New book: Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone, Policy Press. March 25. Professor of sociology- emeritus. Ethnography, migration, social theory, qualitative research training… silversmith!
2025-26 Harkness Fellow @Brown School of Public Health and Boston College | GP and global public health doctor | Clarendon Scholar @UniofOxford | Commissioner on the @BMJ Future of the NHS | Member @RCGP | Honorary Member @FPH.
James McGill Professor of Political Science and Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC)
Postdoc Researcher at CBS. Here, academic chatter on: welfare state, political parties, political economy and family policy.
Also comments on Spain/CAT econ & politics.
Membre de @espaizerovuit.bsky.social. Galego.
All my research: www.manuelalvarino.com
Assistant Prof @EdinburghUni |
Econ & social policy:
labor, (un)employment, inequality |
http://supertracker.spi.ox.ac.uk |
https://lukaslehner.github.io/
Education researcher. Dons, Lynx, Jets, & Becky Lynch. Stand Free 🐑
Researching the organisation of labour markets | SETU Ireland Lecturer in Management + Organisations
Sociologist at SOFI, interested in families, social policy, and poverty & inequality.
Joint coordinator of the rEUsilience project (www.reusilience.eu)
PhD in social work and social policy / interdisciplinary researcher at NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University / sociology, social policy and disability studies / qualitative methods / vegan since 2008
https://www.oslomet.no/en/about/employee/kajalar
Professor of Sociology
social justice; anti-poverty; anti-racism; colonial histories & legacies; class struggle; stigma; environmental justice.
Interested in imagining & building alternatives 🌳 🌊 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧ 🍉
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imogen-Tyler
Sociology and Social Policy. Research Fellow in Family Research. Utilising qualitative longitudinal, creative and participatory methods to research with children, young people and families.
School governor.
Soon-to-be Leverhulme Trust ECF.
Qualitative Researcher | Dep Editor - European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy | Counsellor/Psychotherapist | Social Worker |
https://linktr.ee/drpeterblundell
https://www.peterblundell.com
All Policy is Social | Assistant Prof. @ISEG. | ESPANET Board Member | EUROMOD Portugal
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Centre for Public Policy
@ University of Glasgow researching societal risk and inequality, fiscal constraints, and public sector provision.
📝 poverty and social protection researcher
📚 author of The Empathy Fix
🎙host of Poverty Unpacked podcast
🌎 Deputy Director of Centre for the Study of Global Development at The Open University
Researcher at University of Glasgow @uofgussp.bsky.social & SCADR @scadrdata.bsky.social - education, inequality & youth activism. PhD in Social Policy.
Interested in working out how to reduce unfair and avoidable differences in health. Mostly youth mental health.
Chancellor's Fellow at Robert Gordon University | Social Epidemiologist | Pro Cycling | Rstats | Causal Inference 🇮🇪🏴🍉
Research Associate in Social Policy @ Strathclyde Uni.
Food policy for THRIVING Food Futures.
Also policy approaches to health inequalities, and to mental health.
Prof of Public Health University of Glasgow. Health & econ inequalities; climate; systems. Mum. Private account
#socialworker and #socialwork academic- joy, hope, arts engaged methods,
nature, creativity - based at the University of Edinburgh. Co-Director The Binks Hub. #PoetryHelps #NatureIsNurture (she/her)
Public health PhD at Newcastle Uni // Interested in young people, work and health inequalities // Occasional policy bits for @healthequitynorth.bsky.social
Financial security and terminal illness @mariecurieuk.bsky.social | Social security and devolution @safety-nets.bsky.social | Views my own
Senior Policy Adviser at the Work Foundation. Interested in labour market and health. Previously at the Learning& Work Institute and Demos. Istanbulite living in London. Currently on maternity leave but still checks here!
https://asliatay.substack.com/
Climber, walker and liking it best outdoors . PhD Human Geography. Interested in policy, people and places. Views my own.
Employment, labour markets and social inclusion. Personal views etc.
Speaking up for social justice in mental health. Find out more https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/
We are Rethink Mental Illness. It's our mission to create a society that truly cares for people severely affected by mental illness.
Senior Lecturer/Researcher on un(der)employment, welfare & inequalities, policy governance. (Re)tweets in a private capacity.
The Welfare Benefits Unit offers specialist welfare benefits advice to those who work with members of the public. Our experienced advisers provide independent support through our advice line, publications, training, consultancy, campaigns and projects.
Professor in Social Policy at the University of York. Net Zero. Climate justice. Fuel poverty. Also cats, dogs and van life.
