Our Applied Practice suite is designed to help social workers, counsellors, and community development practitioners advance their skills in a variety of social practice situations. Further your ability to work with individuals, whānau, and communities, and transform your practice in ways that enhance social justice and reduce inequalities for communities.Highlights:Advance your practice and contribute to your profession by completing work-relevant research and projects as part of your studies.Ideal for those with practice-based skills who want to develop their management or workforce development competencies or validate their practice skills and ideas through research.Taught by highly experienced lecturers with roles in the community and national organisations.Graduates will likely find higher-level social practice roles or progress to study further.Places community engagement and understanding at the heart of research through Te Tiriti o Waitangi and indigenous approaches.Flexibility: choose full- or part-time study to fit in with your professional practice.Fast-track options into thesis work for students with undergraduate degrees that have a strong social practice component at an advanced level.

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