Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Ryan Furrer @ryanfurrer.bsky.social Design Engineer at Pragma building FirstLook, the CRM and Analytics platform for video game studios
website: http://ryanfurrer.com
find me elsewhere: https://links.ryanfurrer.com
Charlie Matthews @charliematthews.bsky.social Moderately online geriatric millennial. Political strategy consultant mainly in the development / humanitarian sector.
Based in Brighton, UK
Woody @woodyworldofwork.bsky.social Here: Poking fun at conventional wisdom in the organisational & leadership space.
Actual work: Facilitating teams & leaders through tricky organisational transitions.
Vicki Purewal @vickipurewal.bsky.social Earthling. Curious, connector, dreamer, doer. Working with lots of great people on projects, funds, programmes and new ways of working that create kinder, more equitable and sustainable futures.
Aoise Keogan- Nooshabadi @aoisekn.bsky.social Co-founder of award-winning #socent Supply Change
Working on some interesting things with REALML, SOSAD & Digital Opportunity Trust
Thinking/reading/writing about the role of culture & religion in the experience of diasporic communities
Tricia O. @triciaokin.bsky.social Design strategist, service designer, ux researcher and designer. Recently discovered generalist. An American living in the UK.
Miranda Keast @mirandakeast.bsky.social Freelancer & social policy researcher, trustee, book addict, mum. She/her. Views all mine.
Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd @robjconsulting.bsky.social Independent consultant, trainer, speaker and author, specialising in strategic volunteer engagement.
Engaging and inspiring people to bring about change.
Labour Town Councillor for Arnoldfield, Grantham.
He / Him.
https://linktr.ee/robjconsulting
Rebecca White @rebka99.bsky.social Person curious about charity & social enterprise sustainability, progressive politics, third sector leadership and how I can use what I’ve learnt screwing up - to help others. http://linktr.ee/rebkawhite99
Rebs Curtis-Moss @rebscurtismoss.bsky.social Freelance Consultant | Formerly at RNLI and Shelter doing social | Occasional comic | #ActuallyAutistic | Cyclist | They/ Them | Views my own 👋
Abi Handley @choccybic.bsky.social Interested in how unpredictable people can be.
For work I'm good at oiling the wheels when things are stuck, on working out what enables real action, and surrounding myself with people who always want to learn and discover different things.
Tereza Litsa @terezalitsa.bsky.social Freelance marketing consultant
LinkedIn coaching, training, ads
Tech for good, football, all-round nerd
www.terezalitsa.co
Hanna Thomas Uose @hannamade.bsky.social 🌍 Making new worlds, in practice & in prose
📚 WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER is out now @brazen.books
👩🏻💻 Supporting progressive orgs @wealign_
🔗 www.hannathomasuose.com
Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation
Also cats, telly, general silliness
Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
Sophie Macken @sophiemacken.bsky.social Freelance funding and support programme developer 🎯 Helping funders & purpose-led organisations build better partnerships, solve project problems & design programmes that deliver impact 💥
Ruth Taylor @ruthtaylor.bsky.social Values-led narrative & culture change. Part time @commoncause.bsky.social, part time freelance narrative strategist for hire 🌍✨🏳️🌈
www.ruthtaylor.org
Sidney Debaque @siddeb.bsky.social Service designer focusing on empowering people. I talk about ethics & sustainability. Fundamentally against business as usual
@transformgovtalks.bsky.social @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Mikkel Bech @bechbox.com 🇩🇰 Founder & Partner @ Emento, 5x founder, service designer, design do'er, computer scientist, data geek, guitarist, photographer https://mikkelbech.com/links/
Andrew Maier @andrewmaier.bsky.social UX research, service design, and facilitation — possibly in that order, depending on the day. Dad. Avid reader, occasional writer, amateur vocalist and baker. He/him. Montreal, QC, Canada 🇨🇦
Jo Wainwright @jowainwright.bsky.social L+OD, EDI and Sustainability leader = people, culture, thinking environment, leadership coach, facilitator. Also wife, cat mum, and servant to a 4yr old future-leader!
