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DARE Seminars 2022/23

DARE seminars disseminate research, relating to:
decision-making
assessment
risk
and evidence-based practice

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DARE Seminars 2022/23

The DARE initiative supports research, teaching and organisation development for social work in:

  • professional judgement and shared decision-making processes
  • developing assessment tools and processes to inform decision making
  • assessing, communicating and managing risk in practice and organisations
  • identifying, appraising, synthesising and using best evidence to inform practice

Paul Webb Praxis Care —Wed 23rd  November 2022

Involving people who have mental health difficulties in the assessment process

Dr Grainne McAnee —Ulster University— 18th January 2023

What The Care Pathways and Outcomes Study tells us about children's experiences in care

Lorna Montgomery Queens University  Belfast — Wed 8th February 2023

Building Better Futures for Children and Families

Holger Suarez — Wed 15th March 2023

Social workers use of research evidence in the assessment process

Owen Barr—Ulster University—Wed 10th May 2023

Involving adults who have learning disabilities in the assessment of abilities, needs and risk

All of the seminars will start at 10am (UK time) via Zoom

Details for registration will be circulated closer to each date

Should you require any further information, please contact Amanda McKittrick a.mckittrick1@ulster.ac.uk


How to Register

Details for registration will be circulated closer to each date

Should you require any further information, please contact Amanda McKittrick a.mckittrick1@ulster.ac.uk

Previous Conferences

DARE 2022

The Seventh DARE symposium in was held online on three days in June 2022. We were delighted to welcome practitioners, managers, policy makers and academics from a wide range of locations.

Plenary Speakers

  • Professor Dr Pascal Bastian - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
    Predicting Harm Using Big Data: Challenges for Social Work
  • Professor Karen Broadhurst - University of Lancaster, England
    Assessment Using Big Data: Developing Practice and Service Management
  • Professor Emily Putnam-Hornstein - University of North Carolina, USA
    Decision-Making Using Big Data: Prospects for Social Work

DARE 2021

The sixth DARE symposium in June 2021 was held online due to pandemic lockdown restrictions.

Plenary Speakers

  • · Dr Alessandro Sicora, Associate Professor, University of Trento, Italy
  • · Dr Martin Kettle, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland
  • · Dr Mary Baginsky, Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London
  • · Professor Andrew Whittaker, Head of the Risk, Resilience and Expert Decision-making research group, London South Bank University
  • · Dr Laura Cook, Lecturer in Social Work, University of East Anglia, England
  • · Dr Beth Coulthard, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Ulster University, Northern Ireland

DARE 2018

The fifth DARE symposium in July 2018 brought together about 160 delegates from 22 countries (across four continents), including senior practitioners, managers, policy makers, researchers, regulators and social workers in education and training.

Plenary Speakers

  • Professor Haluk Soydan, Research Professor of Social Work, University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, USA
  • Professor Rami Benbenishty, Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University, Israel,
  • Professor Brian Littlechild, Research Lead, Department of Nursing & Social Work, University of Hertfordshire

DARE 2016

The fourth DARE symposium in July 2016 brought together about 130 delegates from 12 countries including social workers in practice, management, policy, regulation, and education and training.

Plenary Speakers

  • Mandeep K. Dhami, PhD, Professor of Decision Psychology at Middlesex University, London.
  • John D. Fluke, PhD, Associate Director of System Research and Evaluation at the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
  • Gerd Gigerenzer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy in Berlin.

DARE 2014

The third DARE symposium in July 2014 brought together about 120 delegates from 10 countries including social workers in practice, management, policy, regulation, and education and training.

Plenary Speakers

  • Professor Eileen Gambrill, Hutto Patterson Professor of Child and Family Studies, University of California at Berkeley, USA, internationally recognized for her work on critical thinking, decision making and related ethical issues, and evidence based practice.
  • Dr Martin Webber, Reader in Social Work, University of York, UK, well-known for his passion for rigorous research in mental health social work, including application of evidence to practice decisions and professional knowledge-creation process.
  • Mr David Carson, Visitor, School of Law, University of Southampton, UK, an international speaker on the interface between law and risk in human services including the management of risk and professional decisions in organizations.

DARE 2012

The second DARE symposium in July 2012 brought together about 100 delegates from nine countries including social workers in practice, management, policy, regulation, and education and training.

Plenary Speakers

  • Professor Hazel Kemshall, De Montfort University Leicester who has published widely on risk assessment and management with adult client groups including criminal justice.
  • Professor Aron Shlonsky, University of Toronto who has published widely on risk assessment and predicting harm in child welfare, and on evidence based practice in social work.

Dare 2010

The first DARE symposium in July 2010 brought together about 70 delegates including social workers in practice, management, policy, regulation, and education and training.

Plenary Speakers

  • Professor Jill Manthorpe, Director of the Social Care Workforce Research Unit at King’s College London, who has undertaken research and published widely on adult safeguarding and risk in social care.
  • Mr Martin Calder, MA, CQSW, private consultant of Calder Training & Consultancy Ltd, who has undertaken developmental work with organisations and published widely on risk and assessment in child protection.

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