Nour Sidawi
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Reflecting on the complexity of systems and making change in government at UK Civil Service. Part of OneTeamGov.
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Building bridges across boundaries — Part two
Implications for changemakers when forging new and different paths in uncertain times
medium.com
I have written a second essay on what it means to govern in a time of radical uncertainty, and the ability to respond to and cope with crises.
This blog post is a messy, imperfect, and personal reflection. I am sharing it nevertheless.
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This blog post is a messy, imperfect, and personal reflection. I am sharing it nevertheless.
medium.com/fawlty-minis...
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This is the 445th edition of Internet of Public Service Jobs - a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, agile and design in…you guessed it…‘public service’
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Internet of Public Service Jobs - 15/11/2025
This is the 445th edition of Internet of Public Service Jobs - a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, agile and design in…you guessed it…‘public service’ curated by @jukesie
[01] C...
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November 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
This is the 445th edition of Internet of Public Service Jobs - a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, agile and design in…you guessed it…‘public service’
newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
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Internet of Public Service Jobs - 08/11/2025
The 444st edition of my newsletter.
newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
The 444st edition of my newsletter.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Internet of Public Service Jobs - 08/11/2025
The 444st edition of my newsletter.
newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
The 444st edition of my newsletter.
newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
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Hallo!
The #GOV.UKDesignSystem team are looking for feedback on adding rounded corners to buttons, which we think will improve the usability of the component.
You can see and comment on our proposal on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov...
Please take 3 mins to feed back.
🙌Danke,
Imran
The #GOV.UKDesignSystem team are looking for feedback on adding rounded corners to buttons, which we think will improve the usability of the component.
You can see and comment on our proposal on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov...
Please take 3 mins to feed back.
🙌Danke,
Imran
Adding rounded corners to buttons · alphagov govuk-design-system · Discussion #4941
Background The Design System team is exploring new styling options, including rounded corners for buttons, following the GOV.UK brand refresh. We want to make sure the changes we make are not purel...
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Hallo!
The #GOV.UKDesignSystem team are looking for feedback on adding rounded corners to buttons, which we think will improve the usability of the component.
You can see and comment on our proposal on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov...
Please take 3 mins to feed back.
🙌Danke,
Imran
The #GOV.UKDesignSystem team are looking for feedback on adding rounded corners to buttons, which we think will improve the usability of the component.
You can see and comment on our proposal on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov...
Please take 3 mins to feed back.
🙌Danke,
Imran
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Where are the public sector reformers? Help us find them! medium.com/kinship-work...
Where are the public sector reformers? Help us find them!
When I joined the Institute for Government in 2013, the Government Digital Service (version 1.0) was in full swing. It provided an obvious…
medium.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Where are the public sector reformers? Help us find them! medium.com/kinship-work...
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Issue 442 of the Internet of Public Service Jobs is here - newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
Internet of Public Service Jobs - 18/10/2025
This is the 442nd edition of Internet of Public Service Jobs - a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, agile and design in…you guessed it…‘public service’ curated by @jukesie
[01] D...
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October 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Issue 442 of the Internet of Public Service Jobs is here - newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
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Register is open for UKGovCamp 2026!
Join us on 17 January 2026 for a free, community-led unconference where public sector people meet to share ideas, collaborate, and improve services.
Spaces are limited. Secure your spot today: forms.gle/tL5q1ZBHYxAq...
Join us on 17 January 2026 for a free, community-led unconference where public sector people meet to share ideas, collaborate, and improve services.
Spaces are limited. Secure your spot today: forms.gle/tL5q1ZBHYxAq...
UKGovCamp 2026 Registration
Our next annual in-person event is:
free to attend,
in Birmingham,
on Saturday 17 January 2026.
Please note: Registration does not guarantee a ticket because:
the event is always oversubscribed,...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Register is open for UKGovCamp 2026!
Join us on 17 January 2026 for a free, community-led unconference where public sector people meet to share ideas, collaborate, and improve services.
Spaces are limited. Secure your spot today: forms.gle/tL5q1ZBHYxAq...
