Profile avatar
sussumhum.bsky.social
Director of Evaluation at @policyatkings.bsky.social; studying PhD at @kcl-spe.bsky.social; college governor, trustee @taso.org.uk. Interested in political engagement, behavioural science, education and young people, and policy that works
67 posts 1,494 followers 270 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 22 Comments 28

We're hiring: Research Manager Passionate about using research to drive change in higher education? Experienced in impact evaluation? Join TASO’s Research & Evaluation team. 📅 Deadline for applications: 12 Feb 2025 🔗 More info & apply: taso.org.uk/vacancy/rese...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Scrap automatic right of bishops to sit in Lords, says Harriet Harman

submitted 31 days ago • 18 comments

Maybe the real Christmas is sitting down on Boxing Day at 9am to write the introduction to your dissertation. ... No?

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

My recent paper update got a fair amount of attention on here and so I decided to make a thread! The paper studies recruitment at major US and European multinationals to quantify the salience of hiring discrimination in access to top jobs and identify its source…🧵 (1/N)

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Logged off for the year!! Feels amazing.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

submitted 94 days ago • 55 comments

“Successful delivery of the missions will rely heavily on colleges as anchor institutions, but government needs to create the environment in which that collaboration is incentivised and funded" - @hughesdavid.bsky.social on our mission accepted report. Read more: www.aoc.co.uk/news-campaig...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

This is a case study in why a joined up skills sector is needed - so a regulator can't just unilaterally decide to close part of the system to new entrants, benefiting those students/providers and screwing other parts of the sector and the students who need that part. feweek.co.uk/dismay-and-d...

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

I don't know why we've gone with "sickfluencers" when "illfluencers" was _right there_.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

The roast is that I obviously do not have a PhD in political economy because I am six years deep in doing it part time and I do not remember what life was like before I started it. 💩

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

We're thrilled to be working with @taso.org.uk on this very cool evaluation of data-informed wellbeing support in HE.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

This is a great thing to do for people interested in HE/evidence.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

This is (a) sad because I really liked this paper; (b) great because this is how we should work together to address errors and advance knowledge; and (c) annoying in that the error seems to have arisen from some weird (and unusual) behaviour in an R function...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Very nice email to get in the middle of a Monday - this paper has been accepted to a panel for @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social!

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

There is overwhelming evidence that the education system in England leaves too many young people behind. Education inequalities | Christine Farquharson, Sandra McNally, Imran Tahir | IFS Deaton Review | ⁦‬⁩ academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

submitted 196 days ago • 0 comments

I really hope that this bill achieves what it's supposed to, but it's hard not to have some qualms. I do not think any sensible reading of the literature supports the claim that there is a "clear causal link" and even then there is certainly no evidence that a ban will help.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

I am finding these stories almost unbearably upsetting to read. They should be unbearably upsetting to the lawmakers who created this situation.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

There are so many cool political scientists on here. I made not one starter pack, not two, but THREE STARTER PACKS. Here is a thread of the three starter packs I made, plus all the other ones that people interested in politics would like. go.bsky.app/315MyLR

submitted 94 days ago • 27 comments

Read @policyatkings.bsky.social work on the impact of cash transfers for people experiencing homelessness and whether they are more effective than traditional forms of help. Doing this kind of research is an essential part of making better policies that work www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

TFW the toddler coughs during their nap and you were supposed to be working on a paper introduction but instead you were doing Christmas lists and now you are sweating watching the monitor to see whether they go back to sleep so you can actually do some writing (or maybe more Xmas shopping)

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

State schools have closed the gap with private schools in GCSE results, once we adjust for socioeconomic differences in their intakes. New findings in our paper published today in Cambridge Review of Education: https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2024.2420611

submitted 98 days ago • 7 comments

It is not all bad news for people with a PhD that the world is getting more authoritarian

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment