Holli Sargeant @hollisargeant.bsky.social Research Fellow in Law & AI, St John's College, University of Cambridge
Focusing on legal frameworks for algorithmic decision-making & role of AI in justice systems.
hollisargeant.github.io
Matthew Fright @matthewfright.bsky.social Associate director - devolution @instituteforgovernment.org.uk formerly @nao.org.uk analyst. PhD on history of national income accounts. Views are my own.
That's Devolved @thatsdevolved.bsky.social Pointing out the mistakes the media make about devolution across Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. your favourite policy wonks favourite policy wonk. not legal advice. For new articles tag us/ email: thatsdevolved@gmail.com
Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social Sylfaenydd | Founder:
Cymraeg @YesCymru #542
Disability Wales @disabilitywales.bsky.social The national membership body of Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) in Wales, striving for the rights of all disabled people.
Y corff aelodaeth cenedlaethol ar gyfer Sefydliadau Pobl Anabl yng Nghymru, sy’n ymdrechu dros hawliau pob person anabl.
Susie Ventris-Field @susietsegay.bsky.social CEO of Oasis, giving a warm Welsh welcome to people seeking sanctuary. #RunningPunk #RefugeesWelcome
Tomos Owen @tomosrhysowen.bsky.social Deputy CEO at @OasisCDF | Board Member at the @BevanFoundation | Refugee Rights, Social Justice and Reducing Inequality. All views my own.
Amy Poehler @amypoehler.bsky.social Some rando
https://amysmartgirls.com
Citizens Advice Caerphilly Blaenau Gwent @citadvicecbg.bsky.social 
Heather Buckingham @heather-buckingham.bsky.social Interested in everyone having enough and working out what it takes to bring that about – relationally, politically, and through business. Social Change Advisor at Trussell. Visiting lecturer at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness, Bayes Business School.
Welsh Country @welshcountry.bsky.social Your online countryside magazine for Wales www.welshcountry.co.uk
Levana Magnus @levanamagnus.bsky.social Research associate at University of Bristol. Researching un/under/employment, social in/security, and the value of care
Dr Uisce Jordan @uiscejordan.bsky.social Research Associate working on @safety-nets.bsky.social & @changingrealities.bsky.social at University of Glasgow 🌞 (she/her)
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
Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social Social work academic at University of Manchester, Morgan Centre https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/ and Creativity, Health & Wellbeing Lead for Creative Manchester https://www.creative.manchester.ac.uk 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Gabriele Mari @gmari.bsky.social Sociologist @Erasmus University Rotterdam
Social security, families, income/wealth
https://sites.google.com/view/marigabriele/home
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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Masashi Yamabe 山邊 聖士 @mymb.bsky.social Social policy, policy implementation, frontline work and organizations. Lecturer at University of Nagasaki, Japan. https://researchmap.jp/masashy
Paul F Scott @paulfscott.bsky.social Constitutional law and national security law etc at the University of Glasgow
Lee Waters @waterslee.bsky.social 
Sana rahim @sanarahim86.bsky.social Academic
David Young @davidhjyoung.bsky.social British Academy Postdoc Fellow - social policy, social security/insecurity, income volatility, Universal Credit, care. Previous researcher: distantwelfare.co.uk, Sanctions, Support and Service Leavers, changingrealities.org, safetynets.study
Fiona McHardy @fionamchardy.bsky.social Research Fellow - Scottish Health Equity Research Unit .
Board of Parenting Across Scotland.
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Professor Lisa Scullion @lisa-scullion.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy
Academic Lead (Interim) Social Innovation Institute
University of Salford, UK
FAcSS
Ani DiFranco @anidifrancomusic.bsky.social Unprecedented Sh!t out now!
Righteous Babe Records
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Elizabeth Cookingham Bailey @drlizbailey.bsky.social Lecturer in public policy and management at the University of York. Specialist in education, public services, social policy history, and the voluntary sector. Currently mapping the VCSE workforce in North Yorkshire and the Humber. All views my own
EASP SPA 2025 Conference Official Account @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social Social Policy Association and East Asian Social Policy Research Network – Joint Annual Conference 2025: Go your own way? Social Policy in an era of fracturing solidarities
@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 
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
Annie Irvine @annieirvine.bsky.social Qualitative social researcher since 2002 | Mental health, employment, welfare reform | Learning the ropes as a lecturer since 2024…
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
Enrico Reuter @enricoreuter.bsky.social Co-Head of Social Policy, School for Business and Society, Uni York @uoysbs.bsky.social | Work on self-employment, labour market policy | Editor of Social Policy & Society | Opinions my own
@deenawhite.bsky.social @deenawhite.bsky.social 
Cara Leavey @caraleavey.bsky.social Public health PhD at Newcastle Uni // Interested in young people, work and health inequalities
Tom Montgomery @tom-montgomery.bsky.social Lecturer in Work and Organisations at University of Stirling. Research on labour markets, policy, politics, and what to have for lunch...
@gmlivingwage.bsky.social @gmlivingwage.bsky.social 
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Jenny Kitzinger @jennykitzinger.bsky.social Law, medicine, ethics, journalism.
Improving care & decision-making Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness - Co-director cdoc.org.uk Research centre, Cardiff University 
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.
Sirin Sung @sirinsung.bsky.social Queen's University Belfast, Senior Lecturer, gender and family policy, critical social policy, international and comparative social policy
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. 🏴
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.
PSA Local Politics & Governance Specialist Group @psalocalpol.bsky.social We are the Local Politics & Governance Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social)
Web: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/local-politics-and-governance
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
Ali Haydor @alihaydor.bsky.social Campaigner🍃Trade Unionist 🍃Political🍃 Socialist 🍃 🇧🇩 Proud 🇬🇧 🍃
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Founder of - MORE BLACKS, MORE MUSLIMS, MORE IRISH - @morebmi.bsky.social
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No To Racism @notoracism.bsky.social Say - No To Racism 📣
❤️ Opposing hate, inequality, and discrimination
❤️ Justice, dignity, and equality for all
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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social Welsh; trade union gobshite; #Spycops; interested in journalism; #bi 🩷💜💙+ #pan 🩷💛💙; #BWithTheT; Cardiff UCU media team; resistance is fertile 🌱✊
Local Government Studies @lgstudies.bsky.social First established in 1975, Local Government Studies is the leading journal for the study of local politics, policy, public administration and management and governance https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/flgs20
Bridges 5.0 EU Project @bridges5-0.bsky.social Exploring workforce skills for Industry 5.0. We are a #HorizonEU initiative funded by EU HaDEA
https://bridges5-0.eu/
Jim McKirdle @jmckirdle.bsky.social Housing Policy Officer at WLGA, but this is my personal account
Dion Curry @dsdcurry.bsky.social Ornery Associate Professor of Politics and Public Policy
Adam Hedgecoe @adamhedgecoe.bsky.social Director, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD). Ethnographer, historian(ish). STS, Genomics, research regulation (RECs/IRBs) 
WISERD @wiserd-research.bsky.social Sefydliad Ymchwil Cymdeithasol ac Economaidd a Data Cymru I Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data I wiserd.ac.uk
Aled Blake @aledblake.bsky.social ⚽️ Cardiff City. ⚽️ Wales. 🔴 Lefty.
Recovering journalist, ex-policy officer, now PhD student.
The University of Edinburgh @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Influencing the world since 1583. Follow our other social channels: https://edin.ac/3CJvzdv
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The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social We are an independent charitable organisation working to build a healthier UK.
www.health.org.uk
The Young Foundation @theyoungfdn.bsky.social The UK's home for community research and social innovation. Also powering the Institute for Community Studies.
www.youngfoundation.org
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People, Place and Policy (PPP) Journal @ppp-journal.bsky.social An independent open access journal for academic debate on the challenges faced by contemporary society. We launched in 2007 and are based at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University - https://ppp-online.org- E Ed Ferrari @edferrari.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University. (All views my own.)
Hannah Murphy @hannahmurphyb.bsky.social Head of Evaluation at Youth Futures Foundation. Employment & skills, young people, low pay & progression. IOW'er, stuck on the mainland. She/her.
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/
Anne Green @anne-e-green.bsky.social Professor of Regional Economic Development, City-REDI, University of Birmingham. Interested in the geography of labour markets, employment, non-employment, migration, commuting, skills, local economic development, public policy, etc.
Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) @cresr-shu.bsky.social The latest news, research, engagement and updates from CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regional-economic-social-research
Thomas Rochow @thomasrochow.bsky.social Research Associate @uofgpolicy.bsky.social PhD @uofglasgow.bsky.social Interested in youth transitions | social policy | qualitative methods | and FPL
Dr Emily Cooper @criminographer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancashire. Geographer. Mum of four (two live in my heart). Tweets child loss, SUDC, PPA2 deficiency, sex work, sextortion/FMSE, fraud, policing, VAWG. #WIASN
Policy Sciences Journal @policysciences.bsky.social With an interdisciplinary and international focus, Policy Sciences encourages a diversity of perspectives. The editors especially welcome conceptual and empirical innovation, together with the potential richness and insight of comparative orientation.
