Duncan Exley
@duncanexley.bsky.social
Not-for-profits struggle to recruit & get the most out of people from non-middle class backgrounds. I can help: Analysis-&-recommendation &/or training.
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We’re new on Bluesky after years on X. If you’re a UK educator, parent, or researcher interested in fair admissions, we’d love to follow you — replies welcome.
January 27, 2026 at 1:56 PM
We’re new on Bluesky after years on X. If you’re a UK educator, parent, or researcher interested in fair admissions, we’d love to follow you — replies welcome.
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🚨 Application for our Research Training Programme *close this Friday*!
This 12-week programme is aimed at recent graduates from a Black, Asian or other Minority Ethnic group.
Please share with candidates who might be interested! ⤵️ buff.ly/3z4e2KL
This 12-week programme is aimed at recent graduates from a Black, Asian or other Minority Ethnic group.
Please share with candidates who might be interested! ⤵️ buff.ly/3z4e2KL
January 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
🚨 Application for our Research Training Programme *close this Friday*!
This 12-week programme is aimed at recent graduates from a Black, Asian or other Minority Ethnic group.
Please share with candidates who might be interested! ⤵️ buff.ly/3z4e2KL
This 12-week programme is aimed at recent graduates from a Black, Asian or other Minority Ethnic group.
Please share with candidates who might be interested! ⤵️ buff.ly/3z4e2KL
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LAST DAY TO APPLY
We're looking for an Interim Head of Policy & Campaigns to help us defend civil liberties in the UK.
⏰ 12-month FTC
💸 £57,795
🏢 Hybrid - 2 days per week in our Westminster office
⏳ Deadline: 9am, Mon 26th January
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/work-with-us/
We're looking for an Interim Head of Policy & Campaigns to help us defend civil liberties in the UK.
⏰ 12-month FTC
💸 £57,795
🏢 Hybrid - 2 days per week in our Westminster office
⏳ Deadline: 9am, Mon 26th January
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/work-with-us/
Work with us - Liberty
Come and join our team
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
January 25, 2026 at 12:01 PM
LAST DAY TO APPLY
We're looking for an Interim Head of Policy & Campaigns to help us defend civil liberties in the UK.
⏰ 12-month FTC
💸 £57,795
🏢 Hybrid - 2 days per week in our Westminster office
⏳ Deadline: 9am, Mon 26th January
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/work-with-us/
We're looking for an Interim Head of Policy & Campaigns to help us defend civil liberties in the UK.
⏰ 12-month FTC
💸 £57,795
🏢 Hybrid - 2 days per week in our Westminster office
⏳ Deadline: 9am, Mon 26th January
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/work-with-us/
Is your organisation wary of taking steps to become more inclusive because it may make some people uncomfortable?
www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan... #HR #Charities #CharityJobs
www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan... #HR #Charities #CharityJobs
Is your organisation wary of taking steps to become more inclusive because it may make some people uncomfortable?
I now make it clear — at the start of any Widening Participation / Inclusion work I… ...
Is your organisation wary of taking steps to become more inclusive because it may make some people uncomfortable?
I now make it clear — at the start of any Widening Participation / Inclusion work I d...
www.linkedin.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Is your organisation wary of taking steps to become more inclusive because it may make some people uncomfortable?
www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan... #HR #Charities #CharityJobs
www.linkedin.com/posts/duncan... #HR #Charities #CharityJobs
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🔎 SMK is on the look out for our permanent Chief Executive
Deadline : Sun 15 February, 11:59pm.
The Chief Executive provides strategic leadership, operational oversight and a passion for social change. Find out more here: https://smk.org.uk/get-involved/join-our-team/
Deadline : Sun 15 February, 11:59pm.
The Chief Executive provides strategic leadership, operational oversight and a passion for social change. Find out more here: https://smk.org.uk/get-involved/join-our-team/
January 19, 2026 at 4:02 PM
🔎 SMK is on the look out for our permanent Chief Executive
Deadline : Sun 15 February, 11:59pm.
The Chief Executive provides strategic leadership, operational oversight and a passion for social change. Find out more here: https://smk.org.uk/get-involved/join-our-team/
Deadline : Sun 15 February, 11:59pm.
The Chief Executive provides strategic leadership, operational oversight and a passion for social change. Find out more here: https://smk.org.uk/get-involved/join-our-team/
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📗 Read @peterlevell.bsky.social's comment on the 1990s and 2000s property boom here: ifs.org.uk/articles/how...
