Jaap Marsman, BEd, M SEN, MSc, is an international educator (QTS) and a graduate member of the British Psychological Society (GMBPsS). He works at the English Schools Foundation in Hong Kong as the Adviser for Safeguarding and Child Protection. He specialises in safeguarding, child protection, wellbeing and student support services. He values a strengths-based, contextual approach to help all learners thrive.

Jaap has been working in education for over twenty years, first within the national system in the Netherlands and then moving into international education abroad and currently works in Hong Kong. His research interests are in international education, with a particular focus on child protection and safeguarding. These interests extend to the related aspects of mental health, wellbeing, international mobility, multilingualism, and student support. He is a member of ISPCAN and adopts a research-informed approach to his work in international child protection. Jaap is a certified trainer for Safer Recruitment, via the Safer Recruitment Consortium, UK. He is registered with Pearson Clinical UK and can adminster assessments at Level B.

He earned a Bachelor of Education in 2003, a Postgraduate in School Leadership in 2008, and a Master in Special Educational Needs in 2012. Jaap most recently earned a Master of Science in Psychology through the University of Glasgow in 2024.

When he’s not working, Jaap enjoys Hong Kong life, and pushing pixels around in Godot to see if he can put a game together. The jury’s still out on that one, but, we all need a hobby.

Jaap regularly speaks and provides workshops in the field of child protection in international education. He is available for speaking events and workshops, for which he can be reached at . He delivers workshops on safeguarding in school communities, safer recruitment, digital safeguarding, harmful sexual behaviours, safeguarding vulnerable groups, vicarious trauma care for safeguarding specialists and managing allegations against staff.

If you would like to reach out to Jaap, you can do so by sending him an email at .

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