Social Work

Learn from expert academics and gain first-hand experience from service users, carers and practitioners, and graduate prepared to start an incredibly rewarding and fulfilling career.

Benefit from a truly unique, practice-led experience that puts lived experience and real-world impact at the heart of your studies. You’ll learn from leading academics, work directly with service users, carers, and practitioners, and complete two placements that bring your knowledge to life.

Ranked among the UK’s top social work courses, the Social Work degree offered at the University of Birmingham leverages Birmingham’s vibrant, diverse community connections to offer hands-on experience, and its global recognition means you’ll graduate ready to make a difference—locally and worldwide.

Career opportunities

There is a clear progression from the social work program to professional practice in a range of settings such as statutory social work, voluntary organisations and the private sector, with employment opportunities both in the UK and overseas.

Upon graduation, our students take up positions such as:

• Social Worker (children and families, adults, mental health)

• Social Work and Social Care Leadership

• Social Researcher

• Advanced Mental Health Practitioner (AMHP)

• Education Welfare Officer

• Youth Offending Team

• Community Development Worker

• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer

• Advocate

Courses include:

• Critical Social Work Practice with Children, Families and Adults

• Journeys through the Life Course

• Law and Social Policy for Social Work

• Placement One for Professional Practice

• Social Work in Practice: Context, Values and Skills