How the 1990s and 2000s property price boom reduced social mobility | Institute for Fiscal Studies
Children of parents who benefited from the 1990s house price boom subsequently had more housing wealth and were more likely to own homes in London.
ifs.org.uk
January 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
📗 Read @peterlevell.bsky.social's comment on the 1990s and 2000s property boom here: ifs.org.uk/articles/how...
I know it’s a big ask, but is anyone willing to help tackle this problem? 👇
The world has too much wine. What will happen to it? ft.trib.al/U3Pxqso | opinion
The world has too much wine. What will happen to it?
There are no easy solutions to the global glut
ft.trib.al
January 18, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I know it’s a big ask, but is anyone willing to help tackle this problem? 👇
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There's still time to apply for our Digital Communications Officer role!
We're looking for somebody who has flexible skills across both web and social, with a strong ability to create eye-catching visuals and produce high-quality video content ⬇️
We're looking for somebody who has flexible skills across both web and social, with a strong ability to create eye-catching visuals and produce high-quality video content ⬇️
Digital Communications Officer - The Sutton Trust
Deadline: 23:59, 21st January 2026 . The Digital Communications Officer reports to the Digital Communications Manager. The post holder plays a key supporting role in communicating the work of the T...
recruitment.suttontrust.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:54 AM
There's still time to apply for our Digital Communications Officer role!
We're looking for somebody who has flexible skills across both web and social, with a strong ability to create eye-catching visuals and produce high-quality video content ⬇️
We're looking for somebody who has flexible skills across both web and social, with a strong ability to create eye-catching visuals and produce high-quality video content ⬇️
Even if we know that jobs tend to go to those who look the part (vs who’ll be best at the job) we tend to think we / our organisation are more rational in our hiring & promotion decisions (just like 80% of drivers think they’re an above-average driver).
Data from the Bridge Group and Progress Together showed that socio-economic background remains the single strongest predictor of who reaches senior leadership in UK financial services.
Senior leadership continues to be dominated by privileged backgrounds. #PerformanceNotPrivilege
bit.ly/4q5be6P
Senior leadership continues to be dominated by privileged backgrounds. #PerformanceNotPrivilege
bit.ly/4q5be6P
January 15, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Even if we know that jobs tend to go to those who look the part (vs who’ll be best at the job) we tend to think we / our organisation are more rational in our hiring & promotion decisions (just like 80% of drivers think they’re an above-average driver).
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This is smart from Polanski in broadening the greens appeal. Often language around ‘green choices’ is received as choices for those who can afford to do so and just another financial/time burden at a time of already high burdens for everyone else looks tin eared. www.thetimes.com/article/a7ac...
January 12, 2026 at 8:18 AM
This is smart from Polanski in broadening the greens appeal. Often language around ‘green choices’ is received as choices for those who can afford to do so and just another financial/time burden at a time of already high burdens for everyone else looks tin eared. www.thetimes.com/article/a7ac...
Why progressive organisations fail to understand what will engage or alienate ordinary people (even having listened to them).
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-pr... #charities
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-pr... #charities
Why progressive organisations fail to understand what will engage or alienate ordinary people (even having listened to them).
Progressive organisations often struggle to win the support of people outside of what Nigel Farage calls the ‘metropolitan liberal elite’. I spend a lot of time considering why that is.
www.linkedin.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Why progressive organisations fail to understand what will engage or alienate ordinary people (even having listened to them).
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-pr... #charities
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-pr... #charities
Our internet has been a bit dodgy lately.
In other news, here’s Archie on his nice warm WiFi router.
In other news, here’s Archie on his nice warm WiFi router.
January 8, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Our internet has been a bit dodgy lately.
In other news, here’s Archie on his nice warm WiFi router.
In other news, here’s Archie on his nice warm WiFi router.
Privately-educated students are more than 6x more likely to get into @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social than are their state-schooled peers, but the college claims the former are the ones being discriminated against. Sheer classism.
January 7, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Privately-educated students are more than 6x more likely to get into @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social than are their state-schooled peers, but the college claims the former are the ones being discriminated against. Sheer classism.
