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Social Adversity, Risk and Resilience (501L5)

15 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

Autumn teaching

On this module, you’ll explore the impact of social hardship on wellbeing and relationships across lifespans in different families and cultures. 

You’ll explore the experiences, causes and consequences of social hardship within wider culture, including:

• relationships of inequality and poverty
• neglect and abuse within parenting, caregiving and other relationships
• violence
• substance abuse
• other forms of oppression and discrimination that:
• harm
• subordinate
• marginalise
• undermine human rights, social citizenship and wellbeing.

Impacts of these hardships can include mental and physical health, wellbeing and opportunity. You’ll cover ways to reduce these impacts, enhance child and adult safeguarding, and maximise life opportunities – efforts that are key in the modern social work practice.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 144 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 111 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.