Join us on 17 January 2026 for a free, community-led unconference where public sector people meet to share ideas, collaborate, and improve services.
Spaces are limited. Secure your spot today: forms.gle/tL5q1ZBHYxAq...
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UKGovCamp Birmingham: Join Us!
UKGovCamp is happening on 17 Jan 2026. If you work in gov and haven’t attended, now’s the time!
Leaders in policy, operations, and diversity, please share with your teams, connect with colleagues, and help spread the word! Contact us to get involved.
UKGovCamp is happening on 17 Jan 2026. If you work in gov and haven’t attended, now’s the time!
Leaders in policy, operations, and diversity, please share with your teams, connect with colleagues, and help spread the word! Contact us to get involved.
October 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
UKGovCamp Birmingham: Join Us!
UKGovCamp is happening on 17 Jan 2026. If you work in gov and haven’t attended, now’s the time!
Leaders in policy, operations, and diversity, please share with your teams, connect with colleagues, and help spread the word! Contact us to get involved.
UKGovCamp is happening on 17 Jan 2026. If you work in gov and haven’t attended, now’s the time!
Leaders in policy, operations, and diversity, please share with your teams, connect with colleagues, and help spread the word! Contact us to get involved.
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Bull-Ready for UKGovCamp 2026: Registration Opening Soon!
We are pleased to announce that UKGovCamp will be making its first-ever visit to Birmingham on 17th January 2026!
Stay tuned to our channels to secure your place and be part of Birmingham’s first UKGovCamp!
We are pleased to announce that UKGovCamp will be making its first-ever visit to Birmingham on 17th January 2026!
Stay tuned to our channels to secure your place and be part of Birmingham’s first UKGovCamp!
October 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bull-Ready for UKGovCamp 2026: Registration Opening Soon!
We are pleased to announce that UKGovCamp will be making its first-ever visit to Birmingham on 17th January 2026!
Stay tuned to our channels to secure your place and be part of Birmingham’s first UKGovCamp!
We are pleased to announce that UKGovCamp will be making its first-ever visit to Birmingham on 17th January 2026!
Stay tuned to our channels to secure your place and be part of Birmingham’s first UKGovCamp!
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Join the Four Inns of Court to hear about our scholarships and hear from a panel of practising barristers about their journeys to the Bar ⚖️ 🎤
💻 Joint Inns Insight Online
📆 Wednesday, 8 October
⌚️ 6-8pm online (Zoom)
🎟️ Book your ticket: nrtm.pl/4o6ZGOC
💻 Joint Inns Insight Online
📆 Wednesday, 8 October
⌚️ 6-8pm online (Zoom)
🎟️ Book your ticket: nrtm.pl/4o6ZGOC
October 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Join the Four Inns of Court to hear about our scholarships and hear from a panel of practising barristers about their journeys to the Bar ⚖️ 🎤
💻 Joint Inns Insight Online
📆 Wednesday, 8 October
⌚️ 6-8pm online (Zoom)
🎟️ Book your ticket: nrtm.pl/4o6ZGOC
💻 Joint Inns Insight Online
📆 Wednesday, 8 October
⌚️ 6-8pm online (Zoom)
🎟️ Book your ticket: nrtm.pl/4o6ZGOC
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Weeknotes, not yet including SDinGov as I need to gather my thoughts but including some other stuff. weeknot.es/weeknotes-s2... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social
Weeknotes S21 Ep2
I sort of deliberately wrote my last weeknotes on a Tuesday in some kind of attempt to 1. get back into the swing of writing but also to 2…
weeknot.es
September 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Weeknotes, not yet including SDinGov as I need to gather my thoughts but including some other stuff. weeknot.es/weeknotes-s2... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social
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We're hiring a Lead Technical Writer to join our UCD leadership team on GOV.UK One Login.
Salary £67,972 - £83,027.
Salary £67,972 - £83,027.
Quick Check Needed
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk
September 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
We're hiring a Lead Technical Writer to join our UCD leadership team on GOV.UK One Login.
Salary £67,972 - £83,027.