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Recognise brilliance! ✨ Nominations for the 2026 SMK National Campaigner Awards are open. Submit today: https://forms.office.com/e/NYDnHp2wKw
January 7, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Recognise brilliance! ✨ Nominations for the 2026 SMK National Campaigner Awards are open. Submit today: https://forms.office.com/e/NYDnHp2wKw
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We're looking for a new Campaigns and Events Coordinator to join our team! 📣
In this role, you would provide coordination of and administrative support to our Get the Nation Learning campaign; regional adult learning awards; and L&W events.
Find out more and apply by 1 February. 📝⬇️
In this role, you would provide coordination of and administrative support to our Get the Nation Learning campaign; regional adult learning awards; and L&W events.
Find out more and apply by 1 February. 📝⬇️
Campaigns and Events Coordinator - Learning and Work Institute
learningandwork.org.uk
January 6, 2026 at 10:30 AM
We're looking for a new Campaigns and Events Coordinator to join our team! 📣
In this role, you would provide coordination of and administrative support to our Get the Nation Learning campaign; regional adult learning awards; and L&W events.
Find out more and apply by 1 February. 📝⬇️
In this role, you would provide coordination of and administrative support to our Get the Nation Learning campaign; regional adult learning awards; and L&W events.
Find out more and apply by 1 February. 📝⬇️
Notice he says *relative* surplus of graduates: Lack of a strategy to create high-quality jobs is the other side of the coin
When candidates hugely outnumber jobs, privileged families deploy all their financial, social & cultural resources to hoard opportunities from the rest of us
#SocialMobility
When candidates hugely outnumber jobs, privileged families deploy all their financial, social & cultural resources to hoard opportunities from the rest of us
#SocialMobility
UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor
UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor
Prof Shitij Kapur says there are too many graduates and degree is now just a ‘visa’ to enter professional world
The UK now has a “surfeit” of graduates and students must accept that a university degree is no longer a “passport to social mobility”, a leading vice-chancellor has argued.
Prof Shitij Kapur, the head of King’s College London, said the days when universities could promise that their graduates were certain to get good jobs are over, in an era where nearly half the population enters higher education. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Notice he says *relative* surplus of graduates: Lack of a strategy to create high-quality jobs is the other side of the coin
When candidates hugely outnumber jobs, privileged families deploy all their financial, social & cultural resources to hoard opportunities from the rest of us
#SocialMobility
When candidates hugely outnumber jobs, privileged families deploy all their financial, social & cultural resources to hoard opportunities from the rest of us
#SocialMobility
"London is...a thriving diverse metropolis...But this story does not work for the populist right...London is undeniably a multi-ethnic city. And since mass immigration is central to the populist right’s cause, the capital must be seen to be failing...no one should doubt the real agenda here"
January 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
"London is...a thriving diverse metropolis...But this story does not work for the populist right...London is undeniably a multi-ethnic city. And since mass immigration is central to the populist right’s cause, the capital must be seen to be failing...no one should doubt the real agenda here"
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Head of Programme - Young People | Paul Hamlyn Foundation | London #Edujobs #EduSky
www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/giving-...
www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/giving-...
Head of Programme - Young People | Giving Back Recruitment | CharityJob
Apply now for Head of Programme - Young People. , £54,000 per year, find a career with meaning today
www.charityjob.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Head of Programme - Young People | Paul Hamlyn Foundation | London #Edujobs #EduSky
www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/giving-...
www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/giving-...
The emerging generation of women are largely abandoning the parties their parents voted for, alienated & scared by narratives & policies that pander to misogyny & racism 👇
Really interesting radio doc by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social of @theguardian.com - check it out:
"Left Out: the political radicalisation of young women - and the silence surrounding it"
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
"Left Out: the political radicalisation of young women - and the silence surrounding it"
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Currently, Left Out: the political radicalisation of young women - and the silence surrounding it
A look at the leftwards move of young women and why media and politicians are ignoring it
www.bbc.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The emerging generation of women are largely abandoning the parties their parents voted for, alienated & scared by narratives & policies that pander to misogyny & racism 👇
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In case you're thinking (or know people) thinking about a new role in the New Year we're hiring atm for
- Training/Development Associate to help people make use of our insights
-Comms assistant to help share our insights across platforms
Details & apply here: www.moreincommon.org.uk/about-us/jobs/
- Training/Development Associate to help people make use of our insights
-Comms assistant to help share our insights across platforms
Details & apply here: www.moreincommon.org.uk/about-us/jobs/
Current Opportunities
Check here for current job opportunities.
