All-Island Social Security Network @allislandssn.bsky.social An academic and civil society group that researches and discusses social security systems across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Philip Rathgeb @philiprathgeb.bsky.social Associate Professor in Social Policy at University of Edinburgh. PhD from EUI Florence. New book: "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" with Oxford University Press.
Website: www.philiprathgeb.com. 
Work and Equalities Institute @workequalities.bsky.social www.wei.manchester.ac.uk
Research institute at The University of Manchester. Research themes include: Work Futures, Fairness and Wellbeing in the Workplace, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Regulation and representation. 
Hanna Schwander @hannaschwander.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology and Social Policy
@HumboldtUni | Co-Spokesperson ERU CAP | Progressive Politics Research Network | political preferences, welfare state, climate change, comparative political economy, political sociology.
Bruno Palier @bpalier.bsky.social Political Sciences
Welfare State
Social Investment
Comparative Political Economy
Isabelle Engeli @isabelleengeli.bsky.social Prof of Public Policy, Founding Editor European Journal of Politics and Gender, former Editor-in-chief European Journal of Political Research, allotment fan
Pieter Vanhuysse @pietervanhuysse.bsky.social Professor of political economy & public policy, Dep. Politics; Chair, Danish Institute for Advanced Study, SDU. Political demography, aging democracies & welfare states, intergenerational fairness https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/vanhuysse
Isabel M. Perera @isabelmperera.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell
Author of The Welfare Workforce (CUP, open-access: https://tinyurl.com/yc2t9hw5)
www.isabelmperera.com
Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
linktr.ee/gladlib
Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social Small time sociologist.
He/him
Melanie Simms @melaniesimms.bsky.social Professor of Work and Employment. Specialism in unions and worker voice. Promoter of social sciences. Fascinated by pretty much everything. She/her
Lisa Garnham @lisagarnham.bsky.social 
Kat Smith @profkatsmith.bsky.social Professor of Public Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde. Co-Director of the Centre for Health Policy & Co-Lead of SHERU (the Scottish Health Equity Research Unit). Interested in research, advocacy and policy to reduce inequalities.
Sherif EA @sherif.eurosky.social Tech can be better.
Co-founder & co-lead @eurosky.social
British, Egyptian, with a French connection.
Sifa ID https://sifa.id/p/sherif.eurosky.social
Eurosky Social @eurosky.social Building open social web infrastructure and apps in Europe. Public interest non-profit, part of Modal Foundation.
App: mu.social
Accounts: move.eurosky.tech
Discover: portal.eurosky.tech
Web: eurosky.tech
Help: eurosky.tech/help
Fund: fund.eurosky.tech
@abigailmcknight.bsky.social @abigailmcknight.bsky.social 
Oxford Social Policy and Intervention @dspi-oxford.bsky.social We are the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. Our teaching and research aim is to contribute to social reform across the globe, reducing inequalities and bringing positive change to people’s lives. 
Journal of Family Studies @jfamstudies.bsky.social Journal of Family Studies is an international journal. It aims to develop understandings of families, households and relationships from a range of perspectives
Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social Researching everyday lives using creative qualitative methods. Based at @UoMSociology.bluesky.social
FamilyPolicyGroupSPA @familypolicyspa.bsky.social Social Policy Association Family Policy Group. Co-leads @profatarrant and @drlinziladlow
Live Work Well Research Centre @liveworkwell.bsky.social A research centre anticipating & responding to the changing needs of families, livelihoods & living environments through research, teaching, & knowledge sharing.
https://linktr.ee/liveworkwellresearchcentre
Nancy Evans @nancycevans.bsky.social Sociologist. Senior lecturer & course leader at Uni of Chester. Part of @socjustice-uoc.bsky.social. Qualitative & participatory research. Poverty, social (in)security, stigma, & social harm. Navigating academia & life with ADHD.
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Decent Work and Productivity Research Centre @mmudecentwork.bsky.social A Manchester Met Research Centre: Our mission is to understand what drives decent and productive work - and who has access to it - while shaping a fairer future of work for all https://www.mmu.ac.uk/research/groups/decent-work-productivity
Inclusive Money UK @inclusivemoneyuk.bsky.social Inclusive Money is a public-benefit research and innovation centre.
Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk 🤓 Associate Professor in Sociology @ucl.ac.uk
🔎 Family and work changes/inequalities in global contexts
🎓 Director MSc/MA Sociology @sriucl.bsky.social
➕ Co-dicrector @wfrn.bsky.social ECF program
📄 Member @ref2029.bsky.social Sociology
🌐 www.yanghu.co.uk
WFRN.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social The Work and Family Researchers Network is the premier 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional association for work-family scholars and leaders.
STICERD & CASE @ LSE @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social STICERD's academics put economics at the forefront of research and policy.
CASE research focuses on social disadvantage and examination of the impact of public policy.
LSE Housing and Communities explore the effects of poverty and social disadvantage.
School for Business and Society 🏫 @uoysbs.bsky.social It's what we're for. For better business. For fairer societies. Based @york.ac.uk.
People in the School - Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/enRmVo
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/uoy-sbs/
🔗 www.york.ac.uk/business-society
FemQuant @femquant.bsky.social Network bringing together researchers from across the social sciences who explore the combination of feminist research & quantitative data/methods. Run by: Jenny Chanfreau, Youngcho Lee, Christina Pao, Heini Väisänen & Nadine Zwiener-Collins.
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
Social Policy Blog @socialpolicyblog.bsky.social Companion blog to the Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy & Society, and the Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy, published by Cambridge University Press for the Social Policy Association.
🔗 www.socialpolicyblog.co.uk
Simon Bottery @blimeysimon.bsky.social #Socialcare guy at The King's Fund. Early riser. Available in stereo on Twitter/X. 
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Hilary Cottam @hilarycottam.bsky.social Author of Radical Help and The Work We Need (out May 2025), Hon Prof @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Trustee @jrf-uk.bsky.social. Doer. Free Radical www.hilarycottam.com
Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social Metaphor hunter, linguist, social scientist, blogger
blog: https://makingsciencepublic.com/
also sorted into categories at https://wakelet.com/@bnerlich
https://bnerlich-lang.github.io/
ORCID: 0000-0001-6617-7827
ATD Ireland @atdireland.bsky.social We hold a vision of a world without persistent poverty. Poverty is an affront to human dignity, a violation of Human Rights & people in poverty have unique knowledge & experience that can lower the barriers separating people & communities
www.atdireland.ie
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social A progressive set of civil liberties & human rights barristers committed to publicly funded work.
📍Manchester
🏆Top Tier Set - The Legal 500 (2026)
Andreas P. Weiland @apweiland.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher @TU Dortmund | Sociology and social policy | Life course, family, work, pensions, wealth | prev. University of Bamberg, U Mannheim/MZES, U Cologne | skeets mostly English and sometimes German | #firstgen
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Levana Magnus @levanamagnus.bsky.social Research associate at University of Bristol. Researching un/under/employment, social in/security, and the value of care
British Journal of Hospital Medicine @bjhmoffice.bsky.social BJHM: An open-access monthly journal dedicated to publishing original investigative and clinical research in hospital medicine. We invite your submission!
Impact Factor: 1.7 | Published by IMR Press
Link: https://www.imrpress.com/journal/BJHM
Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social Professor of economic geography at the University of Cambridge. Researches austerity, labour, debt, gender & sustainable regional economies. Keen gardener.
Serena Pattaro @serena-pattaro.bsky.social Research Fellow @University of Glasgow, Co-I & Leadership Group member @the Scottish Centre for Admin Data Research (SCADR), part of ADR UK. Formerly @Nuffield College, Oxford University. Social & health inequalities, labour market & welfare benefits.
