Session 1 First Break Out Sessions at 9.50am
Stephen Hamilton
Probation Board Northern Ireland
Probation Board Northern Ireland's
Inspire Women's Project
Jillian Morris
South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust
What works best to embed a collective style of
leadership in social work?
Stephanie Patterson
Northern Health & Social Care Trust
Exploring learning-disabled adults' experience
of domestic abuse and the services/support
available to them through a critical review of
the literature.
Session 2
Suzanne Mooney
Queen's University
Northern Ireland Framework for Integrated
Therapeutic Care: Bridging professional boundaries
to meet the needs of care-experienced children and
young people.
Donna E Shields
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
The role of a Post-Adoption Service in reunifications
between Adopted Adults and their Birth Relatives.
Dr. Stella Owens
Tusla - the Child and Family Agency
The Empowering Practitioners and Practice
Initiative (EPPI) - getting real evidence into
practice.
Session 3
Bronagh Hamill
Northern Health & Social Care Trust
Impact of mentoring on transition from student to
social worker during a global crisis.
Mark Irwin
Southern Health & Social Care Trust
Delivering person-centred support services for
children with a disability and their families in times of
risk, change and uncertainty.
Dr. Gillian Ferguson
Open University
"When David Bowie Created Ziggy Stardust":
Reconceptualising workplace learning for
social workers.
Session 4
Dr. Maria Lotty
University College Cork
Exploring if the whole is greater than the sum of its
parts?
Evaluating Fostering Connections: The Traumainformed
Foster Care Programme through a mixed
methods approach.
Bill Vail
Western Health & Social Care Trust
Practitioner perspectives on working with young
victims of trauma and their experiences of vicarious
trauma and vicarious post traumatic growth.
Dr. Shirley Boyle, Open University, Dr. Judith
Mullineux, UU and Briege Bradley, Northern
Health and Social Care Trust
Working during the Covid-19 pandemic:
practitioner perspectives on the impact of
lockdown and social distancing on social work
practice.
Session 1 Second Break Out Sessions at 12.10pm
Dr. Stella Owens
Tusla - the Child and Family Agency
The Empowering Practitioners and Practice
Initiative (EPPI) - getting real evidence into
practice.
Janet Johnstone
Southern Health & Social Care Trust
Beverley Lappin
Southern Health & Social Care Trust
User Perspectives on Liaison Support during
Serious Adverse Incident Reviews.
Stephanie Patterson
Northern Health & Social Care Trust
Exploring learning-disabled adults' experience
of domestic abuse and the services/support
available to them through a critical review of
the literature.
Session 2
Natalie Whelehan and Caroline Cunningham
NSPCC - National Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children
Equal protection for children in Northern Ireland:
Parental and adult attitudes on the use of physical
punishment and legal change
Annie McAnallen
Probation Board Northern Ireland
"Public Protection and Trauma-Informed Practice in
the Probation Service: Competing or Complimentary
Paradigms?"
Exploring Practitioners' Perspectives on TraumaInformed
Practice with Service-Users Assessed as
Presenting the Highest Risk of Serious Harm.
Pauline McDonald
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
Aimee Cunningham
Belfast health & Social Care Trust
A Quality Improvement (QI) Approach to
Achieve Safe and Effective Services for
Children with Disabilities (CWD)
Session 3
Dr. Emma Nolan
Ulster University
The Mental Health of Children & Parents in
Northern Ireland. Discussing the Results of the
Youth Wellbeing Prevalence Survey.
Emma Richmond
Probation Board Northern Ireland
The profile of human trafficking offenders in
Northern Ireland and an exploration into coercive
control.
Dr. Gillian Ferguson
Open University
"When David Bowie Created Ziggy Stardust":
Reconceptualising workplace learning for
social workers.
Session 4
Dr. Carolyn Blair and Dr. Paul Best
Queen's University Belfast
Participatory methods in pedagogical design:
Stakeholders' experiences in co-creating and
co-delivering 'Getting Involved in Research'.
Lauren McBride
South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust
What are the barriers for Social Workers
implementing trauma-informed practice with
adolescents?.
Daniel Kina and Gerard Crofton-Martin
Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE)
Northern Ireland Family Support Hubs Review.