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EYE SUPPLEMENT Student Spotlight: Children’s rights

We caught up with Dearbháil Niamh Maguire, who won Early Childhood Graduate of the Year at the Nursery World Awards this year. She discusses her journey to becoming an early years development worker in a Sure Start Centre in Belfast

I recently completed my MSc in Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast (2023-2024). Prior to this, I completed my undergraduate in Early Childhood Studies at Liverpool Hope University (2020-2023), where I obtained the additional Graduate Practitioner Competencies Level 6 qualification that required me to undertake 80 days of assessed practice placements in multiple educational, health and social care settings, working with children and families.

Alongside studying for my Master’s, I worked in a local Sure Start Centre in Belfast as an early years development worker, providing advice, information, training and support to early years providers, parents and carers on play and the early development of children in areas of high social deprivation, which were also highly impacted during The Troubles.

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