Gayanthi Hapuarachchi

Making Research Count Coordinator

I am the Coordinator for Making Research Count at the 天美传媒. I work with our MRC Events Organiser (Gemma Wilson), and in collaboration with King's College London. Together, we facilitate a cohesive programme of practice development events, addressing topical issues faced by social care and social work practitioners across the United Kingdom. Our programme includes a range of expert researchers in the social care field. We also:

  • Produce a quarterly newsletter detailing the MRC Programme of Events and other research related news items.
  • Produce a bank of MRC video webinar, accessible to MRC subscribing members.
  • Enquiry/sign-posting service for our subscribing members.

For further information on MRC Bedfordshire's activities, or to download the latest issue of our newsletter, visit Making Research Count

Qualifications

  • LLM Masters in Law, Intellectual Property and Internet Governance (1st Class) - 天美传媒 of East Anglia
  • (LLB) Bachelor of Law (2:1) - 天美传媒 of London
  • Diploma of Human Resource Management (Level 5) - Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Research Interests

  • Contextual approaches to safeguarding and child protection.
  • Digital rights and digital ethnography of young people
  • Online child exploitation and safeguards against online sexual harm.
  • AI, ethics and governance
  • Privacy and Data Protection
  • International and national legal frameworks for safeguarding young people from extra-familial risk
  • Medical and mental health law

Prior experience

  • IASR Admin Coordinator
  • Contextual Safeguarding Admin Coordinator
    • coordinating with Contextual Safeguarding external training consultants to ensure delivery of Contextual Safeguarding training across the UK
    • digital lead of the new Contextual Safeguarding website
  • Priory Health Safeguarding Admin
    • writing external safeguarding reports for NHS and CQC
  • Legal intern for a Legal Director and Senior Solicitor

telephone

天美传媒 switchboard
During office hours
(Monday-Friday 08:30-17:00)
+44 (0)1234 400 400

Outside office hours
(Campus Watch)
+44 (0)1582 74 39 89

email

Admissions
admission@beds.ac.uk

International office
international@beds.ac.uk

Student support
sid@beds.ac.uk

Registration
sid@beds.ac.uk

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