{"id":545,"date":"2015-12-09T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=545"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:14:30","slug":"lucy-ocallaghan-bsc-2009-ma-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2015\/12\/09\/lucy-ocallaghan-bsc-2009-ma-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy O\u2019Callaghan (BSc 2009, MA 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image pull-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/01\/LucyO_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-562\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/01\/LucyO_600-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Lucy O\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/01\/LucyO_600-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/01\/LucyO_600-506x338.jpg 506w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/01\/LucyO_600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">Lucy O\u2019Callaghan is a Children&#8217;s Services Practitioner for the NSPCC.<\/p>\n<p>I chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/social-sciences\/courses\/undergraduate\/sociology\">Sociology<\/a> because it gave me an awareness of social and political issues in a way that no other subject did. I chose\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/social-sciences\/courses\/professional-programmes\/ma-social-work\">Social Work<\/a>\u00a0and it was instrumental in enhancing my job prospects.<\/p>\n<p>After my undergraduate degree I worked for mental health charity Hafal. I loved the job &#8211; it gave me insight into Social Work and helped me decide when applying for Postgraduate degree.<\/p>\n<p>As a Children&#8217;s Services Practitioner for the NSPCC I work with adults, children and young people. A typical day includes assessment and intervention sessions as well as attending multi-agency meetings in the region.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I chose Cardiff because it was in the top ten for Social Sciences in the UK when I applied. It\u2019s now in the top five. I like that Cardiff places a big emphasis on research because referring to research evidence is an imperative aspect of Social Work practice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Studying for a Master\u2019s degree was intellectually stimulating and challenging &#8211; it vastly improved my analytical skills and the placement opportunities provided helped in applying for my current role.<\/p>\n<p>Social Science is a broad subject area so graduates can adapt to lots of different career paths. I would advise making and maintaining relationships with the academic staff &#8211; the lecturers were very supportive throughout the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucy O\u2019Callaghan is a Children's Services Practitioner for the NSPCC.","protected":false},"author":904,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,38,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-humanities-social-sciences","category-our-alumni","category-social-sciences"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}