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Decolonising Social Work Field Education is a podcast that brings together students, educators, and practitioners to reflect on how colonial legacies continue to shape social work placements in the United Kingdom.

It began with a rigorous scoping review by our international team and aims to open space for honest conversations that often fall outside lectures or placement reviews. Across the series, we speak with people from around the world who bring lived experience, critical insight, and bold ideas.

Episodes explore power, identity, resistance and change while offering space to reflect, be challenged, and imagine new possibilities for social work education.

The series ensures active participation by our student co-hosts Tina Odu and Eleanor Hogan, who share their questions and reflections at the beginning and end of each episode.

This international project is co-produced through a decolonising lens, actively centering diverse voices and lived experiences to challenge conventional knowledge hierarchies. Funded by the European Association of Schools of Social Work, it's Led by Assoc. Prof. Henglien Lisa Chen (University of Sussex, UK) & Produced by Mitali Kulkarni.