IRCC Events
The Embedded Social Research Team from Studio Susegad is hosting multiple meetings for the IRCC community to connect in 2025 and 2026: Regionals across the UK, and larger whole-cohort meet-ups at the midway and end points.
Regionals are longer meetings facilitated by Studio Susegad, where IRCC members can gather to engage in a carefully facilitated programme and slow(er) networking.
Coming up
Wednesday 12th November: Regional 4 online (link sent via email), 13:00-14:30
Wednesday 19th November: Regional 5 online (link sent via email), 11:00-12:30
Thursday 27th November: Regional 6 at The MAC in Belfast, 10:00am-16:00
Various dates Dec 2025 - March 2026: Online Themed Peer Learning Discussions
Wednesday 18 - Thursday 19 March: A final whole community meeting spread over two days at Wellcome in London, who will be inviting you to sign up at a later date.
All venues are wheelchair accessible.
Past events
Wednesday 7th May: Regional 1 at Strange Brew in Bristol, 10:00-16:00
Friday 16th May: Regional 2 at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, 10:00-16:00
Tuesday 20th May: Regional 3 online, 9:00-13:00.
Tuesday 8th July: Midway Meeting at The Lowry in Manchester, 10:00-16:00
Autumn Regionals
We know it can be hard to justify taking time out of very busy schedules and we want these events to be as aligned to your needs as possible.
We shape our agendas directly by your input. You can explore these below. In our RSVP forms, we ask what you want ri gain, offer, do, and feel- and we design our activities around your responses and collaborate with you if you want to co-host something.
Event aims
To platform work/teams and their successes, challenges and learnings.
To support connection across different people, teams and findings.
To be a collaborative, inclusive and informative gathering.
Click here to check out our previous agendas. Please note, we have closed bursaries and rsvps to the Belfast event. You can still sign up to the online regionals.
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At the in-person Regionals, the following are available as standard:
Step-free access
Accessible toilets
A wellbeing space for relaxing, resting and for prayer
Vegetarian and vegan catering (other dietary needs and requests can be made in the registration form)
Agenda in advance
For the Online Regional, the following is available:
Microsoft Teams Closed Captions
Agenda in advance
We can meet additional access requirements as needed - please let us know on hello@irccsusegad.com.
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We will send information to participants closer to the time via email.
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We will offer a range of bursaries - Attendance, Open and Reparative Rest. Click here to find out more.
The deadline for applying to Autumn Regionals bursaries is Friday 24 October, 17:00, although we will aim at allocating bursaries sooner.
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Please think of one quality you’d like us all to share in the space (e.g. Collaborative, Inclusive, Creative, Welcoming, Inspiring). We’ll also ask you to share your name, pronouns if you want to, role/institution.
Please prepare a 5 minutes Lightning Talk per team and be ready to screen share slides if you are using any. Presentations can be given by a nominated person or as a team. We recommend focusing on introducing your project’s themes, and sharing any learnings and questions you have. We’ll be diligent about timings to make sure we hear from everyone and may need to reduce speaking time if we get last minute sign-ups.
Online Regionals Agenda
Belfast Regional Agenda
Click here for text-only versions of the agendas, with more details included
Bursaries
We’re offering a series of bursaries to support you to attend IRCC Regional events, as part of our research into what reparations for rest might look like in institutional frameworks. RSVPs and bursaries applications for the Norwich, Belfast and Online Regionals this Autumn will close on Friday 24 October 17:00, although we will aim to start allocating places sooner.
We welcome any feedback you have on the bursaries - email us your thoughts on hello@irccsusegad.com. We will gather data and feedback on our bursaries pilot and communicate transparently about the distribution of funds and learnings that arise.