Social scientist, social work lecturer. Social justice/sociolegal/ disability/ageing/gender/care and a bit of history. Author award winning 'Gender, Work and Social Control' (2019)
Director of Health, Health Foundation
Leading work to improve health and reduce inequalities.
Trustee Centre for Homelessness Impact
Honorary member @adphuk.bsky.social
Independent Chair Calderdale Cares Partnership Board
Views my own
📍Hebden Bridge
Campaigner, policy person, and welfare rights adviser. Currently working on social security and employment with Trussell. Previously at Mind, Stonewall, and the Women & Equalities Committee. (He/Him)
The Work Foundation is a leading think tank for improving work in the UK. Part of Lancaster University Management School.
Health inequalities, inclusive economies, devolution, employment & welfare
@healthfoundation.bsky.social
Previously working on disability, social care & carers policy
Professor of Work and Ageing, Newcastle University. Out now: Older Workers in Transition (Bristol University Press)
Independent research & campaigning charity 📣 Our mission? To break the link between financial difficulty & mental health problems 💜
Founded by @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com in 2016. Led by @helenundy.bsky.social.
🔗 www.moneyandmentalhealth.org
Advancing and pushing the boundaries of qualitative methods, and building connections and training among qualitative researchers. Based at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada), in Treaty Six Territory, with a 25+ year history.
Researcher @ Mental Health Social Care Research Centre, Uni of York, UK. Perinatal mental health, loneliness and the social determinants of mental illness. Mum + lover of the outdoors. Views my own. https://perinatal-loneliness.com/ and https://ruthnd.com/
Freelance research and consultancy
Social research, policy, strategy development, evaluation, evidence review, trauma-informed approaches.
ESRC-funded research organisation bringing together world-leading experts from a range of disciplines and backgrounds. Headquarters at Alliance Manchester Business School.
Award-winning political journalism from Holyrood magazine. https://www.holyrood.com/
Assoc. Dean Skill & Method, Prof in Sociology @University of Glasgow: I’m dedicated to better data, better methods, better research = social justice + human rights realisation.
Also into ethics & better support for doing emotionally demanding research.
Interested in sustainable transport, #rstats, land policy | Lecturer (Assistant Prof) in Urban Analytics @UofG |
Working with universities, researchers, policy makers, emergency responders, volunteers & communities to build Scotland's resilience to natural hazards.
Find out more: https://ncr.glasgow.ac.uk/
Lecturer in Urban & Regional Planning | Community Councillor | 90s pop culture enthusiast | Occasional Agitator
The University of Glasgow Communications team. News and expert comment. Contact media@glasgow.ac.uk
The Spectator’s political correspondent covering UK and Scottish politics.
Edit Spectator Scotland section • Doctor 🩺 (don’t practise) • DMs open or email me: ldunn@spectator.co.uk
Deputy Head of College @UofGSocSci & Assistant Vice Principal @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Chair @scotfisccomm.bsky.social. Retired piper. Views my own etc.
We are an independent charitable organisation working to build a healthier UK.
www.health.org.uk
We are part of the global movement to redesign our economic system around the wellbeing of our people and te taiao.
Glasgow based academic interested in Latin American Politics | Personal account with usual disclaimers.
Exploring the politics of disablement, paid & unpaid work under capitalism, & 'free time' | @cerasellachis.bsky.social
a book might be on the way
disability politics | work | precarity | resistance | social security | rest | anti-disablement | free time
Professor of Wellbeing Economy
Consultant in Public Health
We one of the UK’s leading Disabled People's Organisation run by and for Disabled people, working for justice and equality for all.
https://linktr.ee/disabilityrightsuk
Emeritus Professor of Politics & Public Policy, London School of Economics & Political Science.
Interests - digital era governance, democratic audit & renewal, theories of the state, elections & party competition.
And in open social science, universities.
Working for a safe, inclusive world that prioritises people and planet not profit, making lives better not death, destruction and exploitation, humanity not machinery, honesty not manipulation, accountability not cover up.
Movement for change, born of frustration but powered by hope. socialcarefuture.org.uk. Hosted by In Control Partnerships
Journalist. Speaker. Writer.
Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture
Editor-in-Chief of the independent UK publication Byline Times
hardeep@bylinetimes.com / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
News, comment and features from The Independent, the world's most free-thinking newspaper.
