Katy Armstrong @katyarmstrong.bsky.social Deputy Director of Digital Services at MHCLG.
Tom Adams @sonofswiss.bsky.social Head of user research at Department for Education. Will try and moan less about the trains on here than I did on twitter.
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 🌱
Sarah Luxford @sarahrecruiter.bsky.social Keen community builder, tech enthusiast, cheer-leader of others, supporting public sector as a headhunter for DDaT roles through one hire at a time, mum, strictly come dancing wannabe
Alice Ainsworth @aliceainsworth1.bsky.social Digitising Social Care, DHSC and NHSE. Mum to two small boys
TPXimpact | B Corp™ @tpximpact.com Supporting organisations to build a better future for people, places and the planet. 
dxw @dxw.com We design, build and run digital public services that make people's lives better.
dxw is employee owned.
Find out more about us 👉 https://linktr.ee/_dxw
Dan Healy @danrhealy.bsky.social User-centred design and Product leader; speaker; learner; grandson of immigrants; husband; dad; brother; Park Runner; guitarist; singer; volunteer; and ENTJ.
Words: danhealy.wordpress.com
Music: https://open.spotify.com/album/5hNCHMEmbZgNTHu5kgUwvq
LocalGov Digital @localgov.digital - S Sam Selmon @samselmon.bsky.social Head of Product at Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)
Rory MacDonald @rorymacdonald.bsky.social 
Adrian Wilkins @drbarnowl.bsky.social Software engineer, public sector.
Tom Steel @tomsteel.co.uk Doing digital things for the public sector https://iam.tomsteel.co.uk
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social 
Kathryn Grace 🕊️ @iamkathryngrace.bsky.social Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up
Emily Coffin | Service Designer @emilycoffin.bsky.social Public servant using my design powers for good. Otherwise playing music, twisting into yoga shapes, cooking or hanging with my dog.
Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social Service & Product Design, Gov, Husband, Dad, Montessorian, Scout-Leader, Londoner from Ecuador, Dyslexic, He/Him.
Sorry, I don't check direct messages.
www.enablingfacilities.co.uk
Kate Ivey-Williams @kateiw.bsky.social Head of Service Design for the Open University, ex GOV.UK. Van life, plants, dancing etc.
Helen @socialsoup.bsky.social Designer in UK Gov. Made in State School. Haway man, woman man.
Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social Sociologist. Musician. Technologist. Dad.
Current side project: randomthebook.com
"Someone called Matt Ballantine"
New Scientist, June 2026
Debbie Blanchard @debblanch44.bsky.social Dreamer of dreams, lover of theatre, drinker of gin...
Government Product Person and community builder
Volunteer @guidedogs.
Tailender.
School governor, Enterprise Advisor
She/her
Imran Hussain @imhuyorks.bsky.social Love all things collaboration and community. Founder of GovCamp North and Design System Day. Organiser UKGovCamp, Services Week and GovJams.
Currently doing community @gdsteam.
Site: https://www.imranhussain.uk
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.
Dr David Boyce @drdavidboyce.bsky.social UK Science Teacher. Space enthusiast 🚀 DofE manager. Housemaster of a girls’ boarding house.
Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Desires to unbuild walls.
Katy Beale @katybeale.bsky.social Cycling, running, raving.
Ceramics.
Local gov, tech for good & public purpose.
Design and digital.
🏳️🌈
Currently: CDEO, Westminster City Council
Previously: Hackney Council, DHSC, Equal Experts, Yodomo, Caper.
Dan Howarth @danhowarth.bsky.social Ally in training. Generally curious. Rookie dad. Into hills, indy mags and #designjustice. Content strategy and IA in UK gov.
Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk User centred design in government. parkrun tourist A4418. Director of Digital and Tech for Kingston and Sutton councils.
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
Paul Cochrane @paulcochrane87.bsky.social Global Services Manager @ Hyland | Passionate about services, healthcare, digital health, AI & cloud | BSc, PRINCE2, MSP, L6σ Green Belt | Opinions are my own | https://linktr.ee/paulcochrane
Dean Vipond @deanvipond.bsky.social Design leadership and human-centred stuff in general. Previously lead designer at NHS Digital and lots of other things. He/Him.
Tracey Wilson @trackiew.bsky.social Delivering digital services in government. Bridging user needs, policy, and tech with a focus on collaboration, agile, and public value. Cursed with the “how hard can it be” gene—always juggling personal projects on shiny new things! 😁
Coco @cocochan.bsky.social Product lead in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band (European Champions ‘26). Prolific knitter. She/her
Martin Lugton @martinlugton.bsky.social Head of Product for Digital Service Platforms at the Government Digital Service
Annie @anniecrab.bsky.social Service designer. Aspiring trusted agitator. Sometimes improviser. Cat person. She/her
James Green @jamesgreen.bsky.social Content Designer in local government.
Interested in digital accessibility.
Like music, books, food, running, cats and shenanigans.
he / him
James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
Mark Braggins @markbraggins.bsky.social A keen walker and fan of #greyhounds #dogs, #wildlife, and the countryside.
Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social Government digital, public policy design and a one-woman crusade to stop AI engines being given female names
Liz Lutgendorff @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social Doing digital transformation.
I love data, tea and comics. Thoughts all my own.
Professor Sue Black OBE @drblack.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science and Tech Evangelist at Durham University; International Keynote Speaker; #womenintech, #100moments tech #podcast host and so much more… https://linktr.ee/drsueblack
AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me Data science, crime and AI in government person | he/him
https://andreasthinks.me/
Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social Head of Delivery & Operations for Connected by Data. #RunningIsFunning, fundraiser for Jane Tomlinson Appeal, Trustee: LGBT+ Consortium & Reading List Foundation. 🏳️🌈 She/Her.
https://linktr.ee/emilyjmacaulay
Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk Same as @thomasforth on X. Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.
Simon Everest @simoneverest.bsky.social Head of Product and Experience at @DCMS . Trying to do less better. All views my own, not my employer's. RT and likes not endorsements.
Phil Rumens @rumens.uk Principal Technologist for GDS Local. Part of @LocalGovDigital.
Advocate of technology enabled user centred design.
o7 CMDR
Andy Jones 🏳️🌈 @andyjones.bsky.social Head of Design (Content, Service and Interaction Design) - Dept for Education.
Ex-Dog dad, plant dad. Lover of coffee, cake, all things Scandinavian, design and architecture. Neurospicy, ADHD and colourblind.
Can’t get messages.
Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social Data optimist.
Interested in: data infrastructures, governance, platforms, AI, the commons, etc.
Working with: Foresight (1m eye scans), Icebreaker One (data for net zero), Creative Commons (preference signals) + OpenMined (federated data networks).
Dan Cook @dan-he-man.bsky.social Director, Data Policy and Research at HESA (part of Jisc). We do the R&D behind the data you love best. Own views, obvs.
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/research
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7833-4244
Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social Interested in how government works and how it can work better
🏳️🌈
Tom Beresford @tomberesford.bsky.social Cities, education & big transitions | Public sector change @ Third Story | Climate action @ Dark Matter Labs | previously @ Innovation Unit |Retweets provocations, views my own
Caitlin Hudon @beeonaposy.bsky.social Data + product + books + parenting. DS @ Figma; blogging @ caitlinhudon.com
Martin Parr @martinparr.bsky.social Data Policy & Practice Director at CABI. All things #OpenScience #OpenAccess #FAIRdata https://www.fairprocessframework.org also at https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinparr1
Rebekah Wilson @bekwilson.bsky.social Digital, data, futures || Local Government Association || Devout cyclist || Granola cruncher
Emma Doyle @wallastow.bsky.social Formerly Head of Tech Strategy in the NHS, now I'm freelancing and living a better work life balance! I live in Walthamstow and will have a go at almost any craft.
Reema Patel @reemaspatel.bsky.social Inclusive policy, research, design and practice, using participatory and deliberative methods. I work with @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social on including public voices in AI, and @iswe-foundation.bsky.social on a permanent global climate assembly.- C Charles Baird @charlesbaird.bsky.social Chief Data Architect at ONS, interested in data and information flows, generally uncommunicative on the socials (apparently oddly so…).
Katherine Rooney @krooney.bsky.social Community Energy at SW Net Zero Hub (That's DESNZ and WECA) - Local Gov - Central Gov - Also Open Data Camp campmaker - Community is always the answer - Relentless optimist 🙂
Terence Eden @edent.tel Longer hair than you.
Chaotic Good.
Doesn't work for The Man™ any more.
If you're involved in Blockchain or Crypto you will be blocked on sight.
All content © and personal. May not be reproduced without consent.
Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog
Benjy Stanton @benjystanton.co.uk Contract interaction and service designer. User-centred design in gov. Accessibility. Music fan. https://www.benjystanton.co.uk/ He/him
Frankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com Freelance interaction designer. X-GOVUK contributor. London dad. Car-free cities. Working for NHS England.
https://www.frankieroberto.com
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
Chris Barnes @leodensian.bsky.social Does data stuff at DVSA, lives in Leeds, likes transport. Posts usually some combination of the above. 
Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social Demographer, former tweeting statistician and female data lad. Attempting to make a difference in public health analysis at DHSC. I ran the UK's covid dashboard. Now seen running parkruns. DMs not available. She/her 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Marged @marged.bsky.social Digital health | Tech for good | Patient, Customer & Employee experience | Digital Transformation | Nutrition 🏴
Ex Chief Experience Officer & MD at Healthpath
Deputy Director for Primary Care, Digital Health and Care Wales, NHS Wales
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social Designer. Ex GOV, NHS, startups. Lives in Wales, London @paulpod on most things
🏴 website: Neuromantics.net
📨 signal: paulpod.404
Jonty @fairless.xyz Service designer for the climate emergency, mechanic, & cargobike charity trustee. Used to work night shift.
