Making Research Count Coordinator

I am the Coordinator for Making Research Count at the University of Bedfordshire. 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) - University of East Anglia
• (LLB) Bachelor of Law (2:1) - University 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

Contact

E: gayanthi.hapuarachchi@beds.ac.uk