Conversations on Care 2025-26
The following events for the Care Initiative have taken place during the 2025-26 academic year. Details of future events will be shared on the main Care Initiative page.
Long-term care and climate change: Preparing to respond to climate change, building on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Wednesday 22 October 2025, 16:30 to 18:00, EP Abraham Lecture Theatre and Online
Speaker: Dr Adelina Comas-Herrera, Director, Global Observatory of Long-Term Care, London School of Economics
Older adults and individuals with chronic illnesses or disabilities, as well as caregivers, often face increased exposure to climate-related hazards such as extreme heat, natural disasters, and displacement. It is essential to ensure that Long-Term Care systems are prepared to respond to climate-related events and other potential future crises. This seminar explored how LTC systems can prepare for climate-related emergencies and crises, considering lessons from the difficulties that countries, including the United Kingdom, faced when trying to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Report: Long-term care and climate change
Making an IMPACT in adult social care reform: Lessons from the UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care
Wednesday 18 February 2026, 16:30 to 18:00, EP Abraham Lecture Theatre and Online
Speaker: Professor Jon Glasby, University of Birmingham
With the reform of adult social care once again being considered – this time by the Casey Commission – this session builds on lessons from the work of IMPACT, the UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care. It looks at what we mean by evidence, why lived experience is an important form of evidence in its own right, and how to get evidence of what works implemented in practice. In the process, it draws out key lessons from IMPACT’s work across the four nations of the UK that could form the building blocks of a future National Care Service.
Making an IMPACT in adult social care reform
