16th October 2025
Health and Care Research Wales have funded SCALE with £1.8million catalytic funding so members of the team were delighted to be invited to attend their annual conference at Sophia Gardens. This year was their 10th anniversary and included thought provoking keynotes, plenaries, parallel sessions and even some poetry!
Our Director Prof. Stuart Allen was part of a session on How will AI make a difference for research? alongside Prof. Reyer Zwiggelaar where he highlighted our mission at SCALE to exploit the potential of Artificial Intelligence to address challenges within the social care sector and build smarter, more agile and more effective social care services that are humanist, transparent, equitable, and grounded in lived experience.
In addition, SCALE were part of an exhibition stand alongside our colleagues from CASCADE and CARE. Visitors enjoyed taking part in an activity where they typed their answer to ‘Describe your vision for AI in the future of social care’ and then our clever AI coding generated an image based on what they had typed. Images varied from robots to computer generated reports, with some looking like a comic book strip and others influenced by William Morris!
