On all of our courses you will gain a professional focus and real world experience on youth and community perspectives ensuring you are equipped to make an immediate impact in your career You have the opportunity to embark on a year-long sandwich placement as part of your degree course and micro placements with public sector and not for profit organisations We are aiming to get accreditation for our graduates to qualify as JNC accredited youth workers All our courses have an international focus This is embedded throughout the curriculum giving you the opportunity to transform your experience with us into a global one There are a variety of exciting possibilities open to you ranging from our successful international travel scholarships scheme through which you can spend a summer working for a charitable organisation overseas to one of our many overseas study exchange programmes As a student on one of our undergraduate degrees you will be able to benefit from our Graduate initiative This three-year award course enables you to gain award levels for all the extra-curricular activities you undertake so that you can stand out from the crowd on graduation You will have opportunities to engage with our Birmingham 2029 project which seeks to map the city across a decade of change and be part of the Social Impact Hub which will enable you to engage with local organisations in the community and voluntary sectors The School of Social Sciences is recognised for being at the forefront of applied research specialising in areas such as social identities race and racism hate crime gender and violence and mental health We have proud to have a vibrant research culture with five interdisciplinary research centres and a strong record of publications Gain an understanding of the contemporary world by practising a form of inquiry that is informed knowledge-applied evidence-based and interdisciplinary You will study in our state-of-the-art City Centre Campus ideally located for you to take advantage of our links to industry in the UK s second city

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