Professor Fiona Verity
Professor - Social Work

Summary

Fiona has a background in community development work in Australia. She worked in various community-based roles for 15 years, including community development roles in local government and the community health sector, and management roles in community health. She has an Bachelor of Social Administration and a PhD (Sociology). Her research and teaching have been in the subject areas of community development, social policy and social planning. She has expertise in participatory forms of evaluation, and has been a team member of the Developing Evidence Enriched Practice Programme (DEEP), which was developed in Wales. 

In 2000 she moved to work in the higher education sector and has worked at the University of South Australia and Flinders University (South Australia) and Swansea University (2016-2023). Before joining Brunel University in 2023, she was Professor, Swansea University and a former Director of the Wales School for Social Care Research (2016-2020). 

Fiona is the Academic Lead for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Northwest London (NWL), Social Care Research Capacity Building Programme

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts, Adelaide University, Australia (1981)

Bachelor of Social Administration, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia (1987)

PhD (Sociology), University of Newcastle, Australia (2000)

Family Wellbeing Certificate 11 Unit 1 - Foundations in Counselling (TAFE Adelaide, Australia) (2000)