Paul Bivand @paulbivand.bsky.social Labour market stats wonk: default mode: cynical. Boosts are not endorsements and may be ironic. Also on avian-dinosaur-site @PaulBivand
@welfarerights.bsky.social @welfarerights.bsky.social Welfare Rights Officer working in UK.
Vicky Newell @vickynewell.bsky.social Campaigns Manager at Turn2us
Broken Rites @brokenrites.bsky.social Divorced/separated ex spouses/partners of clergy, supporting each other & calling for better support of ministers' families, before, during & after breakdown. UK based, international & interdenominational. Est. 1983
brokenrites.org
Ewen Speed @ewenspeed.bsky.social Sociologist interested in health policy and inclusive involvement...and cycling. Current associate editor of Journal of Critical Public Health, a diamond open access publication https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph/index
Ben Paxton @drbenpaxton.bsky.social Senior Researcher at the @instituteforgov.bsky.social. Views my own.
Alessandro Sica @alessandrosica.bsky.social 
I-SPHERE @i-sphere.bsky.social Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities Research (I-SPHERE) at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
@incitefulpod.bsky.social @incitefulpod.bsky.social 
@nathandebono.bsky.social @nathandebono.bsky.social 
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
Alasdair Stewart @abestew.bsky.social Sociologist | Socialist | Neurodivergent | Linux & FLOSS advocate | he/they
Hels Babs @hels8.bsky.social Inverness Dweller
Nature Lover
Bird Liker
Childless cat lady 😻
Bee Online 🐝 @beefair.bsky.social Permanently inquisitive about Social Policy, political thinking, and food.
Desperate for engaging repartee and thought provoking ideas to mull over. 😁
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
Levana Magnus @levanamagnus.bsky.social Research associate at University of Bristol. Researching un/under/employment, social in/security, and the value of care
Alan Tang @alantang1212.bsky.social HKBU BA History🇭🇰 (2021-2025)
LSE MSc International Relations🇬🇧 (2025-2026)
Aimed to Work at IO 🇺🇳 / Any foreign delegation in Taiwan / Hong Kong
HK / UK / US Experience 🇭🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Co-Founder of GeoShock 🇭🇰
Shanshan Xu @sxu33.bsky.social 
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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UK's HowToEnjoy @howtoenjoycouk.bsky.social DISCOVER JOY in UK (England, NI, Scotland, Wales) events, biz, health, music, tourism, on linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyCoUk. Unleash fun nationally, from villages to cities and tourist hotspots. Embrace togetherness through the four home nations | HowToEnjoy.co.uk
Money Advice Liaison Group (MALG) @malguk.bsky.social The only UK membership organisation with a reach across the whole debt landscape - working together to improve the lives of people in debt https://malg.org.uk/
Gabriele Mari @gmari.bsky.social Sociologist @Erasmus University Rotterdam
Social security, families, income/wealth
https://sites.google.com/view/marigabriele/home
Lewisham Plus Credit Union @lewishamplus.bsky.social LPCU is a financial cooperative owned and run by its members. We provide ethical savings and loans to those living in the boroughs of Lewisham and Bromley.
Pennysmart CIC @pennysmartcic.bsky.social 'Financial wellbeing is our business'.
Free to client money, debt and benefits advice service.
We are authorised and regulated by the FCA No 618817.
Cara Leavey @caraleavey.bsky.social Public health PhD at Newcastle Uni // Interested in young people, work and health inequalities
Silvia Behrens @silviab.bsky.social Researcher at University of Glasgow @uofgussp.bsky.social & SCADR @scadrdata.bsky.social - education, inequality & youth activism. PhD in Social Policy.
John Hacking @hacking4chorlton.bsky.social Governor Chorlton CofE Primary & @EndeavourFeder1. @unisonmcr. A director of the Edge Theatre in Chorlton
John Hudson @johnhudson.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy and Academic Director of The York Policy Engine at the University of York, UK.
Social security, the politics of social policy, attitudes to welfare, devolution
Urban Studies & Social Policy @uofgussp.bsky.social UK & world-leading centre for research on #cities #planning #socialpolicy #data #analytics #realestate #publicpolicy at @glasgow.ac.uk.
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/uofg_ussp
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
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
Denys Pikus @pikusd.bsky.social 🇺🇦 | PhD'ing Social Policy at University of Oxford, Nuffield College.
