Promoting Professionalism Conference

This conference will showcase PARN's latest research project: Promoting Professionalism in 21st Century. This project aims to support professional bodies in the promotion of professionalism, addressing the populist challenge that sets out to undermine the value of expertise and evidence based decisions and advice.

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This conference will include a presentation on PARN's findings, talks from the project steering group and interactive workshops. Click here for more information

We are also pleased to announce our Chair and guest speakers:

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Tom Grinyer – Chair
Chief Executive at the British Medical Association

We're delighted to announce that our chair for this conference will be Tom Grinyer, the new Chief Executive of the British Medical Association. Tom has over two decades of experience of working for membership organisations and has recently joined BMA from his previous Chief Executive role at the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

Alaistair McCapra
Chief Executive at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations

Alastair McCapra is the Chief Executive at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. Alastair will provide a case study into CIPRs Client Advisor Service. This initiative is designed to help organisations find reliable and quality professionalism within PR.

Debbie Larner
Head of Knowledge and Products at the Chartered Institute of Housing

After attending PARNs last professionalism conference the Chartered Institute of Housing  have launched a Professionalism campaign that has run throughout 2019. Touching on Grenfell and the Hackitt review, Debbie will give an insight into the ongoing work at CIH. 

Andy Friedman
Chief Executive at Professional Associations Research Network

PARNs CEO,  will present the findings from our latest research project and will discuss the tie-in publication. Andy will also lead delegates in the workshop that will provide an opportunity to discuss challenges at your own organisation.

Debbie Dore
Chief Executive at the Association for Project Management
Achieving Chartered Status - How this helped galvanise the emerging project profession

Debbie will be touching on a number of areas the Association of Project Management have been working on. Starting with apprenticeships and speaking more widely on how engaging and supporting new talent helped APM double their student membership in a year. We will also hear about APMs ‘Road to Chartered’ series which aimed to showcase the contribution of Chartered as a vehicle to advance professionalism and particularly the profession of project management. The series examined the components of chartered; what is expected of a chartered body and chartered individuals.

Gill Hodges
President of the Society of Radiographers
The Society of Radiographers, founded in 1920, is one of the oldest radiography organisations in the world. Gill will presenting on professionalism in Radiography and the initiatives SoR have undertaken to support this.

Karin Orman
Assistant Director - Professional Practice at the Royal College of Occupational Therapists
Promoting the Profession and Promoting Professionalism within Occupational Therapy
The session will cover how the Royal College of Occupational Therapists supports professionalism and promotes the profession, sharing examples of recent RCOT activity and highlighting the challenges, our indicators of success, lessons learned and the focus for future activity.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided, with plenty of time to network with your peers. 

Date: Tuesday 28 January 2020
Venue: Royal College of Nursing, Marlyebone, London W1G 0RN

Member Price: £245+VAT

Non-member Price: £320+VAT

When
1/28/2020 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
GMT Standard Time
Where
RCN Royal College of Nursing 20 Cavendish Square LONDON, W1G 0RN UNITED KINGDOM
Registration is closed.
 

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