Helene Guldberg, Ph.D.

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. She is currently working on her second book, Just Another Ape?, to be published by Imprint Academic in 2010.

Her PT blog is Reclaiming Childhood.