Professor Fiona Verity has a background in social development. She worked in Australia for many years in various community-based roles; local council community development worker, community development and management roles in the community health sector. After working in universities in South Australia, she moved to Wales, UK and took up the position of Professor (Social Work) at Swansea University (2016-2023). She is now Professor at Brunel University (London) in the Department of Health Sciences. She has extensive experience in social services and policy evaluation and social care research capacity building. She been active in projects such as the Developing Evidence Enriched Practice Programme (DEEP), and was a member of the team which conducted the evaluation of the implementation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. Fiona has a commitment to community development and preventative work, a continuous theme in her community engagement, university teaching and research.