Kay Wall

kay-wall

Senior Lecturer in Social Work and IMPACT Facilitator

School of Allied Health and Community

Department of Social Work and Paramedic Science

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

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, 8th 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, 24th-25th 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 , https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad086

External Roles

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