The School of Applied Psychology in association with Cork Simon Community hosted the first event in UCC’s 2017 Community Engagement week which kicked off with Dr Sharon Lambert’s organised event entitled ‘Back from the Brink: Research and Practice in Addressing Homelessness’. The half-day symposium ran from 9am till 1.30pm and concluded with a light lunch and discussion with delegates in the CACSSS seminar room. Sixty-five practitioners and research delegates attended the seven talks with one talk being Skyped in from Dublin.