SSCR Conference 2025
Presentations, posters and recordings
Please note that the remaining plenary presentation recordings are still being edited and will be added to this page as soon as they are available.
Keynote: Phillip Whitehead – Bathing Adaptations in the Homes of Older Adults – The BATH-OUT Story
Phillip Whitehead is Senior Research Fellow at the University of York and Academic Career Development Lead for the NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR). Phillip is an occupational therapist by professional background and he worked in practice in a range of services across adult social care.
Phillip’s research focuses on occupational therapy practice in adult social care, with a particular emphasis on older adults, and includes work on housing adaptations, reablement, single-handed care and outcome measures. He was the chief investigator for the NIHR SSCR funded study Bathing Adaptations in the Homes of Older Adults which was a multi-centre randomised controlled trial with embedded economic and process evaluations.
Day One (morning parallel sessions)
⚡Lightning talks ⚡
Day One (afternoon parallel sessions)
Poster Presentations
We were delighted to showcase a fantastic collection of posters at the 2025 SSCR Annual Conference. Covering a wide range of themes, the poster presentations were a key feature of the conference programme.
To make the posters more accessible, many presenters provided an audio description with their poster. Where available, these have been uploaded with the poster below.
Keynote: Becky Robinson, Alzheimer’s Society – Because we’re human too: Why dementia needs to be a priority in social care
We were delighted to welcome Becky Robinson from the Alzheimer’s Society to our conference. As the event took place during Dementia Action Week, it was especially pertinent that Becky delivered this keynote on the second day of the conference.
Becky is a Research Evidence Officer at the Alzheimer’s Society, where she works to develop and share research that informs policy and practice in dementia care. Her work supports the Society’s mission to improve the lives of people affected by dementia through evidence-based approaches. Becky delivered a plenary titled ‘Because we’re human too: Why dementia needs to be a priority in social care’, highlighting the urgent need to centre dementia within social care policy and provision, and to treat people living with dementia with the dignity and respect they deserve.
