5/16/2023 0 Comments Inspireme online booklet![]() The ultimate aim is to keep children safe when they are using the internet. I am responsible for the policy (the ‘what the NSPCC thinks’) on all these issues, as well as for coordinating the NSPCC’s programme of activities in relation to them – the projects we get involved in, the services we provide, the research we commission, the organisations we partner with, the way we work with ChildLine (our sister brand), the information we provide for parents and professionals working with children. My brief covers all aspects of child safety online including child abuse images, online grooming, cyberbullying, sexting and access to inappropriate content online. It was a risk to leave a steady job at Which? for a short term contract at the NSPCC but it paid off because at the end of the maternity cover I was offered a full time job, and have been at the NSPCC in a variety of roles ever since. ![]() I didn’t have any experience of policy related to child protection, which was a real disadvantage, but at one interview was offered a maternity cover role. However, I’d always felt passionate about working with or on behalf of vulnerable children, so after a couple of years started looking around for jobs in children’s charities. This meant I could apply for a policy role at Which?, working on education and health policy (Which? is a consumer charity as well as a magazine). I had to bite the bullet and take a big pay cut, but was lucky enough to get a job as a researcher for Which? Magazine which I did for 4 years, during which time I did a part time Masters in Public Policy and Management. I resigned from teaching with no job to go to, but knowing I could supply teach if necessary to make ends meet. I started my working life as a secondary teacher (which I loved) but after 4 years decided I wanted to see what other jobs existed beyond the world of education. The York Centre for Writing, York St John University, is a hub for a number of exciting writing events, projects and publications in collaboration with Valley Press, York Literature Festival, and other community partners.As part of our #UCLInspireMe series, Claire Lilley Head, Head of Child Safety Online, NSPCC talks to us about how she got his role and shares some tips for UCL students who want to get into the Charity sector. Daisy is currently working towards a PhD at the University of Glasgow. ![]() She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2017, and a Betty Trask Award in 2019 for a novel, Paul, forthcoming with Granta. She is Assistant Tutor on the Barbican Young Poets programme 2015-present.ĭaisy Lafarge’s first collection, Life Without Air, will be published by Granta Books in November 2020. Long was shortlisted for Young Poet Laureate for London in 2014, and awarded a Jerwood/Arvon Foundation mentorship in 2015. Her first collection, My Darling from the Lions, will be published by Picador in July 2020. Rachel Long is a poet and leader of Octavia – Poetry Collective for Women of Colour, which is housed at Southbank Centre, London. She is a member of the Race & Poetry & Poetics in the UK research group and the interdisciplinary practice-as-research group Generative Constraints. Threads, a creative-critical pamphlet co-authored with Sandeep Parmar and Bhanu Kapil, is published by clinic. Meditating on diasporic identity, language and resistance, Nisha conjures an opalescent world by way of Tantric ritual and myth. The book is a modern mystical journey through love. Her book, States of the Body Produced by Love, was recently published by Ignota Books (2019). Nisha Ramayya is a poet and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London. Image credit: Daisy Lafarge photo by Sophie Davidson Rachel Long photo by Amaal Said. The Emergent Writers podcasts are presented by The York Centre for Writing, York St John University and are hosted on SoundCloud. ![]() They each give a reading from their work, and then answer questions about the development of their work, how they got published, and what they make of the current poetry scene in the UK.Įnjoy gaining an insight into the phenomenal work, and wisdom, of these fresh and dynamic voices. Hear from three dazzling emergent poets who are making waves in the contemporary poetry scene - Nisha Ramayya, Rachel Long and Daisy Lafarge.
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