MA Social Work  MA Social Work Bournemouth University ../webroot/files/Institutions/cover_photo/1567425301Bournemouth-University-1.jpg

The Social Work Task Force and Reform Board promote high quality social work education for a challenging job that demands the application of reflective, critical thinking skills, the ability to think deeply, deal with uncertainty and ambiguity and to use and create best evidence in assisting people and society in a complex world. This masters course responds to these initiatives providing a high quality course that meets the Government, professional body and disciplinary requirements. You will complete core units concerning the social and behavioural science disciplinary base central to understanding people and societies in context alongside specific units that deal in depth with child care and safeguarding, working with adults made vulnerable by a range of factors and mental health and substance use issues which will prepare you for contemporary social work practice. Ethics and values will be central to this preparation and a unit addressing the dilemmas and tensions working in complex, uncertain situations will be studied. As this is a masters course you will be required to have a sound understanding of the research underpinning social work practice and attendant areas, and will also develop the capacity to begin to act as a research-minded, aware and capable practitioners, undertaking a dissertation and creating knowledge relevant to social work. This course is also professionally qualifying and registrable with the GSCC as well as an academic course and therefore you will undertake two placements of the length mandated by the professional body and Government requirements in two separate and distinct areas of practice. You will have the opportunity to study in a high profile and nationally recognised department with research active and internationally linked academic staff.