This paper discusses an innovative approach connecting service user and carer involvement (SUCI) in social work education to social work practice. The research team, comprised of service users, carers, social work students and module leader, worked collaboratively democratising the research process. At the University of Dundee a core social work module facilitates for students to spend 15 hours with a service user and/or carer (host) gaining a unique insight into their everyday lives. During this time hosts and students discuss two policy practice questions, responses to these questions are generating annual qualitative data, with study findings being disseminated at local and national level. The experiential learning students acquire from spending time with their host becomes the site of knowledge creation through involvement that is applied to practice. This paper reports on the narratives emerging from the longitudinal data (2012-15, n = 90) on the changing landscape of social care in Scotland and the dissemination of project findings. We explore the intersection where the voices of service users and carers, student learning and social work practice coalesce. A model of outcomes focused SUCI is introduced as a template for meaningful, sustainable and outcomes focused SUCI in social work education.

This paper discusses an innovative approach connecting service user and carer involvement (SUCI) in social work education to social work practice. The research team, comprised of service users, carers, social work students and module leader, worked collaboratively democratising the research process. At the University of Dundee a core social work module facilitates for students to spend 15 hours with a service user and/or carer (host) gaining a unique insight into their everyday lives. During this time hosts and students discuss two policy practice questions, responses to these questions are generating annual qualitative data, with study findings being disseminated at local and national level. The experiential learning students acquire from spending time with their host becomes the site of knowledge creation through involvement that is applied to practice. This paper reports on the narratives emerging from the longitudinal data (2012-15, n = 90) on the changing landscape of social care in Scotland and the dissemination of project findings. We explore the intersection where the voices of service users and carers, student learning and social work practice coalesce. A model of outcomes focused SUCI is introduced as a template for meaningful, sustainable and outcomes focused SUCI in social work education. Key Words: Social work education; User involvement; Knowledge; Outcomes; Social work practice IntroductionDebate around service user and carer involvement (SUCI) in social work education is maturing as the process of involvement is problematized. The context of involvement is being revisited through calls to broaden the focus on the 'how' of involvement to also include the 'impact' of involvement on student learning, social work practice and, ultimately the lives of service users and carers. The genesis of the SUCI in social work education debate is threefold, located in the mandatory requirement for SUCI in social work education (Scottish Executive, 2003), epistemological debates around knowledge production and what is valued as knowledge for social work education and practice (Beresford and Boxall, 2012), and outcomes of involvement in practice. Robinson and Webber's (2013) review of the SUCI literature found no empirical evidence on outcomes in practice, however, a recent paper by Tanner et al. (2015) has begun to address this omission.

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fax 01-972-952-9435. AbstractThe Buzzard field operated by Nexen is the largest oil discovery in the North Sea since the early 1990s. About 27 production wells, of approximately 9,000 ft total vertical depth (TVD), will be drilled during the field life. Maximized life of well isolation is imperative. The production liners are being cemented with a life-of-well engineered solution.The reservoir section consists of two discrete oil-bearing sandstones. Oil recovery will be maximized by water injection from subsea wells. Isolation of the production sands enhance management of the waterflood and thus maximize the producible volume. The challenge was to develop a cement system that could achieve and maintain isolation throughout the life of the field.A finite element-based analysis tool was used to build a model of the reservoir section. The model was then used to predict the forces on the cement sheath throughout its life under all load conditions, including those caused by pressure and thermal changes during drilling, completion, and sustained production.The model predicted that a conventional cement sheath could fail in three modes: debonding at the formation, compressive shear, and radial cracking. A cement sheath with lower Young's modulus, higher tensile strength, and shrinkage compensation was required. A series of designs were tested to select the optimum solution that met the life-of-well needs.The successful implementation of this new approach to cementing required special planning and organization. To date, 13 wells have been cemented with the life-of-well solution, with no operational problems and indication of good placement.Bond-log results differ from those expected from conventional slurries because of elastic components in the lifeof-well slurry. Special data processing techniques have been developed to allow evaluation using conventional bond logs; these are presented in this paper.Analysis, design, and field implementation discussed in this paper can be applied to field development in other locations where zonal isolation during the well life is critical.

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