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Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
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Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Newsletters at the Financial Times, and archivist of Vietnamese refugee stories at Hackney Archives/An Việt Archives.
Director of the Social Market Foundation
An independent research and development institute exploring how new technologies are transforming work and working lives. http://www.ifow.org
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Head of Data and Graphics at The Observer. Used to work at 🐢, WSJ, FT, Atlantic. Illinoisan. Londoner. Sleepy. [Email me: katie@observer.co.uk]
The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics is the official journal of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association, published by @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org.
Researcher @FutureGovForum.bsky.social. Writes 'Statecraft' - a Substack on state capacity and public service reform: https://brunodent.substack.com/
#Careers with #Research Consultant @ University of Leeds | Fascinated by all things work and careers | European based in Sheffield | Facilitator | Adventurer at ❤️
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Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
Post on all the positive things Labour are doing via regular lists. All info searchable on Gov website/national media/Google. Rarely much time to reply. It’s not personal I do try. No bio no follow. Based in Essex. Horoscope Leo/Monkey
Woke lefty remoaner. Writes stuff on finance and economics at coppolacomment.substack.com. Wrote a book on QE, currently writing a book on banking. Sings a bit. Autistic.
Policy and programme adviser at Belong, the Cohesion and Integration Network. Associate fellow at British Future
Interests: employment, immigration, integration and cohesion policy, heritage, elections, Ukraine, textiles, ceramics.
Mum. Posts are personal
Ricardo Professor of Political Economy, @EconUCL http://ucl.ac.uk/~uctp39a/
Co-Director ESRC Research Centre, @TheIFS http://ifs.org.uk/inequality/
The ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) aims to advance our understanding of how digital technologies are reshaping work.
Welsh and European. Biromantic Asexual. @UKLabour, @unisontheunion, and @thefabians. Data person and all round geek. He/him/o
Reading, writing, tea and all the biscuits
Winner: W&A/whitefox'23|LWB p100 Prize'22|#EWPP '22
Research and Policy Manager at moneyandmentalhealth.org
Rapier Instructor at londonhistoricalfencing.club
Views my own, reposts not endorsements etc
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Associate Director at Institute for Government, and former civil servant (cabinet office, dfid).
Associate Director in the public services team
@InstituteforGov. Interested in the NHS, adult social care, and local government. All views my own. He/him
Economist. ex No10, Treasury, CGD, PxD. Former visiting Professor @ LSE. Development Drums podcast. Team GB triathlete age-grouper. Olympic volunteer. Feminist, internationalist. Set up the first UK Government website. Helped invent AMCs.
SMF Deputy Research Director. Policy-wonk and music-wonk.
Britain’s leading cross-party think tank, with a mission to enable markets and government to work together to benefit society.
https://www.smf.co.uk/ | Also on LinkedIn and X (@SMFthinktank)
Public domain works from The Met's Costume Institute dept.
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Senior Policy Adviser at the National Education Union
The UK's home for community research and social innovation. Also powering the Institute for Community Studies.
www.youngfoundation.org
Also on X and Threads
Labour market economist at CEP and LSE. Personal views only
Investigative journalist @tbij.bsky.social. garethdavies@tbij.com. Supporter of local journalism and Tottenham Hotspur. Runner. PC & board gamer
I do refugee and asylum policy at the Refugee Council, so most likely a lot of the posts will be about that.
Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Education journalist at Tes. X: @ktormreport Tips: kyle.tormey@tes.com
Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
Chair of London's Fire Committee.
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Newsroom reporter at the Financial Times, clergy spouse, rider of bicycles.
"I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.
Mother of two amazing daughters.
Leftie.
I(i)mpact and engagement for my brilliant colleagues in politics, economics, social sciences @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Often I dream of islands.
🚢 ships
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🏰 medieval history
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CEO, Nesta and Behavioural Insights Team. Governor, Health Foundation.
What I do: applied research, venture building, policy. Particularly in net zero, education and health.
Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Hallsworth fellow at University of Manchester & research fellow at Common Wealth. Ajax fan. She/her.
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Liberal queer-led investigative reporting & news for Britain's North West under QLR.
On hold.
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Political scientist, Program Lead and Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Tübingen. Media Editor, SPA journals.
Welfare states and social citizenship || ideas and institutions || populism || social democracy || Nordic / British / European politics
Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Research Fellow at @EUI | Political Scientist | public opinion, attitudes, political socialization, migration, quantitative methods | Author ‘Education and Tolerance’
www.lenkadrazanova.com
Deputy Political Editor, The i Paper
LUFC. arj.singh@inews.co.uk. Got a story, tip or just fancy a chat? DMs open.
Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
As it turns out, a Professor of Political Sociology at Queen's University Belfast working in & on the island of Ireland.
