Professor Fiona Verity
Professor - Social Work
Mary Seacole 201
- Email: fiona.verity@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268915
Summary
Fiona has a background in community development 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 a B. A (Classical Studies), Bachelor of Social Administration and a PhD (Sociology). Her research and teaching have been in 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), 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
She is Visting Professor at Swansea University and the University of South Wales.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts, Adelaide University, Australia (1984)
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)
Newest selected publications
Aitken, S., Jones-Pantazopoulos, A., Martinez Mulero, O., Martin, W., Ngale, T., Verity, F. and et al. (2026) 'Working with Older People in Health and Social Care-Interprofessional Practice and Decision Making', in Gallagher, A., Davies, N., Mathastein-Bowen, N. and Sicat, S. (eds.) Interprofessional Ethics Across the Life Course in Health and Social Care. London and New York : Routledge. pp. 149 - 159.
Bebb, H., Bryer, N., Grover, T., Llewellyn, M. and Verity, F. (2025) 'Qualitative interviews report Implementation of the Regional Integration Fund'. Place of publication: Welsh Government. Available at: https://www.gov.wales/implementation-regional-integration-fund-october-2024-may-2025.
Verity, F. and Llewellyn, M. (2025) 'Implementing the Regional Integration Fund approach - Experiences of embedding the principles of the RIF in practice'. Place of publication: Welsh Government, Cardiff. Available at: https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/statistics-and-research/2025-11/experiences-of-embedding-the-principles-of-the-rif-in-practice.pdf.
Asenjo Palma, C. and Verity, F. (2025) 'How the rights-based approach can help social work deliver social justice outcomes: Lessons from housing rights activism in Scotland'. The British Journal of Social Work, 00 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 21. ISSN: 0045-3102 Open Access Link
Llewellyn, M. and Verity, F. (2025) 'From theory to practice: Conceptualising the guiding principles within the Regional Integration Fund'. Place of publication: Welsh Government, Cardiff. Available at: https://www.gov.wales/evaluation-of-health-and-social-care-regional-integration-fund.Open Access Link