I make ontologies for the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. An odd job and not one I would have chosen for myself
The new frontier of interspecies understanding.
We decode animal communication with advanced AI to illuminate the diverse intelligences on earth.
www.earthspecies.org/
Designer, coder, and nice guy 🇬🇧 🏳️🌈 🏴☠️
Climate Programme Lead at @mysociety.org. Formerly of ScraperWiki, @oii.ox.ac.uk, and @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social.
☠️ twitter.com/zarino
👔 linkedin.com/in/zarino
🌐 zarino.co.uk
Accessibility, inclusive design research #A11y #UX
Loves swimming in nature, rocks in rivers, mint tea, gelato, trees. Art, music, play!
Grew up in the West Country, left to explore cognition & behaviour, returned ND 🌈 she
Product @scotgov. That and other gubbins.
product manager
disabled and liver transplant recipient
whippet owner/servant
she/her
Bring us together,
make things better.
@janethughes.bsky.social's husband (-:
https://www.cattell.com
I run The Pensions Regulator's Data and Digital Industry Working Group.
Late 20s Enby bi mess by day and night.
UK-based, I am a nerd
LGBT+ advocate.
My opinions are my own!
Product person in central government, and part of OneTeamGov.
Co-founded Glean, a design agency for international development.
Manchester now, previously Birmingham, Dhaka and Phnom Penh. Good people doing good work together is my jam.
I’m a Civil Servant, with a keen interest in many things including computers, data, law, digital preservation and archives. You’ll find me at The National Archives, helping to look after the digital archive, web archive, legislation.gov.uk etc.
Systems thinker and changer
himalmandalia.medium.com
Product lead in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band (GB National Champions ‘24). Prolific knitter. She/her
Content Designer in local government.
Interested in digital accessibility.
Like music, books, food, running, cats and shenanigans.
he / him
Quite tall. Social justice worrier.
I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
Medium-sized fat bloke. #ukcharitycamp Helps build web stuff @neontribe. Tries to be agile and user-centered. Proud resident of the Fine City of Norwich. Has never been a TV producer. (He/they)
Dad, public servant, sports nut. Making better use of data to deliver better outcomes, keen to see how this app works out
Design (particularly of the digi-gov variety), books and brunch (usually from NE England). Brits think I sound Kiwi, Kiwis think I sound English. Links-a-plenty, views my own. https://vickyteinaki.com
Designer who does DesignOps and accessibility. Once left my tent on a coach.
https://www.amplify-us.co.uk
Driving open working and user‑centred change across Wales.
Service design | public sector | healthcare | UCD | surfing. She/her 🏴
#CreativeTechnologist :: Policy Lab, HM Government :: Tech practitioner/Design thinking/Policymaking/Making :: Cleethorpes/Bristol/London
Lead User Researcher. Equity-centred design and research in healthcare. Co-conspirator of Design Justice London node.
User research and design in government | #UserResearchInWales community lead. I want to make things better for people through design research, inclusive design and co-design 🌈
📍 London / Wales 🏴
https://medium.com/@gabim_e
CTO for Digital Prevention Services, NHS England
https://mechanicalsurvival.com
Digital enabler for HigherEd & Charity
Trustee for GardenOrganicUK
IT & Digital Director for Association of Charitable Foundations
Digital Advisor & Mentor for Exeter Uni
Digital Leadership Coach
AltMBA | ADHD | Bristol | Feminist | She/Her
head of delivery. food critic. coffee snob. new here.
Lecturer (Asst Prof/PhD) in Sustainable Design Futures @ Lancaster University School of Design + Imagination Design Lab - Circular Economy/Net Zero/Digital Technologies - https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/michael-stead
Democratic innovation / collaborative governance / participation / community action. Often in the mountains
📍Edinburgh
🔗 linkedin.com/in/kmcbride1
🧑💻 Involve UK. Freelance Aiteal Co. Prev TPXimpact, FutureGov, Demsoc, UoEdi, UoSussex
Head of Delivery & Operations for Connected by Data. #RunningIsFunning, fundraiser for Jane Tomlinson Appeal, Trustee: LGBT+ Consortium & Reading List Foundation. 🏳️🌈 She/Her.
https://linktr.ee/emilyjmacaulay
Digital generalist, trying to be useful.
jonnypeacock.co.uk
Delivery @ http://createchange.io - Digital Transformation, UCD, Agile methods.
