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
- Rendering Them Responsible: Clare‘s Law 10 Years On
Thursday 3 April 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Disability, Disparity and Demand: Understanding and Improving the Experiences of Children in Care and Care Leavers with a Disability
Thursday 24 April 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Understanding the Implications of the Children’s Wellbeing Bill: The Evolving Role of Social Work in Children’s Services
Friday 28 April 2025, 10:00 - 11:30am - Harmful Sexual Behaviours Among Boys – Learning from Research
Wednesday 30 April 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Building Professional Wellbeing and Organisational Resilience
Wednesday 30 April 2025, 2:00 - 3:30pm
- Child Protection Conferences: The Evolving Role of the Child Protection Chair
Thursday 1 May 2025, 11.30am - 1.00pm - The Role of Empathy in Working With Families
Thursday 1 May 2025, 9:30am - 11.00pm - What Do We Mean By Professional Curiosity And What Promotes It?
Friday 2 May 2025, 10.00am - 11.30am - Care Leavers: The Meaning of Corporate Parenting Beyond the Age of 18?
Friday 2 May 2025, 1.30pm - 3.00pm - Family Time Between Children In Care And Their Birth Family: What Should Inform Our Decisions?
Tuesday 6 May 2025, 11.00am - 12.30pm - Understanding and Promoting the Process of Change
Monday 12 May 2025, 9:30am - 11.00am - Working with Older People Living with Dementia
Thursday 15 May 2025, 9:30am - 11.00am - Working with Families We Find Hard to Help
Monday 19 May 2025, 9:30am - 11.00am - 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, 09:30am - 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 - 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
- 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