AGM and Networking Event: Engaging with Communities – Beyond the Clinic
The networking and engagement event will be held on 30 November 2023.
05 October 2023
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The British Psychological Society, Division of Clinical Psychology Northern Ireland (DCPNI) invite members, colleagues and third-sector partners to join us at Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast on Thursday 30 November 2023 for a networking and engagement event exploring the role of Community Psychology and the potential for its evolution and development within a NI context.
The aim of this networking event is to bring together local groups and local projects with wider research and projects to learn from the work being done both in Northern Ireland and wider afield, to support discussions about the potential role psychology can play in both working in partnership with communities and also supporting psychologically enabling community contexts and environments and practices, which support strength and inclusion based community development.
In the morning, we will hear from a number of academic experts in the field including Professor Greta Defeyter, University of Northumbria and Professor Nick Maguire, University of Southampton on their work on Poverty and Homelessness. We will hear from a number of our partners in the Community & Voluntary sector on community initiatives and projects they have been running locally and we will also hear from our colleagues in Community Psychology on how we can develop our understanding of community psychology principles and approaches and how these can be integrated into our thinking and practice.
The afternoon will comprise of a number of round table and panel discussions with our attendees and guests exploring the themes covered earlier in the day.
The event will be followed up in early 2024 with opportunities for our Special Interest Groups (SIG's) to regroup and review their work in the year ahead in the context of the discussions of this Networking Event.
Our Annual General Meeting will take place at the end of the event followed by a light supper.
We hope to have conversations around Community Psychology through the lens of social inequalities and their role in perpetuating contexts of social deprivation and exclusion such as poverty and homelessness. We are keen to generate discussion on the role of socially driven factors leading to experiences of poverty and homelessness, the impact of such on the individual and their families/communities and to become familiar with and learn from examples of innovative community-led/orientated approaches that have been working to address these.