Practice & Education

ILAS strives to inform and lead the development and implementation of innovative practice and education programmes. Practice and education is viewed as a fundamental means to creating an awareness of human capacity across the life course, and often represent vital outcomes of our work. Across the six focus areas, partners within ILAS exploit new knowledge and new understandings to design and refine interventions in these areas, including research led teahcing.

Together with exploring the role of practice and education more generally in society, ILAS is committed to enhancing the knowledge of people and agencies that are, or will be, working in related service and policy sectors. This includes encouraging these actors to critically reflect on their own practice. We are also committed to providing new ways of working with potentially marginalised groups in education, social service, and health and social care domains.

Pushing beyond simple knowledge translation, many of our programmes on practice and education have been developed collaboratively with practitioners and other stakeholders. Examples of ILAS’s contribution to practice include: needs assessments for service and resource allocation, multi-agency intervention programmes, service delivery models. Examples of ILAS’s contributions to education include: service learning, undergraduate and post-graduate programmes, capacity-building programmes.

Many of the ILAS member units offer postgraduate courses to compliment the elements of life course. See the following list for details about the offering by unit: