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Promoting business-university collaboration for a prosperous and inclusive economy.
Economic Geographer. Co-author, The Rise of the Platform Music Industries (Agenda, 2025) with @allanwatson1.bsky.social & FinTech Capital (Zone, 2026) with @paullangley.bsky.social. Attended obscure Welsh Comprehensive of which even Elis James was unaware.
Associate Professor in Psychology at UWE Bristol. Clinical Psychologist.
Research on social, global, & environmental justice & social change.
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Award-winning education journalist. Senior editor, Research Professional News. Formerly Times Higher Education.
Non-award-winning musician.
Grandfather Anti racist/fascist Marxist Psychotherapist, Cosmology and Astronomy ,Writer Philosopher Pagan European Cllr Eco Socialist United Ireland indy Wales and Scotland free Palestine [he,him, his] Republican political/cultural astrologer
Director of Policy at the Higher Education Policy Institute. Foodie, adventurer, mother of two. Proudly Yorkshire. Views my own.
Brighton-dwelling World Trade Editor at the Financial Times
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Sometime Brexit nerd & author of 'What Went Wrong with Brexit' https://t.co/VsIipD7JBr
Politics, People, Palace … and the Rule of Law. Former Head of the CPS International Division
Higher Education professional, Chief Academic Services Officer at University of York. Usually found talking about #HE #NFFC #Manchester #politics #music #food
General ranter.
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Head of Student Journey at DMU | Trustee & Fellow of AHEP | DBA candidate at Uni of Bath | Editorial board member of @perspectiveshe.bsky.social | Northerner
Research: HE management, social justice, postcolonialism
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Prof. of Mathematical Physiology, University of Nottingham. Like: rambling, scrambling, climbing, surfing, Irish trad music, VW vans.
Professor of Computer Science, Oxford University. Research interest in Algorithmic Game Theory, also Computational Complexity.
Also interested in good urbanism & cartoons
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/paul.goldberg/index1.html
By day Director of Research and Innovation at Dundee University. By night, usually asleep. Data geek and research management guru. Plus knitting, singing and cat servant. Comments are in a personal capacity.
International Best-Selling and Evergreen Author, Smooth Sale Blogger (Earn a returning and referring clientele).
Managed by the Former Prime Ministerial Office in Brisbane. For statements in Kevin’s capacity as Ambassador to the United States, visit usa.embassy.gov.au
Let me talk to you about dead people and their trauma
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Chair Pearson Education; Chair Dyson Inst; Council Uni of Leicester; NED London Interdisciplinary School, Student Room, Education Cubed. Trustee River Learning Trust, HEPI. Advisory in edtech. Ex CEO UCAS
Bringing extraordinary ideas and everyday experience together to tackle the challenges facing us all.
Creating Safe SelfDriving Tech & Safe AI
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, WMG, Uni of Warwick, UK
Director, PAVE UK
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Chair of European Movement UK. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Founder of the Bylines Network.
Founder of Scientists for EU.
Lover of science, Europe and humanity. 🙌
Founder and Editor in Chief of @wonkhe.bsky.social – home of the higher education debate. Co-host of The Wonkhe Show.🎙️Always at the intersection of politics and policy in UK higher education. MBE. Tottenham Hotspur #COYS ⚽️
Founder of The Entrepreneurs Network
Associate Director of Strategy & External Relations, The Physiological Society (@physoc.bsky.social).
Trustee of Faculty of Sport & Exercise Medicine. Council Member of Parliamentary & Scientific Committee. Own views.
Emeritus Professor of Microbial Biochemistry
Queen's University of Belfast
Retired and promoting student equality through Total Equality For Students
Ethics in publishing, my other research interests, as well as personal posts
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CEO @suttontrust.bsky.social campaigning for social mobility. Ex- business leader and consulting global practice lead. Proud father of three.
Professor of Medieval French and Head of School of Languages, Cultures & Societies at Uni of Leeds; Chair of UCFL; Co-Chair of AHA; playing card collector; MSS & cat-lover.
Wonkhe (SUs). HE policy. Pop. Pro EU(rovision). Windmills not walls. Giggling incredulity. “Wasteful and inefficient for our economy”. Dreams of visiting Moldova.
