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

Agata Sumowska

Software developer, intersectional feminist, community builder
Finding systemic solutions to bringing more representation in technology and exploring matriarchy
@Agata_Anastazja



Mike Butcher

Editor-at-large, TechCrunch
Co-founder: @TechForUK, @ThePathfounder, @TheEuropas, @tech_vets, @Techfugees, @TechHub, @Coadec
@MikeButcher



Stephen Bediako

Social Entrepreneur, Innovator, Collector, Advisor
The Social Innovation Partnership, Turning Basin Labs
@stephentsip

Alumni

Will Muirhead

Neurosurgical Registrar



Imeh Akpan

User researcher, GDS



Irina Bolychevsky

Digital strategy consultant, Citizen Beta organiser, Redecentralize.org founder


Lucy Jane Pullinger


Joseph McArthur

Assistant Director, The Right to Research Coalition



Jonathan Penn

Historian of AI; Co-founder, The Buried Life



Stephen Fortune

Intern @ODILabs



Rufus Pollock

Founder, Open Knowledge



Brandon Jackson

Creative Technologist, Kano Computing



James Knight

Mosaic Ventures



Scott Craig

Ford-Mozilla Fellow, Center for Democracy & Technology



Neil Anderson

Tech Entrepreneur & Investor



Lewis Westbury

Police Rewired, software development, mobile app development, C#, Java, Python



Shad Jahangir

Service Designer



Aleksi Knuutila

Researcher, Open Knowledge



Josh Russell

Co-Founder, Citizen Beta



Ben Pollard

Co-founder, Local Welcome



Carl Miller

Research Director, Centre for Analysis of Social Media



Andreas Kirsch

Research Engineer / Machine Learning



Sophie Chesney

PhD, NLP and news



Alex Parsons

Researcher, mySociety


Awais Hussain


Areeq Chowdhury

Founder of WebRoots Democracy (focused on digital democracy) and Head of Think Tank at Future Advocacy (focused on the impact of AI and emerging tech).



Josie Fraser

Social & Educational Technologist



Ekaterina Stambolieva

data for good person



Tamara Borine

Data Scientist, CMA



Ekin Can Genc

Consultant / Public Policy and Applied Ethics



Borja Blanco Méndez

Associate @ SystemiQ



Rich Mason

RSA Future Work Centre



Dan Kwiatkowski

Charity Funding / Web Apps / Data Science



Anouk Ruhaak

Anouk 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.



James Moulding

Extinction Rebellion



Nathan Young

Reach out to me about CoronavirusTechHandbook.com, institutional decision making, community development, systems theory, practitioner communities, Effective Altruism, neoliberalism. @NathanPMYoung, [email protected], Newsletter



Lisa Murphy

Digital Health



Phoebe Tickell

Systems 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



Jo Kerr

Digital 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



Rula Awad

Founder 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



John Bryden

Academic / data scientist / systems modeller



Lucy King

Software developer/co-operative founder



John Sandall

Founder & Principal Data Scientist @ Coefficient



Fiona Apps

Community 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



Abe Baldry

Policy, strategy and communications consultant. Formerly worked on campaigns in Brussels, Hong Kong, and Florida, Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. abrahambaldry.com, @AAbaldry


Paul Powlesland


Lewis Jones

Systems, software and bioengineer; technologist; environmentalist - currently working as Head of Software at Litho to redefine the paradigm of education using AR EdTech. @la_jones21



Joshua Balfour

Full stack engineer



Yonca Braeckman

Founder of Impact Shakers; passionate about the potential of entrepreneurship to change systems; humanist & technologist; zebra



Sabrina Kavanagh

Reach 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



Dee Harding

Evidence, 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



Josiane Smith

Partnerships 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



Jim Williams

Founder & 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



Derek Alton

Studying 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.



Paweł Krupiński

Connection and intimacy activist, software engineer, technologist, community builder. @pawel_krupinski



Lucie-Aimée Kaffee

Computer 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



Joe Reeve

Improving journalism and publishing with JoeDocs.com and HackThePress.org



Manisha Ganguly

Investigative journalist [BBC] & political economist [CAMRI]



Adam Shorland

Software 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.
Blog, GitHub, @Twitter, LinkedIn, Email



John Cummings

I 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.



Isla Suddek

Coach and Facilitator. Main points of focus: the climate emergency, miscommunication both online and offline, and loneliness in cities. islasuddek@gmail.com