External events
Throughout the year, various organisations host events that homecare workers are welcome to attend. See below for more information.
Launch event: Successfully engaging paid care workers in organising: Challenges, opportunities, and what works
Status:
Coming up
Host:
Centre for Care
Date:
18 September 2025
Online / in-person:
Online
Tags:
Research event
12:00 - 13:00. This event will look at union organising among paid carers. Based on interviews with care workers, it will explore what barriers there are to workplace organising in the sector, and how they can be overcome. The event makes suggestions for engaging social care workers in organising for positive change in social care.
AI in Social Care: Help or Hype?
Status:
Coming up
Host:
Digital Care Hub
Date:
25 September 2025
Online / in-person:
Online
Tags:
Research event
12:00-13:30. This online session will explore how frontline social care professionals perceive AI, how AI could support human care professionals, and how AI tools can be co-designed with care workers.
Setting up linked data bases for older adult social care
Status:
Coming up
Host:
University of Manchester
Date:
30 September 2025
Online / in-person:
In-person
Tags:
Research event
10am-12pm. Join us for this free public workshop to discuss findings from our NIHR study into how we might be able to set up linked, longitudinal social care data bases for community services for older people, such as day care and home care.