Jamie Mill @jamiemill.bsky.social Product Design, Research, Strategy, IA and conceptual modelling. Lead PD at Polar Analytics, France
jamiemill.com
Anja Mayr @myranha.bsky.social Product strategy, UX & creative collaboration. Digital Health & Public Service Innovation, but make it human centered. Also, soprano saxophone 🎷 Berlin based.
Tom Gilbert Scott @tomgscott.bsky.social Product design and strategy, meaning seeker, dad of twins, living in Bristol, Designer @waitrose, @cxpartners alumni.
Adele @adelleywelley.bsky.social Dragon boat coach, vice captain and paddler 🐉
UX designer and researcher in a membership org (ex-local gov) 🎨
Proud to live in St Neots, Cambridgeshire 💙
Tory Dunn @stradella.bsky.social Designing public services, former typography nerd, amateur, accordion player, SE Londoner - trying to help change things. Opinions are my own.
@vinishree.bsky.social @vinishree.bsky.social Service Designer | Social Innovation & Planet Centered Design | Circular Economy
Artist at heart, Designer by passion 🖤
Organiser of Doughnut Economics Scotland Network
Co-organiser of UX Glasgow
Ben Cullimore @bencullimore.bsky.social Service Design Lead
bencullimore.github.io
Emma Cockerell @emmacockerell.bsky.social Director of Children’s Services, Wokingham Borough Council, mum, social worker, learner and listener, loves a Jaffa cake. Views my own.
Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co 👊🏾💥 critical technologist // design researcher // writer // speaker // 📨 First and Fifteenth // 🦆 birdwatcher // 🍽️ collects menus (no, really) // 🔗 https://linktr.ee/uxmichaelco // 🌐 uxmichael.co
Lucy Stewart @lucymstewart.bsky.social freelance design researcher
designing sustainable services with the school of good services
building roof gardens
thinking about climate collapse
https://lucymstewart.com/
Nerys Anthony @nerys-a.bsky.social Executive Director at The Children’s Society - all things young people & impact, creating waves of change.
Mum to 3 humans & a dog. Slow runner. Love to laugh … all my own words & pictures here
(she/her)
Dave Cunningham @davecunningham.bsky.social Designer who does DesignOps and accessibility. Once left my tent on a coach.
https://www.amplify-us.co.uk
The Shed @theshedcreative.com A design studio helping businesses and startups stand out with bold, strategic design. Founded on Creative Mutualism, we believe collaboration drives success. Let’s build something badass together.
Alison de Kruiff @alison-de-kruiff.bsky.social Academic researcher and UX designer. I am the Course Director of the Bachelor of Design at Swinburne University of Technology with an interest in UX design for health, virtual heritage and ethics.
Alastair Somerville @acuity.design Clarity and kindness as foundations for work. Information perception in physical & digital places. Facilitation and workshop design for codesign and civic assemblies. Public prototyping on BlueSky. He/him
Mauricio Delfin @maudelfin.bsky.social Artist, researcher and Co-Director of Culture and Arts Policy Institute @cultureapolicy.bsky.social / UNESCO/EU Expert Facility Member / #opengov #culturalpolicy #openGLAM #OpenCulture
Julian B 🏴 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🔶(He/Him) @julianb77.bsky.social #UserCentred #ServiceDesign #Digital #SystemsThinking #Humanism #SocialPurpose #SDGs #Neurodivergent ❤️ GIG/NHS. Any views expressed are my own.
🤿🏋️♀️🎶
Tom Gayler @tomgayler.bsky.social Designer. Experience and experiences in products and services.
Oliver Lindberg @oliverlindberg.com Independent editor and content consultant. Founder and organiser of @pixelpioneers.co. Former editor of .net magazine.
📍 Bath, UK
🌐 http://pixelpioneers.co
Nile @nilehq.com We're strategic designers, researchers and problem-solvers tackling the trickiest challenges in regulated industries (mostly).
