Professional Studies in Community Care with Management PgDip/MA: Events and lectures

There are always interesting activities taking place at Kingston and exciting opportunities to take advantage of. Here are some examples of what you could be involved with if you study this course.

Social work conference

We host an annual social work research conference, which:

• features distinguished keynote speakers;
• showcases recently completed or on-going research in the University;
• gives staff and masters students the chance to disseminate their research through seminar presentations; and
• attracts an audience of practitioners and academics.

Our next social work conference will take place in 2013. 

Social work seminars

We also run a series of seminars, running either every month or every other month at the Kingston Hill campus. They include a distinguished keynote speaker and a presentation. The seminars are free and open to:

• all staff in local social services organisations in the statutory, voluntary and private sector; and
• service users, carers and their organisations that assist with the social work education programmes at the University.

Recent speakers have included:

• Marian Brandon (discussing serious case reviews: lessons for the protection of children);
• Hári Sewell (discussing mental health and race, culture and ethnicity);
• Sir Roger Singleton (discussing working with government to strengthen the safeguarding of children); and
• Ann MacFarlane and John Evans (discussing the history and impact of the disability movement – views from the inside).

Forthcoming speakers include:

• Tim Spencer-Lane (discussing the review of adult social care legislation and the use of evidence); and
• Jim Wade (discussing maltreated children: weighing the risks of reunification and long-term care).

For more information, please visit www.healthcare.ac.uk.