Hilary Cottam
@hilarycottam.bsky.social
Author of Radical Help and The Work We Need (out May 2025), Hon Prof @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Trustee @jrf-uk.bsky.social. Doer. Free Radical www.hilarycottam.com
#RadicalHelp ‘the overhaul we need’ @financialtimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
#RadicalHelp ‘the overhaul we need’ @financialtimes.com
Thank you to @uniofbathipr.bsky.social Bath, to Margaret Hefferman and to everyone who joined the conversation and this queue last night #TheWorkWeNeed
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Thank you to @uniofbathipr.bsky.social Bath, to Margaret Hefferman and to everyone who joined the conversation and this queue last night #TheWorkWeNeed
A wonderful in depth interview w @carlotaperez.bsky.social about her life, work and what makes a revolution - enjoy!
✍️ Carlota Perez - Life of Revolutions
@amirleb.bsky.social spoke with IIPP Honorary Professor @carlotaperez.bsky.social about her life, career, and intellectual journey for his latest piece in 'Development and Change'.
🔗 Read the full conversation here: buff.ly/E19bHn8
@amirleb.bsky.social spoke with IIPP Honorary Professor @carlotaperez.bsky.social about her life, career, and intellectual journey for his latest piece in 'Development and Change'.
🔗 Read the full conversation here: buff.ly/E19bHn8
October 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A wonderful in depth interview w @carlotaperez.bsky.social about her life, work and what makes a revolution - enjoy!
If you are in Bath in October join me- I will be discussing my new book #TheWorkWeNeed with the brilliant Margaret Hefferman
What kind of work does our society truly need?
Join the us for our latest event - @hilarycottam.bsky.social: The Work We Need, exploring how we can rethink work for wellbeing, equity & social transformation.
📅 Tuesday, October 21 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/J0O4DqX
#TheWorkWeNeed
Join the us for our latest event - @hilarycottam.bsky.social: The Work We Need, exploring how we can rethink work for wellbeing, equity & social transformation.
📅 Tuesday, October 21 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/J0O4DqX
#TheWorkWeNeed
Hilary Cottam: The Work We Need
In conversation with Margaret Heffernan, Hilary Cottam explores how we could work differently and live better.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If you are in Bath in October join me- I will be discussing my new book #TheWorkWeNeed with the brilliant Margaret Hefferman
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What kind of work does our society truly need?
Join the us for our latest event - @hilarycottam.bsky.social: The Work We Need, exploring how we can rethink work for wellbeing, equity & social transformation.
📅 Tuesday, October 21 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/J0O4DqX
#TheWorkWeNeed
Join the us for our latest event - @hilarycottam.bsky.social: The Work We Need, exploring how we can rethink work for wellbeing, equity & social transformation.
📅 Tuesday, October 21 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/J0O4DqX
#TheWorkWeNeed
Hilary Cottam: The Work We Need
In conversation with Margaret Heffernan, Hilary Cottam explores how we could work differently and live better.
buff.ly
September 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What kind of work does our society truly need?
Join the us for our latest event - @hilarycottam.bsky.social: The Work We Need, exploring how we can rethink work for wellbeing, equity & social transformation.
📅 Tuesday, October 21 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/J0O4DqX
#TheWorkWeNeed
Join the us for our latest event - @hilarycottam.bsky.social: The Work We Need, exploring how we can rethink work for wellbeing, equity & social transformation.
📅 Tuesday, October 21 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/J0O4DqX
#TheWorkWeNeed
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What kind of work does our society truly need?
Join the us for our latest event - @hilarycottam.bsky.social: The Work We Need, exploring how we can rethink work for wellbeing, equity & social transformation.
📅 Tuesday, October 21 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/J0O4DqX
#TheWorkWeNeed
Join the us for our latest event - @hilarycottam.bsky.social: The Work We Need, exploring how we can rethink work for wellbeing, equity & social transformation.
📅 Tuesday, October 21 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/J0O4DqX
#TheWorkWeNeed
Hilary Cottam: The Work We Need
In conversation with Margaret Heffernan, Hilary Cottam explores how we could work differently and live better.
buff.ly
September 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What kind of work does our society truly need?
