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ESCoE @escoeorg.bsky.social The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) is a research centre hosted at King's College London and supported by the ONS.
We provide research on economic statistics for the modern economy. 📈
Matt VW @mattleyvw.bsky.social
Tony Wilson @wilsontony.bsky.social Employment, labour markets and social inclusion. Personal views etc.
mattpadley.bsky.social @mattpadley.bsky.social Co-Director and Professor at the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University. Research/think/write on poverty, living standards, income, retirement. Running may sneak in now & then.
Dr Kate Haddow @khaddow93.bsky.social Failed academic. Radge researcher, proud northerner. Likes talking about food aid all the time! Personal profile views expressed have nowt to do with my employer.
Stirling Citizens Advice @stirlingcitzadvice.bsky.social Stirling Citizens Advice provides free, confidential advice to local people.
We’re a registered charity(SC007270) and rely on volunteers and donations to continue our work.
Contact us: https://stirling.cas.org.uk/get-advice/contact-us
@louisefisher.bsky.social @louisefisher.bsky.social Former journo turned comms pro. Press officer at Citizens Advice
James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social Increasingly bionic 🦾🦿 Vice Chair, Patients' Voices Royal College Anaesthetists + Faculty of Pain Medicine | Former int'l civil servant + NGOs on human rights etc | ר׳ ייִד
https://linktr.ee/jamesingram
Sarah Hadfield @drsarahhadfield.bsky.social Policy Researcher at Citizens Advice.
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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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Charlie Radclyffe @charlierad.bsky.social Advocates for those injured in military + disabled folk, founder http://veteranlawproject.org.uk, spinal cord injury, not a lawyer, manage land & forestry @ Dartmoor
Citizens Advice Middlesbrough @advicembro.bsky.social We give people the knowledge and confidence they need to find their way forward - whoever they are, and whatever their problem.
Andrew Gifford @andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social Depleted human. Slowly making photographs about a life with ME/CFS, like Long Covid.
https://linktr.ee/andrewgifford.photography
Bristol, UK. 335.42 ppm. He/him/oi.
Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social Labour MP for Nottingham East • Nottingham born and bred • she/her 🌹🏹🏳️🌈
Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social We one of the UK’s leading Disabled People's Organisation run by and for Disabled people, working for justice and equality for all.
https://linktr.ee/disabilityrightsuk
David O’Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social song and dance man
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
Saf @safprojects.bsky.social Children’s Literature Researcher.📚 Mental Health & Oracy advocate. Girlguiding Leader. Sociologist interested in Education Policy. 🌎 #edusky- P @profstoker.bsky.social @profstoker.bsky.social
Prof Ruth Patrick @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social Professor of Social & Public Policy at University of Glasgow
Perimenopausal | neurodivergent | navigating parenting kids with SEND
Jim McCormick @jimmccormick.bsky.social CEO at The Robertson Trust, an independent funder for Scotland on Poverty and Trauma. Also on LinkedIn. No longer on the site known for tweets. All things solving poverty. Likes: walks by water, music, film, Morton FC. In Glasgow, born Dublin. Joined 08/24
Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social Ex-Whitehall type still with views on public policy, but now local historian in Cambridge (UK) blogging at https://lostcambridge.com/ - also writing about the future of the city on The Cambridge Town Owl.
Sophia Knight @sophiaaknight.bsky.social DPhil (/PhD) Researcher @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social working on podcasts, political communication & computational social science
Former Research Lead for Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D and Senior Tech Policy Researcher, Demos
Stephen Evans @stephenevans.bsky.social Chief Executive, Learning and Work Institute.
Ex HMT, SMF and London government.
Learning, skills, labour markets & public policy.
Views my own.
Emma Norris @emmanorris.bsky.social Deputy CEO @ippr.org. Chair of Young Women’s Trust. Former deputy and now senior fellow @instituteforgovernment.org.uk. Think tanker. Westminster watcher. Progressive. Walthamstow resident. 🏳️🌈
Helen Bramah @helenbramah.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Bath researching political trust. Communications and behavioural science consultancy. Windsurfer. Mum.
Jess Craig @jesscraig.bsky.social Policy at Power to Change. Talking about communities, social connection, high streets, politics and policy.
Richard Miller @richard-miller1.bsky.social Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys.
Policy and public affairs, working on online safety, culture, mental health.
@joshking6.bsky.social @joshking6.bsky.social Previously Policy Research Intern @CitizensAdvice
Dr Alex Murray @ahemurray.bsky.social Research Fellow at the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research at Birkbeck. I research disability, welfare/social security law and courts and tribunals. Autistic and chronically ill but still outrageously fabulous…
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.
Oriane Nermond @oriane-nmd.bsky.social Research manager at Learning and Work Institute
Peter McDade @petermcdade.bsky.social Scottish Labour councillor, MP staff member.