He/Him. I don't speak for my clients.
Organiser Agile Manchester, Agile Cambridge, Lean Agile Scotland, Ripples: Bristol, UX Scotland, SDinGov, Lean Agile Exchange
Tech things @FullFact.org
Long term fan of the web
Tech / gov / design / occasional snark. Usually found queuing for coffee ☕️ Digital and data for public good ✊
CIO @rds-scotland.bsky.social
Chair @cfgsocial.bsky.social
✍️ Sign up to my newsletter: https://tumshie.me
Filmmaker / Directing #section28film
Founder: anthrobricolage.com
Director: good.services @theschoolofgood
DR of Design, once ran
@wearesnook
Made cycling easier with @cycle_hack
GOOD Magazine #100
Board member at @lomondtrossachs
She/they
Professor of Speculative and Game Design at Lancaster University 🏴
John V Willshire.
Scottish, understandably so.
Works @ smithery.com
Makes https://artefactshop.com
Writes https://buttondown.com/artefacts
Convenes https://lu.ma/stepscollective
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvwillshire
UX, Product, Content & Clinical Education. I make comics and silly pictures. Mummy to Ripley, and diagnosed with colon cancer April ‘22.
Product for good | Senior PM in Local Gov
Work in Digital Marketing @Torchbox
Bristol-based. Alopecian, crazy cat lady, cyclist and Norwich City supporter 🚴🏻♀️🐈⬛🔰
I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Learning and development manager at Institute for Government interested in all things parliament and government.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
Prof. of Economic Geography and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. My work is on labour markets, migration, planning, and regional policy. I also love photography and baking, and have a crazy cocker spaniel called Fonzie.
Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites @publicdigital.bsky.social, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, Think Digital Partners, @kinship.works, @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
Professor of Political Sociology @uniurb. Former director and now Associate Fellow, @ipprnorth.bsky.social. Devolution/Territorial Politics/Regions/Local Government
Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
Policy wonk, spad, consultant, writer, Londoner. Housing, urbanism and transport mainly.
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
Research Associate, Uni of Manchester • UK Politics • English devo • spatial inequality • place-based policy • healthy urban development • critical realism
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/jack-newman
Usually found (professionally) talking about ageing, loneliness, health, care, ageism etc. Other stuff as the mood takes me
Research Fellow at IPPR North/IPPR - work on democracy, devolution, regional identity | PhD on the politics of Northernness
Economist. Author at Future North writing about the North of England (link below). Devolution Policy, Labour Together.
Posts about policy, politics and the Pennines (and beyond).
📍 West Yorkshire.
🧭 futurenorth.substack.com
Exec Director of futuregovernanceforum.co.uk
Welsh Labour cllr for Panteg, torfaen.gov.uk
Chair of gwentpensionfund.co.uk
Personal views on integrated health and care policy and practice worldwide. CE of International Foundation for Integrated Care @ificinfo.bsky.social. Irish woman in the UK. Paeds SLT in the past.
Posts about gardens🌱for fun!
Practitioner policy wonk | Founder www.questionfactory.co.uk | Trustee @mysociety | Ex- Demos, LGA, Stockport Council, GMCA, Govt of Jersey, LCRCA
#Impact #place #policy #data #innovation #research & #relationships. Professor/DPVC West Midlands @City-REDI.bsky.social @lpiphub.bsky.social @uob views my own, sharing not endorsement - sometimes Birmingham and sometimes Manchester (UK) hate the M6.
political correspondent, new statesman
subscribe to the NS: https://secure.newstatesman.com/I5OXMABN?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21429525497&gbraid=0AAAAACT-7u5
Senior researcher in public services @Instituteforgov. Passionate about crime. Formerly @CrestAdvisory. Also trustee @EndometriosisUK
Attempting to facilitate dialogue between researchers and policymakers. Sometimes succeeding. Views not employers (obvs).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggilespps?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
Public service innovation - independent adviser and consultant. Affiliated Researcher at Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge. Associate Fellow at IPPR. Senior Advisor at PPL.