Dr Katy Jones @katyjones.bsky.social Reader (Associate Prof) in Employment, Head of the Decent Work and Productivity Research Centre at Manchester Met University
Kate Summers @katesummers.bsky.social Researcher working on social security policy and economic inequality. British Academy postdoc @ London School of Economics Methodology.
Tom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social Head of Policy, Campaigns & Public Affairs at Mind | NHS Mental Health Social Worker | Previously at NEF & DWP | Views expressed here my own
Ceri Hughes @ceridwenhughes.bsky.social British Academy Fellow researching insecure work, activation & work-related conditionality
Based at Work and Equalities Institute, University of Manchester. Visiting Fellow, CASE, LSE
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.
Tony Wilson @wilsontony.bsky.social Employment, labour markets and social inclusion. Personal views etc.
Institute for Employment Studies @employmentstudies.bsky.social IES is a centre for research and evidence-based consultancy in labour market analysis, employment, education and HR policy and practice.
Sarah Batty @sarah-batty.bsky.social Welfare Rights & Benefits Expert adviser/trainer. Team Leader in local govt. Also BenefitsTraining Co. Interested in social security policy, anti-poverty.
Teessider, socialist, clarinet player.
Tim Sharp @timsharp.bsky.social Employment rights policy at the TUC.
Runs.
South East London via North East Scotland.
Rose Watson @esor.bsky.social Current PhD student at Uni of Strathclyde Business School. Research interests include: poverty, employability, inequalities. All posts my own. Love cats, Discworld and Green Day.
Penny Rimmer @pennyrimmer.bsky.social Interested in localgov, anti-poverty policy and implementation, work and employment policy. Senior policy officer @resolvepoverty. Views my own.
Asli Atay @asliatay.bsky.social Senior Policy Adviser at the Work Foundation. Interested in labour market and health. Previously at the Learning& Work Institute and Demos. Istanbulite living in London. Currently on maternity leave but still checks here!
https://asliatay.substack.com/
George Williams @gdwilliams9.bsky.social Research and Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation. Former parliamentary staffer. Views my own.
Tony Dundon @tonydundon.bsky.social Professor, Work&Employment @ul. Fellow @AcadSocSciences @WorkEqualities Dad, Everton Fan, Humanist. Own views (obviously). Re-tweets not an endorsement.
Resolve Poverty @resolvepoverty.bsky.social 📍 Resolve Poverty is an independent, not-for-profit organisation working with local authorities and partners across the country to see an end to poverty.
🌐 resolvepoverty.org
Antonios Roumpakis @aroumpakis.bsky.social Associate Professor, School of Arts & Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University. Co-editor of Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy. Views my own.
Nicola Smith @nicolasmith.bsky.social Policy at the TUC. 
@jcolechin.bsky.social @jcolechin.bsky.social Deputy Director of Evidence and Evaluation at Youth Futures Foundation https://youthfuturesfoundation.org/
Paul Spicker @paulspicker.bsky.social Paul is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. He mainly writes on poverty, benefits, social justice and social policy. Find his published work at https://observant-paulspicker.wordpress.com/paul-spicker/ 
Rod Hick @rodhick.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy at Cardiff University. Poverty | social security | work | housing www.rodhick.com
Lee Gregory (he/him) 🏳️🌈 @academiclee.bsky.social Associate Prof, UoN. Chair @Academics_Stand Founding member of @QPaPNetwork parkrun Event Ambassador and ED. New allotment holder.
Kirsty Newsome @kirstynewsome.bsky.social Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Decent Work, University of Sheffield
TonyDobbins @tdobbo.bsky.social Interested in work and employment relations, and other things in life outside the world of work: hiking, footy (YNWA), cycling, nature, music. Plebeian origins. Greatest achievements: seeing a stoat in winter ermine, a badger 🦡and rescuing a hedgehog 🦔
Lalitha Try @lalithatry.bsky.social Economist at the Resolution Foundation working on improving living standards
Rachelle Earwaker @rachelleearwaker.bsky.social Economist and Kiwi in London.
Likely yapping about housing and the absolute state of things. 
Alex Clegg @alexclegg.bsky.social Senior Economist at the Resolution Foundation, focusing on social security, poverty and living standards
The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social Working to solve society’s challenges with evidence and expertise. Based at King's College London 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute
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UCL Policy Lab @uclpolicylab.bsky.social Bringing extraordinary ideas and everyday experience together to tackle the challenges facing us all.
Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player.