Cara Leavey @caraleavey.bsky.social Public health PhD at Newcastle Uni // Interested in young people, work and health inequalities
Dr Emily Cooper @criminographer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancashire. Geographer. Mum of four (two live in my heart). Tweets child loss, SUDC, PPA2 deficiency, sex work, sextortion/FMSE, fraud, policing, VAWG. #WIASN
Ding-Yi Lai @laidingyi.bsky.social Postdoc, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | political sociology, social inequality, comparative welfare states, comparative authoritarianism, quantitative methods | Website: https://www.laidingyi.com/
Dr Sioned Pearce @sionedps.bsky.social Lecturer in Social Policy at Cardiff University / WISERD. Work, welfare, devolution, civil society and youth unemployment. Views are my own. She / Her
Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy @jicsp.bsky.social JISCP is an international academic journal of the UK Social Policy Association @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social.
Editors: @stefankuehner.bsky.social, @aroumpakis.bsky.social, @markusketola.bsky.social, and Ijin Hong
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social 🇪🇺🦔🦡🌹🕊Emeritus prof of medical sociology UCL. Posting on social inequality in health , work & health, commercial & political determinants of health. Relationship between research & policy. Sometimes post about badgers, trams & trains. Oublagea
EASP SPA 2025 Conference Official Account @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social Social Policy Association and East Asian Social Policy Research Network – Joint Annual Conference 2025: Go your own way? Social Policy in an era of fracturing solidarities
Craig Berry @craigpberry.bsky.social 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
Maddy Rose @maddyirose.bsky.social Welfare policy research at Citizens Advice
she/her
views my own ✨
Colin Webster @profwebster.bsky.social Social scientist UK. Emeritus Professor Leeds Beckett University. Visiting Professor York St John University.
Transforming Care Network @tcaren.bsky.social The Transforming Care Network aims to create links and cooperation among social care and care policy research scholars.
https://www.transforming-care.net/
SPA Employment policy group @spaemploysocsec.bsky.social We're the Social Policy Association's employment policy group. Account managed by Hayley Bennett. Group convened by Sioned Pearce, Ceri Hughes, and Levana Magnus
Alexander McColl @amccollbar.bsky.social Barrister at Garden Court North Chambers - housing, homelessness, social security, protest, prisons, judicial review
https://gcnchambers.co.uk/barrister/alexander-mccoll/
Jiaxin Liu @jiaxinliu.bsky.social Lecturer in Social and Public Policy @ University of York
Enrico Reuter @enricoreuter.bsky.social Co-Head of Social Policy, School for Business and Society, Uni York @uoysbs.bsky.social | Work on self-employment, labour market policy | Editor of Social Policy & Society | Opinions my own
James Prentice @jamespren.bsky.social Researcher, likes data, graphs, infographics and telling stories with data. PhD in political analysis from Sussex uni - like all social science subjects. Mainly post about political analysis and my research within the Hastings & Rye area. Fabian member.
@gmlivingwage.bsky.social @gmlivingwage.bsky.social 
Connor @connorofbfd.bsky.social MRes Public Policy student @uofgussp.bsky.social, exploring lived experience of disability benefits.
Bradford City, class, curry, hardcore punk, hip-hop and social policy. Usually found writing or taking photos. Views my own.
www.medium.com/@connorofbfd
Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social Professor of the Sociology of Health and Illness. Researching suicide, self-harm, bodies/embodiment and 'mental' health. Lived experience & liveability. Scotland/Edinburgh. She/her.
@d-liveability.bsky.social
#suicidecultures
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Dr Millie Light @milliemaglet.bsky.social Academic researcher on Changing Realities, University of Glasgow and Centre for Arts and Health, Falmouth University. Interested in precarity, critical wellbeing and intersections of social and ecological (in)justice
Blavatnik School of Government @blavatnikschool.bsky.social Inspiring and supporting better public policy and government around the world through independent teaching and research at the University of Oxford.
Anders Bach-Mortensen @andersb-m.bsky.social Researcher at Roskilde University/Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University. Working primarily on adult and children's social care. 
Jonathan Burton @jonburton.bsky.social Associate Director for Surveys for Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS). Working at ISER, University of Essex pretending to be a grown-up.
https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/people/jburton
Professor Lisa Scullion @lisa-scullion.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy
Academic Lead (Interim) Social Innovation Institute
University of Salford, UK
FAcSS
Ilona Pinter @ilonapin.bsky.social Visiting Fellow #ChildPovMig @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social #FamilyFinances @uofgussp.bsky.social PhD @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social #childrights #asylum #immigration #NRPF #poverty #inequality Love strangers & islands https://linktr.ee/ypseekingsafety
Kate Andersen @katejandersen.bsky.social Social Policy Research Fellow at the University of York.