Professor | Former Labour MP and Cabinet Minister | Director, Centre for English Identity and Politics | Writing about how ideas of nation and nationhood shape politics today at nationstateandpolitics.substack.com ✍️
Expert by experience in healthcare management & policy, Chair National Voices, Trustee RVS, NED PHIN. Also cook, wine drinker, reader, gardener, walker, armchair art critic.
Director at @QuodPlanning.bsky.social
Regeneration, housing, development, economics, demographics, cities, schools and community infrastructure
London
http://barneystringer.wordpress.com
Head of Policy, Campaigns & Public Affairs at Mind | NHS Mental Health Social Worker | Previously at NEF & DWP | Views expressed here my own
Policy and Public Affairs at The Housing Forum. Interested in UK housing policy, planning, economics, housebuilding, energy, social policy. Views are my own. Cambridge based. https://housingforum.org.uk/
Programme Director at the Institute for Government - interested in how government works and how it can work better
🏳️🌈
Professor of Public Policy at University of Manchester. Some other stuff.
• political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering the politics behind social media, tech & health
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ • X: @zoenora6
📍 London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
#1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
Prof Public Policy & Director, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath. Trustee at Foundations and HEPI. Chair, Living Wage Commission.
Policy & Research Manager at the Standard Life Centre for the Future of Retirement. Previously a researcher at Demos and the Institute for Government. Views my own.
https://www.standardlife.co.uk/centre-for-the-future-of-retirement
Londoner, mother of two, consultant around questions of health, care, community, influence and impact (previously CEO Richmond Group of Charities and National Voices). Head and heart. 🐈⬛ 🪴 ☕️ 🇪🇺 🌳
Political economy & place‑based policy
https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/nicholas-gray
Programme Director at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk working on public services
Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
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).
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.
Northern correspondent, Financial Times
📍Manchester
UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
He must not be replaced by an otter.
Coming in January, 2026: The Global Casino: How Wall St Gambles with People and Planet. In the meantime check out my newsletter: System Change, https://annpettifor.substack.com/
Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player.
Chief Executive, Nuffield Foundation
Previous lives:
Chief Executive & Exec. Chair, Resolution Foundation
Founding Chair, Living Wage Commission
Deputy Chief of Staff, 10 Downing Street
Council of Economic Advisors, HMT
Economics, Cities, Policy.
Professor, London School of Economics. Research Director Centre for Economic Performance @cep-lse.bsky.social. Director @whatworksgrowth.bsky.social. President @urbaneconomics.bsky.social
Political journalist & broadcaster |
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
Presenter on Fubar Radio |
Chatting on Oh God What Now |
Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
Deputy Chief Executive Resolution Foundation, CPAG Trustee & Visiting Prof in Practice at LSE Social Policy. 'Calm, Measured, Withering' http://tinyurl.com/y6wxlxhj). 'Cool, calm analysis' (More or Less, 8/10/25). He/him
Co-founder and CEO, Zinc Innovation Partners - helping turn science into real-world change. Fomerly Demos, UAL, MMHPI, No10. Adviser at Future Governance Forum, Family Business UK, Door10 Recruitment. Writes at https://howtorunacountry.substack.com/
Founder of the ‘Globalisation in one country’ movement.
Economic policy and politics
Ex Facebook
Ex LinkedIn
Ex Labour Adviser
#efc… Posts are all my own views.
Senior Economist at the Resolution Foundation, focusing on employment, young people and health | views my own
DG 10 Year Health Plan at DHSC, working with NHSE. Ex Director of Policy at The King’s Fund. All things health and social care. Views my own. Requotes not always an endorsement.
To help shape 10 year plan for health please go to www.change.nhs.uk
