Ryan Swift
Research Fellow at IPPR North/IPPR - work on democracy, devolution, regional identity | PhD on the politics of Northernness
@psayoungpol.bsky.social
#YoungPeoplesPolitics specialist group Political Studies Association (PSA). Researchers working on young people's political participation, #youthvote 🗳️, activism, youth protest, engagement, citizenship, values, ed, coproduction ... https://www.psa.ac.uk
@drsophiah.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the University of Bath, UK. Ecological Politics, Imaginaries, Just Transitions, Political Theory, Rhetorical Studies. https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/sophia-hatzisavvidou
@sarahpickard2.bsky.social
Prof Brit pol: Uni Sorbonne Nouvelle Research: Young people's political participation, #youthpolitics, vote, protest, environment #climateactivism🌳 Author: Politics Protest & Young People + Civilisation britannique📕 Convenor: PSA Young People's Politics
@joellegrogan.bsky.social
Presenter #TheLawShow @ BBC Radio 4 | Co-Academic Director #RuleofLaw Clinic @ CEU Democracy Institute | Visiting Senior Research Fellow @UCD Sutherland School of Law
@tidesofhistory.bsky.social
Commentary on Labour History, British Politics and Working Class Culture - Author of Hope & Glory
@scastell.bsky.social
CEO Involve. Working to build a stronger democracy that works for everyone, by using the supertools of participatory and deliberative democracy. Also like improv & jumping in cold water.
@mattthompson.bsky.social
• full-time urban geographer (UCL Bartlett) • spare-time cyclejographer (London mostly) • first-time author (*Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives* https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv153k6cx
@jonnymarshall.bsky.social
Principal Economist at the Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social, working on energy and climate policy
@miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social
Member of Parliament for Peckham Minister for Energy Consumers [email protected]
@archhfund.org.uk
Helping communities across the UK to reuse and regenerate historic buildings, with grants, loans and advice. https://linktr.ee/ArchHFund
@kevinjgsmith.bsky.social
I train and fix up progressive voices for UK TV and radio. Broadcast media nerd. Into politics, climate & energy, social justice issues, #lgbtqia, disco history, trouble making, media stuff, he/him
@statspeter.bsky.social
Chief Analyst, Insights and Analysis, at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation working to solve UK Poverty
@ameakin.bsky.social
Lecturer in British Politics & Programme Director BA Politics and Parliamentary Studies, @polisatleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social Wrote PhD on the Restoration & Renewal of Palace of Westminster. Reposts ≠ endorsements
@ryangfrost.bsky.social
Senior Public Affairs Officer @SuttonTrust.bsky.social. Views my own.
@richmaclean.bsky.social
@hannahbrins.bsky.social
Food Policy wonk. All things food systems, health inequalities, commercial and social determinants, politics. Currently Head of Policy and Advocacy at The Food Foundation. Ex World Obesity and Action on Salt. PhD Food Policy, City Uni. My own views! 🥦🍅🫛🍓🍏
@flywheelmedia.bsky.social
Freelance rail/travel journalist for UK rail magazines and CNN Travel, Euro rail explorer, Wednesdayite #swfc Sheffielder, Yorkshireman, European, cat butler.
@estrangeirada.bsky.social
Parliaments and Public Engagement, with an obsession for petitions. Professor of Politics @ POLISatLeeds and Chair of IPEN, the International Parliament Engagement Network: https://ipen-network.org/ .
@anitaanand.bsky.social
I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple.
@willdalrymple.bsky.social
Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
@curdsnewcastle.bsky.social
Based at Newcastle University, UK. Producing academically rigorous and policy relevant research in urban and regional change and development since 1977. Only follow accounts with a bio. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/curds/
@jesscraig.bsky.social
Policy at Power to Change. Talking about communities, social connection, high streets, politics and policy.
@mattleach.bsky.social
CEO at Building Centre/Built Environment Trust. Social capital, devolution, hyperlocal change, public service reform. Thinks about the future a bit. Member of the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods.
@aveek18.bsky.social
Treasury civil servant, so afraid I have to be a bit more boring on here now. Ex @smfthinktank.bsky.social
@matthewlbishop.bsky.social
Political economist @Sheffield. Co-Director @ODI Resilient & Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI). Home: Yorkshire. Heart: T&T. Does development, small states, drug policy. Co-presents Small Islands, Big Picture pod. Occasionally plays electronic records.
@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.
@lewistibbs.bsky.social
Senior Digital Communications Officer @suttontrust.bsky.social 💻 Interested in politics, policy and regional inequality. Dancing nerd. Northerner and perpetually suffering Man United fan. Views my own!
@profarnovanderzwet.bsky.social
Professor of European Governance @UWS | Director, Sustainable Policy Analysis Research Centre (SPARC) 🌍 | Cyclist 🚴♂️ | U14 Girls Football Coach ⚽
@michelap.bsky.social
Democracy nerd gone legit. All things politics, elections, UK public policy.
@paulhayes01.bsky.social
Senior Policy Fellow, Leeds University Business School. Defrocked #localgov policy bod. Into: Cities, Devo, Councils, Localism and all things The North. Doesn't have a podcast.
@auralflaneur.bsky.social
Professor at Oxford. Politics of listening, continental philosophy, music and sound studies, academic freedom. On the left.
@tomrailton.bsky.social
Head of Comms and Politics at Prospect union. Mainly politics and Newcastle United on here.
@lauraserra.bsky.social
postdoctoral researcher at the LSE with an interest in all things elections, age and generations more about my work here: https://lauraserra.co.uk
@annasanders.bsky.social
Lecturer in Politics at the University of York. Interested in gender, elections and public policy.
@profsarahchilds.bsky.social
Professor of Politics & Gender Author of Feminist Democratic Representation (2020) with Karen Celis, award winning book Author of The Good Parliament Report Expert in Gender Sensitive Parliaments
@cerifowler.bsky.social
CD Fellow in Comparative Politics, St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Gender, elections & public opinion. Also fiction, cake, cycling, women in sport, Everton, indie/rock/alt music.
@tomcaygill.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Politics, Nottingham Trent University 🎓 | Course Leader - BA (Hons) Politics | Parliament nerd 🤓 | Comms Officer @StudyofParl | Research parliamentary committees & law making 📚
@jackpannell.bsky.social
Researcher at Institute for Government working on parliament and the constitution.
@lisajames.bsky.social
Researcher at the Constitution Unit, working on the Constitutional Principles and Health of Democracy project. Co-author, The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit.
@ruthfox.bsky.social
Director of @HansardSociety. Subscribe to our newsletter at: http://hansardsociety.org.uk/connect Non-parliamentary tweets most likely to be about @BarnsleyFC.
@hansardsociety.bsky.social
Working to make Parliament more effective 🎧 Parliament Matters: http://buff.ly/3WbeSiY ✉️ http://hansardsociety.org.uk/nl NOT the record of parliamentary debates!
@duncanweldon.bsky.social
Economics writer. Author. Expect history, finance, economics and other stuff. Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through. Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out in June 2025.
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy with @leviyonit. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE, coming in September 2025
@eddorrell.bsky.social
Partner at Public First (education, levelling up and Labour). Quant, qual, political comms. Ex-journo at @tes. Still write a lot.
@pronouncedalva.bsky.social
Associate Editor at Bloomberg, covering UK politics. Ex-New Statesman, Politico's Westminster Insider podcast. Bred and buttered in Belfast. Sometimes TV/radio/podcasts.