A new think tank for public servants and others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services and better outcomes for people. Established by @gavinfreeguard.com.
sotf.org.uk
I Build the Teams that Build Your Products 💥 Agile & DevOps Leader - Enterprise Agility and Systemic Change Consultant | Professional Coach, Expert Mentor and Facilitator | MD @ that agile
🏆 Award Winning Founder: EdTech Startup | Keynote Speaker | Former SLT/Admin | Trainer & Graphic Facilitator | Sketchnote Artist | #i2 Co-founder | #ISTEcert | #AdobeCommunityExperts #ad | #VIA20 | #CodeBreaker | #SBSwinner | Opinions=Mine
✏️ Visual storytelling for social good 🧡
We’re award winning visual storytellers who help researchers & public sector leaders:
💡 simplify complexity;
✋ engage diverse audiences;
🌟 & scale their impact.
niftyfoxcreative.com
Our team of #data, #digital and #technology specialists help the UK Government and startups to get ahead with #data.
https://register-dynamics.co.uk/
We bring people together in meaningful #discussions that expand #imagination, build social trust, and hone the skills necessary for everyday #democracy. Check our websites for free facilitation & discussion resources!
https://linkthread.com/iftalks
Data strategy, data maturity and applied linguistics.
With 228 members in 41 countries, Eurochild is the largest network of organisations and individuals working with and for children in Europe. Join our #childrights community: https://eurochild.org/
Consultant, Coach, Facilitator and solver of complex problems. Spirit animal: elephant or dolphin. Trombone player.
I have over 30 years of experience as a senior designer and art director. I practice a significant level of typographic craftsmanship for large and small projects. Belgian-head arrow expert — just one piece of the puzzle missing. Mierenneuker.
We are experts on journalism matters, providing expertise for journalists by journalists with training and digital solutions for business growth.
Democratic innovation / collaborative governance / participation / community action. Often in the mountains
📍Edinburgh
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🧑💻 Involve UK. Freelance Aiteal Co. Prev TPXimpact, FutureGov, Demsoc, UoEdi, UoSussex
Enabling people to bring about positive change in their organisations and communities. #participation #collaboration #facilitation #ToPfacilitation #training Website https://ica-uk.org.uk/ Posts by @martingilbraith.com
The International Association of Facilitators. Connecting facilitators, promoting #facilitation, advancing standards. #IAFEW #IAFmeetup Website https://www.iaf-world.org/site/chapters/england-wales
Founder of the Good Ideas Agency. Helping people think better together. Facilitation, innovation, problem solving and EMCC accredited senior practitioner in executive coaching.
#visuals #sketchnotes #graphicfacilitation #visualthinking #photography.
Work at https://bsky.app/profile/ec.europa.eu
Web site: http://www.claudionichele.eu/
All views expressed are my own.
We help innovators succeed in a complex, changing market. Highland is your strategic growth partner.
🧠 Stop guessing. Start knowing.
Our frontline operations platform gives you and your frontline the knowledge and insight needed to improve performance in every moment.
Enterprise Fellow at the University of Southampton Business School. Interested in placemaking, sustainable enterprise, the future of work and skills, and social impact evaluation.
#MakeYourPlace developer.
Creator/Owner: @thieflord.dev
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Contact: @support.clearsky.app
Clearsky API services: @clearsky.services
To support us, contact us, and more: https://linktr.ee/clearskyapp
#Clearsky
IAF Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF|M), ICA:UK Associate, #FacPower author, GOC Trustee, FRSA. He/him. London, Brussels & Barcelona. #facilitation #LGBToutdoors | martingilbraith.com | http://ica-uk.org.uk | facpower.org | goc.org.uk 🏳️🌈
News and information from the European Commission. Social media and data protection policy: http://europa.eu/!MnfFmT
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) is an independent, impartial, and evidence-based research institute that promotes high quality education
CEPEO is a research centre at UCL working to improve education policy and wider practice to equalise opportunities http://ucl.ac.uk/ioe/cepeo
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)
Independent think tank working to accelerate political action for a green and prosperous UK.
Visit our website, listen to our podcast and read our blog 👇
https://linktr.ee/greenallianceuk
Formerly Reform think tank. Re:State is an independent, cross-party public services think tank. We don’t want to tweak, we want to transform.
We're an independent think tank and network of councils with a mission to transform public services and unlock community power.
Find out more 🔗 https://www.newlocal.org.uk/
The Centre for Cities is an independent think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns
The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve people's health. Our vision is a world where everyone can live a healthy life. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/
We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
We are Nesta, the research and innovation foundation. We apply our deep expertise in applied methods to design, test and scale solutions across the innovation lifecycle. linktr.ee/Nesta_uk
We're the leading think-tank based in the North丨Developing bold, progressive ideas to empower England’s regions丨21 years of independent research & influence
We are Scotland’s progressive think tank. We are dedicated to supporting and improving public policy, working tirelessly to achieve a progressive Scotland.
We are an independent health think tank aiming to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing evidence-based research & policy analysis.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
Official account for Britain’s leading independent economic research institute. https://ifs.org.uk/
IPPR is the UK’s leading progressive think tank.
Find out more here: linktr.ee/IPPR
The UK's only think tank dedicated to higher education.
The UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
➡ Find our latest research, analysis, events and opportunities
https://linktr.ee/instituteforgov
Always searching for good coffee.
I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
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.
Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
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
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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
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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.
CEO of the Institute for Government
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/
