Decisions, Assessment, Risk and Evidence in Social Work
6th Biennial International Symposium
Wednesday 1 to Thursday 2 July 2020
Templeton Hotel, Templepatrick, Northern Ireland
DARE 2018
DARE 2020
DARE 2020: This sixth DARE symposium builds on the fifth symposium in July 2018 which brought together over 150 delegates from 20 countries including senior practitioners, managers, policy makers, researchers, regulators and social workers in education and training.
Scope
This biennial DARE conference series brings together researchers, educators, policy makers and senior practitioners to share developments on the related topics of:
- Professional judgement including reflective practice; cognitive judgement; heuristics; use of knowledge; and judgements in uncertainty
- Decision & assessment processes with clients, families, professionals and organisations, including contested decisions & care planning
- Assessment tool development including screening & diagnosis; assessing needs, strengths & risks; and statistical prediction of harm
- Risk assessment, communication and management, including legal aspects, organisational processes and positive risk taking
- Ethical, emotional, legal and contextual aspects of decision making, assessment and risk, including regret, stigma and professional ethics
- Learning about professional judgement, decisions, assessment, risk including use of knowledge (evidence), professional supervision, education & training
- Evidence creation, synthesis and dissemination; using knowledge to inform policy, practice, teaching, management and regulation in social work
Aims
The DARE conference series aims to support the development of professional knowledge and skills for the benefit of clients, families and societies by promoting research, organisation development, knowledge transfer and teaching initiatives
DARE is supported by the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences
Please note that this Programme is draft and subject to change.
Plenary Speakers
Professor Mark Schrödter, Professor of Social Pedagogy, Institute for Social Work, University of Kassel, Germany, who specializes in ethical aspects of social work judgement and decision making including issues of probability and big data.
Dr Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Associate Professor and Director of the Children’s Data Network, University of Southern California, United States of America, whose work focuses on the integration and application of data to inform interventions and policies.
Professor Karen Broadhurst, Professor of Social Work, University of Lancaster, England, who is leading the creation of the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory which aims to improve the use of data and research evidence in the family justice system.
Location
DARE 2018 will take place at the Templeton Hotel in Templepatrick, Northern Ireland which is convenient to Belfast International Airport.
Previous Conferences
DARE 2018
The fifth DARE symposium builds on the fourth symposium in July 2016 which brought together over 120 delegates from 12 countries 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.