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Institute of Health & Management AustraliaSchool of Social Work

SOCIAL WORK CAREERS

Research and academia.

Social work research builds the evidence base for practice - testing what works, amplifying the voices of service users and holding systems to account. Academic social workers teach and mentor the profession's next generation.

THE WORK

What this practice looks like

Day to day

+Designing and conducting practice-based research`

+`Publishing in peer-reviewed journals`

+`Teaching and supervising social work students`

+`Evaluation of programs and services`

+`Community-based participatory research

Where you could work

+Universities and higher education providers`

+`Research institutes and centres`

+`Government research and evaluation units`

+`NGO research and policy teams`

+`PhD and research higher degree pathways

YOUR PATHWAY

Getting there with the IHM BSW

IHM's practitioner-scholars model practice-based research - developing projects that build social work knowledge directly from real-world practice experience, and involving students in that scholarship.

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