Dr. Worth is currently the Visiting Professor at the Buckinghamshire New University. Before joining Buckinghamshire New University in 2003, he had spent 30 years in human resource management and organisational change, consulting in blue chip companies. Dr Worth has worked in 17 countries.  Dr. Worth studied and trained as a psychotherapist and chartered psychologist in the 10 years before he joined the university.  He worked for five years supporting students with disabilities in their studies and commenced teaching in 2008. 
His specialist area of interest and research is positive psychology, and particularly how creativity develops over the lifetime and changes as we age. Dr Worth is a Chartered Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. His career highlight has been the development and delivery of the University’s MSc in Applied Positive Psychology with his colleague Dr Matthew Smith. The programme is framed around Carl Rogers’ theories of positive education and has drawn students internationally. He retired from full time academic work in 2019. Since that time, he has continued to support the MAPP programme, while supervising doctoral students, and writing for publication. He was co-author of the text ‘Second Wave Positive Psychology’ and editor and contributor for Positive Psychology Across The Lifespan: An Existential Perspective.