The School for Government podcast | King's College London
Exploring how government works – and how it could work better
🎧 Listen in full via the links on our website, where you can also check out past episodes of the podcast ⬇️
24.11.2025 09:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔊 "this government... will need to think very carefully about how our human rights framework is currently operating"
🎧 In episode 9 of the School for Government podcast
Theresa Villiers discusses the changing role and perceptions of the European Convention on Human Rights in modern society
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24.11.2025 09:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
EVENT | Dame Tamara Finkelstein DCB: in conversation
Join us for a special event with Tamara Finkelstein, one of the UK’s most experienced former civil servants, as she reflects on intelligent and innovative policymaking in an age of uncertainty
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/dame-t...
11.11.2025 09:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🔊 "If public services start failing because of employee wellbeing that has huge consequences"
🎧 In episode 7 of the School for Government podcast
Julia Ellingwood discusses how the wellbeing of those delivering public services is important for all of society
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10.11.2025 09:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"any long term strategy will falter or fail if you don't hold the line"
Isabelle Trowler, Chief Social Worker for Children & Families, with us & @policyatkings.bsky.social this week discussing her early advocacy for using randomised trials to improve children's social care
📺➡️ youtu.be/z4DiNihhG5o
05.11.2025 09:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"in a field as complex as children's social care it might even be more important to figure out what doesn't work"
Yesterday, Vanessa Hirneis on her & @michael-sanders.bsky.social's new book - Using randomised trials to improve children's social care
📺➡️ youtu.be/z4DiNihhG5o
04.11.2025 11:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
📊 Tonight we’re discussing how we can use randomised trials to improve children’s social care, as we mark the new book edited by @michael-sanders.bsky.social, Vanessa Hirneis & David Westlake.
Watch our panel, ft. Chief Social Worker for Children Isabelle Trowler ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/6jQr4r1...
03.11.2025 18:44 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🗓️ Tonight ⬇️
03.11.2025 10:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"although the corrupt acts may happen or be perpetrated in the Global South, the money doesn't stay in the Global South"
Baroness Patricia Scotland with us, Lord Peter Hain, @policyatkings.bsky.social, and @policypress.bsky.social this week discussing corruption
📺 ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/k_4DigJ...
31.10.2025 13:42 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🗓️ Next week ⬇️
31.10.2025 13:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"unless you keep fighting for social justice, equal opportunities, and human rights... you're never going to win those battles"
Last night Lord Peter Hain joined us, @policyatkings.bsky.social, and @policypress.bsky.social to discuss his new book on corruption
📺➡️ www.youtube.com/live/k_4DigJ...
30.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A full house tonight with @policyatkings.bsky.social, Lord Peter Hain, and Baroness Patricia Scotland to discuss Lord Hain's new book which explores why movements born from ideals of justice often succumb to bad governance and corruption once in power
📺 Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_4D...
29.10.2025 18:58 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🗓️ TOMORROW ⬇️
Join veteran activist and politician Peter Hain to explore a question that has haunted him for decades: why are liberation and independence movements so often betrayed when their leaders get into government?
28.10.2025 09:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The School for Government podcast | King's College London
Exploring how government works – and how it could work better
🎧 Listen in full via the links on our website, where you can also check out past episodes of the podcast ⬇️
27.10.2025 09:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔊 "you're seeing now... disinformation coming about where politician's voices are faked and supposedly leaked"
🎧 In episode 7 of the School for Government podcast
Dr Jon Roozenbeek discusses the rise and consequences of technology amplifying and creating new types of misinformation
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27.10.2025 09:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
5/5 | Towards equality and equity
Join Dr Kate Hoskins, @glorianovovic.bsky.social, and fellow researchers if your work challenges inequality and discrimination, and advances fairer and more inclusive societies
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/solid...
23.10.2025 10:15 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
4/5 | Improving outcomes for children and young people
Join @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, Julia Ellingwood, @michael-sanders.bsky.social and fellow researchers if your work is interested in improving the life chances of children & young people, locally and globally
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/solid...
