Tim Hedgley has worked in or around the legal arena for many years.
He is a keen defender of human rights and a very keen interest in the GDPR and the Data Protection Principals.
Tim is an associate mediator with 4Civility Ireland, which has offices in Dublin, London and Kentucky.
Tim has a Master of Laws in International Commercial Law and ADR (commendation) and a First-Class Honours Degree in Law from Ulster University he is also a qualified Mediator.
In his spare time, Tim is a broadcast and print journalist who has also been in the Media industry for over 25 years, he is currently the Group travel editor for three publications in Ireland. Belfastdaily, Derrydaily and the NI Travel Magazine.
Within the Media portfolio, Tim specialises in press management, press writing, emergency press and press-related issues, HTML programming, Adobe Photoshop, Video Production, Print journalism, SEO and web marketing.
TV appearances:
- BBC News night
- Time and the Place
- This Morning
- BBC Pebble Mill
- News at One
- News at Ten
- Sky News live with Adam Bolton
- BBC News
- BBC Newsline
- UTV News
- Chanel 4 News
- BBC Crime-watch
- BBC Nolan Show
- Channel 4 Computer Show.
Radio:
- BBC Radio 2,4
- Radio Ulster News
- Cool FM
- Downtown
- RTE news
- BBC Good Morning
- Ulster, Sunday Sequence
- BBC Talkback
Talks:
- United Nations, New York, IVF and the children,
- European Commission Strasbourg: IVF funding in Europe
- World IVF Congress, Sydney, Australia, Formation of the Infertility Consumer Symposium International.
- Geneva, Switzerland: World IVF Day
- Bologna, Italy: European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, admission as a member and Talk on Patients Groups
Tim was trained in Forensic Facial Reconstruction at the Centre for Missing and Exploited Children in Washington, USA, and he used those skills to locate missing children, assist in murder investigations and provide reconstructed images of deceased persons for the purposes of identification.
He acquired those skills whilst a board member of www.Missingkids.co.uk.
Tim is also a travel editor and has been writing for the past 25 years.
He held a position as travel editor for the Daily Mirror and travel writer for the Sunday World, Belfast Telegraph and is currently group travel editor for Belfastdaily, Derrydaily and is also editor and owner of the Northern Ireland Travel Magazine.
Tim also has extensive experience as a volunteer. He was Chairman of Issue the National Fertility Association in Birmingham and was director and owner of the European Infertility Network.
He used his skill and influence to merge the two UK National fertility charities into the Fertility Network UK.
He is passionate about advocacy and uses his legal knowledge to champion disability rights in Northern Ireland.
Tim addressed the European Parliament on fertility rights and gave a presentation on the rights of the child at the United Nations in New York for World Infertility Month.
Contact Tim here