Gareth Foote @garethfoote.bsky.social Lead UX Designer at Camden Council
rudolf sommer @ecoarch.bsky.social architect / eco architecture / timber buildings / passivhouse planner / developer
Lorraine Rogerson @lorrainerogerson.bsky.social Trying to make it make sense.
Civic Tech Field Guide @civictechguide.bsky.social Your place to find and be found
https://civictech.guide/
Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk Director of Research & Practice at @ConnectedByData.org working on participatory and open governance of tech. Adoptive parent.
Duncan Brown @duncanjbrown.com I make software. i.AI, NHS, DfE
https://mechanicalsurvival.com
Paul Smith @paulmsmith.bsky.social Lead Interaction Designer at NHS England. Generally designing, prototyping, coding & problem solving. Often drinking a disproportionate amount of tea in rainy Manchester.
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca VP & Partner, OXD: Vancouver-based digital services firm. I work with government to afford better citizen outcomes. 🇨🇦 Spem Successus Alit | success nourishes hope.
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Josh Weinberg @joshrweinberg.bsky.social Charity sector finance person
David McWilliam @scotland-exp.bsky.social Musings on Scotland politics and economics here
https://substack.com/@davidmcwilliam?r=67qx5k&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=blur
Scot Hunter @scothunter.bsky.social Analyst @ Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Sociology PhD Univ. Stirling (2019-2024). Interested in communities and place, health inequalities and ethnic labour market penalties.
Julie Williams @joolzbw.bsky.social Researcher interested in implementation science, health services and addressing inequalities. Cat lover.
OFF Movement @off-movement.bsky.social Mobilising Humanity Against Tech Alienation
https://www.offm.org/en/off-february
Rosebridges Starchuk Code @rstarchukcode.com 🌱 Initiatrix
🧠 Neuroeconomic Rearchitect
🦠 @ooooozenet @thebloomening
👁️ @innerpsycorp @withmylittlesky
👻 @lespionagenet
🌬️ I help organizations and people turn mucky times into luscious times
Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social Exploring experience design for uncertain situations. Higher education sceptic. Climate worrier. Mostly over at aus.social.
Jem Mills-Sheehy @jemm-s.bsky.social Do comms @transparencyuk.bsky.social. Anti-corruption, political integrity, economic crime and other things that take my fancy. Former IfG. Views my own.
Always open to sandwich recommendations.
Another 🦘in London. He/him. 🌈
Nick Barker @nickbarker.bsky.social Studies the causes and consequences of armed conflict. My book: https://www.routledge.com/States-Secessionists-and-De-Facto-Control-after-Separatist-Wars-Strategies-f
Dave Webb @davewebbncl.bsky.social What would planners do if they took Fascism and the apocalypse seriously? Planning academic, 90s throwback, VW T25 fanatic.
struan 👻 @struanf.bsky.social i'm in glasgow pushing all the buttons, they keep telling me to wait but I won't
Designer @ Centre for Civic Innovation
struanfraser.co.uk
Church Action on Poverty @church-poverty.org.uk Our goal is to grow and support a social movement that can reclaim dignity, agency and power. We're here on Bluesky to connect and share with all our partners in that growing movement.
Nathan Yeowell @yeowell.bsky.social Exec Director of futuregovernanceforum.co.uk
Welsh Labour cllr for Panteg, torfaen.gov.uk
Chair of gwentpensionfund.co.uk
Nick Plumb @nickplumb.bsky.social Director of Policy and Insight at @powertochange.org.uk
Interests include: UK politics, trust, communities, localism, democratic reform, and inequality.
@r-jwoodall.bsky.social @r-jwoodall.bsky.social
JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social
Andy Parker @theavangelist.bsky.social Self facilitating media node.
Creator of UX Coaching™
Digital Transformation Consultant.
I believe the internet was made for cats
Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social Knowledge Transfer Facilitator at the Bennett School of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.
rumon carter @rumon.ca Partner. Bonuspappa. Biologist. Lawyer. Technologist. Coach. Outdoorsperson. Focused on cultivating thriving people, teams, communities and publics.
Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social CEO @thesocialinvest.bsky.social; social enterprise, social investment, coffee, NFL.. #socent #socinv #impinv #charity
@intdev1.bsky.social @intdev1.bsky.social
Priyanca a11y 🌈 @priyanca.bsky.social Accessibility, inclusive design research #A11y #UX
Loves swimming in nature, rocks in rivers, mint tea, gelato, trees. Art, music, play!
Grew up in the West Country, left to explore cognition & behaviour, returned ND 🌈 she- L Liam Kennedy @liamkennedy.bsky.social
Tina Leonard 🧡💙 @leonard3tina.bsky.social Retired research biochemist. Quaker. Climate activist. Co-founder Quaker Support for Climate Action (QS4CA), Networker, Green.
