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​​​​​​​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.
We often talk about helping diverse candidates into politics but we often miss the problems in retention.

Dr Katharina Lawall adresses this critical issue at our next academic series:

📍 Zoom
🕡 Tuesday 9 December, 13:00 - 14:00 GMT
🔗 luma.com/e05qs8kl
How to sustain inclusive politics: mobilising and retaining underrepresented groups in politics · Zoom · Luma
Join us on Zoom for the next entry in our academic series with Dr Katharina Lawall as we look at the challenges facing sustaining inclusivity in politcs. Much…
luma.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This interesting read called The Authoritarian Stack outlines how core public functions are shifting into privately controlled tech infrastructures

We think progresssive technologists will be key to fighting back and creating healthier alternatives

🔗 authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
authoritarian-stack.info
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Campaign Lab Hack Nights are one of the best ways to contribute to progressive change and meet like minded people.

Dont miss our next event sign up now!

🕐 Monday 1st December, 19:00 - 22:00
📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd / Zoom
🔗 luma.com/h9orn0df
Campaign Lab Winter Hack Night! · Luma
Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more…
luma.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Don’t miss our next Academic Series event next week, where Isolde Hegemann (LSE) will explore how AI can help counter political misinformation.

⏲️ Thursday 27 November, 13:00 - 14:00
📍 Zoom
🔗 luma.com/28c4vplp
AI Fact-Checking and the Politics of Misinformation · Zoom · Luma
Join us on Zoom for the next entry in our academic series with Isolde Hegemann as we look at misinformation and the role AI can play in fighting it. As online…
luma.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Dont miss our Hack Night tonight. Its the best place for progressive technologists to get together and make a difference!

Also 🍕

🕐 Monday 17th November, 19:00 - 22:00
📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd / Zoom
🔗 luma.com/jg1mrwsm
Campaign Lab Winter Hack Night! · Luma
Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more…
luma.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Happy to be out today at the @coopparty.party.coop conference.

Our stall will be open all day, so come along and say hi!

If you cant make it check us out here: campaignlab.uk/get-involved/
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Our Friends at the Shiela Mckechnie foundation have asked us to share their Annual Campaigner and Changemaker Survey

It's open until 3rd December and the aim is to support campaigners, improve their practice, build connections, and platform their views
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This weekend look out for us at the
@coopparty.party.coop conference.

We will be sharing insights and technology. Swing by, say hi and check out the tools helping campaigns cut through.

🕛 15 & 16th November
🔗 party.coop/conference25...
Community Britain: Co-operative Party Annual Conference 2025
party.coop
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Why do women and people with migrant backrounds drop out of politics more than their peers?

Join us and Dr Katharina Lawall to hear what’s driving these retention gaps and how we can help fix them.

📍 Zoom
🕛 Tuesday 9 December, 13:00 - 14:00 GMT
🔗 luma.com/e05qs8kl
How to sustain inclusive politics: mobilising and retaining underrepresented groups in politics · Zoom · Luma
Join us on Zoom for the next entry in our academic series with Dr Katharina Lawall as we look at the challenges facing sustaining inclusivity in politcs. Much…
luma.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Join us this weekend for our next Campaign Lab Hack Day

We will be delving into Matrix protocol and how to use it to help campaigners leverage chat to drive change

📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd / Zoom
🕐 Saturday 15 November, 10:30 - 22:00
🔗 luma.com/qyd193bj
Chat Hackers: Prototype Reveal / Hackday · Luma
Join us for a showcase and hackday, where we will present the tools we have developed to date, give a workshop on how to build on WhatsApp, and spend the…
luma.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🚀Our Newest Newsletter is live.

From The Campaign Fringe to deep dives on bias in UK elections, plus upcoming hack nights, AI misinformation talks and more!

Read more and sign up to future newsletters → mailchi.mp/90e823066594...
What did we Learn from the Labour Conference?
mailchi.mp
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
On September 29th, Campaign Lab hosted the Campaign Fringe at the Labour Conference uniting campaigners from across the progressive ecosystem to share ideas and tools.

If you missed this campaigning masterclass, catch up on the action now! 👇

🔗 campaignlab.uk/project/the-...
The Campaign Fringe 2025 - Campaign Lab
On Sunday 29 September, just ten minutes from the Labour Conference, almost 400 attendees filled Camp and Furnace for The Campaign Fringe: a one-day exhibition programme focused on what works in progr...
campaignlab.uk
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Sign up to our next Hack Night and join us to help develop tech to deepen democracy and fight the far right.

