External Work Placements
Code: 42718 ECTS Credits: 62024/2025
| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 4313228 Social Policy, Employment and Welfare | OT | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Francesc Xavier Rambla Marigot
- Email:
- xavier.rambla@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
You can view this information at the end of this document.
Prerequisites
The general conditions of the master's degree apply
Objectives and Contextualisation
The internship requires students to collaborate in developing a professional project in the fields of either social research, public management or the third sector.
For each student, the UAB will sign an internship agreement with the host institution defining the terms and conditions of the student's activities
Competences
- Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Design and conduct research projects on work, gender and social policy, using advanced qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
- Design, implement and evaluate social and labour policies affecting the relationship between work, employment and welfare.
- Design, implement and evaluate social policies and processes for resource redistribution and improvement of citizens' welfare, in different contexts and from a European perspective.
- Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
- Put forward innovative proposals for the relevant field of study.
- Recognise the main economic, political, social and cultural transformations of complex societies in order to analyse the fundamental challenges they pose to equality and welfare.
- Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
- To apply the gender approach in the analysis of the relationship among labour market, cares and social inequality.
- Work individually and in multidisciplinary, international teams.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply the gender approach to the study of social problems and the design of social intervention policies.
- Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Design social research projects, showing the ability to identify the root of a problem, define research hypotheses and put forward an appropriate methodological design.
- Design, implement and evaluate social intervention policies in the context of employment policies.
- Design, implement and evaluate social intervention projects in the area of education, equality and integration policies .
- Identify social problems, assess their implications and the challenges they pose, and make sound proposals to guide decision-making on intervention policy.
- Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
- Interpret, apply and identify the repercussions of the different methodological paradigms and their specific methods of social research, for the research model and design and, in particular, to put together a mixed design.
- Put forward innovative proposals for the relevant field of study.
- Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
- Use the software that allows to analyze the results that correspond to each one of the methods and techniques implemented.
- Work individually and in multidisciplinary, international teams.
Content
Completing at least 100 (at most 150) hours of internship at a research center, public body or non-profit organisation.
Implementing a work plan previously accorded with the student's mentor at the host organisation.
Following teachers' guidance to reflect on learning experiences as well as to briefly analyse the host organisation.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Reporting | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 6 |
| Work plan | 5 | 0.2 | 4, 5, 6, 10 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Taking teachers' feedback into account | 100 | 4 | 12 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Internship | 35 | 1.4 | 1, 7, 9 |
- The teaching team will present the catalogue of places so that students elaborate and communicate their preferences. Then, teachers will attempt to distribute students into places. If necessary, they will propose alternative solutions.
- Each student will agree on a work plan with his/her mentor at the host organisation.
- Both the teaching team and the students will use the UAB online learning management system to exchange observations and feedback.
- Students will present their final conclusions in a workshop with other students.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Field journal on internship activities and analysis of the organisation | 45% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| Final presentation in a workshop with other students | 30% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12 |
| Mentor's report on the student's performance in her/ his internship | 25% | 0 | 0 | 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12 |
Students will write a reflective journal on their intership. They will also submit a brief analysis of the host organisation. Teachers will provide support through the Moodle wiki tool, which is set in the UAB Virtual Campus. The students' mentors at the host organisations will also evaluate their performance according to a brief questionnaire.
Bibliography
European Foundation for Quality Management (no date) Management Excellence Model. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4K2_QEMP2s
Ministerio de Fomento- Gobierno de España (no date) Metodologías y Guías de Evaluación. URL https://www.mptfp.gob.es/portal/funcionpublica/evaluacion-politicas-publicas/Guias-evaluacion.html
UK Research and Innovation (no date) Defining Impact. URL https://www.ukri.org/councils/esrc/impact-toolkit-for-economic-and-social-sciences/defining-impact/
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (no date) SWOT Analysis. URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis
Software
No specific software will be used
Language list
Information on the teaching languages can be checked on the CONTENTS section of the guide.