Social work students

Great expectations: social work student perspectives on placements

“I wanted that first placement to be something that I would be like ‘okay is social work the right career for me, is this the right job for me?"  - Reflection from an early career social worker on their third sector placement.

‘I learned a lot, but it wasn’t what I expected it to be’ is the message we’ve heard loudest from the students and recently workers we’ve been speaking with recently about their placement experiences.  

Social work education in a pandemic

Ariane Critchley, Lecturer in Social Work at Edinburgh Napier University, offers initial reflections on how social work education has had to adapt to the Coronavirus pandemic.