Mike Brewer @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social 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
@lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social 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
Tina Haux @tinahaux.bsky.social CEO of Social Research Association 
The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social We are an independent charitable organisation working to build a healthier UK.
www.health.org.uk
National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers (NAWRA) @nawra.bsky.social A membership organisation for social welfare advice providers across the UK. We aim to challenge, influence and improve policy and legislation, and be a national voice for advisers. Celebrating our 50th anniversary! Join us: https://bit.ly/JoinNAWRA
UofG Centre for Public Policy @uofgpolicy.bsky.social Based at the University of Glasgow, we exist to help prepare the next generation of policymakers by sharing evidence, nurturing skills and creating spaces for fresh thinking.
Website 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/publicpolicy
Spotlight podcast 💡 www.uofgspotlight.com
LSE British Politics and Policy @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social Evidence-based social science commentary on UK politics and policy. Part of
LSEblogs at London School of Economics. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/48VNXdo
National Care Forum @ncfcareforum.bsky.social UK's leading voice for not for profit care & support providers. Follow https://bsky.app/profile/vicrayner.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/ncfliz.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/pixelatednathan.bsky.social https://x.com/NCFCareForum
Homecare Association @homecareassn.bsky.social The UK's membership body for homecare providers. Together we ensure homecare is valued, so we can all live well at home and flourish in our communities.
Skills for care @skillsforcare.bsky.social www.skillsforcare.org.uk
We work with employers, Government and partners to ensure #AdultSocialCare has the right people, skills and support to deliver the highest quality care.
Wenjing Zhang @wenjingzhang.bsky.social Social policy and social care researcher, King’s College London
Liz Jones @ncfliz.bsky.social Policy Director at The National Care Forum. Believe in the power of not for profit care, support and housing. Interested in lots of things! 
Dr Jane Townson @drjanetownson.bsky.social CEO of the Homecare Association, Shaping homecare together so we can all live well at home and flourish in our communities. Posts about care, health, life.
@pse2010.bsky.social @pse2010.bsky.social 
Catherine Hale @catherinehale.bsky.social Founder, Disability Insight. Independent research and policy consultant on disability employment and social security. Founded Chronic Illness Inclusion. #pwME and survivor of medical abuse.
Gareth Morgan - Ferret @ferrinfo.bsky.social CEO of Ferret Information Systems - benefits advice systems and training specialists. Blogs with boring numbers at https://benefitsinthefuture.com/. Models the effects of tax and benefits systems. Waves a sword in 17c reenactments.
Safety Nets @safety-nets.bsky.social 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/
Sharon Wright @profsharonwright.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy, University of Glasgow
Welfare conditionality, gender, women, Universal Credit, social security, disability benefits, devolution, migrant essential workers, labour migration
She/her
Geoff Bates @geoffbates.bsky.social Public health and health policy. Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath. 
Mairi Gordon @mairig.bsky.social Works in policy & campaigning in Scottish charity space
Currently @ParkinsonsUKSco 📣
New(ish) mum, still figuring it out 🤷 👶
Special interests - tea, biscuits, books ☕🍪📚
Views my own.
Personal Finance Research Centre @pfrc-uob.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research on the financial issues that affect individuals and households | University of Bristol
Fiona McHardy @fionamchardy.bsky.social Research Fellow - Scottish Health Equity Research Unit .
Board of Parenting Across Scotland.
All views my own . Reposts indicate interest and not endorsement.
Dr. Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado @dkcayado.bsky.social 🧠 Psycholinguist 🧑🏻💻 British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow @rhulpsychology.bsky.social interested in morphology, visual word recognition and reading acquisition
https://sites.google.com/view/dk-cayado/about-me
Simone Paci @simonepaci.bsky.social Political Science @ Stanford, PhD from Columbia
Tax Evasion | Redistribution | Comparative Political Economy | Local Politics
https://simonepaci.com/