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In children’s social care, supervision always plays a key role in supporting staff, promoting high practice standards and
ensuring children and their families receive the services they need. The current crisis creates particular challenges for supervision. This webinar will cover:
• The roles of supervision in the current period;
• How effective supervision can be provided in a context in which it has to take place remotely;
• How supervision can be organised in such a way that it meets all the needs of both the supervisee and the
agency;
• Strategies for ensuring supervision can still retain its critically reflective component, and can act as a “safe” supportive environment for workers;
• The messages from research in terms of what is effective within the supervisory process and how this can be applied to the current crisis.

Dr Catrin Evans, University of Bedfordshire Explored from the perspective of being an arts-based
researcher, this session will focus on the growing interest in engaging cross-disciplinary arts-based
methods in research connected to forced displacement. Dr Evans will reflect on recent learning as a practice-based
doctoral researcher. She will make a case for the way in which arts practice can engage reflexively with the messier
aspects of human relationships and behaviour, whilst simultaneously pushing against the notion of research
participants as objects of study. She will explore how the search for self-authored narratives within participatory
arts practice intersects with observations about the ethics of (self)representation, before reflecting upon future hopes
for the place of art within Drawing Together, the project she is now working on with Professor Ravi Kohli within
the University