Alison Twycross RN PhD @alitwy.bsky.social Living with Long Covid.
Doing my bit to support UK healthcare workers with Long Covid.
Chair of Supporting Healthcare Heroes UK.
Associate Member Long Covid Support.
Former Professor of Children’s Nursing. #FBLC
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.
Samuel Thomas @smlthms.bsky.social Policy at Z2K, previously advice at Z2K & Shelter Scotland, views own
Annabel Smith @annabel-smith.bsky.social Director, Growth and Reform Network. Working with places across UK for a more inclusive economy. New to Bluesky.
Emily Lynn-Graham @dremilylynn.bsky.social Policy Researcher at Citizens Advice, working on post policy ✨
She/her
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
Adam Corlett @adamcorlett.bsky.social Civil servant on DWP's Pensions Commission, from December 2025 until its final report in 2027. Tweets will be infrequent and objective.
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
Charlotte Walker @charlrwalker.bsky.social PhD student and research officer working across public health and psychology with a focus on food bank use. Trying to stay mentally well within academia https://charlottewalker.uk/ ORCID 0000-0003-2244-350X
Giles Robinson @gilesr.bsky.social Student at Think Ahead
Sam Atwell @swjatwell.bsky.social 💼 Employment and health at the Health Foundation. Trustee at Big Futures Foundation.
Catherine Goodall @cgoodall.bsky.social Policy Manager at the Stroke Association and general policy nerd. Cofounder and campaigns lead at Proud Changemakers https://bsky.app/profile/proudchangemakers.bsky.social, formerly at NCVO. Views my own.
Emily Andrews @emilyishness.bsky.social Director of Policy and Research @ Learning and Work. Previously @ Ageing Better, IfG. Very ex-teacher. PhD Victorian dementia. Views informed by my job, but my own.
Ed Pemberton @epemberton.bsky.social Senior Policy Researcher, Citizens Advice. Currently researching health inequalities and their relationship to work, housing and debt. Recovering political economist. Views my own.
Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum.
heather.stewart@theguardian.com
Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh. Welfare state, social security, (un)employment, poverty, policy-making. Views own, RTs not endorsements. https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/hayley-bennett
@jaywiggan.bsky.social @jaywiggan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in social policy. All things employment and social security policy.
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-politics-of-unemployment-policy-in-britain
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
Becca Stacey @beccastacey.bsky.social Financial security and terminal illness @mariecurieuk.bsky.social | Social security and devolution @safety-nets.bsky.social | Views my own
Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social Professor of Politics & Co-Director of the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath, U.K. / British politics, representation, public sphere / author of How to Think About Politics (2025) and The Political Class (2018)
Paul F Scott @paulfscott.bsky.social Constitutional law and national security law etc at the University of Glasgow
Ruth Hannan @ruthhannan.bsky.social Exploring care in a new economy at @carefull.bsky.social with @hannahwebster.bsky.social
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Eloise Sacares @eloisesacares.bsky.social Senior Researcher in Vehicles Policy @transenvuk.bsky.social 🚗
Founder of Young Fabians Policy Fellowship @thefabians.bsky.social 🌹 Views my own
Publications ➡️ https://linktr.ee/politiceiie
Christopher Rocks @christopher-rocks.bsky.social Lead Economist and Head of Secretariat @HealthFdn HealthierWorkingLives. Views my own.
Meg Pennell @meganpennell.bsky.social Working on UK Mental Health Policy @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Formally Mind and Save the Children
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Eleanor Fielding @meownersclub.bsky.social ‘We’re driving in the dark with our sunglasses on!”
#RLS #ME #PEM
Retired lecturer/therapist
Open University, CCCS B’ham, feminism, politics, culture, disability, science, music, languages.
meownersclub@bsky.social
Maker of #FanningTheFlames
Mehmet Mars Seven ♞ @mehmetmars7.bsky.social Lecturer @kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Game Theory, Econ & CS, Pol-Econ, Sport
Chess ♟️
Game Theory Corner at Norway Chess
Studied in Istanbul -> Paris -> Bielefeld -> Maastricht
Views are my own
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Andrew Brook @anbrook.bsky.social Senior programme manager at Power2 @power2org.bsky.social.
Doctoral researcher @mmudecentwork.bsky.social, interested in the relationship between housing and job quality.
Ex-teacher and current special school governor.
Views mine alone.
Victoria Lee (née Anns) @victoria-j-lee.bsky.social Senior Policy Researcher at Citizens Advice.
Focused on young people, disability benefits and Universal Credit fraud reviews.
Grace Remmington @graceremmington.bsky.social Water, energy and essential services nerd. Feminist. She/they. 🏳🌈
Patient advocate and #CanLiver
Views do not reflect those of my organisation.
