research in practice for adults delivers a range of learning events to staff from Partner agencies or their related service providers. Each Partner agency has an annual allocation of at least 20 places across the events.
Nominations for places at all learning events are through Partner agency Link Officers or directly with the events coordinator:
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Please follow the link to our booking application form below.
The programme for each learning event will be added as it becomes available. After the event, presentations and resources will be available for download and distribution across Partner agencies, but please do not hesitate to contact us directly for further information about any event.
In May 2009 the research in practice for adults team took a film crew to Birmingham to capture one of our Outcome-based Assessment and Care Plans workshops. This film helps identify ripfa's hopes and aims for the day and includes feedback from the attendees and the speakers.
If you have any queries regarding any of our events, please contact our Event Coordinator, Barbara Pintaske on 01803 869756 /
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Personalisation and BME Communities
18 May 2010
National Space Centre, Leicester
This learning eventtook the personalisation agenda, as a point of departure and seeked to explore the reality of its implementation as experienced by the Black and Minority Ethnic communities, and the social care professionals who work with them. The event aimed to provide a space for dialogue between these groups so that different perspectives and experiences could be discussed and new understanding and ideas generated.
Following the general election, we looked at what the future holds for integrated working between social care and health. We movedfrom the overall context, and the political/ economic landscape, through the research evidence, to what is happening in practice; and provided the opportunity for debate and discussion about how to get the most out of integrated working for the benefit of people needing support during the challenges and opportunities ahead.
'... brief speakers to be undiplomatic when they can be – can be refreshing!' (delegate after the event)
research in practice for adults held a highly successful conference for Occupational Therapists in 2007. Attendees asked us to make this a regular event, so the follow up conference took place on 9 March in Birmingham.
'... Very useful; will use some of the contacts made today for use of OT in our project and induction programme for new OT who is starting next month..' (delegate after the event)
