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
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
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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