Students present social work research and best practice showcase

Local employers attended to find out how their findings could impact upon policy or practice developments and to help identify aspects of practice that would benefit from further exploration through student research and practice projects. 

The event also included the awarding of the inaugural Rona Woodward prize. In 2014, the social work group sadly lost a much loved colleague, Rona Woodward.  Rona coordinated the Children, Families and Society module and so her colleagues and family funded an award for the highest scoring student completing the module. Two students from the MSc Social Work Studies – Rhona Kerr and David Reid shared this top grade and were jointly awarded the prize. 

To view the work presented on the day, please use the links below… 

• An Exploration of Social Workers’ Experience of Working with Families where Parents have a Diagnosis of a Learning Disability Elaine Wardrope
• Call of Duty: An exploration of the factors influencing NHS staff to report adult protection concerns, from the perspective of community health professionals Kate Fennell
• An exploration of the factors which contribute to children experiencing multiple placements during an episode of being looked after by the local authority Laura Jayne Thomson
• The social work role in relation to GIRFEC’s implementation Mhairi Galbraith
• Shared understandings between social workers and residential care workers in relation to the provision of person-centred care for individuals with dementia in a residential setting Rhona Kerr
• Research into Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities’ experience of dementia, through the voices of staff and carers, in Edinburgh and the Lothians Sarah McDonald