Salary £67,972 - £83,027.
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Apprenticeship diary - week 1 🚀
#weeknotes @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social
crmzchan.medium.com/apprenticesh...
#weeknotes @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social
crmzchan.medium.com/apprenticesh...
Apprenticeship diary – week 1
This week I started studying for my Senior Leader degree apprenticeship at the University of Exeter.
crmzchan.medium.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Apprenticeship diary - week 1 🚀
#weeknotes @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social
crmzchan.medium.com/apprenticesh...
#weeknotes @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social
crmzchan.medium.com/apprenticesh...
Hey everyone, new post here on the diagnostic power of crises and the need to try different things. Keen to hear your thoughts.
medium.com/fawlty-minis...
medium.com/fawlty-minis...
Building bridges across boundaries — Part three
Implications for changemakers when forging new and different paths in uncertain times
medium.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Hey everyone, new post here on the diagnostic power of crises and the need to try different things. Keen to hear your thoughts.
medium.com/fawlty-minis...
medium.com/fawlty-minis...
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Good job if you care about the arts and humanities.
Executive Director for Portfolios, Partnerships and Engagement at the Arts and Humanities Research Council - £91k-£99k
fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Executive Director for Portfolios, Partnerships and Engagement at the Arts and Humanities Research Council - £91k-£99k
fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Executive Director for Portfolios, Partnerships and Engagement
Salary: £91,943 - £99,000 | UKRI Band X | Closing Date: 5th October 2025
fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Good job if you care about the arts and humanities.
Executive Director for Portfolios, Partnerships and Engagement at the Arts and Humanities Research Council - £91k-£99k
fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Executive Director for Portfolios, Partnerships and Engagement at the Arts and Humanities Research Council - £91k-£99k
fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
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Fancy a change? Seeking air traffic control for DHSC digital projects - small to large, mostly national not NHS-facing. Open to all flavours of ddat specialists. flexible, diverse team based in London and Leeds. Talk to me, or to one of the team. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
September 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Fancy a change? Seeking air traffic control for DHSC digital projects - small to large, mostly national not NHS-facing. Open to all flavours of ddat specialists. flexible, diverse team based in London and Leeds. Talk to me, or to one of the team. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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Something I and many others in the NHS have spent months working on has just gone live, a big update to design system and frontend! 🎉
See service-manual.nhs.uk/design-syste... for the changes.
Not super glamorous work, but it helps improve the foundations for our digital services.
See service-manual.nhs.uk/design-syste... for the changes.
Not super glamorous work, but it helps improve the foundations for our digital services.
Updating to version 10 - NHS digital service manual
In August 2025, we released version 10 of the design system and NHS.UK frontend library with new features, updates and bug fixes.
service-manual.nhs.uk
August 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Something I and many others in the NHS have spent months working on has just gone live, a big update to design system and frontend! 🎉
See service-manual.nhs.uk/design-syste... for the changes.
Not super glamorous work, but it helps improve the foundations for our digital services.
See service-manual.nhs.uk/design-syste... for the changes.
Not super glamorous work, but it helps improve the foundations for our digital services.
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Have you had to go through more than one ADHD assessment?
How long did you wait from referral to diagnosis?
What’s been your experience with shared care?
We’re mapping these journeys to push for change. Share your story through our survey.
How long did you wait from referral to diagnosis?
What’s been your experience with shared care?
We’re mapping these journeys to push for change. Share your story through our survey.
Your ADHD assessment experience
The information collected will be used to understand and describe the experiences of people seeking ADHD assessment. There is no identifying information collected with the form unless it is typed into...
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August 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Have you had to go through more than one ADHD assessment?
How long did you wait from referral to diagnosis?
What’s been your experience with shared care?
We’re mapping these journeys to push for change. Share your story through our survey.
How long did you wait from referral to diagnosis?
What’s been your experience with shared care?
We’re mapping these journeys to push for change. Share your story through our survey.
Out of office on. It’s been a while since I had a break - and time to hit the road.
So, here goes.
So, here goes.
August 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Out of office on. It’s been a while since I had a break - and time to hit the road.
