Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities Advancing Practice Conference 2025
- Intellectual Disabilities
Welcome to the Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities Advancing Practice Conference 2025!
This 2-day event will bring together leading experts, researchers, educators and advocates in our field to share best practices and develop a community.
This year the conference will be held at:
- Hilton Cardiff
Kingsway
Cardiff
CF10 3HH
Our conference is a limited capacity event and we suggest registering early to ensure your place.
Themes & aims
This year's conference invites submissions that explore the multifaceted nature of our two themes:
- Working with systems
- Research to practise links-bridging the gap
We encourage innovative approaches that challenge conventional thinking and propose new solutions.
We want to engage with a range of views; relevant topics could include:
- The impact of societal attitudes and stigma on individuals with intellectual disabilities
- The role of systemic barriers in accessing quality healthcare and education
- The intersection of systemic oppression and disability
- Systemic Approaches to Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
- Family-centred approaches to support
- The role of technology in supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities
- Working with paid carers
- Research to practise links-bridging the gap
- Examples of large or small-scale clinically relevant research
- Ways of developing practice- based research
- Supporting clinicians' involvement in research.
While we encourage submissions related to our theme, our discussions will be far broader and cover a number of varying topics.
Whatever your work, it has the potential to contribute to this year's rich and diverse conversation.
You are invited to share your experiences and knowledge and to submit abstracts addressing this theme through:
- Research
- Professional practice
- Theory/opinion papers
- Social activism
Key submission dates
Authors are strongly advised to register on the on-line submission system and begin preparing their submissions well in advance of the following deadlines.
- 05 November: Online submissions system open
- 18 February: Deadline for submissions
- 27 February: Notification of outcome
- 04 March: Draft programme released
- 28 April: Deadline for registration
If you wish to submit more than one abstract, please complete individual submissions for each.
How to submit
Please ensure you read the submission guidelines below before submitting.
Submissions must be made via the online application portal.
Please note: you will need to create an account if this is your first time submitting.
The registration fee includes daily lunches, refreshments and access to all content.
Please note: ticket cost does not include accommodation.
All prices are inclusive of VAT at 20% and exclusive of booking fee.
1 Day
- Early Bird - FPID Member/Concession: N/A
- Concession (prequalified delegates): N/A
- FPID Member: £132
- BPS Member: £151.80
- Non-Members: £171
2 Day
- Early Bird - FPID Member/Concession: £180
- Concession (prequalified delegates): £216
- FPID Member: £276
- BPS Member: £346
- Non-Members: £388
The Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities are accepting bursary applications for any pre-qualified psychologists who are successful in their abstract submission.
To qualify for a bursary, you must be pre-qualified:
- Have an undergraduate degree in psychology but are not qualified practitioner psychologists.
- Including but not limited to assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists
To apply for a bursary, please answer the series of questions at the bottom of the submissions form.
The Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities has a number of allocated rooms on-site at the Hilton Cardiff.
You can book your accommodation directly here.
If you are email [email protected] for further information.
Want to speak to one of the team?
Contact us at b[email protected].