Bridget Gildea

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! Note: our research associates have a few years of experience - we're most excited about truly excellent scholars who are also known for being kind.

This was a really fantastic workshop and hopefully a good summation of the past 2.5 years of work in creating Phase 1 of applied learning at UCL IIPP. Looking forward to what’s next!

Harvard Creates New Public Service Program, as Trump Slashes Federal Jobs

Did you hear?? Paging all my public servant friends!

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

What an amazing public good!

An ontological framework for organising and describing behaviours: The Human Behaviour Ontology, wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-2... - an important new paper for all behavioural scientists, allowing a coherent, extensive, computer-readable representation of behaviour in all its complexities.

Congratulations! 🎉🙌🏼👏🏼

📣 Congratulations to IIPP Director @marianamazzucato.bsky.social, recognised in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours!
Mazzucato has been awarded a CBE for her groundbreaking work on the theory and practice of economics globally. 🌍👏
🔗 Read more: buff.ly/eQ9uPFR

One week to go to apply to work with me @intellforum.bsky.social @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social - we're looking for a Communications and Events Assistant.

www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

Could this be you? Someone you know?

UK climate opinion maps Explore UK climate opinions by country, region and local authority

My favourite @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social tool for understanding public opinion on climate is now available for the UK! 🇬🇧

Find out how many people in your area are worried about climate change, have experienced its impacts, support action from the government and more. The answers may surprise you!

➡️ Beyond the Chainsaw: Rethinking Efficiency

IIPP Forum 2025 - #RethinkingTheState
Do automation and cost-cutting serve the public good or undermine it? Join us to rethink what efficient governance should look like.

🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/rlWBsXk

Our discussion paper for #G20 calls for systemic reforms to align finance with public purpose, empower industrial transformation & build resilient economies. Under South Africa’s leadership, the G20 can reimagine global economic governance for a fairer future.

Read here ➡️ g20.org/wp-content/u...

This week @iipp-ucl.bsky.social are hosting workshops w senior civil servants across Barbados to dig into country's 6 ambitious missions. What are outcome targets to measure each mission? How do we design a dashboard to monitor progress? More on Barbados missions ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

I didn’t know my indoor cactus did this! Happy Saturday, all ✨

✍️Governments and businesses serve vastly different purposes.

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social expand on these key differences, arguing for public sector reform to focus on long-term capability building.

🔗Read more here: buff.ly/o02kLJZ

Hello—I’m trying to help heal a river: the wild, spectacular Mutehekau Shipu in Nitassinan/Quebec.
We're raising funds to clean up a junk-heap we found c.100 miles up the system. Stove, fridge, oil drums...gah.
Images of river + junk below.
Details & fundraiser here: www.gofundme.com/f/mutehekau-...

The rise of teenage girls feeling unsafe at school - FFT Education Datalab We look at data from the TIMSS study that shows a sharp rise in the proportion of young people who don’t feel safe at school.

Brutal and scary picture of how teenage girls are feeling
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2025/04/the-...

Our letter in @financialtimes.com calls on the government to resist spending cuts in the #SpringBudget. After years of stagnation, we cannot cut our way to growth. Public investment is essential for delivering sustainable growth and strengthening our economy.

Read the letter ➡️ bit.ly/4bV89zl

A mission for a better country and economy Universal school meals are not just good social policy. They can help shape dynamic markets that are green and inclusive

Universal school meals can deliver not just healthier children, but also economic growth. For @NewStatesman, we explore how school meal procurement can be used to shape markets and drive cross-sectoral innovation, creating jobs while making food systems sustainable.

Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3DpXCiN

Well done Lo! 🙌🏼

📣New Theory, New Practice, New Voices.

IIPP's Strategic Economics Alliance ( @iipp-sea.bsky.social ) bridges the gap between new economic thinking and practice, amplifying historically marginalized voices. @mazzucatom.bsky.social
@cacrisalves.bsky.social

✍️Learn more here: buff.ly/q6CO6ni

+1 on this. Overall, UK political commentators skew glib, ill-informed and opinionated about the US in general but it’s especially problematic now for obvious reasons and will continue to get more so for the foreseeable future. Especially as this stuff is what Westminster listens to for analysis

Definitely read this if you haven’t already - bizarrely for a time travel novel, lots of gems for those of us who work on state capacity plus so many more delightful nuggets of ideas in a big zany suitcase stuffed with fun and touching things. 100% will make you cry, in a good way

Loved this book! Unfortunately it’s not well-served by the (bite-sized episode) radio adaptation. Rare miss from the beeb; full book was wonderful though

Yes! And if you live in a Victorian terrace, we’ve published this guide to help you with retrofitting it effectively, to save carbon, make it more comfortable & cheaper to heat! www.5thstudio.co.uk/projects/ret...

The Broken Economic Order How to rewire the international system in the age of Trump.

As the US withdraws from climate commitments, other countries like Brazil are pioneering new approaches to green industrial strategy—focusing on missions like food security rather than just picking sectors. My latest in Foreign Affairs on what's at stake.

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Analyzing DOGE actions one month into Trump’s second administration Faculty analysts at Harvard Kennedy School reflect on President Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency one month into the new administration.

@harvardkennedy.bsky.social asked a few of us to comment on the first weeks of DOGE. Read the perspectives of a wide range of faculty: www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

Amazing week in Brasilia; remain so impressed by the public policy work in Brasil, 11 years after I started working with the govt there. Can’t wait to see and hear what’s next! Até a próxima

Na próxima semana estarei em Brasília de 17 a 19 de fevereiro para uma série de eventos, com base em nosso último relatório @ucl-iipp.bsky.social Transformação do Estado no Brasil para @gestaogovbr.bsky.social

Mais sobre nosso relatório aqui ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

IIPP Response to the Department of Business and Trade Green Paper: Invest 2035 Professor Mazzucato and the UCL Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose submitted a response to the Department of Business and Trade Green Paper's open consultation process.

Today at 14:15 I’ll be at @houseofcommons.parliament.uk discussing industrial strategy. Our research at IIPP shows that growth is an outcome of missions that mobilize the whole economy across sectors. Read our submission to the public consultation for the green paper here ➡️ buff.ly/4jUAw4f (1/2)

🇧🇷 How can Brazil achieve its agenda of economic transformation?

Our new report, edited by @mazzucatom.bsky.social , and based on our partnership with @gestaogovbr.bsky.social focuses on the role of procurement, state-owned enterprises & #DPI.

🔗Read the report here: https://buff.ly/4hJV0uG