💫 Links: https://linktr.ee/nilehq
Roz Strachan @superroz.bsky.social Working: Freelance content designer at the Wellcome Trust - used to work at NHS England and the Government Digital Service
Walking: http://trexit.org.uk/about
Watching: https://trello.com/b/tvYpam18/rozs-tv-planning
Liam Hawkes @liamhawkes.bsky.social Principal Service Designer in CoLab - the Policy and Innovation Lab at the Home Office. Previously #localgov.
Jo Garwood-Backshall @jo-gb.bsky.social Principal Consultant | Public Digital
Penknives | Photography | Dogs | LGBTQIA+ activism | Cooking
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
London Centric @londoncentric.media A modern news outlet for London, covering the city in the old-fashioned way. Edited by @jim.londoncentric.media. Subscribe now for a 25% discount: www.londoncentric.media
UKCharityCamp @ukcharitycamp.bsky.social An unconference for people who work in the charity space
www.ukcharitycamp.com
Vimla Appadoo @thatgirlvim.bsky.social Co-Founder of Honey Badger. Trustee of diversityuk. Board member at Greater Manchester LEP. Podcaster. Keynote Speaker. Won some awards.
www.thatgirlvim.com
leanne griffin mchugh @leannemgriff.bsky.social freelance community designer, writer, facilitator, connector, mum. based in worthing, west sussex.
Andy Parker @theavangelist.bsky.social Service and organisation designer. Writing about complex systems, good services and changing things without waiting for permission.
Kyle Soo @kylesoo.bsky.social Partnerships & Product Manager at B Lab UK | Lawyer | Design Council Expert | Service Designer | Lego® Serious Play® facilitator | Organiser of PechaKucha Night Manchester | Year Here Fellow and Trustee | Leathercrafter
Soh-yon @soh-yon.bsky.social Lead User Researcher. Equity-centred design and research in healthcare. Co-conspirator of Design Justice London node.
Rachel Edwards @rachelanne.bsky.social Content designer, gardener, baker and bad crafter. Badger mad. My dog is my best feature.
Jodi Mullen @jodimullen.bsky.social Digital Experience and Design. I like books (SFF), games (board, tabletop & video), music, guitar, cycling, weights and, occasionally, photography.
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Paul Moran @pjmoran.bsky.social Head of User Centred Design @ DVSA
Always learning, sometimes drawing.
https://linktr.ee/pauljosephmoran
Janet Thorne @janetthorne.bsky.social CEO of Reach Volunteering, Trustee of The Movements Trust.
Trying to distract myself from worrying about the state of the world
Ghada Kandil @ghadakandil.bsky.social I read/talk about information architecture and the content set {strategy, management, design, operations, conversation}
اقرأ/اتحدث عن معمارية المعلومات ومجموعة المحتوى {استراتيجيته، إدارته، تصميمه، عملياته، محادثته}
Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social User Researcher interested in the environment and ethics, increasingly working on AI these days. I also like to talk about silly things so there’s that…
Gemma Currie @gemmacurrie.bsky.social senior delivery manager at mhclg 🚀
helping organise UKGovCamp 2026 📣
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social Consultant at Public Digital. Interested in technology, innovation, science, society, better government, better charities.
Adam Walther @adamwalther.bsky.social Head of Transformation, Digital and Customer Services and Woking Borough Council - England’s most indebted | ex FutureGov | #cpfc
Alison Warren @alisonwarren.bsky.social Lead product manager at the NHS website
Pete @peterthomas.bsky.social Working to improve public services in Wales, convinced that focusing on digital capabilities is the way to do it.
Dave Cant @davecant.bsky.social Product person working on public services
Sam Hall @samhallcymru.bsky.social Work in digital healthcare. Love labradors, Wales and my family. Enjoy lots of things, apart from spiders.
Graham Francis @gkfrancis.bsky.social Digital identity policy lead, DSIT
Tom Scott @tomscott.name Chief Digital Officer @PLOS.org. Previously responsible for Wellcome Collection’s digital transformation, Director of Product at Springer Nature, BBC /nature, /programmes /music &c. Oenophile and Type 1 Diabetic.
https://tomscott.name
Ellie Ashman @ellayanor.bsky.social Exeter | Director - Public Sector Practice @ Torchbox
Often to be found looking for a snack and/or saying pspsps to the nearest available cat. Always have too many tabs open.
