Julia Unwin
@juliaunwin.bsky.social
Adviser, mentor, non-exec director. Chair Smart Data Foundry and Chair of York St John University. Chair of #CivilSocietyFutures 2018. CEO of Jospeh Rowntree Foundation 2006-20016. Now curious and committed to learning more. Www.juliaunwin.com
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This weekend I've been listening to the first 2 episodes of Truly, Tradly Deeply with @annieknk.bsky.social. It's nice to hear two researchers talk on this topic with so much knowledge and authority. Get it from www.cursedmedia.net
CURSED MEDIA PODCAST NETWORK
www.cursedmedia.net
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This weekend I've been listening to the first 2 episodes of Truly, Tradly Deeply with @annieknk.bsky.social. It's nice to hear two researchers talk on this topic with so much knowledge and authority. Get it from www.cursedmedia.net
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Annie Kelly has a new miniseries about Trad wives, and the first two episodes dropped today on our new network cursedmedia.net
Check it out!! And peep this trailer I made for the occasion!
Check it out!! And peep this trailer I made for the occasion!
October 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Annie Kelly has a new miniseries about Trad wives, and the first two episodes dropped today on our new network cursedmedia.net
Check it out!! And peep this trailer I made for the occasion!
Check it out!! And peep this trailer I made for the occasion!
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I returned to QAA this week to talk about my upcoming miniseries about tradwives!
on.soundcloud.com/TYC72i40KAP1...
on.soundcloud.com/TYC72i40KAP1...
Truly, Tradly, Deeply — Inside the Tradosphere with Annie Kelly (E345)
Annie Kelly has spent most of 2025 investigating the online world of so-called “traditional wives” or “tradwives.” On this episode she sits down with Travis, Jake, and Julian to talk about her new six
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October 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I returned to QAA this week to talk about my upcoming miniseries about tradwives!
on.soundcloud.com/TYC72i40KAP1...
on.soundcloud.com/TYC72i40KAP1...
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QAA's own Annie Kelly (@annieknk.bsky.social) contributed to this great Al Jazeera report about how conservative women are rebranding right-wing politics for a female audience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtR8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtR8...
All the president’s women: The rise of the ‘womanosphere’ | The Listening Post
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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October 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
QAA's own Annie Kelly (@annieknk.bsky.social) contributed to this great Al Jazeera report about how conservative women are rebranding right-wing politics for a female audience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtR8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtR8...
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PM says on radio that there are 1m young people on benefits. Presume he meant 1m young people not in education employment or training. Only about half of them claim benefits.
October 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
PM says on radio that there are 1m young people on benefits. Presume he meant 1m young people not in education employment or training. Only about half of them claim benefits.
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Really proud Fall of Civilizations has been named a Waterstones paperback of the year. Get it at your local Waterstones!
LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...
LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...
September 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Really proud Fall of Civilizations has been named a Waterstones paperback of the year. Get it at your local Waterstones!
LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...
LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...
Excellent timely report from Nuffield Trust on how we meet, or fail to meet, the costs of care. The current approach is over complicated, binary in its approach and discriminates in favour of those who can navigate complex sustems www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/all...
All or nothing? Access and variation in NHS continuing health care
NHS continuing health care provides funded health and social care support for people with very complex needs outside hospital. Yet our comprehensive new report shows this system is highly inconsistent...
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
September 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Excellent timely report from Nuffield Trust on how we meet, or fail to meet, the costs of care. The current approach is over complicated, binary in its approach and discriminates in favour of those who can navigate complex sustems www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/all...
Never more relevant
Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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September 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Never more relevant
September 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
What a great loss - such an influential, persuasive, informed - and amazingly generous - man
‘Dare to be dull!’ A man after my own heart - lovely obit of Malcolm Dean who edited Guardian Society for over 20 years. (The piece reminds us that in its heyday it was over 200 pages long due to the jobs pages!)
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Malcolm Dean obituary
Founder of the Guardian’s Society section who stood for the SDP/Liberal Alliance in the 1983 and 1987 general elections
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
What a great loss - such an influential, persuasive, informed - and amazingly generous - man
What very sad news, and what an enormous loss to all those thinking creatively about our current challenges. His voice, and his challenge, will be sorely missed www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
David Boyle obituary
Political economist and author who promoted ideas such as time banks and community sharing
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
What very sad news, and what an enormous loss to all those thinking creatively about our current challenges. His voice, and his challenge, will be sorely missed www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
A lovely thoughtful mediation on the very long tail of grief
New from me on Substack: on the 30th anniversary of the death of my late partner, Lawrence.
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Every picture tells a story - a postcard from the past
Lawrence Buckley 24th August 1957 - 10th July 1995
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July 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
A lovely thoughtful mediation on the very long tail of grief
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Great to see this newsletter from @smartdatafoundry.bsky.social demonstrating the very many ways in which data that is not normally available can illuminate long standing social and economic challenges
Great to see this newsletter from @smartdatafoundry.bsky.social demonstrating the very many ways in which data that is not normally available can illuminate long standing social and economic challenges
Welcome to the July Edition of Data For Good News, the monthly newsletter from Smart Data Foundry.
We've got some big updates and announcements this month! Our friends at Smart Data Research UK have launched a new Fellowships fund, offering up to £200k for research projects which use smart data in ...
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July 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Great to see this newsletter from @smartdatafoundry.bsky.social demonstrating the very many ways in which data that is not normally available can illuminate long standing social and economic challenges
Great to see this newsletter from @smartdatafoundry.bsky.social demonstrating the very many ways in which data that is not normally available can illuminate long standing social and economic challenges
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Proud of this from the great actor (and my old friend) Simon Russell Beale.
