He entered Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences in the same year as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
In the first phase of his career Werskey was based in the UK between 1970 and 1986, teaching at the Universities of Edinburgh and Bath before joining the Industrial Sociology Unit at Imperial College in 1978.
He provided a new introduction to Science at the Crossroads when it was republished in 1971, and published his The Visible College: A Collective Biography of British Scientists and Socialists of the 1930s in 1978 (reprinted in 1988).
It was this work which prepared him for taking up the position of Director of Professional Studies in the University of New South Wales's Faculty of Engineering in 1987.
Following a stint as UNSW's Director of External Affairs, Werskey left the university to work as a management consultant, co-founding The Leading Partnership, from which he retired in the early 2000s.