This module prepares the student for an empirical research study by consolidating and extending knowledge on human rights and socio-legal issues developed in previous modules. The module provides opportunities for inter-disciplinary learning. The focus on the module is on the support and development of the students to enable them to negotiate and undertake an extended piece of research relevant to rights based and socio-legal practice.
The aims of this module are:
- To analyse the key concepts and their intersections in the construction of Social/ Human Rights and their manifestations in public discourses, law policies and social work.
- To understand the interdisciplinary nature of socio-legal inquiry.
- To design and conduct research relevant to rights based social work.
- To develop a capacity for analytic, synthetic and independent thinking.
On successful completion of this module, the learner will be able to:
- Plan a systematic, independent extended research project, examining rights based approaches in social work theory and/or practice.
- Conduct research and disseminate findings in within an inter-disciplinary context.
- Report on the research context, methods and findings of independent enquiry.
- Draw valid conclusions from data collected via independent enquiry.
- Critically reflect on the processes of empirical and clinical data collection and analysis.
- Module Supervisor: Caroline Bald