Fabulous Care Homes, Inspirational Research: Learning and Networking Event

The ExCHANGE Collaboration are hosting this fabulous free in-person event focused on sharing knowledge, research and creative ideas around the care home sector. The event is taking place on 3rd November 2022, 12:00-16:30 at Reed Hall, Exeter. We will be exploring how social science researchers can work in partnership with care home stakeholders to improve the lives of those working, living in and visiting care homes. We will be asking questions like:

• How can we use research to increase the happiness of care home residents?
• What does a research-friendly care home look like?
• How can we actively include care homes in our local community?
• What makes a care home a “homely” home?

The Covid-19 pandemic has shone a public light on serious issues faced by the care home sector and made the wider population more aware of the drastic need to improve quality of life in care homes. We urgently need cutting-edge, innovative social science research to tackle the issues facing this sector. By thinking outside of the box, creative social research can find novel solutions to really show we care about our care homes and make them into better places to live and work.

This event will include presentations from top care homes researchers, as well as talks by dedicated local care home staff, owners, and relatives of care home residents. Alongside these presentations, the event will also include creative workshops, networking and small group discussions to highlight the issues affecting the care home sector and start seeking solutions together.

We will also showcase the work of the ExCHANGE Collaboration as an innovative example of how social science researchers and care home stakeholders can work together to improve care home practice through evidence-use.

This event will be of particular value to researchers interested in care homes research, healthcare professionals and staff working in care homes, care home providers, people who have relatives or friends residing in a care home, those caring for an elderly relative or relative with dementia, residents of care homes or anyone considering care home residence, or with an interest in social science and/or care homes research. We welcome all interested parties.*

This event is sponsored by, and forms part of, the ESRC’s 2022 Festival of Social Science.

The ExCHANGE Collaboration is supported by:

• The Alzheimer’s Society
• Dunhill Medical Trust
• NIHR PenARC

Additional information:

Venue:

The Conference is taking place in-person on 3rd November 12:00-16:30 at Reed Hall, Exeter. While we hope to see you there, a remote attendance option for the talks only will be available for those unable to travel to Exeter.

Lunch and refreshments:

Lunch and refreshments will be provided at the venue. Please enter any dietary requirements when you register.

Directions and travel:

Please see Reed Hall’s webpage for directions for arriving by car. Free parking is available at the event.

The nearest railway station to the venue is Exeter St Davids, and it is also within walking distance from Exeter Central. Please see the National Rail Enquiries Journey Planner for details of trains to and from Exeter St Davids/Exeter Central. To plan a bus journey you may wish to use https://www.traveline.info/.

*Registrations from outside of the South West:

While we are keen to accommodate anyone with an interest in the conference programme, in the event of a high level of interest we may need to give priority to in-person attendees based within our South West Peninsula geographical catchment area (Cornwall, Devon and southern Somerset) as we get nearer to the date of the event. Please contact us at penarc@exeter.ac.uk if you are in any doubt as to whether to book for an in-person or remote place (this option can be selected during the registration process).

Your data:

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In order to administer the event, we will download the following personal data provided during the registration process and store it on the in a restricted-access folder: your full name, email address, phone number, job title, employing organisation, dietary and access requirements and any information you have provided on your clinical interests or reasons for attending the conference. Please see the University of Exeter's policy for information governance and security here.

We will contact you approximately one week prior to the event with joining instructions and preparatory reading. We may also contact you at other times prior to the event for logistical reasons such as Covid restrictions. We may contact you after the event to distribute any additional materials which may be of use, to ask permission to share your details with other delegates and to provide a certificate of attendance. To ensure that we can provide you with evidence of your attendance on request for a reasonable period of time following the event, we will retain your contact information within a register of attendees for a minimum of 2 years.

Please note that portions of the event may be live-streamed and/or recorded for sharing later. There may also be photography taking place, and we will be taking notes of attendees' contributions during the event, both in order to publicise the project and for research and governance reporting. During the registration process, you will have the option to either give or withhold your consent for any contributions you make during the day, or any visual images taken of you, to be used in this way. If you withhold consent, we would ask that you kindly make yourself known to a member of the ExCHANGE team on arrival at the event so that we can ensure that you are not included in any material that is released after the event.