Selina Wallis

Selina Wallis is a writer, researcher, and survivor activist working at the intersection of trauma, safeguarding, and public health. She leads lived experience and involvement work at NIHR ARC North West Coast and is the founder of the Safe by Default campaign, advocating for tamper-proof digital safety settings to protect neurodivergent children. She has over 20 years’ experience in community health, systems research, and survivor-led advocacy.
Selina is currently writing a memoir trilogy that explores childhood trauma, grooming, ecstatic rebellion, and survivor-motherhood through myth, memory, and public testimony. Her work weaves personal experience with structural critique, grounded in both lived experience and professional practice. She was a contributor to Laura Dodsworth’s book Womanhood: The Bare Reality, and writes the Substack Red Apples, where she explores trauma, recovery, and storytelling. She also leads the Safe by Default campaign for digital safeguarding.
She is a mother and grandmother, and has facilitated a women’s retreat annually for the past 15 years.