Newspeak House Fellowship
Newspeak House is an independent residential college founded in 2015 to study, nurture and inspire emerging communities of practice across UK public sector and civil society. This is broad ranging, covering people pioneering novel approaches across charities, government, local & national politics, journalism, education, activism, policy research, unions, community groups, etc, with the aim of cross fertilising innovations between these groups and creating unlikely collaborations.
A Newspeak House fellowship is a 6 month period of residency in Newspeak House exploring this mission. There's no project requirement; instead it involves an intense programme of networking and engaging with various communities both online and offline. It's designed for socially-minded mid-career technologists considering their next move, and wanting to develop an overview of the sector so they can take more of a strategic/systemic approach.
If you’d like to find out more, please contact Edward Saperia the dean of Newspeak House.
Resident Fellows
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Mike ButcherEditor-at-large, TechCrunch. Co-founder: @TechForUK, @ThePathfounder, @TheEuropas, @tech_vets, @Techfugees, @TechHub, @Coadec
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Agata SumowskaSoftware developer, intersectional feminist, community builder, finding systemic solutions to bringing more representation in technology and exploring matriarchy @Agata_Anastazja
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Fiona AppsCommunity Manager, Wikipedian, artist - Working at WT.Social, looking for ways to decrease toxicity online
For WT.Social email me here, or for other projects, use this address.
Burn Your Feelings * Yes That Fiona * (For Halloween) Free Your Bones
Alumni
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Will MuirheadNeurosurgical Registrar
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Imeh AkpanUser researcher, GDS
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Irina BolychevskyDigital strategy consultant, Citizen Beta organiser, Redecentralize.org founder
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Joseph McArthurAssistant Director, The Right to Research Coalition
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Jonathan PennHistorian of AI; Co-founder, The Buried Life
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Stephen FortuneIntern @ODILabs
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Rufus PollockFounder, Open Knowledge
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Brandon JacksonCreative Technologist, Kano Computing
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James KnightMosaic Ventures
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Scott CraigFord-Mozilla Fellow, Center for Democracy & Technology
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Neil AndersonTech Entrepreneur & Investor
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Lewis WestburyPolice Rewired, software development, mobile app development, C#, Java, Python
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Shad JahangirService Designer
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Aleksi KnuutilaResearcher, Open Knowledge
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Josh RussellCo-Founder, Citizen Beta
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Ben PollardCo-founder, Local Welcome
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Carl MillerResearch Director, Centre for Analysis of Social Media
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Andreas KirschResearch Engineer / Machine Learning
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Sophie ChesneyPhD, NLP and news
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Manisha GangulyInvestigative journalist [BBC] & political economist [CAMRI]
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Alex ParsonsResearcher, mySociety
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Areeq ChowdhuryFounder of WebRoots Democracy (focused on digital democracy) and Head of Think Tank at Future Advocacy (focused on the impact of AI and emerging tech).
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Josie FraserSocial & Educational Technologist
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Ekaterina Stambolievadata for good person
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Tamara BorineData Scientist, CMA
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Ekin Can GencConsultant / Public Policy and Applied Ethics
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Borja Blanco MéndezAssociate @ SystemiQ
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Rich MasonRSA Future Work Centre
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Dan KwiatkowskiCharity Funding / Web Apps / Data Science
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Anouk RuhaakAnouk has a background in political economics and software development. Over the past decade, she developed her research skills as an economic analyst and investigative journalist, worked as a software developer and founded several communities in the technological space. Currently, she consults on data ethics and governance, specifically focusing on data trusts.
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James MouldingExtinction Rebellion
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Nathan YoungReach out to me about CoronavirusTechHandbook.com, institutional decision making, community development, systems theory, practitioner communities, Effective Altruism, neoliberalism. @NathanPMYoung, [email protected], Newsletter
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Lisa MurphyDigital Health
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Phoebe TickellSystems designer, participatory and horizontal forms of governance, community catalyst and facilitator. Working on new forms of governance for a better world. Currently: DGOV Foundation, Enspiral, Edmund Hillary Fellow, RSA Fellow, Associate Lecturer Schumacher College. @solarpunk_girl hello@phoebetickell.com
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Jo KerrDigital and organisational change consultant to the charity sector. Intersticia Fellow, trustee of Turn2us and chair of Trajectory Theatre. Former agency MD, board of Sadler’s Wells. #1 woman in digital under 30, The Drum 2014. Immersive digital art enthusiast. Yoga teacher. @jokerrconsults, linkedin/jokerrconsults, jokerrconsults@gmail.com
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Rula AwadFounder of a media transparency and ethical machine learning platform. Building a media literacy toolkit to create a generation to consume information online critically and safely. Advocate for algorithmic transparency, a bio-hacker. @rula_awad
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John BrydenAcademic / data scientist / systems modeller
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Lucy KingSoftware developer/co-operative founder
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John SandallFounder & Principal Data Scientist @ Coefficient
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Abe BaldryPolicy, strategy and communications consultant. Formerly worked on campaigns in Brussels, Hong Kong, and Florida, Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. abrahambaldry.com, @AAbaldry
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Lewis JonesSystems, software and bioengineer; technologist; environmentalist - currently working as Head of Software at Litho to redefine the paradigm of education using AR EdTech. @la_jones21
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Joshua BalfourFull stack engineer
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Yonca BraeckmanFounder of Impact Shakers; passionate about the potential of entrepreneurship to change systems; humanist & technologist; zebra
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Sabrina KavanaghReach out if you’re interested in the future of work, food systems, platforms & communities, housing projects, adult education, ethical consumerism, representation, protest, parliament. @sabkava, sabkava@gmail.com
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Dee HardingEvidence, social resilience, foresight, and equality. Currently managing intelligence and research for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Previously national-level climate change advisory for Scotland. @deltaechoecho
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Josiane SmithPartnerships and Growth Manager, Social Innovation Exchange. RSA Fellow, MakeSense Crew. Sociologist, Design Thinker, Facilitator, Poet. International & multilingual. Geek about human behaviour and systems change. [email protected], @JosianeSmith, Josiane Smith on LinkedIn
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Jim WilliamsFounder & CEO of Hatch, a start-up to connect people with ways to take action on social causes. Background in international development (especially Pakistan), conflict management, and liberal politics. Research interests: institutional information ecologies, distributed agency and user-centred design in communities and organisations. jim@hatch-uk.org
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Derek AltonStudying systems change at the intersection of tech, society and government. Currently working as a consultant on strategy and partnerships for Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada. @DerekAlton, LinkedIN.
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Lucie-Aimée KaffeeComputer science researcher, with a focus on low-resource languages in Wikipedia and Wikidata. Affiliated to University of Southampton and intern at Bloomberg. Working on the Scribe project. @frimelle
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Joe ReeveImproving journalism and publishing with JoeDocs.com and HackThePress.org
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Adam ShorlandSoftware developer, open data & knowledge enthusiast - Tech Lead for Wikidata, a CC0 licenced structured data repository sistered with Wikipedia.
Also working on a side project called WBStack, lowering the barrier to entry for the Wikibase software stack for all.
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John CummingsI currently working as Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO, helping UN agencies share their knowledge on Wikipedia. Previously I worked at the Natural History Museum and Science Museum in London, I helped run Wikimania 2014, and started MonmouthpediA, a community Wikipedia project in my home town.
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Isla SuddekCoach and Facilitator. Main points of focus: the climate emergency, miscommunication both online and offline, and loneliness in cities. islasuddek@gmail.com