#NotMyKing #TogetherWithRefugees
Keely Adler @keels223.bsky.social accelerating better futures in multiplayer mode @ RADAR 🔮 reading the internet, everyday 📚trying to find the cozyweb, is it you bluesky? 💭
James Phipps @jphipps.bsky.social Deputy Director, Innovation Growth Lab (Nesta)
https://www.innovationgrowthlab.org/
Also here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-phipps-007z/
Chesterfield
Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social Emeritus Prof of Social Work at QUB. Still interested in exploring theory to inform & support social work practice. Relational ethics; critical thinking/decision making; family support. Also plants & politics- D David Butler @davidbutler1.bsky.social Interested in economic development, cricket and some other topics
Helen F @helenfurn.bsky.social MD of High-Rise Communications. Prev. comms British Red Cross, Ashgate Hospice. Working from Ancoats, Manchester.
@mossgardener.bsky.social @mossgardener.bsky.social
Mark Picken @picken.bsky.social Founder at Proven Studio. Humanity. Equality. Possibility.
CEDA trustee,
Dad to 2 girls,
Runner: 7 x marathon; 4 x ultra,
WBA.
Live in Cornwall, work globally.
State of the Future @sotf.org.uk 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
@beecreative.bsky.social @beecreative.bsky.social
Prof Colin Talbot (and the late Rory) @colintalbot.bsky.social Professor (Emeritus) U of Manchester ▪️PhD LSE public management▪️co-ops and cooperation ▪️progressive pluralism▪️ex Aikidoka ▪️Arsenal ▪️Born Dover (that's my Castle)
Coral @coralcaprels.bsky.social
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Emily Graham @emilyagraham.bsky.social Migration and asylum policy. Plus often human rights & democratic participation. Trustee of Care Rights UK.
Dom Weinberg @domweinberg.bsky.social Freelance researcher | Youth, mental health, inequality, injustice, civil society, evidence | Formerly UK youth charity sector (YMCA George Williams College / NCVYS) Dutch academia (Utrecht Uni / Erasmus) | he/him
Sara Dodds @saradodds.bsky.social Freelance research and consultancy
Social research, policy, strategy development, evaluation, evidence review, trauma-informed approaches.
Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social Working on surveillance technology, migration, welfare.
Collaborating with public interest newsrooms and human rights orgs.
Bridging and connecting.
Previously at Privacy International, Open Migration, TechPresident.
Pritesh Mistry @priteshifg.bsky.social Head of Partnerships - @instituteforgov.bsky.social
Interested in finding out more and working with us? Message me. He/Him. #Banners. Sign up to all the IfG news: http://bit.ly/3C56M0Q
Will Cardy @willcardy.com Possibilist. Vegan. Fermenter. Rambler. Charity trustee. COO Platypus Digital. 🤙 (he/him) 📍Sheffield
Friends Provident Foundation @fprovfoundation.bsky.social Friends Provident Foundation is an endowed, independent charity exploring how money, financial systems and the economy can better serve society.
https://friendsprovidentfoundation.org
Isabella Ostini @ostinii.bsky.social Interested in place and how we foster relationships that can nourish. Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country. She/her
Steph French @stephfrench.bsky.social Re-connecting with intuitive knowledge to support systemic change.
www.stephfrench.com
Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social Emeritus Prof, UEA Law School; Chair, Suffolk Law Centre; Exec Member, Law Centres Network; Founder, UEA Law Clinic. Posts on access to justice, employment & discrimination law, art, music, architecture, gardening, classic cars, Cymru, and NCFC 💛💚
Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social Doer of things at Centric Lab | Dogwalker and butler to BIGGIE | Frequently having weekends ruined by Arsenal
Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com Prototyping ways to use health-based scientific evidence to support justice movements, surface and socialise non-western epistemologies & create language to articulate the health injustices felt by many racialised and marginalised folx.
thecentriclab.com
Chris Harris 🎐 @cdh.bsky.social - Artist
- Engineer
- Product Strategy
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Creative collaborations in product, production, and praxis to protect people, the planet, and prosperity.
http://cdh.bio
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Tamar Millen @tamarmillen.bsky.social Tired.
Warrior/Worrier.
Freelance Culture organiser and producer. PhD researcher in Design at Sussex - Designing The Conditions for Hope.
Kinship carer to Nid1 & Nid2
Sheffield.
Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social Happily re-learning the value of expertise, courtesy, and humour after the barking years.
Rafael Leite @leiterafaelo.bsky.social
Ellie Radcliffe @ellieradcliffe.bsky.social Head of Policy and Research @powertochange.org.uk - former co-operator and community wealth builder. About growing power ⚡ and plants 🌱 (she/her) All views my own.
Simone Hochgreb @simonehochgreb.bsky.social Day job doing experiments with lasers, hydrogen, aerosols @ U Cambridge. Interested in too many other distracting things: energy, economics, the future of humanity. Posts little, reads lots.
Emma Leahy @emmal42.bsky.social
Join up the Dots @shirtylefty.bsky.social This is 'Last Chance Saloon' peeps - history, and recent events, plus a bit of informed extrapolation all suggest that "time" is about to be called at the Bar, so please let us not accept any more kick-the-can-down-the-road bullshit - too much at stake 😳
Rachel Winter @rachelrosewinter.bsky.social I’m listening
Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social Exec Director & founder, Uplift; "provocative and not entirely without merit" according to Energy Voice, Standard disclaimers, incl. that all views are my own.
