Professor Aidan Worsley

Aidan has published extensively around social work regulation in recent years, examining particularly elements of the Fitness to Practice regimes and professionals’ experiences of them. He obtained his PhD by Publication on that topic in 2023 with a thesis entitled ‘Rethinking the Regulation of Social Work: Changes, Challenges and Choices. He has a range of over two dozen publications in peer reviewed journals and has published a number of books on research methods and general social work texts.

Aidan is a highly experienced social work manager and academic with a range of experiences in senior roles. He has held a number of national roles in relation to the social work profession. From 2001-4 he was Chair of the National Organisation for Practice Teaching. From 2012-2015 he was President of the Association of Professors of Social Work, during this period he also chaired the College of Social Work national endorsement panel. In 2018 he was seconded into the Department for Education to develop policy options for the incoming social work regulator. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and of the Royal Society of Arts.