Conference Programme
The Conference Programme
Over the course of two and a half days delegates attended keynotes presented by a number of nationally and internationally known experts in their field and were able to choose from a wide variety of presentations by practitioners and academics.
Look at what was on offer on each day.
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Some of our Keynotes in action.
Thursday’s Programme
Keynotes
Professor Carmel Cefai: Reimagining post-covid education: a whole school approach to mental health
Professor Karen Guldberg: Implementing the principles of good autism practice in education: Inclusion in international contexts
Presentations
Professor Helen Cowie & Dr Carrie-Anne Myers: Cyberbullying and online harms: the impact on the emotional health and well-being of young people.
Grace Quantock: Trauma Toggle: Exploring trauma-informed news design for increased agency and titration in media consumption.
Dr Sonya Woodward: Educational needs of refugees in Wales.
Dr Donna Gaywood: Pedagogy of welcome: ways to support refugee children in Early Childhood Education and Care.
Dahab Jihar: School Attendance in Secondary Schools. Policy, practice, and implications for whole school approaches.
Claire Houghton and Joe Lucas: A Circle of Understanding.
Dr Anne Southall, Professor Sally Pearse: Forging connections for trauma-informed education: A partnership between Sheffield Hallam University UK and La Trobe University Australia.
Prof. Dr. Terje Ogden: Evaluation of the School-Wide Positive Behavior Support model (SWPBS) in Norwegian primary schools.
Dr Julie Greer: Putting the ‘y’ into ‘unit’: reimagining resourced provisions. Ways to lead the whole school in meeting the needs of children with social, emotional and mental health needs.
Adriana Frazão: Preliminary results of “Psicomotricidade IE”: a psychomotor intervention program for preschool children with autism spectrum disorder.
Professor Tania Hart: Reporting the findings from the STaRS (Siblings Together are Really Stronger) research project, which explored how the wellbeing of siblings of children with life-limiting conditions can be promoted.
Marcia White: The Discourse of Permanent Exclusion: Through the Lens of an Early Career Researcher (ECR).
Rupert Loch: Learning outside the classroom – A practical workshop: Alternative approaches for students with SEMH.
Friday’s Programme
Keynotes
Professor Harry Daniels and Associate Professor Ian Thompson: Excluded Lives: Understanding marginalisation from multiple perspectives.
Professor Mina Fazel: What kind of refuge? Post-migration needs of displaced children
Presentations and workshops
David Bradley and Amy Ashlee on behalf of UNICEF: Early Childhood Education & Care for refugee families in the UK
Lucy Cavell: Hope on the frontline: Exploring practitioner perspectives of childhood trauma recovery.
Stefanie Pearce: Insights into school belonging in a trauma-informed school. “It’s like they just want us to be happy.”
Dr Carmel Conn: Learner experiences of lower sets in the Welsh context: tensions in a rights-based approach to education.
Andrew Caress: The Child’s Champion – an exploratory study investigating the role of chaperones in supporting the mental wellbeing of child performers in professional UK theatre productions.
Rebecca Haycock: ‘Our brains put together can work magic’: Participation as social justice and the creation of space for three-way learning.
Tambay Mansaray: Promoting Rural Education in Sierra Leone.
Lynn Gazal: Tree planting to promote hope in young people in the context of escalating climate change.
Michelle Longhurst: A mixed methods study of students’ and caregivers’ perceptions and experiences of the managed move process within a neighbouring local authority secondary school.
Dr Emma Clarke: Images from the Edge: Girls’ experiences of being at risk of permanent exclusion.
Lynda Kay: Seeking ways to halt the exclusion train: In search of factors that contribute to effective inclusive practice for children who exhibit challenging behaviour in schools.
Farhia Hersi: “The Power of Teachers’ Choice”: a qualitative study of teachers’ knowledge, beliefs and practices relating to promoting cultural diversity using children’s literature.
Professor Sanja Tatalović Vorkapić, Professor Shu-Chen Jenny Yen, Olesya Saban: Improving Children’s Well-being: Social Story as a Tool for Aiding Children to Cope with the Ukraine/Russia War.
Dr Marie Clancy, Beth Dennis: Methodological approaches to using poetry in research with refugee children and their families experiencing palliative care.
Zaina Aljumma: ESOL Tutors’ perspectives on literacy and language difficulties among forced migrants’ learners and the impact on their progress in Wales.
Dr Alan Price, Dan Whittaker Learning beyond the classroom – two different approaches towards the amelioration of social, emotional and mental health difficulties. Case studies from within a UK special school for learners with social emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH) within the West Midlands.
Dr Kathy Evans: Working with vulnerable children and young people, exploring educational and mental health labels, and the implications of both.
Andrew Caress: Delivering safe and effective mental health education within the school curriculum.
Dr Maria Reraki, Dr Alicia Blanco-Bayo: So, what is it then; Special Need, SEMH or both? An assessment framework to value their interplay.
Dr Clara Rübner Jørgensen, Dr Graeme Dobson, Freda Crook and Wendy Ross: Refugee children with Special Educational Needs – an interactive workshop discussing the information needed to distinguish different needs and best support the children.
Dr Debbie Bailey and Dr Paul Van Walwyk: From “Maladjusted” to “SEMH” – do labels make a difference? Two Headteachers of special schools for pupils with SEBD/SEMH share their research and discuss how labels impact on practice.
Saturday’s Programme
Keynote
Dr Anne Southall: Trauma informed education: From the inside out
Presentations and workshops
Professor Sanja Tatalović Vorkapić (on behalf of ENSEC): Considering early childhood educators’ competencies for mental health and well-being: One of the solutions for working with vulnerable children
Cathy Stancer, Jenny McCabe, Rob McCabe: Regenerating Human Ecosystems: The Birmingham Pathfinder approach to family support.
Claire Hannah-Russel : Emerging solutions to a wellbeing crisis within the education system: An exploratory evaluation of a wellbeing and nurture programme in primary schools for supporting children in the immediate Covid-19 post-pandemic era.
Dr Amanda Barrie: Accessing the voices of children with SEMH needs using Photo Elicitation Interviews.
Dominic Gunn: Self-Regulation in Early Childhood Education – A Neurological Perspective on ‘Play’.
Dr Rob Long: Positive Psychology and Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) “Their future is not over”.
Naomi Western: Re-writing policy for behaviour: Promoting inclusion and wellbeing in a Junior School setting through the embedding of an Emotional Regulation Framework.
Dr Donna Gaywood, Dr Josephine Gabi, Alison Tobin: An International project supporting inclusive education for refugee and migrant children in early years settings.
Georgie Zacharzewski: A critical evaluation of the Motional Assessment and its impact on educators’ understanding of social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs in the classroom.
Cathy Stancer, Jenny McCabe, Rob McCabe: Birmingham Pathfinder: In practice.
Clare Williams & Siobhan Garrett: Hearing the child’s voice at the heart of SEMH interventions to facilitate inclusion and to provide a platform that promotes the development of social and emotional skills for life and learning.
Gala Dinner
Delegates who joined us for the Gala dinner enjoyed a thought provoking speech by Professor John Visser entitled ‘What can a label do?’
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