Professor Jonathan Scourfield

Professor Jonathan Scourfield is a registered social worker who before becoming an academic worked as a secondary school teacher, group worker in a therapeutic community and probation officer. Jonathan's academic background is a history degree at Cambridge, teacher training in London and social work qualification and PhD at Cardiff.

Jonathan started his academic career as an exclusively qualitative researcher, doing an ethnographic PhD, and then later moved to doing more quantitative, evaluative research after training in epidemiology. He has taught on various social work programmes since 1996 when he started working at Cardiff University.

From January 2018 to May 2021 he was seconded to the Welsh Government as specialist policy adviser to the Minister responsible for social care. He is a trustee of the Family Rights Group.

In the news: 

Health and Care Research Wales invests in leaders across Wales to shape the research of the future (April 2022)

Health and Care Research Wales Social Care Grant Webinar (September 2021)