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these strands allow both the prefiguration of new social configurations, as
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well as the study of their transformational potential.
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%h4.profile-title Sam Ballard
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Lecturer in Game Design
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Sam Ballard has two roles at Newspeak House. He is lecturer in game design,
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and also artist in residence. Sam has been designing digital experiences for
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over a decade, with an emphasis on user orientated design thinking
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methodologies to solve both creative challenges & system design. He is
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%h4.profile-title Dr Joshua Becker
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Lecturer in Collective Intelligence
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reach agreement on solutions to technically challenging problems when people
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%h4.profile-title Theodore Keloglou
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%h4.profile-title Hoagy Davis-Digges
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Lecturer in Open Web Data
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Hoagy has worked on a number of projects in political and civic technology, working for 38 Degrees and the English National Opera, as well as as a freelance developer. He also worked at a legal technology startup focussing on contract negotiation. He is currently working on a number of projects related to the techniques in his module.
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%h4.profile-title Sinead Doyle
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Lecturer in Service Design
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%a{:href => "mailto:smcdoyle@gmail.com"} smcdoyle@gmail.com
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Sinead is a Digital Strategist and Service Designer. As an Associate Director at
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, she helps clients set a vision for their digital products and services.
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She guides multidisciplinary teams through the service design process, to
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produce better, simpler customer experiences. Over fifteen years in digital,
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she has worked across strategy, creative, and media, at agencies and
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consultancies, on projects spanning public and private sectors.
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She was lead service designer on the Covid Vaccination Programme with NHS
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England, and is currently account director on the design workstream of HMCTS
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Reform programme, digitising citizen-facing court processes within the
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Ministry of Justice.
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%h4.profile-title John Evans
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Lecturer in Chat Protocols
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• Matrix: @john:spacetu.be
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John Evans is an expert chat developer and cooperative practitioner. In 2023 he started work on
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%a{ href: "https://spacetu.be" } Spacetube
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, a tool that connects groups together via their internal chat systems e.g. Slack, Discord, Matrix, Whatsapp, Rocketchat, Signal.
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He is the lead developer for
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, a collaboration with Campaign Lab to build Whatsapp tools for organisers.
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%h4.profile-title Theodore Keloglou
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Lecturer in Digital Protocols
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%h4.profile-title Dr Six Silberman
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%h4.profile-title Peyman Owladi
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Lecturer in Leading Tech Projects
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%a{:href => "mailto:peyman@poteris.co.uk"} peyman@poteris.co.uk
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Peyman has been working on tech projects of a range of sizes over the past two decades.
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He is director of
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, a not-for-profit organisation of 12 people founded in 2020 that works with charities to take care of the tech side of their business, as well as creating its own products like
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%a{ href: "https://chalklearning.io/" } Chalk
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%a{ href: "https://repcoach.org.uk/" } Rep Coach
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%a{ href: "https://learningwithparents.com/" } Learning with Parents
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Peyman also advises nonprofits and startups on their digital strategy as a board member and CTO mentor, including
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, now a Y Combinator company.
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Prior to that, Peyman worked in Cisco for a decade on major projects in their router operating systems team, on a codebase with tens of millions of lines of code, including leading efforts to improve infrastructure for teams working across three continents. Since then he has been a startup CTO, tech contractor, and regular at hackdays.
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%h4.profile-title Anouk Ruhaak
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Lecturer in Data Governance
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I am a data governance expert, helping organizations and communities design and implement models that put people first, from data trusts to data commons. I believe that who controls data matters, and I work to make that control more democratic, transparent, and fair.
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I am the chair of
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(SDBN), a foundation using strategic litigation to fight for privacy rights. We are currently taking legal action against companies like X, Amazon, and Adobe for violating those rights.
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In past lives, I have been a Senior Fellow at the Mozilla Foundation, a Fellow at AlgorithmWatch, a Visiting Scholar at the Ostrom Workshop, a political economist, a data journalist, and a software developer. Each of those roles shaped how I think about power, accountability, and the role data plays in our lives.
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Lecturer in Wargames & Challenge
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Alex has nearly a decade of experience working across the Civil Service in the UK, covering areas such as health, education, defence, and Civil Service reform. He is currently the Deputy Head of the Collective Leadership team, which supports the Civil Service Leadership Group - comprising Permanent Secretaries and Directors General across government.
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Alex has been a member of the government's wargaming community of practice for five years, specialising in engagement and facilitation. He established the Fast Stream Wargaming Network and, more recently, has collaborated with the College for National Security to develop an internal talent pipeline for Civil Servants interested in wargaming techniques.
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(CCID), a part of Nesta. He’s never happier than when mucking around with experimental prototypes and recreational coding.

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