Join the us for our latest event - @hilarycottam.bsky.social: The Work We Need, exploring how we can rethink work for wellbeing, equity & social transformation.
📅 Tuesday, October 21 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/J0O4DqX
#TheWorkWeNeed
Join the us for our latest event - @hilarycottam.bsky.social: The Work We Need, exploring how we can rethink work for wellbeing, equity & social transformation.
📅 Tuesday, October 21 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1
🎟️ Register: buff.ly/J0O4DqX
#TheWorkWeNeed
‘Learn to care’ could replace ‘learn to code’ as the go to career advice for the next generation @jburnmurdoch.ft.com #TheWorkWeNeed
July 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
‘Learn to care’ could replace ‘learn to code’ as the go to career advice for the next generation @jburnmurdoch.ft.com #TheWorkWeNeed
Are we afraid or do we simply balk at leaving the waste for future generations- something this and an identical article in @FT today fails to even engage with…
Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power?
Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power?
Not only is nuclear essential if we want to reach net zero – it’s the key to tackling poverty, too
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Are we afraid or do we simply balk at leaving the waste for future generations- something this and an identical article in @FT today fails to even engage with…
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✍️ "Work isn’t working, but it could."
Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel featuring @hilarycottam.bsky.social in conversation with @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @mazzucatom.bsky.social on her new book 'The Work We Need'.
🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/WOgMhFK
Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel featuring @hilarycottam.bsky.social in conversation with @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @mazzucatom.bsky.social on her new book 'The Work We Need'.
🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/WOgMhFK
July 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
✍️ "Work isn’t working, but it could."
Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel featuring @hilarycottam.bsky.social in conversation with @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @mazzucatom.bsky.social on her new book 'The Work We Need'.
🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/WOgMhFK
Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel featuring @hilarycottam.bsky.social in conversation with @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @mazzucatom.bsky.social on her new book 'The Work We Need'.
🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/WOgMhFK
The work / tech story is not already determined but something we can shape - join me and this brilliant panel tomorrow to discuss how ….
Coming up this week at LSE Festival 🎉
Join us on Wednesday 18 June for a thought-provoking discussion on the future of technology, work, and inequality with @faizashaheen.bsky.social, @hilarycottam.bsky.social, @jackstilgoe.bsky.social, and @aaronreeves.bsky.social.
Register: buff.ly/ggvGv5R
Join us on Wednesday 18 June for a thought-provoking discussion on the future of technology, work, and inequality with @faizashaheen.bsky.social, @hilarycottam.bsky.social, @jackstilgoe.bsky.social, and @aaronreeves.bsky.social.
Register: buff.ly/ggvGv5R
June 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The work / tech story is not already determined but something we can shape - join me and this brilliant panel tomorrow to discuss how ….
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Is work just another thing created to exploit us?
Compass Director Neal Lawson has a fascinating conversation with @hilarycottam.bsky.social about what work should mean in the 21st Century.
Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
Compass Director Neal Lawson has a fascinating conversation with @hilarycottam.bsky.social about what work should mean in the 21st Century.
Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
June 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Is work just another thing created to exploit us?
Compass Director Neal Lawson has a fascinating conversation with @hilarycottam.bsky.social about what work should mean in the 21st Century.
Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
Compass Director Neal Lawson has a fascinating conversation with @hilarycottam.bsky.social about what work should mean in the 21st Century.
Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
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Our latest podcast episode is a can't miss as we are in conversation with the inimitable @hilarycottam.bsky.social!
We talk everything her latest book, 'The Work We Need', setting out the principles of good 21st century work - and she provides a road map as to how we might get there.
We talk everything her latest book, 'The Work We Need', setting out the principles of good 21st century work - and she provides a road map as to how we might get there.
June 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Our latest podcast episode is a can't miss as we are in conversation with the inimitable @hilarycottam.bsky.social!
We talk everything her latest book, 'The Work We Need', setting out the principles of good 21st century work - and she provides a road map as to how we might get there.
We talk everything her latest book, 'The Work We Need', setting out the principles of good 21st century work - and she provides a road map as to how we might get there.
