Field Educator: A Scholarly Journal from the Simmons University School of Social Work

Episode 4: Service User Perspectives in Social Work Education, Part 2

Field Talks host, Dr. Katharine Dill of Marist College, interviews Dr. Joe Duffy of Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland for Part 2 of Service User Perspectives in Social Work Education. In this episode, Katharine and Joe discuss key messages from the literature in regard to service user perspectives in social work education. A concept new to social work education in the US, incorporating the perspectives of people with lived experience is now required in United Kingdom social work programs. This Field Talks episode is a conversation that will help you learn about best practices and gaps in knowledge pertaining to this important topic in social work education. 

Episode 4 References

• Adamson, Keith, et al. “Service User Involvement in Social Work Education: A Scoping Review.” Social Work Education, vol. 43, no. 2, 2024, pp. 374–92, https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2022.2097213.

About the Podcast

Field Educator’s Field Talks podcast is created and produced by Simmons University School of Social Work and Marist College for the benefit and enrichment of the field education community, including field directors and instructors and social work faculty and students. Read Field Educator here: https://fieldeducator.simmons.edu/

Host: Katharine Dill, PhD, Marist College

Guest: Joe Duffy, PhD, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Production Coordinator, Simmons University: Melissa Erlick

Production Coordinators, Marist College: Jaime Lynne Bishop and John Corry