Month: April 2025

I trained as a cultural critic  in a previous career as an academic. The fields of literature, cultural studies and critical theory do not appear, at first glance, to offer much in the way of transferable skills to a role...

In their 2023 crime survey the National College of Policing report that violence against women and girls (VAWG) accounts for 20% of recorded crime, and that reported VAWG has increased 37% since 2018 (though the actual figure...

In 2017 I was Senior Executive Officer at a small education charity which had at its heart an independent special school for children with social, emotional and mental health needs. One of my responsibilities was as DSL for the...