Social Policy and Social Work

The Social Policy and Social Work programme from Masaryk University aims to prepare professionals focused on the exploration of social and public policy issues, social work and human resources development programmes.

The Social Policy and Social Work programme from Masaryk University graduates are able to achieve this goal through their research activities, evaluation of existing or development of new measures and their implementation in practice. They can do this at international, national, regional and local levels..

Career opportunities 

The primary areas of employment for graduates are international and national research and academia, public administration, social policy, social work and social services organisations.

In these organizations, they become researchers, creators of policies, programmes, and educators. They become authors of strategies for solving social problems or supporting the coping with difficult life situations at all levels of functioning (national, regional and local), as advisors and experts of political actors, state administration or non-governmental (even transnational) organizations.

After successfully completing his/her studies the graduate is able to:

• deepened social science theory and knowledge relevant to social policy and social work

• reflecting autonomously complex processes of solving social problems or living situations

• self-reflecting ethical and methodological adequacy and effectiveness of one’s own expert activities

• using research methods of complex scientific reflection of social problems or client living situations as well as helping interventions

• designing and implementing proposals, programmes and analyses of helping interventions as well as complex contexts of their execution

• publishing one’s own research outputs in relevant manner