@brindled.bsky.social
One-time Guardian journo now charity chair and social care commentator
@annkempster.com
Public sector agitator for good. Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds. Digital. 🏴 She/her.
@catrionariddell.bsky.social
Strategic planner looking for some healthy debate about all things planning & development, local government & politics! Will also be hoping for some music chat on this thread!
@danspicer.bsky.social
Work on local government policy and strategy - mostly health related, also currently working on engagement and participation. Curious about pretty much everything else. Some singing. Cats. (Politically restricted)
@marksandford.bsky.social
Local and regional government, funding issues, national and regional identity; mostly writing for the House of Commons Library but elsewhere too. Occasional attempts at folk music, cycling, making food
@simonhanson.bsky.social
Curious about new models of public service delivery | Heading up an Economic Development and Delivery Unit at Gateshead Council | Developing a new mission based approach
@angelacat.bsky.social
Overly enthusiastic & talkative doer Believer in citizens & community Finding creative, quirky ways to think about care & wellbeing. Co founder When I Get Old www.WIGO.org.uk. Roles @TLAP.bsky.social @Commcats.bsky.social @learningdiseng.bsky.social
@bryonyshannon.bsky.social
Challenging and changing adult social care language and practice #RewritingSocialCare #LanguageMatters #UsNotThemAndUs https://rewritingsocialcare.blog/
@sandyofipswich.bsky.social
Chair, Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform, SERA Executive (Labour’s Environment Campaign), pro-EU, LGBT+, Democratic Socialist - for 1to1 dialogue feel free to email sandyofipswich@gmail.com
@andywilliamson.com
Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | urbanbadgercollective.com http://andywilliamson.com
@catherinemangan.bsky.social
Professor of Public Management and Leadership at University of Birmingham. Researching future public sector workforce, role of elected councillors and leadership of social care.
@carlhaggerty.bsky.social
Working to create not just the appearance of change, but the experience of it – deep, lasting, and human || Challenging Assumptions, Mindsets and Systems by supporting the Inner Work to Transform Public Services || FRSA || Family || Cycling || Minecraft
@drdavemckenna.bsky.social
Scrutiny geek. Local government fan. Freelance public servant. Occasional academic. 🕺💃
@robbowley.net
Product & Tech Leadership Advisor, Consultant, Coach & Mentor Tech, Software Development, Science, History, Economics, Politics https://blog.robbowley.net https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertbowley https://pragmaticpartners.co.uk Manchester, UK
@smelaniepickles.bsky.social
Revelling in the bliss of actually getting to read interesting thoughts of knowledgable people without having to wade through the hate. Uk local govt minion. Knitter. Cat servant. East Sussex.
@amcunningham.bsky.social
GP, Digital health. Living in the Mournes in Co. Down with Chris and Bonny the sprocker. Working for a sustainable, equitable society. Always learning. Previously 20 years in lovely Wales :-)
@garcez.eu
Foodie and geek. Dad to two great boys. Ramblings and views mine. Boosts, posts, toots and reblogs ≠ endorsement. 🐘 @ed@me.dm 🦋 @garcez.eu old tweets here > https://egarcez.github.io
@iainmoore.bsky.social
Interested in libraries, charities and the social sector and how together they can fix everything. Once & future ultra runner. Macclesfield. Gay adopter. 🏳️🌈 Commercial Director, Libraries Connected www.librariesconnected.org.uk He/him
@dominiccampbell.bsky.social
Partner at Impossible Ideas | previously @Georgetown Fellow | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat in Washington DC | #utb
@emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social
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
@jukes.ie
Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK https://digitalbydefault.com/hire-me/
@johnlsheridan.bsky.social
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.
@theavangelist.bsky.social
I'm the original UX Coach, #GDS and #LocalGov alumni. Still fighting the good fight, and believing there's a better way to make businesses
@sophiaaknight.bsky.social
Research Lead, Civic & Democratic Participation Online at the Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D Background in Digital sociology / Computational social science Former tech policy wonk Hot takes my own!
@annarandle.bsky.social
Public service reform thinker & do-er. Until recently, CEO of Collaborate CIC. People, places, public service reform, local government, population health, system leadership.
@curthoys.bsky.social
@jenitennison.com
Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI. Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets. www.jenitennison.com
@gaiamarcus.bsky.social
- Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society - Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG - Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
@patrickdunleavy.bsky.social
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.
@katieschmuecker.bsky.social
Principal Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - UK poverty, social policy, politics, research and data. Occasionally crochet, gigs and nature
@helenbarnard.bsky.social
Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6
@indyjohar.bsky.social
Building the Boring Revolution, Increasingly Co-Intrapreneuring, Co-Founder of darkmatterlabs.org, project00.cc, Professor, Architect, MBE, FRSA, Non Executive @ opensystemslab.org and Bloxhub.dk
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Internet person. Community tech, careful innovation, trying to make progressive tech policy happen. https://carefultrouble.net https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
@rumens.uk
#localgov Digital Services Manager and #digitaltransformation lead. Part of @LocalGovDigital. Advocate of technology enabled user centred design. o7 CMDR
@jacattell.bsky.social
Bring us together, make things better. @janethughes.bsky.social's partner 💞 https://www.cattell.com
@municipaldreams.bsky.social
Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
@benunsworth.co.uk
User centred design in government. parkrun tourist. Ex-UK Local Gov. Senior Partner at TPXimpact.
@simonparker.bsky.social
Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Rebel just for kicks.
@pialidg.bsky.social
Basically, I'm a lot about #localgov, public services, place, travel, art, culture, photography and London. And sometimes a little bit about Canada too. Migrant and citizen, at the same time.
@nick80.bsky.social
Director of Public Service Reform at Cabinet Office. Seconded from Camden Council. Was a Policy Fellow at IIPP @ UCL; Policy Associate at Future Governance Forum
@drjennings.bsky.social
I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
@samfr.bsky.social
Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com) Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Senior fellow: Institute for Government