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Listening to Private Passions where Professor @hilarycottam.bsky.social is talking about many social issues, including design of prisons, adult loneliness, finding meaning and purpose in life, and caring for elderly. Fascinating, and available online:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Radio 3 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to BBC Radio 3 on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Listening to Private Passions where Professor @hilarycottam.bsky.social is talking about many social issues, including design of prisons, adult loneliness, finding meaning and purpose in life, and caring for elderly. Fascinating, and available online:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Terrific to hear @hilarycottam.bsky.social talking to @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social at the Barbican this evening about her important new book The Work We Need. @uclpolicylab.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Terrific to hear @hilarycottam.bsky.social talking to @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social at the Barbican this evening about her important new book The Work We Need. @uclpolicylab.bsky.social
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Upcoming event at LSE Festival 🎉
Join us on Wednesday 18 June for a thought-provoking discussion on the future of technology, work, and inequality with @faizashaheen.bsky.social, @hilarycottam.bsky.social
@jackstilgoe.bsky.social, and @aaronreeves.bsky.social
Find out more: buff.ly/ggvGv5R
Join us on Wednesday 18 June for a thought-provoking discussion on the future of technology, work, and inequality with @faizashaheen.bsky.social, @hilarycottam.bsky.social
@jackstilgoe.bsky.social, and @aaronreeves.bsky.social
Find out more: buff.ly/ggvGv5R
June 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Upcoming event at LSE Festival 🎉
Join us on Wednesday 18 June for a thought-provoking discussion on the future of technology, work, and inequality with @faizashaheen.bsky.social, @hilarycottam.bsky.social
@jackstilgoe.bsky.social, and @aaronreeves.bsky.social
Find out more: buff.ly/ggvGv5R
Join us on Wednesday 18 June for a thought-provoking discussion on the future of technology, work, and inequality with @faizashaheen.bsky.social, @hilarycottam.bsky.social
@jackstilgoe.bsky.social, and @aaronreeves.bsky.social
Find out more: buff.ly/ggvGv5R
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“I asked people what good work looks like in this century & what it would take to get there. I heard the same stories again & again.”
@hilarycottam.bsky.social reminds us: narrow economic models of work no longer serve us. She offers a 21st century reimaging rooted in the ideas of everyday experts.
@hilarycottam.bsky.social reminds us: narrow economic models of work no longer serve us. She offers a 21st century reimaging rooted in the ideas of everyday experts.
June 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“I asked people what good work looks like in this century & what it would take to get there. I heard the same stories again & again.”
@hilarycottam.bsky.social reminds us: narrow economic models of work no longer serve us. She offers a 21st century reimaging rooted in the ideas of everyday experts.
@hilarycottam.bsky.social reminds us: narrow economic models of work no longer serve us. She offers a 21st century reimaging rooted in the ideas of everyday experts.
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Interesting to hear @hilarycottam.bsky.social talk about the most expansive and exciting imaginations about work is coming not from think tanks, but from people in Kilmarnock, barrow etc where their motivation for entertaining radical change is driven by necessity.
#StrongerThings
#StrongerThings
June 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Interesting to hear @hilarycottam.bsky.social talk about the most expansive and exciting imaginations about work is coming not from think tanks, but from people in Kilmarnock, barrow etc where their motivation for entertaining radical change is driven by necessity.
#StrongerThings
#StrongerThings
Join me 18th of June at the LSE Festival - I will be exploring whether we can shape the direction of technology in workers’ favour with this excellent panel #TheWorkWeNeed
Today's LSE Festival highlight:
Is there an alternative to a winner-takes-all model of innovation that creates billionaires while pushing many into low paid work?
@hilarycottam.bsky.social @faizashaheen.bsky.social @jackstilgoe.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
FREE tickets (in person/online) 👇
Is there an alternative to a winner-takes-all model of innovation that creates billionaires while pushing many into low paid work?
