Sharon Shoesmith is about to embark on a PhD at the University of London, she reveals, which will look at "how society copes with unpalatable truths". She will also this month complete a postgraduate certificate in psychotherapy.
It sounds like a kind of catharsis for a woman who became the most hated person in Britain when she was sacked two years ago as Haringey's director of children's services. The sacking, announced on live television by the then Children's Secretary Ed Balls, followed an intense period of media coverage over the murder of 17-month-old Peter Connelly.
"I can't get a job. I'm unemployed and unemployable," she says. "But you can't stop me using my brain."
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