Shaping Our Future: Promoting Innovation, Inclusivity and the Social Work Voice for Change.
- Two day conference
- 10th and 11th June 2025
- University of Manchester.
Includes lunch, refreshments and evening pass to the free drinks reception and journalism awards on the evening of 10th June.
This years conference will be exploring the following themes:
- Community and/or collective social work
- Social work identity, unity and professional influence
- Intergenerational social work
- Social work, digital technology and/or artificial intelligence
- Social work and intersectionality: equality, equity, diversity and inclusion
- Tackling poverty, racism and other structural injustices
- Sustainability of the profession: recruitment, retention and working conditions
- Innovations in practice, management or leadership
- Eco-social work: rights, wellbeing and practices for climate and environmental change
Interested in proposing a workshop for the conference?
We welcome diverse contributions including presentation or talk, interactive workshops or symposium/plenary sessions. We expect most sessions to run for 30 mins to an hour, subject to availability of time.
Use the button below to access our workshop submission form. This form is to be completed if you are interested in delivering a session at the BASW UK 2025 Annual conference.
Please complete each section of this form and select submit at the end, and the form will automatically generate a return to us.
If your application is successful, we will use the information you have provided for our event listing, which will be shared with members and non-members of BASW.
The closing date for submissions is 5pm on the 31st January.
BASW UK Social Work Journalism Awards 2025
We will also be hosting our second BASW UK Social Work Journalism Awards on the evening of the 10th June. Come and join us for drinks and buffet and hear about the work of national journalists and their coverage of social work.
- Awards ceremony
- Hear from national journalists about their coverage of social work
- Free drinks reception
- Buffet
- Networking
Don't forget to enter or nominate any articles, broadcast pieces, podcast episodes or drama that deserves to be recognised in the BASW UK Social Work Journalism Awards 2025!