@marcdice71.bsky.social @marcdice71.bsky.social
Ellie Harwood @ellieharwood.bsky.social Attempting systems-thinking around social security in the UK. Currently working on narrative change to end stigma.
Interested in social security, systems change, co-production, narrative and framing, children's rights and devolution.
David Dawes @dawescoding.eurosky.social NHS Data Architect - Clinical Classifications, Terminologies, and Interoperability - Posting and Replying in an unofficial capacity- N @nitsrik.bsky.social @nitsrik.bsky.social
Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social Innovation consultant, working on digital and data transformation for the public good.
Labour & Co-op councillor for Dulwich Village Ward. Chair, Labour Walks and Cycles.
Arsenal fan, cyclist, sailor, dad and many other things in no particular order.
Brotherhood PR @brotherhoodpr.bsky.social Specialist communications for social landlords & #ukhousing suppliers 💚
www.brotherhoodpr.co.uk
Dominika Noworolska @dominikanow.bsky.social Researcher, facilitator & cultural strategist passionate about social causes and meaningful change. I work across systemic boundaries whenever possible to build bridges, nurture relationships, and aim for better outcomes for people. Glasgow based
Tim @timjersey.bsky.social Currently setting up my own business. Former civil servant and European Parliament APA supporting an MEP on defence. Keen mountaineer. Can usually be found with a mad springer spaniel! From 🇯🇪 but will be moving to Dartmoor soon! MStrat 2 alumni Exeter.
Darren Pullman @darrenpullman.bsky.social Pro EU, Solar powered EV driver.
loreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social Progressive Institutionalist. Blue highways + 🐶
Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social Interested in how government works and how it can work better
🏳️🌈
Graeme Manuel-Jones @graememj.bsky.social Interested in reading, writing, comics, art, design, architecture, housing, LEGO and all things digital.
Liz Crosbie #AllianceNowUK #FBPE @lizcrosbie.bsky.social Interested in global politics & environment, plus gardening, travel, art, photography and life. Ex UK Green Party, then 30+ years as a sustainability professional. Now, UK politics focused on AllianceNow UK, working together for a new democracy.
No DMs
A random tech person @greentechperson.bsky.social Tech, people and the environment
Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social Head of Policy, Progs and Media at AdviceUK. Former Dep Director at Women’s Budget Group. Former CEO Equality Trust, interim CEO & Dep Director of The Runnymede Trust. Worked across Government and on national Commissions. Views my own.
Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social Maxing out credit cards and neglecting roofs
Artem 🪗 @zhgnv.com Founder of https://harmonica.chat. Steward of the Citizen Infra Builders Club. Newspeak House fellow. Based in Novi Sad 🇷🇸
Unni Eikeseth @unnieikeseth.bsky.social Science teacher Education @NTNU 🇳🇴 🧪 | Non fiction author Krigens laboratorium (2026), Vårt kjemiske liv (2023), Finding places (2020) /Jakten på stedsansen (2018) | Former TV host & Science journalist @NRK https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/unni.eikeseth
Callum Alexander @callumalexander.bsky.social Senior Strategic Planning Advisor | Healthcare Improvement Scotland | Public Health Masters with interest in social deprivation and health service improvement- C Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social Complexity, politics, public policy and helping things be better. Welshman in south London.
Hilary Jennings @hilaryjennings.bsky.social working - playing - making - swimming - wellbeing - Tooting - also shares at @happymuseum @tttooting
Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Chief Reporter at UK political outlet Byline Times. I cover democracy, campaigning, and Britain's media.
Followers can reply to posts (ask to DM me). Open to news tips.
'Fake news w*nker' - Tommy Robinson.
Power to Change @powertochange.org.uk We are the think-do tank that backs community business. We turn bold ideas into action so communities have the power to change what matters to them.
powertochange.org.uk
Rebecca Bramall @rfbramall.bsky.social Tax, redistribution, welfare states, digitalisation, cultural studies. Prof of Culture & Economy, UAL. PI Redistributive Imaginaries https://redigim.arts.ac.uk/
Dep ed @newformations.bsky.social
https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/114-rebecca-bramall
Tom Goldsmith @tomgoldsmith.bsky.social I write about building a fairer and more inclusive society and innovation's role in doing that on the Deep Dives newsletter: https://orbitpolicy.substack.com/. Founder & Principal, Orbit Policy. Toronto via the UK.
Convalescing Millennial @kjgong.bsky.social terrible teacher of tricks and trouble to teenagers
@wirywords.bsky.social @wirywords.bsky.social UK based - lover of science fiction & fantasy - happy dabbler in art
olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk Researching interop in the NHS
https://oli.zilla.org.uk
Neil Bachelor @neilbachelor.bsky.social Founder @Omnifolio.org & skills consultant. Bothered by unemployment, underemployment & misemployment.
@adifalconer.bsky.social @adifalconer.bsky.social
Steve @3psteve.bsky.social Socialist