Overview
The professional doctorate in Social Work offered at Cardiff University offers the opportunity to examine contemporary leading theories and research evidence, and to apply these within the professional context.
While the PhD generally prepares candidates for a research-based career, the professional doctorate is a more in-service orientated degree, addressing the career needs of practising professionals, particularly those in or who aspire to senior positions within their professions. The linkages between research-based knowledge and its application in a wide range of professional settings are central to this doctorate.
We offer an integrated professional doctorate scheme within which education, health, social work and social policy professionals engage together in integrated learning for some of the taught modules. This unique inter-professional learning allows you to reflect on what is shared across professional boundaries and what is distinctive to their own occupational traditions. Above all, a professional doctorate is an opportunity to examine contemporary leading theories and research evidence, and to apply these within the professional context.
The social work taught modules facilitate considered reflection on social work practice. Cutting-edge debates about what constitutes good practice, as well as strategies for undertaking research in social work contexts inform the modules. Contemporary debates about the politics of social work; anti-discriminatory practice; evidence-based and reflective practice; social work theory; social work ethics and values, and changing legislation in Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland are covered. It is recognised that many candidates will be managers or teachers of social work practice rather than practitioners and module assessment reflects this.
Career Prospects
Typically professional doctorate candidates are employed when they study with us, although current employment is not a condition of entry.
Graduates are able to further their careers within their employment settings or move beyond these into, for example, Higher Education, policy and planning, and/or research development and management.
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Our expertise encompasses a broad range of topics and themes and we encourage applications in the following areas:
- Science, technology and risk
- Crime, security and justice
- Knowledge, learning and pedagogy
- Culture, interaction and everyday life
- Children and young people
- Education, skills and labour markets
- Inequalities, division and diversity
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Duration
- Part-time
- 60 months
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General requirements
- You must possess a good first degree and usually have completed a master’s degree. You should also have two or more years’ professional experience in a field appropriate to your chosen pathway.
- Much of the module learning and associated assignments aim to support applied professional development and you are expected to have experience of - or current access to - professional settings in a field appropriate to your doctoral degree.
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24450 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 24450 GBP per year during 60 months. -
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4712 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4712 GBP per year during 60 months.
Living costs for Cardiff
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
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