CORC Forum, 21 November 2024 event line up. Booking available for non-members as well as members.
We very much look forward to welcoming you to our upcoming annual CORC Forum, which takes place online from 9:30am to 1:00pm on Thursday 21 November.
This event is free to CORC members (up to 10 places for Full members and three places for Associate members), or £50 for non-members. Do share on with your colleagues so they can register too.
We look forward to welcoming:
Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou, Strategic Co-Lead and Programme Director, Anna Freud and University College London, as our keynote speaker. The title of her talk is: 'Emotional triggers and associated burdens experienced by adolescent school pupils with diagnoses of ADHD, autism or both.' Georgia will explain the importance of a neurodiversity affirming and informed approach to measuring emotion regulation in neurodivergent students and the concept of resilience. She will also share development of a new self-report questionnaire co-designed with young people with a diagnosis of autism and/or ADHD – the My Emotions in School Index (MESI).
Sohila Sawhney, Senior Research and Evaluation Manager at Barnardo's. The title of her talk is: '"Multiple and complex." The journey of developing a new outcomes framework at Barnardos.' Barnardo's are a CORC member, and one of the oldest and largest children charities in the UK. Sohila will set out the key challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt in leading the organisation on a journey to being able to measure and communicate the difference they make, by designing, developing and implementing a new outcomes framework.
Francesca Speakman, Programme Manager for #BeeWell in the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. The title of her talk is: 'Learning from #BeeWell in Greater Manchester; using data to inform regional systems and make young people’s wellbeing everybody’s business'. Fran will share how insights, alongside other intelligence, is forming priorities and strategies in Greater Manchester, mobilising the regional system to make young people's wellbeing everyone's business.
Roisin McEvoy, Head of Schools Training and National Programmes at Anna Freud. The title of her talk is: 'Belonging, connectedness and school attendance'. This will include evidence about school non-attendance and school connectedness, the relationship between emotions, wellbeing and mental health and attendance at school, and the role of school culture, systems and staff in helping children to feel safe and happy to attend.
Rachael Stemp, Participation in Research Officer at CORC and Evidence Based Practice Unit, Anna Freud, will lead a discussion alongside peer researchers and young research advisory group members to explore what meaningful participation means in the context of mental health. The title of her talk is: 'Why young people get involved in mental health research: lessons from recent projects.' Drawing on examples from the Kailo project.
Nick Tait, Programme Manager at CORC will consider and explore the latest research and innovation in understanding and improving child and youth mental health outcomes from across the CORC network and beyond, over the recent year, and on-going. The title of his talk is: 'Developments from the Child Outcomes Research Consortium'.
You can read each of their bio's here.
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