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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:

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, ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥, 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