Evaluation of Social Work Outcomes (OSWE)
| Project details | |
|---|---|
| Project facilitators | Professor John Carpenter and Hilary Burgess |
| Project funders | SWAP, SCIE, IRISS |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Contact details | |
| Disciplinary focus | Social Work |
| End date | July 2008 |
Description
OSWE was set up to build capacity in evaluating the outcomes of social work education. Funded by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and SWAP, six Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) offering social work programmes joined the first phase of work until July 2008. Subsequently the Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work (SIESWE) (now called the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) funded an extension to include three Scottish HEIs in the second phase, running until July 2008. Professor John Carpenter (University of Bristol) and Hilary Burgess (University of Bristol and SWAP) are facilitators and consultants and are also researching the process.
The aims of the project are to enable social work educators to:
- gain information about ways in which their teaching and learning may be effective, and ways in which it might be improved
- test the feasibility of outcome measures and research designs
- make use of opportunities to compare and contrast practice between programmes
Outputs
Two articles by Hilary Burgess and John Carpenter, Evaluating the Outcomes of Social Work Education, are available in issue 10 and issue 11 of SWAP's newsletter.
The team presented at JSWEC 2008
