Social work student hardship

INTRODUCTION: Student hardship in social work has become the subject of research recent years. Social students face particular challenges because financial, and emotional demands long, unpaid, clinical placements. APPROACH: This article reports on a literature review conducted prior to mixed-methods study commenced 2019. informed development survey graduates set qualitative interviews that will be reported elsewhere. A further was July 2021 inform analysis. FINDINGS: recurring theme throughout much reviewed examined for this project been intensity struggle their study. Across literature, students, educators, researchers suggest interventions reduce hardship. Gaps remain our understanding intersectional factors ethnicity, gender disability and, particular, impact Aotearoa New Zealand students.