About Helene
Dr Helene Guldberg is co-founder and director of spiked, the first custom-built online current affairs publication in the UK.
After working as a primary school teacher, Guldberg obtained a PhD in developmental psychology from the university of Manchester. She currently teaches undergraduate and post-graduate courses in developmental psychology with the Open University and the US study abroad centres, CAPA and IES.
Helene is author of Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear, published by Routledge in January 2009.
‘This is a powerful and passionate book that explains why so much of what we say about children is so wrong.‘
Professor Frank Furedi, author of Paranoid Parenting
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She is currently working on her second book, ‘Just Another Ape?‘, to be published by Imprint Academic in 2010.