Practitioner-Led Research in Social Care: Options, Opportunities and Approaches
Thu 27 Nov
|Microsoft Teams
Are you a social care practitioner who is interested in (or mystified by) research? Join us to explore exactly why social care practitioners are important to research, and what opportunities there are for you to get involved.
Time & Location
27 Nov 2025, 09:30 – 11:00
Microsoft Teams
About the Event
Open to all social work practitioners across Adult and Children's Services within the West Midlands Social Work Teaching Partnership. Please see our Partner organisations below.
Session overview: This session aims to explore the opportunities and pathways for social care practitioners to get involved in research, both in terms of the specialist contributions they can make and the space for personal development that they can explore.
The session aims to cover:
- Opportunities for involvement in research and research activity
- Awareness of available funding streams and support systems that practitioners can access for involvement in research
- The value of practitioner involvement in research at an individual, organisational and structural level