📍Edinburgh 🏴
Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social Design (particularly of the digi-gov variety), books and brunch (usually from NE England). Brits think I sound Kiwi, Kiwis think I sound English. Links-a-plenty, views my own. https://vickyteinaki.com
Mark Dalgarno @markdalgarno.bsky.social Delivery @ http://createchange.io - Digital Transformation, UCD, Agile methods.
He/Him. I don't speak for my clients.
Organiser Agile Manchester, Agile Cambridge, Lean Agile Scotland, Ripples: Bristol, UX Scotland, SDinGov, Lean Agile Exchange
Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk Tech policy person. Have also written about tax and ramble about Doctor Who. He/they. Bi.
Robin Linacre @robinlinacre.bsky.social Lead developer of Splink. Data scientist at Ministry of Justice. Trustee, GiveDirectly UK. Pledgee, http://givingwhatwecan.org. All views my own.
Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs Local government loving digital pragmatist.
https://da.vebrig.gs/
Ian Watt @watty62.bsky.social Open Data advocate. Wikimedia Board Member. Data scientist. Tinkerer with Python etc. Enthusiastic reader. Wikimedia UK trainer. #Jazz lover. Drawer, painter, photographer. Whisky afficionado. #FRSA #FIoL Burgess of Guild of #Aberdeen, OSS Taisho.
Alice Thwaite @alicelthwaite.bsky.social Ethics by design.
Also likes: swimming, sewing, walking outside, and electronic music.
Based in London, UK.
Stuart Mackenzie @hellostu.xyz - Lover of public services 👩🏼⚕️
- Parkrun enthusiast 🏃♂️🌳
- Amatuer Photographer 📷
- Occasional Podcaster 🎤
- Senior Partner at TPXimpact ✊❤️
- Remembered for my dance moves 🕺🏼
- Proud resident of Dorset 🌊
https://hellostu.xyz/
Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk Head of Creative and Design at The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), GDS. He/him. Views his own, not his employers.
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social CEO @projectsbyif.bsky.social founder, designer, advisor, Mum, “rebel with the right cause”, expecting more from computers…
https://projectsbyif.com
https://sarah.gold
Nikola Goger @nikolagoger.bsky.social Head of Design at Ministry of Justice UK
She/her 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺
Blogging at https://medium.com/@nikolagoger
Kara Kane @karakane-kk.bsky.social Design leadership — writing a book called Strong Design. 
Neil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social Digital and tech exec at the BFI. Previously GOV.UK, and a tough but edifying stint in local gov. Alcohol free. Fun facts: I can't form mental images and have no inner monologue (aphantasia) nor remember my own life (SDAM). https://neilojwilliams.net
James Kemp @jamesmkemp.bsky.social Public servant, delivering change mostly. Have worked in many departments. Based in Scotland. #GovPDC Explorer Scout Leader, sometimes gamer & writer
Dan Barrett @dasbarrett.bsky.social Hello friend it’s sandwiches alright 🥪 Also baking, learning to make guitar effects pedals, shrine to The Incredible Hulk like a normal person, houseplants, and data and AI at Citizens Advice 📊 🤖
He / Him
Julian @jdosreme.bsky.social Trying to make public services better for everyone. Service Owner, team leader, ex GDS, MoJ, Defra, Home Office, NHS, DBT and CO Views my own etc
https://jdosreme.medium.com/
Matt Donnelly @colddatamatt.bsky.social Oceanographer, data manager, civil servant, expertise in open data and open government.
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Ben Proctor @benproctor.co.uk Some time folk singer. Freelance data consultant.
LibDem Herefordshire & Hereford City Councillor for College Ward (promoted by Sam Potts on behalf of the Liberal Democrats all at 54 St Owen St Hereford HR12PU) more at https://linktr.ee/ben4college
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
Alex Coley @alexrcoley.bsky.social Data Strategy & Design Leader
Passionate about the power of data to help organisations make a positive difference in the world. Director at Epimorphics Ltd, former Deputy Director for Data at Defra. Based in South Wales, UK. With #aphantasia
Paul Maltby @maltbyps.bsky.social I run the public service teams at Faculty AI. Previously Chief Digital Officer in UK gov. Public service reformer 
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
Ben Terrett @benterrett.bsky.social CEO of Public Digital. Former Deputy Chair of UAL. .
/benterrett everywhere else.
www.benterrett.com
Dominic Campbell @dominiccampbell.bsky.social Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
Jeremy Gould @jezzag.bsky.social Government digital transformation trouble maker. Currently CDO at Homes England. Pretty deluded.
Rob Miller @robmiller31.bsky.social Senior Director @ Public Digital, but these views are just mine. Also at @robmiller31@mastodon.social and occasionally blogging at bytherye.com/about-me/. Have quit the Bad Place.
Sally Meecham @sallymeecham.bsky.social Better public services. Inclusion. Wales 🏴
Ben Sewell @bensewell.bsky.social Driving positive Digital change with people, process & tech.
Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) | Data | Learning, sharing and improving. My views.
Giuseppe Sollazzo @puntofisso.bsky.social Deputy Director, Chief AI Office @ HM Revenue & Customs + Quantum of Sollazzo data newsletter
www.puntofisso.net
www.quantumofsollazzo.com