Housing-education nexus; housing insecurity; life course effects of social policies
JoSoHappy @josohappy.bsky.social #AUDHD Woman Mother Wife
Passionate about Community, Inclusion, Diversity.
Award winning changemaker.
Founder of AndBreathe parent carers support
Treasurer at Women Of Newport
Community Project Officer Save The Children
All views are my own.
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
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
@gmlivingwage.bsky.social @gmlivingwage.bsky.social 
Kate Summers @katesummers.bsky.social Researcher working on social security policy and economic inequality. British Academy postdoc @ London School of Economics Methodology.
@teachercian.bsky.social @teachercian.bsky.social 
Jamie Evans @jamie-evans92.bsky.social Research Fellow in UK household finances, financial exclusion and health-poverty interactions @ PFRC, Bristol Uni Geography. Enjoys maps, football and bad puns.
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social I'm sorry to be so difficult, but I'm afraid the truth is that I am.
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
Maarten Hermans @mhermans.net Sociologist, researcher, member @denktankminerva.be & @brispo-vub.bsky.social: labour relations, quality of work & open source data analysis.
@little-bear-1.bsky.social @little-bear-1.bsky.social 
Daniel Edmiston @danieledmiston.bsky.social Research @igopbcn @PolitiquesUAB | British Academy Wolfson Fellow | (Deep) Poverty & Inequality | @DistantWelfare | Social Innovation | Citizenship 🏳️🌈
https://www.deep-poverty.co.uk 
Mia Leslie @mialeslie.bsky.social Researcher at the Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.bsky.social | previously Public Law Project
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
Peter Matejic @statspeter.bsky.social Chief Analyst, Insights and Analysis, at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation working to solve UK Poverty
Dr Jackie Gulland @drjackiegulland.bsky.social Social scientist, social work lecturer. Social justice/sociolegal/ disability/ageing/gender/care and a bit of history. Author award winning 'Gender, Work and Social Control' (2019)
Eppie Leishman @dreppie.bsky.social Researcher interested in all things social care. Frequently distracted by knitting, the need for more pockets and my animals. She/Her
Karen Barker @karenmbarker.bsky.social Policy & Research
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.
Christopher Rocks @christopher-rocks.bsky.social Lead Economist and Head of Secretariat @HealthFdn HealthierWorkingLives. Views my own.
Paul F Scott @paulfscott.bsky.social Constitutional law and national security law etc at the University of Glasgow
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.
Trish Burns @trishburns.bsky.social mum to four young adults, mathematician, foodbank worker, university after children: MSc: Inequality and Social Science at LSE. Interest: perceptions of hunger
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.
Karen Buck @queensparkkaren.bsky.social Chair, Generation Rent. Play England. Paddington, South Kilburn and OPDC. Former MP for Westminster North. Labour. Housing, Sondheim, Springsteen and other passions. Views entirely personal..
Giles Robinson @gilesr.bsky.social Student at Think Ahead
Trust for London @trustforlondon.bsky.social More than 2 million Londoners are living in poverty. We fund organisations fighting to change that. Follow for data, research & stories on inequality in London.
www.trustforlondon.org.uk
Rod Hick @rodhick.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy at Cardiff University. Poverty | social security | work | housing www.rodhick.com
Professor Lisa Scullion @lisa-scullion.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy
Academic Lead (Interim) Social Innovation Institute
University of Salford, UK
FAcSS
Isabel Sykes @isabel-sykes.bsky.social AHRC-funded PhD student in Sociology at Brunel, University of London. Based in West Yorkshire. Current research in class, domestic labour, and social media. (She/Her)
Edinburgh Tenants Federation @edinburghtenants.bsky.social Edinburgh Tenants Federation is a tenant-led charity that supports
tenants across Edinburgh to understand their housing rights, have their
voices heard, and influence decisions about housing and other related
services locally, city wide, and nationally
Silvia Galandini @silviagalandini.bsky.social 
Stephen Boyd @stephenboydippr.bsky.social Director IPPR Scotland
Views my own
@jimillar.bsky.social @jimillar.bsky.social 
Prof Deirdre McCann @profmccann.bsky.social Professor, Durham Law School. Effective labour regulation/decent work. Co-founder and Organizing Committee, Regulating for Decent Work Conference. Editorial Committee, Industrial Law Journal. Former Official @ILO.
