BU Research Blog

Event Date and time: Tuesday, 15 July 2025, 1200-1600 GMT

Event Location: Bournemouth Gateway Building, St Pauls Lane, Bournemouth, BH8 8GP Room BG

(Refreshments and Lunch will be provided)

Join us to explore the use of Virtual Reality (VR) for training and evaluating dynamic risk assessment (DRA) in domiciliary care settings.

This stakeholder workshop will seek insights on the following research questions:

• How does the domiciliary care sector and FE colleges currently train and assess their workforce/students to risk assess in a patient’s home?
• How can a VR app be used by the domiciliary care sector and FE colleges to improve the learning and evaluation of dynamic risk assessment (DRA) skills?
• To what extent can VR DRA improve DCWs’ (domiciliary care workers) awareness of risks in a patient’s home?

 Featured Speakers (TBC):

• Skills for Care, the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England.
• Partners in Care BCP Dorset
• BU Nursing Academics
• Demo of BU’s VR for DCW DRA prototype

 Who Should Attend?

• Domiciliary care providers
• Workforce Educators
• Tech innovators in healthcare
• Government Policy / CQC professionals

 About CfACTs+ Project

This project explores how creative technologies like VR can transform training, improve operational efficiency, and support workforce development; see:

https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/centre-applied-creative-technologies/centre-applied-creative-technologies-plus-cfacts

 Reserve Your Spot Today!

This event is free, but places are limited.

Register via Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-on-domiciliary-care-worker-training-virtual-reality-for-dra-tickets-1433020275219?aff=oddtdtcreator

Event Funded by:

BU Early Career Researcher Network (ECRN) & Research Knowledge Exchange Development Framework (RKEDF)