@hilarycottam.bsky.social @faizashaheen.bsky.social @jackstilgoe.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
FREE tickets (in person/online) 👇
Breaking the Jeff Bezos model of new technology
7pm Wed 18 Jun | Hilary Cottam, Faiza Shaheen, Jack Stilgoe | Free event at the LSE Festival: Visions for the Future | Ticket required
www.lse.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Join me 18th of June at the LSE Festival - I will be exploring whether we can shape the direction of technology in workers’ favour with this excellent panel #TheWorkWeNeed
Thank you to @theobserveruk.bsky.social for featuring #TheWorkWeNeed this weekend
May 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Thank you to @theobserveruk.bsky.social for featuring #TheWorkWeNeed this weekend
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➡️ Re-thinking Work and Work Organising
IIPP Forum 2025 - #RethinkingTheState
Join @hilarycottam.bsky.social to explore how we can rethink work for the 21st century—balancing people, planet, and purpose, drawing on her book 'The Work We Need'.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/j7ZFvdW
IIPP Forum 2025 - #RethinkingTheState
Join @hilarycottam.bsky.social to explore how we can rethink work for the 21st century—balancing people, planet, and purpose, drawing on her book 'The Work We Need'.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/j7ZFvdW
May 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
➡️ Re-thinking Work and Work Organising
IIPP Forum 2025 - #RethinkingTheState
Join @hilarycottam.bsky.social to explore how we can rethink work for the 21st century—balancing people, planet, and purpose, drawing on her book 'The Work We Need'.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/j7ZFvdW
IIPP Forum 2025 - #RethinkingTheState
Join @hilarycottam.bsky.social to explore how we can rethink work for the 21st century—balancing people, planet, and purpose, drawing on her book 'The Work We Need'.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/j7ZFvdW
Ten pockets of vitality @jamestplunkett.bsky.social on the seeds of a new political economy
The energy at the edges - a new post with some thoughts on the vitality at the edges of the system.
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
The energy at the edges
The system is dying from the middle, but there’s vitality at the periphery
medium.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Ten pockets of vitality @jamestplunkett.bsky.social on the seeds of a new political economy
On just getting started - and building today's mutualist eco-system. As some of you know, I am more and more convinced this is a route for future public services - a bit more about it here from the brilliant Sara Horowitz @ssireview.bsky.social ssir.org/articles/ent...
The Next Generation of Mutualism (SSIR)
An ecosystem approach to investing in and supporting mutualist enterprises—from the ground up.
ssir.org
April 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
On just getting started - and building today's mutualist eco-system. As some of you know, I am more and more convinced this is a route for future public services - a bit more about it here from the brilliant Sara Horowitz @ssireview.bsky.social ssir.org/articles/ent...
Thank you to @fundaciodisseny.com for this honour and for recognising the power and potential of social design
🏅 @hilarycottam.bsky.social Social Design Distinction 2025
A well-deserved recognition for her transformative vision of design as a tool for social change.
She has redefined how design impacts communities, driving innovative and sustainable solutions.
→ fundaciodisseny.com/en/social-de...
A well-deserved recognition for her transformative vision of design as a tool for social change.
She has redefined how design impacts communities, driving innovative and sustainable solutions.
→ fundaciodisseny.com/en/social-de...
March 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Thank you to @fundaciodisseny.com for this honour and for recognising the power and potential of social design
Hello - introducing myself here: author of Radical Help and out this May The Work We Need. I'm a thinker, maker, collaborator and social activist. My current project design work spans health, care, work and rural communities/the environment. Delighted to connect...
March 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Hello - introducing myself here: author of Radical Help and out this May The Work We Need. I'm a thinker, maker, collaborator and social activist. My current project design work spans health, care, work and rural communities/the environment. Delighted to connect...
I'm one of those who have signed this letter - you can do the same. We can't face our complex climate challenge without a school curriculum that educates each and everyone of us about what is at stake and what we can do...
Open letter to Bridget Phillipson with a stellar list of signatories:
www.tes.com/magazine/new....
You can sign it too, follow the link to the letter from the article to find the form.
www.tes.com/magazine/new....
You can sign it too, follow the link to the letter from the article to find the form.
Ministers urged to ensure climate change is taught across curriculum
Experts say teachers want more professional development support to teach climate change and sustainability
www.tes.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I'm one of those who have signed this letter - you can do the same. We can't face our complex climate challenge without a school curriculum that educates each and everyone of us about what is at stake and what we can do...