Citizens Advice Nottingham & District @cabnottingham.bsky.social We're Citizens Advice Nottingham & District, a charity providing free and confidential advice and information to people in Nottingham, Gedling and Rushcliffe 💙
Our website: citizensadvicenottingham.org.uk
To get advice, call: 0808 278 7974
Locality @locality.org.uk We support local community organisations to be strong and successful. #PowerOfCommunity
AKA @localitynews
locality.org.uk
Alice Martin @alicepmartin.bsky.social Head of Research at the Work Foundation, Lancaster University. Employment rights, working lives, health, industrial strategy. Living in a South London flood risk zone.
Holly Jones @hollium.bsky.social Just finished an MPA in Innovation, Public Policy & Public Value @ IIPP, UCL
Interests: making things actually work
📍South LDN via South Bristol
Tom Royston @tomroyston.bsky.social Social security law and its neighbours. Barrister at Garden Court North Chambers
https://gcnchambers.co.uk/barrister/tom-royston/
Demos @demos-uk.bsky.social Demos is a champion of people, ideas and democracy.
Sign up to our weekly newsletter: https://demos.co.uk/support/
Colin Lindsay @clindsaystrath.bsky.social Employment & social policy researcher…
Leads ESRC PrOPEL Hub… https://propelhub.org/
Researcher ESRC InterAct Network… https://interact-hub.org/
Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social In-depth reporting on issues affecting disabled people in the UK since 2009. www.disabilitynewsservice.com
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Accounting. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Citizens Advice Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford @citizensadvicesort.bsky.social We are here for you with advice you can trust, when you really need it. We are campaigning on the issues that affect every single one of us.
We are helping to build a fairer society.
citizensadvicesort.org.uk
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Caroline Marrows @cmarrows.bsky.social Head of Media for charity Citizens Advice (England and Wales). Ex brand comms for The Economist. Can't unsee a typo.
Rebecca Florisson @rebeccaflorisson.bsky.social Principal Analyst at the Work Foundation and part- time PhD at Queen Mary Uni of London. Insecure work, labour markets, data. Opinions my own.
Prof. Sarah Mills @sarah-mills.bsky.social Human Geographer at Loughborough University, UK | profsarahmills.com | researching childhood, youth, citizenship, volunteering, gambling, gaming, prediction markets
Emma Jackson @mrsemmajacko.bsky.social Social justice. Trail running. Bit of broadcasting. Always hopeful.
Lucy Bannister @lucybannister.bsky.social Senior Policy Manager at Trussell focusing on social security and employment support. Previously Turn2us, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Living Wage Foundation and local government. Trustee Sufra NW London.
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Prof Gráinne McKeever @mckeevergrainne.bsky.social Law Professor at Ulster Uni, Belfast. Co-Editor of Journal of Social Security Law. Former Vice-Chair of Social Security Advisory Committee. Writing a book on 'Effective participation for litigants in person: protecting the right to a fair trial.'- J Jenny Ceolta-Smith #FBLC @jceoltasmith.bsky.social Background #RetiredOccupationalTherapist due to #LongCovid background in vocational rehabilitation & PhD research includes #DWP policy, provision & front line practice. Not fully active here yet.
Jacqui Broadhead @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social Director at the Global Exchange on Migration @ox.ac.uk Believes structural problems have structural solutions. Terrier.
Kate Summers @katesummers.bsky.social Researcher working on social security policy and economic inequality. British Academy postdoc @ London School of Economics Methodology.
George Williams @gdwilliams9.bsky.social Research and Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation. Former parliamentary staffer. Views my own.
Ruth Dawson @ruthd.bsky.social Ex DTI, COI, CBI, LSE & CCC. Current affairs addict also interested in history, theatre, art, reading & beer.
Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse
Lalitha Try @lalithatry.bsky.social Economist at the Resolution Foundation working on improving living standards
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social Policy and Public Affairs at The Housing Forum. Interested in UK housing policy, planning, economics, housebuilding, energy, social policy. Views are my own. Cambridge based. https://housingforum.org.uk/
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
Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social user researcher
Cambridge, UK
he | him
banner is Composition 8: https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/1924
Jane Tinkler @janetinkler.bsky.social Senior Prize Manager of the Nine Dots Prize + SGSSS funded PhD student University of Stirling looking at policy impact, REF and the impact agenda. Previously LSE and POST
Paul Maxwell-Rose @paulmaxwellrose.bsky.social Policy implementation - currently Universal Credit advice at Citizens Advice, formerly Family Hubs at Anna Freud and youth/community/peacemaking at CHIPS
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
Juliet Stone @drjulietstone.bsky.social Research Fellow at CRSP, Loughborough University. Stats geek researching social policy and inequality, poverty, and living standards.
Tim Stansfeld @timstansfeld.bsky.social Church Bell Ringer. Folk Musician. Volunteer Adviser at Citizens Advice. Independent thinker - albeit influenced by 60+ years of listening to everybody else.