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Current

  • Freelance (Freelance articles in the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Telegraph and frequent articles in the Economist and Prospect magazine)
  • Freelance (Scapegoat, Portobello Press, first UK investigative book about disability hate crime, published spring 2011)

Experience

  • Writing a new current affairs book about Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in the UK and Ireland
  • Prospect magazine
  • Building Blocks, investigation of Buildings Schools for the Future, Policy Exchange, 2008
Katharine Quarmby's published articles - last 12 months*
  • 14 articles (since December 2004)
  • Average article: 41 column inches (1228 words)
  • Shortest article: 5 column inches (160 words)
  • Longest article: 113 column inches (3392 words)
(what are column inches?)
*Please note that these statistics are based only on articles published online in these publications.

Experience

  • Freelance (Scapegoat, Portobello Press, first UK investigative book about disability hate crime, published spring 2011)

    - present

  • Freelance (Freelance articles in the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Telegraph and frequent articles in the Economist and Prospect magazine)

    2007 - present

  • Freelance (Writing a new current affairs book about Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in the UK and Ireland)

  • Associate editor, Prospect magazine

    2008 - 2011

  • Freelance (Building Blocks, investigation of Buildings Schools for the Future, Policy Exchange, 2008)

    2008 - 2008

Education

  • Liverpool University

    MA, Latin American Studies
    1989-1990

  • Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

    MA, Modern Languages
    1986-1989

Books by Katharine Quarmby

  • Scapegoat: why we are failing disabled people

    Portobello Press, 2011

  • Fussy Freya

    Frances Lincoln, 2008

  • Building Blocks

    Policy Exchange, 2008

  • Getting Away with Murder

    Scope, 2008

Awards won

  • Ability Media International Literature Award (for Scapegoat)

    2011

  • Paul Foot Prize, shortlisted, for 4 year investigation into disability hate crime

    2011

  • Radar People of the Year Human Rights award for pro bono joint co-ordination of Disability Hate Crime Network

    2010

  • One World Trust Award

    1999

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