We are delighted to announce that the 16th NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR) Annual Conference will be held in York in May 2025.
The SSCR conference brings together researchers and a broad range of key partners, collaborators and people with lived experience to share evidence and on-going research in social care practice.
The conference provides a valuable opportunity to make connections and hear about leading social care research including SSCR’s commissioned studies and the broader NIHR programme offer.
Any questions? Please contact us at sscr@york.ac.uk and we’ll get back to you.
Programme and registration
The conference is currently fully booked. Please join the waiting list via Eventbrite (link below) and we we will be touch if a place becomes available.
School for Social Care Research Annual Conference 2025 – registration (opens an external page – Eventbrite – in a new tab)
The outline programme is also available on the Eventbrite listing.
Information for presenters
Please visit our information for presenters page for guidance about producing and submitting your presentation.
All presentations (slide decks, posters, accompanying files (where applicable)) must be submitted by 17:00 (GMT) on Friday 2 May 2025 via the conference presentation upload Google Form or email to sscr@york.ac.uk for presenters who do not have access to a Google account.
Bursaries
Applications for bursaries closed on 21 February 2025. Bursary application notifications were sent during w/c 3 March 2025.
Please email us at sscr@york.ac.uk with any queries about SSCR conference bursaries.
Call for abstracts – now closed (as of 24 January 2025, 17:00 GMT)
Abstract submissions were welcomed from across the full breadth of social care research and eligibility to submit wass not limited to researchers/ institutions who are members of the current phase of the School. We were particularly keen to receive abstracts from completed work from the third phase of the School for Social Care Research (2019-2024) where no previous opportunity to present had been available.
Abstracts from researchers at all career stages (including PhD students) were encouraged, as were submissions from across the Three Schools programmes where significant social care elements are evident. All submissions will now be peer reviewed and selected for oral presentation (15 mins, plus 5 mins Q&A), lightning talk (5 mins, max three slides) or poster presentation.
Peer review took account of:
Key dates
Please email us at sscr@york.ac.uk with any queries about a submitted abstract.