MA in Advanced Social Work: Practice Education (qualified Social Workers)

This MA will enable you to extend and develop your initial competence in supporting the professional learning of others.

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Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies

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Our students have been successful in a range of areas, from postgraduate research to employment in local authority children’s services departments, adult services departments, independent sector and voluntary sector agencies such as NSPCC, Family Action, MIND.
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Practice education is the teaching, mentoring, supporting and assessing of Social Work students, social care staff, qualified Social Workers and other allied professionals for the purposes of developing competence and raising the quality of service for users and carers.

Courses include enabling the learning of others, teaching and assessing the adult professional learner, developing and undertaking the evaluation of practice learning, and developing the learning organisation through work with individuals, groups, whole organisations and interagency practice.

Please note: You may take individual courses separately or exit with a Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma – please contact the Programme Convenor for details.

Students who are working as associate lecturers for Goldsmiths may be able to undertake the University-run Certificate in the Management of Learning and Teaching as part of the programme.   

Courses in all of these programmes may be taken on a modular basis if appropriate.

Find out about Service User and Carer Involvement in social work education at Goldsmiths

 

Register your interest

If you register your interest in this programme we will keep you informed about open days and send you relevant further information. If you subsequently decide to apply for this programme you will be able to use the same login details to apply.


Applying and entrance requirements

How to apply

Please download and complete an application form. You should send this to admissions@gold.ac.uk or mail it to Admissions Office, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW.

If you're applying for funding you may be subject to an application deadline. Find out more about funding opportunities for UK/EU students and international students.

Selection process

When you apply you will be asked to:

  • Give details of your professional and academic qualifications and experience.
  • Supply a 750-word personal statement in which you: describe the specialist area of practice that you are currently working in; evaluate the existing skills, knowledge and values that you bring to your specialist area of professional practice; discuss what knowledge, skills and expertise you hope to gain from attending the programme.
  • Supply a reference from a line manager or equivalent recommending you for the programme.
  • Give evidence to demonstrate competence in practice at the level that is required to complete the programme.
  • Supply an agency commitment form undertaking to pay the necessary fees (where applicable).
  • If you do not hold a recognised qualification in Social Work or in one of the other caring professions, you will need to provide an additional 1,500-word statement showing how your experience makes you eligible for the programme.

Entrance requirements

You should normally hold a degree level professional qualification in Social Work (eg Diploma in Social Work) or one of the caring professions and be registered, or be in the process of registering, with the GSCC as a Social Worker.

If you are not qualified as a Social Worker, you should be registered or in the process of registering with the appropriate professional body, if applicable, and have developed and consolidated your practice in a specific area of welfare practice.

You should have obtained initial competence in teaching and assessing the practice of professional students and mentoring and supporting students or colleagues, be able to demonstrate that you can meet the academic requirements of a postgraduate programme, and be working or intending to take up employment (usually in a paid, but exceptionally in a voluntary capacity) in a setting that will enable you to demonstrate competence in practice education at the required level.

We also accept a wide range of international equivalent qualifications, which can be found on our country-specific pages. If you'd like more information, please contact the Admissions Office.

English language

If your first language isn't English, you need to demonstrate the required level of English language competence to enroll and study on our programmes. 

Please check our English Language requirements for more information.

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Contact us 

Get in touch via our online form

UK/EU

+44 (0)20 7919 7766
course-info@gold.ac.uk

International (non-EU)

+44 (0)20 7919 7702
international-office@gold.ac.uk

Staff in the Department of Social Work

Dr Claudia Bernard

Gender-based violence and how narratives of racism and gender oppression affect the way trauma ensuing from familial maltreatment is experienced, understood and named. Dr Bernard also leads a research group that is exploring diversity and progression of social work students in England.

Dr Adam Dinham

The role of faith communities in the public realm, particularly in terms of policies and practices related to service provision, community cohesion and participatory community governance.

Anna Fairtlough

Diversity and progression in social work training; evaluation of training for work with parents initiatives; lesbian and gay parenting; parenting and domestic violence and practice education.

Joan Fletcher

Relationship-based social work and therapeutic epiphanies; diversity and progression in social work training and multi-generational, multi-family group work with teenage mothers.

Dr Perlita Harris

User views and experiences, particularly black perspectives; looked-after children; adoption, adoption support, transracial and transnational adoption. Dr Harris has also been working on a DfES-funded study, ‘Pathways to Permanence for Children of Black, Asian and Mixed Parentage: Dilemmas, Decision-Making and Outcomes.



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