Kay Wall

Senior Lecturer in Social Work Studies

Department of Social Work and the Community

Contact Details

email: k.wall@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 855345

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 the only part-time tutor at the university, which allows her to continue to work alongside young people attending the Youth Offending 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 & Research

Teaching interests

Kay is a module lead for one BA (Hons) Social Work module and one MA Social Work module:

BA programme: Understanding Research in Practice, a year two module looking at the importance of being a research-minded practitioner.
MA programme: Practice – Developing Capability. This is the first 70-day practice module for Year 1 students.

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

She is also a module lead for the Practice Educator Professional Standards (PEPS 1).

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

Professional Bodies

GAPS member: Group for the Advancement of Psychodynamic Social Work
Social Work England: registered social worker
CCJS member: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
HEA Fellow: Higher Education Academy

Publications

Kay Wall and Lesley Parish, ‘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

Kay Wall, (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.

Kay Wall (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

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

External Responsibilities

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