The Homelessness Community of Practice is pleased to invite colleagues to “Increase the impact of your research”, a networking event for workers and researchers engaged in the service of people who are homeless.
The event takes place on Wednesday 12 October 2022 from 10:00 – 13:30 at the John Hansard Gallery, 142-144 Above Bar Street, Southampton.
To attend please register on Eventbrite.
At the event participants will have the opportunity to participate in two guided activities to consider their own research and impact. Three short presentations from researchers in different settings will provide inspiration and insight for participants to see the impact in their own research or prompt new ideas to plan for impact going forwards. Lunch and refreshments are provided with time to meet and chat with others doing research in the area of homelessness.
Launch
The regional Homelessness Community of Practice will be formally launched on Monday 24 October from 18:00 – 20:00 also at the John Hansard Gallery, to express the collaboration between the University, Southampton City, and local providers serving people who are homeless, bringing research and practice together to maximise impact. Homelessness is an issue that is vitally important for not just Southampton, but the UK as a whole and internationally. Please contact Jennifer Tarabay for more information.
Background
Earlier this year the Department of Psychology were awarded £738k from Higher Education England and the Office of Health Inequalities and Diversity to develop the psychology homeless workforce in the South East region.
This new project is composed of a three-tier set of workforce developments to develop clinical psychology posts in homelessness and psychological knowledge in the community of practitioners. This includes developing clinical psychology in the participating Universities (Southampton, Oxford, Canterbury and Surrey) and the establishment at Southampton of a PG Certificate/Diploma in Homelessness Practice.
The third key strand of the project is to develop a regional community of practice to scale the knowledge and practice generated within the participating Universities. The aim is to draw together people interested in developing their psychologically informed practice but who may not have access to formal training, through workshops, seminars, and conferences, as well as blogs and possibly research papers.
Through these activities, the project is aiming to increase the workforce of practitioners who are familiar with psychologically informed approaches through networking, inspiration, training and practice, informed by original research and evidence-based practice. The universities will become an intrinsic part of a broad coalition of civic stakeholders, bringing a significant skill set to the problem of social exclusion.
