🎉Tonight: @michael-sanders.bsky.social's Inaugural Lecture as Director at the International School for Government: From nudge to shove: adventures in behavioural science and evidence-based policy 📺 Join us live: www.youtube.com/live/FjVkcDn...

Research by @policyatkings.bsky.social is all over the news today - @ukandeu.bsky.social on resetting the UK/EU relationship, & our work on the risks of wealth inequality w/ our friends @fairness.bsky.social & the future threats lab @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social has also made the front pages 📰🗞️

Could growing wealth inequality in the UK lead to societal collapse? Experts at our workshop with Future Threats Lab @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @policyatkings.bsky.social all thought it was feasible. Report at fairnessfoundation.com/inequality-k... and write-up in today's Observer below👇

Here’s @jreland.bsky.social and I on why the ‘reset’ won’t be straightforward www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The report by @fairness.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social ‘Inequality Knocks’ (a contemporary cultural reference), details why and how growing inequality is such a risk, but points to steps we can take to avert a crisis : fairnessfoundation.com/inequality-k...

🆕 research from @fairness.bsky.social the Future Threats Lab @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @policyatkings.bsky.social on how growing wealth inequality is increasing the risk of social collapse www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

“1 in 11 people aged between 21 and 34 will not have company, compared with just 1% in 1969.” The Times reports on our new study that reveals a big change in the proportion of young people who say they’ll spend Christmas Day alone

Guardian lead story on @policyatkings.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social study updating 1969 NOP poll www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

What you really wanted for Xmas 🎄🤶- 🆕 research from @policyatkings.bsky.social updating Qs from 1969. Major change is % of young people spending Xmas on their own. But some things stay the same - four in five thought Xmas too commercialised back then, same now! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The Times on our study updating 1969 NOP poll - worth saying that alone doesn't = lonely, many will be making a choice, though will also reflect big shifts in how/where we live @policyatkings.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

🔎 Read the Christmas statement from @anandmenon.bsky.social on UK in a Changing Europe and its future 👇 ukandeu.ac.uk/announcement...

Me - fending off all meeting requests and emails until 2025

In collaboration w/ @fairness.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social and the future threats lab @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social recently ran a workshop exploring whether wealth inequality can trigger societal collapse - merry Xmas! Here’s some early findings: www.faircomment.co.uk/p/inequality...

This was an almost unbearable read but we must not look away. A porn sick misogynistic culture that allowed men to do this. www.thetimes.com/article/5dee...

anyway I was out with two friends last night and turns out neither had heard of I Played ‘The Boys Are Back in Town’ on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out, which I consider to be a foundational text of the internet, so here it is again: www.vice.com/en/article/i...

As MP's debate the Assisted Dying Bill ahead of today's vote, a reminder of @policyatkings.bsky.social @katherinesleeman.bsky.social and others in the Complex Life and Death Decisions Research Group at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social work on where the public are at www.kcl.ac.uk/news/assiste...

When I am not doing social research I am doing this. Offering up a prayer to the mercurial Kiln Gods that these pieces for Christmas make it out intact…

Read @policyatkings.bsky.social work on the impact of cash transfers for people experiencing homelessness and whether they are more effective than traditional forms of help. Doing this kind of research is an essential part of making better policies that work www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Last night we got to share @policyatkings.bsky.social + the Complex Life + Death Decisions group’s work on assisted dying in parliament. So many thoughtful questions from MPs - great to be able to put our work into the hands of decision makers. Read the report ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...

Final time I’ll promote this as we lead up to #avfc returning this weekend. If you’ve got an hour or so, please listen. pod.fo/e/283203

Great to share @policyatkings.bsky.social research on what works in deliberative engagement as part of Wales Climate Week. Brilliant to hear from other panellists @moiranics.bsky.social Prof Mary Gagen & chair Rachel Hughes too! Diolch! 🌍🌱🌳💚 Watch ➡️ www.climateweek.gov.wales

Delighted that @policyatkings.bsky.social and @ageingbetter.bsky.social are collaborating with experts by experience to develop policy and practice to support disabled older workers to find and stay in employment. Read more here ➡️ ageing-better.org.uk/news/new-pro...

🆕 research from @policyatkings.bsky.social with @fairness.bsky.social with @bobbyduffy.bsky.social commenting that: “This study outlines the stark challenges facing the government in creating a sense of optimism and belief that a brighter future is possible by the end of their first term." See ⬇️

What a time. Up the Villa!!

This week @policyatkings.bsky.social held an event on our work into assisted dying. Sonia Sodha, one of the panellists, has written about it in the Guardian ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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