Own my own views.
http://go.qub.ac.uk/hayward
Immunologist & science communicator based at UoM fascinated by our immune response to threats (pathogens, pollution) & microbiome & how this exposome affects health. Also quite likely to share random dog and nature pics 🧪👩🔬 #AcademicSky #SciCom
Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education).
Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu
The UK's leading arts management journal and independent voice of the culture sector.
Putting a face to the fight for equality! Join us in taking a stand against bullying and discrimination. #NOH8 #NOH8Worldwide Learn more at: NOH8Campaign.com
TCRU researches children, families and social change. Our work focuses on inequality, migration, gender, parenting and diverse families, and on connecting research to policy, practice and public understanding.
Internationalist currently working in Local Gov strategy. Former think tanker. School governor and charity trustee. Many hats, even more interests.
Professor of Law, University of York (she/her). Social security; EU law; discrimination; migration; social justice.
He/Him. CSP Director and Board Member Unions 21. FCIPR. Proud Londoner. Centrist Dad. Suspected dyslexic. Interested in healthcare, work and the environment. Also on Twitter (aka X),Facebook, Threads, Instagram and LinkedIn.
PhD student in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics and historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Retired social survey person. Living in Ealing with Sarah.
Author & journalist. Writing more books.
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Journalist and author. Writes for FT, Guardian, Prospect and The Conversation. New book: Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition, out now. Visiting Prof at Bayes Business School
World-leading @ucl.ac.uk research and teaching in education, culture, psychology and social science, right here in the heart of London and beyond.
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#WeAreIOE
Political economy of the welfare state. Politics of social citizenship. Dynamics of resilience and cohesion. European society and politics. Ideas and discourse.
Ireland, UK & Europe
Assistant Professor of Social Policy, UCD
I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
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Researcher, likes data, graphs, infographics and telling stories with data. PhD in political analysis from Sussex uni - like all social science subjects. Mainly post about political analysis and my research within the Hastings & Rye area. Fabian member.
Two Sunday Times Bestselling Authors and lots of boards. ✌️
Agent 📩 - Millie Hoskins, United Agents
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Urban and political geographer, Durham University. Trustee @naccomnetwork.bsky.social. Author of Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (Pluto Press).
We run music workshops in UK immigration detention centres & asylum hotels to release the words, music, and life stories of the people held inside.
https://linktr.ee/hearmeoutmusic
Polling and Analysis at Labour Together
Chief Reporter at UK political outlet Byline Times. I cover democracy, campaigning, and Britain's media.
Followers can reply to posts (ask to DM me). Open to news tips.
'Fake news w*nker' - Tommy Robinson.
Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Smart Thinking is a platform and network for UK think tanks. We share their research, events and career opportunities as well as providing networks, training and knowledge sharing for those working in think tanks.
The best of UK political opinion poll news and analysis, run by
@markpackuk.bsky.social / book: http://pollingunpacked.com / newsletter: http://theweekinpolls.co.uk
Reader in Comparative Politics at King's College London.
Hand of A'dal
https://leemsavage.wordpress.com/
General education research journal published by Routledge. SSCI Listed.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cedr20
Political sketch-writer for the Guardian. Author. Latest book out now 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10'.
General Secretary of @the-tuc.bsky.social
Family, unions, politics, canals, Everton FC, music.
London Academic- Tracking the American Empire’s foreign policy establishment and its forging through wars and imperial international system building, and its crises; role of Trump and Trumpism in US and globally
I make "The Ideas that Explain the News" on YouTube - using concepts from social sciences to explain the news at a deeper level.
https://brendanmiller.substack.com/
I like chatting politics/books/meeting people - message if you fancy coffee!
Editor, Health @theguardian.com
The Social Equity Centre is a not-for-profit organisation committed to breaking down barriers for first-generation migrants in the UK.
Research on global migration and mobility from the Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group
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Senior reporter at Schools Week, with a special focus on Ofsted and the teacher workforce
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Senior Economist at Future Economy Scotland
@futureeconscot.bsky.social
I just wasn’t made for these times.
Fed up with the old world order, scared of the new world order.
Arsenal Football Club.
Senior Fellow & the Migration Researcher at the Social Market Foundation.
Many Interests but only post about migration. You have to draw the line somewhere.
I write the Guardian’s Politics Live blog
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From Cape Breton. Lives in Ottawa. PhD (Public Policy) candidate & TA at Carleton. Passionate about education. Studies how immigrants participate in child benefits. #immigration #Policy #EconSky #ElbowsUp
Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism. Cache-misere. Postmaxxing. Special Envoy for the Shield of Bluesky.
Putting fairness at the heart of public debate and policymaking in the UK.
https://linktr.ee/FairnessFoundation
Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
'The past is only the future with the lights on.' Emigration; Anthropology; Modern British History. Simon Fellow at Manchester: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/freddy.foks