So, here goes.
So, here goes.
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I’ve been busy working on a few opportunities for work...but it’s all taking longer than expected.
Frustrating for me, but an opportunity for you to bring me in for a few months instead!
I’m available 3 days a week (asap!), hybrid to do 3 things:
con't
Frustrating for me, but an opportunity for you to bring me in for a few months instead!
I’m available 3 days a week (asap!), hybrid to do 3 things:
con't
Ann Kempster - Digital Leader
annkempster.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I’ve been busy working on a few opportunities for work...but it’s all taking longer than expected.
Frustrating for me, but an opportunity for you to bring me in for a few months instead!
I’m available 3 days a week (asap!), hybrid to do 3 things:
con't
Frustrating for me, but an opportunity for you to bring me in for a few months instead!
I’m available 3 days a week (asap!), hybrid to do 3 things:
con't
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UKGovCamp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) will be in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026.
We need a venue:
1️⃣ for 250 people,
2️⃣ 8 breakout rooms,
3️⃣ wheelchair accessible.
@imhuyorks.bsky.social is leading the search.
Please share and reply with ideas 🙂
We need a venue:
1️⃣ for 250 people,
2️⃣ 8 breakout rooms,
3️⃣ wheelchair accessible.
@imhuyorks.bsky.social is leading the search.
Please share and reply with ideas 🙂
July 31, 2025 at 7:06 AM
UKGovCamp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) will be in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026.
We need a venue:
1️⃣ for 250 people,
2️⃣ 8 breakout rooms,
3️⃣ wheelchair accessible.
@imhuyorks.bsky.social is leading the search.
Please share and reply with ideas 🙂
We need a venue:
1️⃣ for 250 people,
2️⃣ 8 breakout rooms,
3️⃣ wheelchair accessible.
@imhuyorks.bsky.social is leading the search.
Please share and reply with ideas 🙂
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UK National Data Library jobs at GDS/DSIT:
● Head of Policy & Strategy www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
● Head of Engagement www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
● Head of PMO www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
#govtech #datapolicy #datasharing
● Head of Policy & Strategy www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
● Head of Engagement www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
● Head of PMO www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
#govtech #datapolicy #datasharing
July 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
UK National Data Library jobs at GDS/DSIT:
● Head of Policy & Strategy www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
● Head of Engagement www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
● Head of PMO www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
#govtech #datapolicy #datasharing
● Head of Policy & Strategy www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
● Head of Engagement www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
● Head of PMO www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
#govtech #datapolicy #datasharing
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The call for Sessions for Ripples:Bristol (formerly Agile in the City: Bristol) is open: bristol.ripple.events/call-sessions
See the event website for more info.
See the event website for more info.
Call for sessions
Want to make waves? Submit a session for Ripples: Bristol
bristol.ripple.events
July 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The call for Sessions for Ripples:Bristol (formerly Agile in the City: Bristol) is open: bristol.ripple.events/call-sessions
See the event website for more info.
See the event website for more info.
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Are you a #facilitator? Maybe a #facilitation expert? Want to learn from fellow #facilitators?
Then the Facilitator's Unconference (TFU) is for you www.facilitators-unconference.com
3 questions:
1. October or November for #TFU2026?
2. Birmingham, London or Manchester?
3. How should it feel?
Then the Facilitator's Unconference (TFU) is for you www.facilitators-unconference.com
3 questions:
1. October or November for #TFU2026?
2. Birmingham, London or Manchester?
3. How should it feel?
Home
Re-shape the way you think about facilitation.
www.facilitators-unconference.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Are you a #facilitator? Maybe a #facilitation expert? Want to learn from fellow #facilitators?
Then the Facilitator's Unconference (TFU) is for you www.facilitators-unconference.com
3 questions:
1. October or November for #TFU2026?
2. Birmingham, London or Manchester?
3. How should it feel?
Then the Facilitator's Unconference (TFU) is for you www.facilitators-unconference.com
3 questions:
1. October or November for #TFU2026?
2. Birmingham, London or Manchester?
3. How should it feel?