Professional Development for Social Workers

The Faculty of Education and Social Work provides a range of courses, and monitors relevant local and international conferences, to enhance the professional development of social work practitioners and to support social workers supervising social work students in field education placements.

Field Education Seminars

Field educators providing placement opportunities to third and fourth year social work students from the University of Sydney are offered two free seminars for each placement, outlining placement expectations, procedures and policies, and covering the basics of professional supervision.

For more information about these, please email .

To request that your name be added to the mailing list for infomation about occasional seminars and workshops of interest to social workers, please email .

Division of Professional Learning

The Division of Professional Learning offers a number of fee-attracting short courses of relevance to social workers.

For more information, please contact Ms Maxine Moore, Project Coordinator, on (02)9351-6329 or .

Field Education Mini-Conference 17 February 2006

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's Field Education Mini-Conference. By all accounts, it was a terrific success. If you have ideas for next year's conference, please email .