Molly Corlett @mollycorlett.bsky.social 
Michael Klapdor @mklapdor.bsky.social Canberra 🇦🇺
Personal account | Impersonal observations
The Binks Hub @thebinkshub.bsky.social We are a network of academics, researchers, community orgs and practitioners using creativity and the arts to co-create research that makes a difference to people’s lives. Based in @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social. Find out more: https://binks-hub.ed.ac.uk
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.
Emma @epickirbz.bsky.social Supporting people with 🔵 ME/CFS, 🟣 Fibromyalgia & 🟢🩶 Long Covid |✊ Unapologetically Socialist | ⚖️ Benefits Wizardry in action | ♿ Disabled & Proud | 🧠 SpLD + ADHD | ⚡ Endometriosis | 🌀 Hypermobile | 🐈 Ginger cat sidekick |📍 Sheffield based | ❤️ Leeds made
rightsnet @rightsnet.org.uk Daily social welfare law and #accesstojustice updates, casework support, advice jobs, training & events.
Website: https://www.rightsnet.org.uk
More: http://linktr.ee/rightsnet
Emma Jackson @mrsemmajacko.bsky.social Social justice. Trail running. Bit of broadcasting. Always hopeful.
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.
Changing Realities @changingrealities.bsky.social Participatory project involving parents and carers living on a low income across the UK, Working with researchers, artists and Child Poverty Action Group to improve lives. Thanks to Impact on Urban Health & Robertson Trust. linktr.ee/changingrealities- A Anthony Rafferty @arafferty.bsky.social Professor and Director of the Work and Equalities Institute, Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester University.
Becca Stacey @beccastacey.bsky.social Financial security and terminal illness @mariecurieuk.bsky.social | Social security and devolution @safety-nets.bsky.social | Views my own
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
Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social I'm a PhD student that researches surveillance technologies used in mental health wards. I look at the organisation of time, and how it contributes to iatrogenic harm.
Anastasia Llewellyn @anastasiallewellyn.bsky.social PhD candidate in political science & public policy, University of Ottawa. Studying the intersection of language and housing activism in Wales. Sometimes lecture in translation, Concordia University. Usually somewhere between Odawa, Tiohtià:ke & Caerdydd. 🏴
Andrew Ward @andreww174.bsky.social Senior government economist specialising in labour market analysis. I rarely post so there's not much point following me.
Bristol Poverty Institute @bristolpoverty.bsky.social We regret to inform you that The Bristol Poverty Institute (BPI) at the University of Bristol has now closed. For the latest information please visit - bristol.ac.uk/poverty-institute
Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social Daniel Rolph grew up in the UK foster care system, experiencing firsthand the challenges that come with it. Now, he's channelling those experiences into his debut novel, Shattered Paths
Buy Now: https://geni.us/OEi75Gh
Tom Royston @tomroyston.bsky.social Social security law and its neighbours. Barrister at Garden Court North Chambers
https://gcnchambers.co.uk/barrister/tom-royston/
Alex Clegg @alexclegg.bsky.social Senior Economist at the Resolution Foundation, focusing on social security, poverty and living standards
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social Research Fellow at University of Glasgow - Urban Studies and Social Policy. Research on the role of citizen voices in policy-making processes, public engagement and lived experience as a form evidence. 
Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust) @z2ktrust.bsky.social Anti-poverty charity working to end UK poverty together with people who experience it. Join us: https://bit.ly/Z2K-mailing-list
https://linktr.ee/z2k.trust
Lalitha Try @lalithatry.bsky.social Economist at the Resolution Foundation working on improving living standards
LindsayGrahamUK @lindsaygrahamuk.bsky.social DUniv - OBE - CF - Highlander Former #Nurse / National Lottery Community Fund 🏴 Interests - #Food #Poverty #Environment and Nolan Principles. Forget my 👓 often expect typos.
Kate Andersen @katejandersen.bsky.social Social Policy Research Fellow at the University of York.
The Bridge Group @bridgegroup.bsky.social Independent research charity promoting socio-economic inclusion through evidence, insight and collaboration. Our vision is an education system and a labour market where background is no barrier. THEBRIDGEGROUP.ORG.UK
The Food Foundation @foodfoundation.bsky.social Working to change food policy and business practice to ensure everyone in the UK can afford and access healthy and sustainable food
🍏🗣️🫘📊📢🛒💚 - https://linktr.ee/FoodFoundation
Turn2us @turn2us.org.uk Turn2us is a national charity tackling financial insecurity together. Use our Benefits Calculator, Grants Search and PIP Helper. Monitored Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
https://brewl.ink/turn2us_org