www.moreincommon.org.uk
December 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
In case you're thinking (or know people) thinking about a new role in the New Year we're hiring atm for
- Training/Development Associate to help people make use of our insights
-Comms assistant to help share our insights across platforms
Details & apply here: www.moreincommon.org.uk/about-us/jobs/
- Training/Development Associate to help people make use of our insights
-Comms assistant to help share our insights across platforms
Details & apply here: www.moreincommon.org.uk/about-us/jobs/
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🚨 Applications are now open for the Opportunity Mobility and Inherited Inequalities visiting PhD grant!
The grant supports research students from other universities to spend one academic term at the International Inequalities Institute.
Apply by 30 January 2026 ⬇️
The grant supports research students from other universities to spend one academic term at the International Inequalities Institute.
Apply by 30 January 2026 ⬇️
Opportunity Mobility and Inherited Inequalities Visiting PhD Grant
Spend one academic term at the International Inequalities Institute. This visiting period assists doctoral researchers in their own research, and connects them with a network of academic contacts.
buff.ly
December 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🚨 Applications are now open for the Opportunity Mobility and Inherited Inequalities visiting PhD grant!
The grant supports research students from other universities to spend one academic term at the International Inequalities Institute.
Apply by 30 January 2026 ⬇️
The grant supports research students from other universities to spend one academic term at the International Inequalities Institute.
Apply by 30 January 2026 ⬇️
“Increasingly, we need more than better education to improve life chances”
(See also “We have tested to destruction the idea that bigger universities or tinkering with schools will be enough to give everyone a fair crack of the whip”: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/39598...)
(See also “We have tested to destruction the idea that bigger universities or tinkering with schools will be enough to give everyone a fair crack of the whip”: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/39598...)
🚨Launching today: State of the Nation 2025, the most comprehensive annual analysis of social mobility in the UK.
The report is a powerful tool to understand the state of social mobility and identify effective ways to deal with persistent inequalities.
Find our more: https://bit.ly/3YxBycS
The report is a powerful tool to understand the state of social mobility and identify effective ways to deal with persistent inequalities.
Find our more: https://bit.ly/3YxBycS
December 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
“Increasingly, we need more than better education to improve life chances”
(See also “We have tested to destruction the idea that bigger universities or tinkering with schools will be enough to give everyone a fair crack of the whip”: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/39598...)
(See also “We have tested to destruction the idea that bigger universities or tinkering with schools will be enough to give everyone a fair crack of the whip”: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/39598...)
A good briefing on the government's new Child Poverty Strategy from @econchange.bsky.social
www.neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/l...
www.neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/l...
Laying a foundation to reduce child poverty | NEB Digest
Exploring the UK government's approach to tackling child and wider poverty.
www.neweconomybrief.net
December 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A good briefing on the government's new Child Poverty Strategy from @econchange.bsky.social
www.neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/l...
www.neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/l...
“Is there really a mass exodus of Brits leaving the UK due to Labour tax policies” (item 2)
(TLDL: The figures don’t show that, & do show the ‘exodus’ reached current levels under the last government)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
(TLDL: The figures don’t show that, & do show the ‘exodus’ reached current levels under the last government)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Radio 4 - More or Less, Do we really have ‘superflu’?
The NHS is warning of an unprecedented flu season - we check.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“Is there really a mass exodus of Brits leaving the UK due to Labour tax policies” (item 2)
(TLDL: The figures don’t show that, & do show the ‘exodus’ reached current levels under the last government)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
(TLDL: The figures don’t show that, & do show the ‘exodus’ reached current levels under the last government)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
"additional assistance provided for students...significantly boost scores…But…parental resources seem to play an outsize role in who gets help…students at state-sector secondary schools & private schools used to be equally likely to get extra time in exams; since then the latter have streaked ahead"
How redefining special needs rocked education on.ft.com/4iRbp22 | opinion
How redefining special needs rocked education
Broadened criteria are benefiting the better-off, harming those facing greatest difficulty and straining the system
on.ft.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"additional assistance provided for students...significantly boost scores…But…parental resources seem to play an outsize role in who gets help…students at state-sector secondary schools & private schools used to be equally likely to get extra time in exams; since then the latter have streaked ahead"