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Committed to creating a world governed with intelligence, integrity and innovation
Joined January 2020
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"Research shows that many successful interventions, even when low-cost, fail to scale" In our latest blog, @mike_t_sanders and @vnsasea reflect on their experience of scaling up a range of successful interventions over the past 18 months. ➡️ https://t.co/maNxtEFWg3
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EVENT: Using randomised trial to improve children's social care Join us, @policyatkings & expert panellists to discuss insights from @mike_t_sanders & @vnsasea's new book on developing and testing interventions for vulnerable children and families ➡️ https://t.co/5DeXu7ErcN
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🎧 Listen in full via the links on our website, where you can also check out past episodes of the podcast ⬇️ https://t.co/goG2IsxqMX
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Exploring how government works – and how it could work better
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"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 @gloria_novovic discusses planetary governance & the climate emergency ⬇️
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EVENT | Liberation and Corruption: Why Freedom Movements Fail – with Peter Hain Join us, @policyatkings, @policypres, Peter Hain and others to examine why liberation movements often succumb to bad governance and corruption once in power ➡️ https://t.co/sZOfR4UX9d
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📣 We're delighted to announce three new staff members at the School for Government! 💡 Dr Kate Hoskins joins us as Reader in Public Policy & Deputy Director; Dr Gloria Novovic is our new Lecturer in Public Policy; & Joseph Sherlock joins as Lecturer ⬇️ https://t.co/VjFW3otHeO
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New appointments bring further expertise in education policy, global governance, and behavioural science
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🎉 📣 The Fourth International Behavioural Public Policy Conference is underway! 💥 We've kicked off our packed programme with opening remarks from Conference Chair and Convenor @SanchayanBanerj & our first keynote address from Prof Peter John ➡️ https://t.co/FdniwTdw2t
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We’ve got a brilliant new group of visiting professors joining us at @kcl_sfg - delighted to have them join us!
📣 We are pleased to announce the appointment of three new Visiting Faculty members – Emma de Closset, Sir David Green KC, and Baroness Camilla Cavendish – as well as the continuation of Lord Peter Hain’s association with the School for Government ⬇️ https://t.co/cRGAhFzKli
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📣 We are pleased to announce the appointment of three new Visiting Faculty members – Emma de Closset, Sir David Green KC, and Baroness Camilla Cavendish – as well as the continuation of Lord Peter Hain’s association with the School for Government ⬇️ https://t.co/cRGAhFzKli
kcl.ac.uk
Emma de Closset, Sir David Green KC, and Baroness Camilla Cavendish will enhance the School's work
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“it doesn’t tell us much about what would happen if someone else tried it” @mike_t_sanders in @CNN cautioning against data from studies with self-selecting participants ➡️ https://t.co/ZiEtvhg6pB
edition.cnn.com
Switching to a four-day work week can be good for the bottom line, according to the results of a new trial in the United Kingdom.
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"Data is like people. If you torture it for long enough, it’ll tell you more or less whatever you want to hear" @mike_t_sanders speaking to @Independent about the consequences of dishonesty in behavioural science ➡️
independent.co.uk
Five years after a widely revered study was debunked as totally bogus, Helen Coffey asks the experts whether trust in the sexiest branch of science has been irrevocably eroded – and how to discern...
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"the rock solid scientific basis of the work just wasn't there in this case" @mike_t_sanders on the consequences of working with major behavioural science research that has since been found to be dishonest ➡️More in the @thetimes: https://t.co/AaJdUlU9nP
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🎉 A huge congratulations to our visiting faculty member, Emmanuel Akpan-Inwang, Founder and Director of @lp_trust, who has been awarded a Medal of the Order of the British Empire in the King's Birthday Honours for services to Social Enterprise and Young People. 🎉
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"When policymakers spend enough time discussing the nature of the problem with their counterparts from across Whitehall they pave the way to successful collaboration" Our Associate Prof Olga Siemers in @public_finance_ on cross-government collaboration ➡️ https://t.co/FgYv10V7rf
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A new study by @mike_t_sanders and colleagues provides important insights into what *doesn't* work to improve wellbeing and reduce burnout among those working in frontline roles in homelessness https://t.co/yJfjZ1mw5I
homelessnessimpact.org
Find out more about the findings from our recent report, 'Can a low-cost social support intervention improve wellbeing of frontline workers in the homelessness sector?'
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"Strategic misjudgements and internal disputes have become particularly evident in the aftermath of the May 2025 local elections." ✍️ Check out Georgios Samaras' long read for the Independent on the turmoil within Reform UK https://t.co/6zEOFLjTAu
independent.co.uk
After a week of chaos, Reform has a new chair and a leader insisting the party is on track, but the signs are there that this is a party not ready to be in charge – whatever the polls say, writes...
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🧵8/8 "...the lack of long-term follow up, particularly using administrative data, is an example of dollar bills being left on the sidewalk" Michael Sanders & Julia Ellingwood on the issue of only assessing immediate outcomes of policy interventions ➡️ https://t.co/16rAIjib91
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🧵7/8 “So what would a decentralised approach to What Works look like?” Tris Lumley critiques the centralised model of the What Works Centres, advocating for a shift towards a practitioner-centric approach ➡️ https://t.co/jnE7qf0tTy
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🧵6/8 “We need to expand the work of what works centres and evidence-based policy initiatives to engage with the messy but essential business of implementation” Jane Lewis & Robyn Mildon on policy failures that stem from inadequate implementation ➡️ https://t.co/7hW3SbLMyT
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