Contents Feedback is very welcome Erratum What are climate scientists saying, and what could they be telling us? Returning to self-censorship TL;DR Gaps and Agency - Gaps in Agency? Fe...
Weeknotes 3 - How to Talk About Science
Contents Policy entrepreneurs in the wild Organisations at the science-policy interface And what about expertise and policy in general? Is self-censorship a thing? What is truth, anyway?...
Weeknotes 2 - Tell the Truth
Contents Developing my weeknote style Emotion, justice, ethics, controversy and the irrationalities of science and policy TL;DR: policy entrepreneurs and self-censuring scientists, two sides...
Weeknotes 1 - Making a Start
Introduction to weeknotes Its been a while, its been exhausting, and I’m far from rested. However, I am going to try to write a short summary of each week over the next three months to record my pr...
Markets as an expression of humanity
Markets are the source of all ills in the capitalist world, right? This was my instinct before I started my MPA. Coming from a background in environmental worrying and occasional campaigning, it ce...
Guest Post - Against Product
I’m at the Scottish AI Summit and connecting with it better than last year. It’s in part a shift in practise, what seemed aspirational and abstract for policymakers in the past is coming alive in t...
The Fragility of (Public) Good
Two years ago, I was struck by a talk at AIUK 2021 from Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta of the Open Data Institute. Zimeta presented on Decolonising the data and drew on classical literature to gain insights...
The Minimum Viable Non-Digital Product v1.0
MVP of organisation structure While starting a previous post, I speculated about specifying MVPs for non-digital solutions. In an idle conversation with a colleague recently, I suggested that the a...
A Wardley Map of the Local Authority Planning Portal 2
Complete a Wardley Map for a government or university service/system of your choice. Please write a short statement (500-1000 words) about any insights doing this work revealed to you. A Wardl...
A Wardley Map of the Local Authority Planning Portal 1
Complete a Wardley Map for a government or university service/system of your choice. Please write a short statement (500-1000 words) about any insights doing this work revealed to you. A Wardl...