July 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Proud of this from the great actor (and my old friend) Simon Russell Beale.
Full house for the launch of this wonderful book by @stephenunwin.bsky.social interviewed by the powerful advocate @johnharris1969.bsky.social (who has also written a brilliant book )
Stephen Unwin (@stephenunwin.bsky.social)
Director, Writer, Teacher, Campaigner.
Founded ETT. Opened the Rose.
Laughing Boy, All Our Children, Poor Naked Wretches, Beautiful Lives.
http://www.stephenunwin.uk/
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July 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Full house for the launch of this wonderful book by @stephenunwin.bsky.social interviewed by the powerful advocate @johnharris1969.bsky.social (who has also written a brilliant book )
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Read this beautiful tribute and reflection on the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt by @chriscreegan.bsky.social.
The quilt was displayed in full last week at Tate Modern for the first time this century.
The quilt was displayed in full last week at Tate Modern for the first time this century.
I couldn't miss the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern
And 30 years on it's time to make my late partner a panel
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June 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Read this beautiful tribute and reflection on the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt by @chriscreegan.bsky.social.
The quilt was displayed in full last week at Tate Modern for the first time this century.
The quilt was displayed in full last week at Tate Modern for the first time this century.
A must read on a subject too often under explored. Powered by love, based on the strongest evidence, drawing widely from every discipline - a book that will inform us all for decades to come. But it is also a joy to read Proud of my brother @stephenunwin.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A must read on a subject too often under explored. Powered by love, based on the strongest evidence, drawing widely from every discipline - a book that will inform us all for decades to come. But it is also a joy to read Proud of my brother @stephenunwin.bsky.social
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Join us in York with our friends @yorklitfest.bsky.social on Wed 28 May for a special event to celebrate the launch of Finding Belle by Reeta Chakrabarti
The event will take place @yorkstjohn.bsky.social
and tickets are #FREE but must be booked
www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/upcom...
The event will take place @yorkstjohn.bsky.social
and tickets are #FREE but must be booked
www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/upcom...
May 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Join us in York with our friends @yorklitfest.bsky.social on Wed 28 May for a special event to celebrate the launch of Finding Belle by Reeta Chakrabarti
The event will take place @yorkstjohn.bsky.social
and tickets are #FREE but must be booked
www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/upcom...
The event will take place @yorkstjohn.bsky.social
and tickets are #FREE but must be booked
www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/upcom...
This is excellent and develops quite a few of the ideas we promoted in #CivilSocietyFutures especially about the power of place
How would we govern if we took community agency seriously?
I was asked to write an essay for the 10 year anniversary of
@powertochange.org.uk Here it is. Testing a few ideas in here so I'd be interested in thoughts.
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I was asked to write an essay for the 10 year anniversary of
@powertochange.org.uk Here it is. Testing a few ideas in here so I'd be interested in thoughts.
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
How would we govern if we took community agency seriously?
Recently I was asked to write an essay for the 10 year anniversary of Power to Change, an initiative funded by the National Lottery…
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May 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This is excellent and develops quite a few of the ideas we promoted in #CivilSocietyFutures especially about the power of place
@doctoroxford.com you might be interested in this. I argued that kindness is radical, tough and rooted in solidarity. How depressing that #bekind is now deployed to ignore the fundamental power of recognising that emotions are the heart of public policy change carnegieuk.org/publication/...
Kindness, emotions and human relationships: The blind spot in public policy - Carnegie UK
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May 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
@doctoroxford.com you might be interested in this. I argued that kindness is radical, tough and rooted in solidarity. How depressing that #bekind is now deployed to ignore the fundamental power of recognising that emotions are the heart of public policy change carnegieuk.org/publication/...
It’s a great book deserving even more coverage
Lovely event - moving, shocking, horrifying and uplifting in equal measure. Thank you Noel.
May 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It’s a great book deserving even more coverage
This will be brilliant. So sorry to be missing it
Today at 5.00 in Belfast
Fascinating story about North Belfast from author Noel Russell - Vienna, Stormont and the Holocaust. Friday at 5.00 pm.
May 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This will be brilliant. So sorry to be missing it
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New @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk @britishacademy.bsky.social report today on the need for policymakers to not overlook the importance of investing in social and cultural infrastructure, and how we might go about measuring it
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/value-o...
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/value-o...
Value of social and cultural infrastructure ‘risks being neglected in decision-making' without new measurement framework - Bennett Institute for Public Policy
New framework for measuring the value of social and cultural infrastructure will more effectively highlight its crucial role in improving wellbeing and economic growth.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk
April 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
New @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk @britishacademy.bsky.social report today on the need for policymakers to not overlook the importance of investing in social and cultural infrastructure, and how we might go about measuring it
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/value-o...
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/value-o...
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Speaker Spotlight: Dr. Gemma Cassells will present "Data Are Plural: So Are the People Who Make It Matter. This talk invites us to move beyond the idea of data as a single source of truth and embrace it as a human-centred, collaborative tool for real-world change.
👉 Register bit.ly/3DXfMbZ
👉 Register bit.ly/3DXfMbZ
April 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Speaker Spotlight: Dr. Gemma Cassells will present "Data Are Plural: So Are the People Who Make It Matter. This talk invites us to move beyond the idea of data as a single source of truth and embrace it as a human-centred, collaborative tool for real-world change.
👉 Register bit.ly/3DXfMbZ
👉 Register bit.ly/3DXfMbZ