 1.00pm – 2.30pm - 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 - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Children’s Services
Friday 26 September 2025, 10.00am – 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Adult Social Care
Friday 26 September 2025, 11.00am – 12.00pm - Is There a Growing Mental Health Crisis Among Children and Young People, and What Is Effective Practice in Response?
Monday 29 September 2025, 11.00am – 12.30pm - ‘Breathing Spaces’: A Therapeutic Model To Enhance Practitioner Wellbeing
Tuesday 30 September 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- Responding to Professionals’ Vicarious Trauma and Burnout
Thursday 9 October 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - What is Good Practice in Supervision When it is Being Carried Out in a Hybrid Environment?
Monday 13 October 2025, 10.00am – 11.30am - Navigating a Period of Reform in Children’s Services: Messages from Research
Monday 13 October 2025, 3.00pm – 4.30pm - Developing Supervisees’ Capacity for Reflection, Analytical Thinking and Decision-Making Skills
Monday 20 October 2025, 10.00am – 11.30am - Championing Communication: Working With Interpreters to Overcome Language Barriers
Wednesday 22 October 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Children’s Services
Friday 31 October 2025, 10.00am – 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Adult Social Care
Friday 31 October 2025, 11.00am – 12.00pm
- Managing and Promoting Good Practice: A Strength-Based Approach to Managing Performance
Monday 3 November 2025, 10.00am – 11.30am - Person-Centred and Effective Responses to Hoarding Behaviour: Messages from Practice and Research
Monday 3 November 2025, 2.00pm – 3.30pm - 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 - Building Staff Wellbeing and Professional Resilience
Monday 10 November 2025, 10.00am – 11.30am - Teenage Relationship Abuse: System Responses, Gaps and Challenges
Tuesday 11 November 2025, 11:00am - 12.30pm - Care Planning: Placement Stability and Good Outcomes for Children Looked After
Wednesday 12 November 2025, 2.00pm – 3.30pm - 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, 1.00pm - 2.30pm - 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
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