Also 🍕

🕐 Monday 17th November, 19:00 - 22:00
📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd / Zoom
🔗 luma.com/jg1mrwsm
Campaign Lab Winter Hack Night! · Luma
Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more…
luma.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Two weeks ago we hosted Prof. Chris Pattie for a deep dive into how bias is built into the UK’s First Past the Post system and what that means for modern campaigning. 🗳️

If you care about understanding the system, this one’s worth your time 👇

🔗 campaignlab.uk/project/play...
Playing by (or with) the rules? Bias and the UK General Elections. - Campaign Lab
The ninth entry of our Academic Series asked a deceptively simple question: how did Labour secure one of the largest post-war majorities in 2024 while winning a historically low share of the vote for ...
campaignlab.uk
November 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Missed one of our Academic Series sessions? 🎓✨
They're all on YouTube ready for you to dive in, rewind, and get inspired.

Perfect for campaigners across the progressive ecosystem who love smart, actionable insights.

🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/@campaignlab...
Campaign Lab
Thousands of activists across the UK volunteer their time and energy for campaigns every year. Year in, year out, we use the same campaigning methods and tools we always have, because we think they wo...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Can AI fix misinformation? 🧠💡

Join us as Isolde Hegemann (LSE) shares new research showing that AI fact-checking might actually work better especially with conservative audiences.

📍 Zoom
🕐 Thursday 27 November, 13:00 - 14:00
🔗 luma.com/28c4vplp
AI Fact-Checking and the Politics of Misinformation · Zoom · Luma
Join us on Zoom for the next entry in our academic series with Isolde Hegemann as we look at misinformation and the role AI can play in fighting it. As online…
luma.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Calling all technologists and campaigners who want to boost progressive campaigns.

Join our next Hack Night and fight the far right, one line of code at a time.💪💻

🕐 Monday 3rd November, 19:00 - 22:00
📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd, E2 7DG
🔗 luma.com/t2mjw1ey
Campaign Lab Autumn Hack Night! · Luma
Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more…
luma.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New paper from King’s College London: small, locally run AI can churn out political messaging at scale, opening the door to DIY propaganda factories

The authors outline defences via detection but its going to be a challenge to stay ahead of the risks

🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20186
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We shared www.epetitions.uk a while back as a simple way to hear what matters to people.

A few months on this tool is helping campaigns see what residents actually care about, in real time.

Acting on issues that are salient in your community is how campaigners win!
UK Petitions
www.epetitions.uk
October 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🚨Excited to announce our next Matrix Hack Day

Sign up now to join technologists and campaigners as we come together to build and share new chat based tools

📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd / Zoom
🕛 Saturday 15 November, 10:30 - 22:00
🔗 luma.com/qyd193bj
Chat Hackers: Prototype Reveal / Hackday · Luma
Join us for a showcase and hackday, where we will present the tools we have developed to date, give a workshop on how to build on WhatsApp, and spend the…
luma.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Labour’s historic majority came on a record-low vote share, while Reform outpolled the Lib Dems but won 14x fewer seats

Join us for our academic series as Prof. Charles Pattie explores the problems with using proportionality as a measure of electoral bias

📅 13:00 - 14:00
📍 Zoom
🔗 luma.com/5r9itoik
Playing by (or with) the rules? Bias and the UK General Elections · Zoom · Luma
Join us on Zoom for the next entry in our academic series as Professor Charles J Pattie delves into the British electoral system. That the 2024 UK General…
luma.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Join us for the next Campaign Lab Hack Night where technologists and organisers come together to build tools for for good.

📍 Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd / Zoom
🕐 Monday 20 October, 19:00 - 22:00
🔗 luma.com/0vgtwc59
Campaign Lab Autumn Hack Night! · Luma
Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more…
luma.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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At the Campaign Fringe by @campaign-lab.bsky.social today -

If you're in Liverpool today, make sure to drop by to meet some amazing campaigners and chat about what works in campaigning!

It's at Camp & Furnace (outside the main conference area) so you do not need a pass to come

luma.com/rpu1av03
September 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🚨 Don’t miss this year’s Campaign Fringe. It’s a full-blown festival of campaigning wisdom

📍 Camp and Furnace
🕛 29th September: 11:00 - 19:00
🔗 luma.com/rpu1av03

Here’s a taste of what’s on the menu 🧵⬇️
The Campaign Fringe at Labour Conference 2025 · Luma
What actually works in campaigning right now? How are progressive campaigns reaching the people that matter, breaking through the noise, and building power in…
luma.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Campaigning organisations from across the progressive ecosystem are coming together at The Campaign Fringe at #lab25

Dont miss the spark that your campaign needs. Sign up now!

📍 Camp and Furnace: L1 0BY
🕡 29th September: 11:00 - 19:00
🔗 luma.com/rpu1av03
September 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM