Lillian Byrne-Lancaster Background: The presentation is based doctoral research exploring placement experiences influence their sense of becoming a social care worker (SCW). Although recognised as a corner-stone of Irish SCW education (Forkan and McElwee, 2002) it has attracted limited empirical research attention (Byrne-Lancaster, 2014, 2016, 2018; McSweeney, 2018; McSweeney and Williams, 2018). Methods: 13 social … Continue reading Identity transformation: narratives of becoming a social care worker