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Department of Welfare and Social Work
Objective and Main Tasks
The strategic development of the Department of Welfare and Social Work is aimed at providing high-quality social work education in the sector of social work, promotion of the prestige of a social worker's profession in society, research, development of international contacts and cooperation.
Main fields of activity
- Fundamental studies to gain a professional bachelor's degree and a social worker's qualification
- Master’s studies to gain a professional master's degree
- Third-level doctoral studies, subdiscipline of social policy and social work organisation (study programme Sociology)
- Postgraduate professional development studies
Lines of Research
- Issues regarding the development of social work as a profession, academic discipline and a scientific discipline
- Social protection and social inclusion: social work with different target groups of social work
- Social policy, welfare and development of social services
- Social work in the health care environment
Latest publication – a book compiled by Marika Lotko |
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Employees
Department of Welfare and Social Work
Medical Education Technology Centre
26a Anniņmuižas bulvāris, Rīga
E-mail: socdk [at] rsu.lv
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