Strategy Description
This win-win field placement project proposes an innovative research education for the online Master of Social Work (MSW) programs. Students usually have challenges in fulfilling the competency requirement on research and feel disconnected between research, practice, and policy (Betts et al., 2024). Through this innovation, we can unleash the potential of the student, the agency, and the university. More importantly, we believe that this approach can be applied to other majors that require a field education and a research methods course as part of their curriculum, such as education, public health, criminal justice, and environmental science.
About the Author
Christina Kuchman, MSW, LCSW
Instructor at the University of Central Florida School of Social Work. Field Faculty and teaches Seminar classes and assists with internship placements. She has worked in community-based settings with victims of crime and at-risk populations with an emphasis on trauma-informed care.
Hsiu-Fen Lin, MSW, Ph.D.
Dr. Lin is Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida in the School of Social Work and a member of the Violence Against Women faculty cluster. She teaches courses in domestic violence, IPV risk assessment, research methods, policies on violence against women and children, and human behaviors in the social environment
Date Created
4-20-2025
Pedagogical Category
Interaction
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Kuchman, Christina and Lin, Hsiu-Fen, "Win-Win Field Placement: Creating Research Innovations in Online MSW Programs" (2025). Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository. 4.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/topr/4