Richard Wortley

I have a bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree in psychology. I began my career in 1976 as a practicing psychologist in the New South Wales (Australia) prison system. I stayed in that role for ten years, working in maximum and minimal security prisons and male and female prisons. I am a former national chair of the Australian Psychological Society's College of Forensic Psychologists. I have been a university academic since 1985, working in psychology and criminology departments in Australia (most recently Griffith University) before joining University College London in August 2010 as Director of the Jill Dando Institute and the Head of the Department of Security and Crime Science.