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.
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:
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, 51ÊÓƵ, 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 51ÊÓƵ 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 ,