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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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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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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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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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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Nathan YoungResearching legitimacy in ethical frameworks, patterns in emerging communities of practice and machine learning. Interests: Effective Altruism, modes of thought, improving (mainly political) discussion. Likes: Storytelling. @NathanPMYoung, newsletter, [email protected]
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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 ReeveNews is Broken - Let’s fix it.
Technologist focused on enabling people to improve the news industry.
GitHub, @Twitter, joe@hackthepress.org
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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Shad JahangirService Designer
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Lewis WestburyMobile development, PoliceRewired
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Aleksi KnuutilaResearcher, Open Knowledge
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Josh RussellCo-Founder, Citizen Beta
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Joshua BalfourFounding Engineer actively.ai
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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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Josie FraserSocial & Educational Technologist
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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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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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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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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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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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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
