Kay Wall

Senior Lecturer in Social Work and IMPACT Facilitator

School of Health and Wellbeing

Department of Community, Social Justice and Health

Contact Details

email: k.wall@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 542422

Kay's passion is working with, and for, adults and children who have offended, in particular giving them a voice. She has a keen interest in the needs of service personnel and in particular discharges from the military.

Kay is a part-time tutor at the University, which allows her to continue to work alongside young people attending the Youth Justice Service and supervise students in the workplace as a practice educator.

Qualifications:

MA Social Work
BA (Hons) Recreation and Community Studies
Post Graduate Certificate in Education
Post Graduate Certificate in Practice Education

Teaching Interests

Kay is a module lead across the BA (Hons) Social Work, MA Social Work, Social Work Apprenticeship, and Practice Educator Professional Standards programmes. Kay supports criminal justice perspectives across modules as required.

BA programme/Apprenticeship programme: Understanding Research in Practice, a year two module looking at the importance of being a research-minded practitioner.
Practice Educator Professional Standards Stage 1: this is a CPD module for qualified social workers expressing an interest to become a Practice Educator.

Kay also teaches individual sessions with a criminal justice focus across all years of the BA and MA social work programmes.

Research Interests

Young people and the criminal justice system
Ex-military personnel and the criminal justice system
Loss and bereavement and the connection to offending behaviour
Voices of people in the criminal justice system
Disability

Membership of Professional Bodies

Social Work England: Registered Social Worker
CCJS member: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
HEA Fellow: Higher Education Academy

Recent Publications

Williams, S and Searcey, R (eds), (2025), Research in Health and Social Care, Routledge, Chapter 8: Involvement of People with Lived Experiences in Research, Payne, A, Power, L, Simpson, M, Tuuli, C and Wall, K

Wall, K and Parish, L, ‘How to support social work students faced with remote and flexible working on their practice placements.’, Community Care –on-line: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2014/02/21/support-social-work-students

Wall, K, (2015), ‘Decision Cases for Advanced Social Work Practice, Book Review, Journal of Social Work Practice, Vol 29, 4, December 2015, pp490-492

Presentation of paper: “Against the grain – a practice educators’ reflective experience”, Teaching and Learning conference, University of Worcester, 8^th July 2015.

Presentation of paper: “Against the Grain – accepting that facilitating learning means that at times we need to adapt our preferred teaching styles”, HEA conference, Glasgow, 24^th-25^th February 2016.

Wall, K, (2018),” Educating Social Work Students against the Grain: Tutors accepting that facilitating learning means we need to adapt our preferred teaching styles”, Worcester Journal of Teaching and Learning, Issue 12, October 2018, pp 17-22

Parkhill, I, and Wall, K, (2019), The Journey to Care – Reflections of a Service User. Disability & Society. ISSN Print 0968-7599 Online 1360-0508

Duddington, A, Gowar, D, and Wall, K, (2023), Nothing About Us without Us: the voices of People with Lived Experience in Practice Education and Post-Qualifying Social Work, British Journal of Social Work, Volume 53, Issue 3, April 2023, Pages 1766-1774.

External Roles

Trustee of Evesham Street Pastors
Referral Order Panel member, West Mercia Youth Justice Service
Independent Practice Educator