In-depth reporting on issues affecting disabled people in the UK since 2009. www.disabilitynewsservice.com
News & information from the UK Parliament’s second chamber. Produced by its staff to show how the Lords checks and challenges the UK government.
https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/
The Department of Social Policy provides top quality international and multidisciplinary research and teaching on social and public policy challenges facing countries across the world.
➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy
Criminal barrister & Sky News paper reviewer (when I have the time!)
Former MP, TV Presenter & Reporter
East Midlander born n bred
Powerful citizen journalism from Scotland | Regulated by IMPRESS
bylines.scot
Write for us with stories you feel that matter with our editorial support. Email us at editor@bylines.scot
Interested in journalism, literature, freedom of expression and human rights. Born in Jo’burg, now in London.
Public sociologist & socialist. Interested in elites, knowledge & communication. Author of 'The BBC: Myth of a Public Service'.
Social Policy Research Fellow at the University of York.
Independent research charity promoting socio-economic inclusion through evidence, insight and collaboration. Our vision is an education system and a labour market where background is no barrier. THEBRIDGEGROUP.ORG.UK
A human rights-based anti-poverty organisation tackling inequality and promoting social justice in the UK since 1962. Led by people with lived experience, we also work with academics, professionals and policy makers to improve policy and practice.
CPAG in Scotland works to end child poverty in Scotland.
www.cpag.org.uk
Bringing vital experience of the social security system across all four countries of the UK. Funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org
We are a team of six universities, two policy partners and an Experts by Experience panel. https://safetynets.study/
Professor @ University of Strathclyde | migration and diaspora history | history of collective action | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•her | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
Scottish Graduate School of Social Science and Doctoral Training Partnership. Funded by the ESRC and SFC.
Professor, Durham Law School. Effective labour regulation/decent work. Co-founder and Organizing Committee, Regulating for Decent Work Conference. Editorial Committee, Industrial Law Journal. Former Official @ILO.
UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
Senior Research Fellow @britishfuture.bsky.social
Mostly interested in immigration, employment, migrants’ new lives in UK and public attitudes
European, Scottish and UK politics - and sometimes photography/nature/landscapes. Blogs on Europe & Scotland https://open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhughes?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8ztbl
Daily social welfare law and #accesstojustice updates, casework support, advice jobs, training & events.
Website: https://www.rightsnet.org.uk
More: http://linktr.ee/rightsnet
Senior economist at Resolution Foundation, mainly working on housing and public finances. All views my own.
Work on economic strategy in South Yorkshire | Associate @BennettSchool.cam.ac.uk | Raising money for MS at
https://www.justgiving.com/page/not-being-funny
Senior Policy Adviser at Acas, leading on flexible working and zero-hours contracts. Wider research interests include Decent Work/Future of Work/Living Wages. Photographer. Forever looking for a dog to pet.
Interested in most aspects of social policy in Australia & internationally (also certain literary genres and restricted musical choices); also history (art too)
ANU, Canberra crawford.anu.edu.au/crawford_peopl…
The new BlueSky home of The University of Strathclyde's Centre for Health Policy, led by ProfKatSmith.bsky.social and Lee Knifton
https://tinyurl.com/ynvf2hj8- eventbrite for book launch
www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/centreforhealthpolicy
Director at Public First. Former Fabian Society General Secretary (2011-2024). Public policy of work, money, health & care.
https://cradle2grave.substack.com
Principal Analyst at the Work Foundation and part- time PhD at Queen Mary Uni of London. Insecure work, labour markets, data. Opinions my own.
Child poverty, strategy, improvement etc. at Save The Children UK
Deputy General Secretary at the Fabian Society | regional economies, devolution, productivity, industrial strategy, employment rights, employment support, transport, politics | Views are my own | 🏴
https://fabians.org.uk/about-us/meet-our-experts/
European Research Council project on gender and political careers. We study gender gaps in political seniority - why, when and how it matters.
We aim to further the public good through #research into issues of significant relevance to #policy debate and decision-making.
Professor of Economic and Social Policy at the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath. Research Fellow IZA.
Prof Public Policy & Director, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath. Trustee at Foundations and HEPI. Chair, Living Wage Commission.
We are an independent policy and research organisation focused on lifelong learning and better work.
Stay informed. Be involved. Keep engaged. https://linktr.ee/learnworkuk?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=48ff6019-3c2a-461c-9da1-dce7834844f2
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
Britain's oldest political think tank. The future of the left since 1884.
FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. No Phd!
Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
Breaking news, campaigns and advice from unions and the labour movement. https://tuc.org.uk
