Writing in Social Work Practice (WiSP) was the first nationally funded research into writing and recording in social work. The project also developed educational materials available on open access websites.  Writing your Life will build on the WiSP research, taking it into a new impact phase. Through renewing partnerships with service users, educators, social workers, managers and policy makers the findings will be used to transform social work writing and inform practice across the UK nations. 

This exciting new phase of work is being led by Lucy Rai who chaired the WiSP Advisory Group during the original research. This group (with representation from service user, social work educators, social workers and managers, trainers, professional bodies, Unison and the HEA) provided stakeholder insights throughout the research phase.    

Our impact phase will involve experts by experience at the heart of exploring our partnership approach, analysis of existing resources and generating new learning materials for social work practice. 

Watch this space for more information and opportunities to get involved in this work.