Lisa Jeffery @lisajeffery.bsky.social Hello. I'm a public sector connector and digital human. Always learning. I'm interested in design, culture and change 🌱
Jeni Tennison @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
Rob Cawston @cawston.bsky.social Design | Content | Data | Culture | Thoughts
Cambridge United fan 🫎 Views my own.
Joe Bramall @joebram.bsky.social Design Manager at the Civic Health Innovation Zone, leading a new HealthTech Design Studio to co-create better solutions with the people of Liverpool.
Portrait and headshot photographer @ joebramall.photography
Jen Byrne @jenbyrne.bsky.social Social reform is the why
MD at TPXimpact | prev. futurepublic
Mama | Lego | Arsenal
Matt Edgar @mattedgar.bsky.social @mattedgar@social.coop is my home in the #fediverse, with a verified link to my homepage https://social.coop/@mattedgar
Bridged posts to Bluesky: @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Lily Dart @lilydart.bsky.social Design Director @photobox. 20 years in design. 10 yrs public speaking. Diversity, inclusion & design at scale. Advisory board @innovateheruk she/her 🏳️🌈 ♿️
Tom watson @tomcw.xyz Digital | Data | Creator |
Doing good or at least trying to
The Good Ship and Data for Action
Crap runner. Awesome eater.
Bio: https://tomcw.xyz
Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org IPPR is the UK’s leading progressive think tank.
Find out more here: linktr.ee/IPPR
IMPOWER Consulting @impower.bsky.social We help public service leaders to produce lasting, positive change in complex systems using the IMPOWER Index and our unique EDGEWORK® approach.
Dessy Chongarova @chongarova.com Design Research Consultant | Previously: Monzo, Meta, FutureGov
ADHD Works Certified Coach
linkedin.com/in/descho
Will Allen @willallennz.bsky.social Sustainable development & co-design practitioner. Supports multi-stakeholder processes and constructive change. Sharing insights on systems thinking, adaptive management, evaluation, facilitation. More at https://learningforsustainability.net/
Care City @carecityuk.bsky.social A social enterprise working with communities, health and care partners to create innovative change of local benefit and national significance.
Find out more www.carecity.org
Emma McGowan @emmamcgowan.bsky.social Public Sector Transformation and Reform. Consultancy Director. Former local gov nerd. Love to swim, garden, yoga. Music / art obsessive. Occasionally runs, always dances.
Matt Skinner @skinnerm.bsky.social CEO at Care City CIC supporting innovation across health and social care #ageing #localgov #socialcare #health #opendata #digital #design #tech 🌈 https://www.carecity.org/
Kate Collins @katecollinsuk.bsky.social Chief Exec. Chair. Trustee. Big fan of the things people do for causes they love. Fast talker. Slow runner. To be found in Staffs, North Wales or London…or on a train
www.katecollins.org
Kate Jopling @katejopling.bsky.social Usually found (professionally) talking about ageing, loneliness, health, care, ageism etc. Other stuff as the mood takes me
Ian McCreath @ianmccreath.bsky.social A personal account
UK
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn,
is just to love,
and be loved, in return”
-Eden Ahbez, Nature Boy
Jacob Lant @jacoblant.bsky.social Chief Exec at National Voices, England’s leading network of over 200 health and social care charities. Long time champion of involving people and communities in designing health and care services. Also loves DIY, libraries and Sheffield Wednesday.
The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social 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/
Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk 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
Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk Same as @thomasforth on X. Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.
Will Myddelton @myddelton.bsky.social Product manager these days. Previously a designer, researcher and even once wrote bad front-end code. Sometimes writes at myddelton.co.uk
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Simon Wardley. @swardley.bsky.social Mapper. I like ducks, they're fowl but not through choice.
Matt @mattdgar.oulipo.social.ap.brid.gy [bridged from https://oulipo.social/@mattdgar on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Aly Fielding @alysonf.bsky.social Makes things.
Tom Scott @tomscott.com I make things. They’ll probably come back to haunt me in a few years’ time. https://www.tomscott.com/