23.10.2025 10:15 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
3/5 | Staying focused on international development
Join Dr Olga Siemers, Dr Roxana Bratu, and fellow researchers if your work asks what can be done to foster equitable and transformative change worldwide
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/solid...
23.10.2025 10:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
2/5 | Keeping democracy strong
Join Prof Peter John, @gsamaras.bsky.social, @joeysherlock.bsky.social and fellow researchers if your work touches on democracy, political behaviour, civic engagement, and related fields
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/solid...
23.10.2025 10:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
1/5 | Fighting the climate crisis
Join @bengroom.bsky.social, @sanchayanbanerj.bsky.social, Caitlin Sarro and fellow researchers if your work addresses the causes, consequences, and solutions to climate change, and its impacts on communities and societies.
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/solid...
23.10.2025 10:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🌎 Introducing the Solidarity Symposia
In response to threatened and shrinking spaces for social science research focussed on social justice, we’re hosting five one-day events spotlighting PhD & early career researchers – each with a £500 prize for the best talk
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/serie...
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23.10.2025 10:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
EVENT: Using randomised trial to improve children's social care
Join us, @policyatkings.bsky.social & expert panellists to discuss insights from @michael-sanders.bsky.social
& Vanessa Hirneis' new book on developing interventions for vulnerable children and families
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/using...
23.10.2025 09:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
EVENT | Liberation and Corruption: Why Freedom Movements Fail – with Peter Hain
Join us, @policyatkings.bsky.social, @policypress.bsky.social, Peter Hain and others to examine why liberation movements often succumb to bad governance and corruption once in power
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/liber...
21.10.2025 08:49 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
"Research shows that many successful interventions, even when low-cost, fail to scale"
In our latest blog, @michael-sanders.bsky.social and Vanessa Hirneis reflect on their experience of scaling up a range of successful interventions over the past 18 months.
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/turning...
14.10.2025 08:56 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
EVENT: Using randomised trial to improve children's social care
Join us, @policyatkings.bsky.social & expert panellists to discuss insights from @michael-sanders.bsky.social & Vanessa Hirneis' new book on developing interventions for vulnerable children and families
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/using...
13.10.2025 09:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔊 "we are actually headed to to four degrees warming... it's that wake up call that actually positions this debate around redesigning global governance"
🎧 In episode 6 of the School for Government podcast @glorianovovic.bsky.social discusses planetary governance to address the climate emergency
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13.10.2025 08:40 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
EVENT | Liberation and Corruption: Why Freedom Movements Fail – with Peter Hain
Join us, @policyatkings.bsky.social, @policypress.bsky.social, Peter Hain and others to examine why liberation movements often succumb to bad governance and corruption once in power
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/liber...
10.10.2025 10:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The School for Government podcast | King's College London
Exploring how government works – and how it could work better
🎧 Listen in full via the links on our website, where you can also check out past episodes of the podcast ⬇️
29.09.2025 09:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scottish elections and polling data. Not my polls. OG 'Britain Elects but Scottish'. PR fan account. Trans rights are human rights.
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Senior Lecturer in Quant British Politics at Uni of Exeter.
Sky News Elections Analyst.
Loves all (most) things stats, voting behaviour, British elections & inclusive feminism.
Co-founder of the public opinion consultancy Deltapoll.
Political data journalist at The Economist
Research and policy. Former senior UK government comms official and adviser. Happiest in a focus group. Once a journalist. Further back, a historian of the media, war and public opinion. Halberdier. Bristol City FC.
Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
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Political & Social Associate Director, co-head of Diversity & Inclusion at Opinium
Views are my own.
Strategic research & insight agency built on insights with impact.
Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com)
Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024).
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Political Research Director at Savanta.
Interested in film, breathing oxygen, and converting protein intake into muscle energy.
WeThink (by @omnisis.bsky.social) run adhoc polling when clients demand.
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Nuffield College, Oxford
Co-Director, British Election Study
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