#Quantitative Science Studies / Social #Stratification in Science / Global #Academic #Profession / Full Professor / University of Poznan/ #UNESCO Chairholder / proud #Academia #Europaea member (MAE) / fundamentally open-minded, happy, sometimes lucky
Political Editor, Times Radio
Lecturer in Law, King’s College London | Author | Research Migration, Corruption, Rule of Law, the Balkans | Views are my own |
Global HE news, data, insights and events
Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Global advocacy lead for child protection & development @Unicef in New York. Author, campaigner, Dad & work in progress. First book Trauma Proof out soon. Literary representation by https://www.foliolit.com/ NYC
Opinion Research, Insight and Strategy | Co-founder
@JLPartnersPolls | #rstats | #tidymodels| #dataviz | via @UniofOxford
jlpartners.co.uk
Political commentator
https://humancarbohydrate.substack.com
Historian ★ Author ★ Novelist ★ Barrister ★ Typography ★ Hack photography ★ Löud guitar ★ Honorary Research Fellow
University of Exeter
Independent economist. Likes charts. IEA Economics Fellow. Schools speaker. Diploma in Law. FRSA. COYG. Views here mine only. More on website at www.julianhjessop.com. Also on substack at https://substack.com/@julianhjessop
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London history in art and photography.
Library worker, board gamer, LARP writer, theatregoer, and collector of books, games, and LEGO. Erstwhile archaeologist, journalist, software developer, software sizer, project manager, games distributor, retailer, and business advisor.
Data Scientist, Award Winning Teacher, Maker, PhD Researcher 📚 #Tes #Edtech50 #Bima100 #Judge #Crafting edu/tech narrative.
Championing social mobility through evidence-based programmes, agenda-setting research and policy advocacy: https://linktr.ee/thesuttontrust
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Politics Professor, University of Manchester.
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes, good & bad, are mine only.
My Substack, "The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Labour and Co-operative MP for Rochdale
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The representative body for senior university managers in the UK and Ireland.
CEO Arts Council England. New book ‘The Arts Dividend: How Investment in Culture Creates Happier Lives’ out 30th January.
Conspiracy theorists intent on indoctrinating the next generation with our crazed worldview whilst posing as an organisation looking out for their best interests.
Foster carer, adoptive father, and advocate for refugees and vulnerable children. Author, speaker, and broadcaster.
Dr Krish Kandiah OBE
All views are my own.
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Wonk, pollster, climber. Can't actually post much right now...
Unionist. Tech/Sci-Fi geek. C64, Amiga, Raspberry Pi,Linux. Video Analytics & CCTV. Ulster-Scots. Lived in West Germany, Essex, Scotland & Ulster.
Research Director at http://ppmi.lt and https://veriangroup.com | science, technology, innovation and education policy
Prof of Totalitarian Studies @ Pilecki Institute, Warsaw/Fellow @ Centre for International and Defence Policy, Ontario | FrHistS | Author of "Z Generation: Russia's Fascist Youth” - get it @ http://linktr.ee/igarner | 🇨🇦
22 | Northern Irish. Award-winning mental health campaigner, TEDx & One Young World speaker, suicide survivor, autistic activist. Prev Pure Mental NI Co-CEO. QUB Literific President 2022-23. Diana Award Recipient. WIP alum.
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The University Council For Languages: the national voice of research & teaching in languages, cultures, societies, and related disciplines in UK HE.
We are PLMR, communications + impact.
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Chair, Theirworld and Executive Chair, Global Business Coalition for Education. Occasional podcaster, 'Better Angels with Sarah Brown'. Working to end the global education crisis and to #ActforEarlyYears.
Communications & press for @businessatoecd.org, OECD | 📧: jablonowski@biac.org | Previously Bright Blue | Views my own
Freedom of Movement & Brexit’s human consequences.
Presenting practical humanist solutions.
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politics, science, tech, sport......
Sometimes we release records.
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I'm a theoretical physicist at Durham University
Researcher, macroeconomist, Bundesbank.
All views are my own personal opinions and do not reflect the opinion of the Bundesbank, the Eurosystem, or its staff.
www.tholden.org
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Hi guys my name is Matthew English I'm From Penhurst in Kent uk I'm conservative candidate councillors and candidate member of parliament for Tonbridge and Malling Community area of Tonbridge and Malling and I'm internal affairs investigation secretary2029
Founder of wafi media marketing solutions(wmmsols.com).
science & tech policy, government innovation
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📍 Based in Berlin and Boston.
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Green Hope University is a privately owned university with linkages within and outside the country and it is accredited and recognized by the ministry of Education; culture and higher education,
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Aim for the stars.
The view from the moon is still amazing.
Global Education Leader
UK News Editor, @resprofnews.bsky.social.
Mostly #researchpolicy, #researchfunding, #highered.
British Journalism Awards finalist.
Once likened to Tintin.
Also into rivers.
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Sociologist | Higher education | Research/teaching nexus | HE transitions and widening access | International comparative education | Associate Professor at UONottingham | Sheffield-based | Views my own https://www.rhordosy.com/
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Director of Policy
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Strategic Research Development Manager (Research Growth) @ University of Nottingham. Occasional Research Professional columnist. Bureaucratic realist. Soft Order Muppet. Runner. Blog at socialscienceresearchfunding.co.uk
