Simon Bastow
@simonjbastow
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Faculty member at LSE School of Public Policy; Master of Public Policy (MPP) Programme Director; teach and research public policy and management.
London, UK
Joined December 2010
Huge congratulations to our Class of 2022 Graduates @LSEPublicPolicy for their Masters in Public Policy and Masters in Public Administration!!! 🙌🎓
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Thank you to everyone who attended our End of Year Celebration on campus yesterday! It was truly incredible to celebrate all of your wonderful academic achievements and share a special afternoon together at the end of an academic year like no other. Congratulations to all! 👏
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Congratulations to the new generation of MPP and MPA graduates from @LSEPublicPolicy Your hard-work, resilience, empathy and sense of community will make you better policy-makers, politicians and leaders. 🙌🎉
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See the new Chapter on “Incrementalism and its Alternatives” in the Oxford Handbook of Time and Politics edited by Klaus Goetz for this discussion. (3/3) https://t.co/SZj4lBz6pF
@JannProf @0le_J @howlettm @ChFlachsland @AnkeHassel
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AbstractThis chapter discusses how a classic perspective of public policy and public administration, incrementalism, contributes to questions of the politi
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This is fantastic news for the LSE. Congrats @PJDunleavy
I'm very honoured to have been asked by LSE to act as Editor-in-Chief for @LSEPress with a mission to develop digital open access publishing in the social sciences. See also https://t.co/oY3ZaUGxUX
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Maximising the Impacts of Academic Research by @PJDunleavy and me is now out! We look at how academic impact happens, how to think about impact outside universities eg working with intermediaries and via public engagement, and (1/2)
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Research advances knowledge, changes how issues are understood, and helps people make better decisions – but only if it is communicated effectively. Read a sample chapter from Maximizing the #Impacts of Academic #Research by @PJDunleavy and @janetinkler: https://t.co/29tJbmiZMG
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As part of our Welcome to the SPP, this morning our new MPP students learnt all about leadership in diverse settings - how can we be an active bystander? #sppwelcome
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All the best with the new session @simonjbastow👏🏽👏🏽
Today we begin welcoming our new cohort of Master of Public Policy students to the SPP and @LSEnews, with an introduction from Programme Director @simonjbastow.👏 We hope all our incoming students are excited to learn "the craft of government" for the next 9 months! #sppwelcome
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Coming up: the most extraordinary thread I’ve ever written. On how we blew over £150m and Andrew Mills (a Government adviser) seems to have made a fortune. But let’s start with introductions. THREAD /1
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Wrote a review of The Impact Agenda by @ProfKatSmith @JustynaBandola @NasarMeer @DrEllenStu and @rpwatermeyer for @LSEReviewBooks.
New Book Review: The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges by Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer @policypress
https://t.co/mAXrAj94Jk
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In the workplace, self-learning computer systems are being introduced by companies to assist in areas such as hiring, evaluating performance and even terminating employment. Learn more @EdithCowanUni @Sydney_Uni @uwanews:
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Handing management to algorithms creates ‘black-box bosses" whose decision-making is hard to understand or question.
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Imagine temperature in the high 30’s in a 12x8 toilet cubicle 3 or 4 storeys up, on your own or with a stranger who will be defacating & urinating socially distanced 2m from your bed. Your only cold drink is whatever comes out of the tap. Shower? dream on. Family contact ditto.
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If taxpayers over 40 are to pay more for social care - as suggested in the @guardian - they will want to know where the money goes. Currently £millions leak out to offshore tax havens and to private equity managers at the same time that care workers receive poverty pay.
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We're experiencing a surge of COVID-19 cases in our area. After searching through our data I have some tips for the UK Test & Trace system... (a thread...) (1/7)
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We're delighted to publish the first issue of LSE Public Policy Review! Read all the articles here: https://t.co/7gIOtwENg6
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