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Housing Professionals Conference

Engaging Communities Across Scotland

31st January & 1st February 2024

Our annual Housing Professionals Conference - for staff across housing, public sector and community based projects - is back again for 2024. Two days of excellent speakers, interactive workshops and networking opportunities with colleagues from across the housing sector.

The conference will take place in the Apex Hotel Dundee and will tackle some of the current issues and opportunities facing the sector such as:

Diversity and Inclusion
Attracting younger people into TP
Dealing with damp and mould
Recruiting tenants
Net Zero
Challenges in rural areas

Programme

10.30
Registration


11.00

Welcome: Jacqueline Norwood, Interim Managing Director, TPAS Scotland


11.15

Keynote 1:

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Mushtaq Khan, CEO of Housing Diversity Network


12.00

Keynote 2:

Youth Engagement and Partnership Working
Brian Webb, Aberdeen Youth Movement


13.00
Lunch and a chance to network


14.00

Working smarter with TPAS Scotland, open discussion facilitated by Jacqueline Norwood


14.45
Keynote 3:

Getting Serious about the role of Housing for Healthy Ageing  
Professors Vikki McCall, Alasdair Rutherford and Alison Bowes from Stirling University

Join us for some fun with 'Serious Game', an interactive session where we will use tactics to better understand how our homes can support us as we age.                


16.00
Refreshments and catch up with colleagues


17.00
Day 1 close


19.00
Dinner

9.15
Keynote:

Dealing with Damp and Mould
Elaine Ritchie, Senior Service Manager Housing, Perth and Kinross Council


10.00
Keynote:

Net Zero; a retrofit journey
Catherine Palmer, Net Zero Development Lead, Changeworks


11.00

Workshop Session 1

  • What is wider role – Ali Smith, Calvay HA
  • Working with young people, Jonathan Giddings-Reed
  • Modern apprenticeships – Lydia Banks, Angus HA

12.15

Workshop Session 1 repeated


13.00
Lunch and a chance to network


14.00

Workshop Session 2

  • Tenant Recruitment Strategies using social media and other methods – Stacey Johnston, TPAS Scotland
  • Rural Challenges, Highland Council
  • Involving Young People, Aberdeen Foyer

14.45

Workshop Session 2 repeated


15.30

Panel:

23 years ago, the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 created a legal requirement for landlords to develop and support tenant participation. How are we doing today?


16.30

Conference close

Conference news

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Speakers

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Dr Vikki McCall

Dr Vikki McCall is a Professor of Social Policy in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling. Professor McCall teaches the Postgraduate MSc/Diploma of Housing Studies at the University of Stirling and has won the RATE award for excellence in teaching in the Faculty of Social Sciences in 2016, 2019 and 2023.

Professor McCall’s work includes leading projects focusing on housing, ageing, stigma, co-production the role of front-line workers, service users, volunteers and the policy process. Professor McCall is Principal Investigator on UK-wide projects including Intersectional Stigma of Place-based Ageing (ISPA) project funded by the ESRC (2022-2027) and the Inclusive Living support for older people in residential care (INVITE) project funded by the Longleigh Foundation (2020-2023). She is also Co-I on the UKRI funded Designing homes for healthy cognitive ageing: co-production for impact and scale (DesHCA) project (2020-2024).

Vikki is Honorary Secretary for the Social Policy Association Executive Committee and Editorial Board member of Social Policy & Society.

More speakers to be announced soon!

Packages

2-day Conference & overnight stay

Members £500 + VAT | Non-members £650 + VAT

Conference day delegate

£150 + VAT

Book now

To book your space, please contact enquiries@tpasscotland.org.uk.