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Newspeak House is an independent residential college founded in 2015 to study, nurture and inspire emerging communities of practice across civil society and the public sector in the UK.
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Applications for our 2025-26 course Introduction to Political Technology are now open!
The course is designed to support mid-career technologists develop a holistic understanding of the civic landscape in the UK, in order to found groundbreaking new projects or seek strategic positions in key institutions.
The course has run since 2015 and has graduated 80 fellows. It entails a commitment of approximately 16 hours per week and is designed to fit around a day job, particularly if remote or flexible. Originally it was fully residential with participants living in Newspeak House itself, but due to popular demand the course has grown and the majority of course participants now live off campus.
You will spend a year immersed in a wide range of communities working to change society with technology, including government, activism, charities, journalism, and research, and benefit from the expertise and guidance of our multi-disciplinary faculty.
Introducing the 2024 Cohort

We are thrilled to welcome our latest cohort of fellowship candidates for the 2024 program. They bring a wealth of experience and deep expertise, from space law and digital identity systems to parliamentary advocacy and AI-powered campaigning.
Hailing from 11 countries and collectively speaking more than 15 languages, these emerging leaders bring a global and diverse perspective to some of our most pressing political technology challenges. Seven will be joining us as residents, immersing themselves fully in the Newspeak House environment, while eight will contribute as non-residents, ensuring a dynamic mix of perspectives and approaches. We look forward to the groundbreaking ideas, collaborations, and projects that will emerge from this exceptional group of thinkers and doers.
To find out more about our new fellowship candidates and their plans for the year: 2024.newspeak.house
To find out more about the programme itself: Introduction to Political Technology
Events
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As part of our research we offer our spaces for civic communities of practice to convene. Since opening in 2015 we have hosted over a thousand events, including lectures, meetups, hackathons, conferences, unconferences, workshops, roundtables, screenings, fundraisers, launches, and exhibitions.
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If you’d like to host an event in our space, you can hire it outright, or if you’re convening a civic community of practice do get in touch ([email protected]) to see if it could fit into our programme.
What's On
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Each week the college hosts a community dinner called Ration Club. It's open to anyone who'd like to find out more about the college and its work. To find out more or if you'd like to attend, please register.
Register ↗It’s time for another Gæmz meetup in London! Let’s hang out and talk about what we’ve been up to.
This event is free but as we have limited spaces, please only RSVP if you intend to come. And if you need to cancel, even on the day of the event, please let us know so we can offer your space to someone else.
New to Gæmz? It’s a hangout/social gathering event and a community for the people who are into art/experimental/alternative game development, playful media, and general d0peshit founded in 2019 by Nomi (thenomi.com). The event runs for roughly 3 hours, the first hour of which is usually spent on ice breaker sesh/waiting for people, followed by presentations by each of the attendees.
Presentations aren’t mandatory, you can come along just to be interested/supportive/inspired, but we want everyone who does want to present to have an opportunity to do so, so presentations should be short. (5 mins presentations + 5 mins Q&A) Whilst we already have some regular attendees, new people are always welcomed.
Register ↗This session is open to the public, however spaces are limited. Registration includes a suggested contribution towards Jethro’s time.
A workshop to get beginners coding with AI tools in an afternoon.
By the end, you’ll be able to:
- Host a website with a database and chatbot
- Analyse data and produce beautiful charts
Bring your instrument, your voice, or just come to listen and vibe with us. If you haven’t had much chance to play in a while this jam is for you - dust off your instrument and rediscover the joy of making music together in a friendly, no-pressure environment.
Register ↗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.
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 effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.
Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop! 🙂
All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.
Join remotely at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82959644687?pwd=cG9BdEFha3dmNzVjcFd2RUFTWGVNZz09.
Register ↗Dr Katarzyna Anna Klimowicz will tell us about her work as Chief Policy Expert at the Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (Social Dialogue and Analysis Unit, Department of Projects and Strategy), where she is responsible for developing Participation and Transparency Policy.
Dr Klimowicz has been combining academic research with activism and civil society work for many years, and is passionate about democratic innovation and new forms of civic participation using digital tools based on participatory and deliberative democracy models.
Dr Klimowicz is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (Warsaw Program 2013). Previously she led the Best Practices in Exporting Expertise to Counter Disinformation project (under contract with the Warsaw-based TechSoup Foundation) as well as the European Democracy Network and Democratic Innovations in Youth Work projects (under contract with Citizens For Europe gUG, based in Berlin). She was also a Democracy Lab Visiting Fellow at Das Progressive Zentrum, a think tank in Berlin, where she promoted the authored model of network parties.
Register ↗Our futures are more uncertain than ever. In the wake of the For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling, as well as other developments around the world, a group of us, disillusioned with the pro-trans activism thus far, aims to take matters into our own hands.
The goal of this event is to:
- make personal connections
- collate trustworthy information about the social, political, legal, and medical landscape (both present and near-future)
- discuss effective steps we could take regarding both outwards campaigning and intra-trans infrastructure
We’d like to aim this event mostly at transgender people, however cisgender allies (especially if you have information/connections we could leverage!) are welcome too!
Register ↗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.
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 effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.
Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop! 🙂
All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.
Join remotely at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82959644687?pwd=cG9BdEFha3dmNzVjcFd2RUFTWGVNZz09.
Register ↗Meet other people working at or interested in the intersection of tech and democracy. Sparkable and Build Up are organizing an in-person meetup.
This will be a facilitated in-person gathering with the purpose of getting to know each other and finding synergies. Everyone is welcome – feel free to forward to friends and colleagues!
Register ↗Our futures are more uncertain than ever. In the wake of the For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling, as well as other developments around the world, a group of us, disillusioned with the pro-trans activism thus far, aims to take matters into our own hands.
The goal of this event is to:
- make personal connections
- collate trustworthy information about the social, political, legal, and medical landscape (both present and near-future)
- discuss effective steps we could take regarding both outwards campaigning and intra-trans infrastructure
We’d like to aim this event mostly at transgender people, however cisgender allies (especially if you have information/connections we could leverage!) are welcome too!
Register ↗Come along to the seventh integral altruism meetup! This time we’re going to try running an antidebate!
An antidebate is a process designed to foster collective inquiry and understanding rather than adversarial argument. It aims to counteract polarization by encouraging participants to engage with complexity, nuance, and empathy, moving beyond the binary nature of traditional debates.
The exact topic of debate is yet to be decided, but it will be on the role of systems change in EA.
Doors open from 4pm. The antidebate will start at 5, please arrive before then! At around 6:30-7 there’ll be time for hanging out & potluck.
If you’d like to stick around for the potluck, please bring some food to contribute (doesn’t have to be fancy - just grabbing something from Tesco is fine too!). If possible please keep it vegan 🙏
Register ↗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.
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 effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.
Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop! 🙂
All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.
Join remotely at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82959644687?pwd=cG9BdEFha3dmNzVjcFd2RUFTWGVNZz09.
Register ↗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.
Join us for our summer BBQ and celebrate another year of Campaign Lab!
Register ↗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.
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 effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.
Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop! 🙂
All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.
Join remotely at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82959644687?pwd=cG9BdEFha3dmNzVjcFd2RUFTWGVNZz09.
Register ↗A chance for Newspeak House faculty to break bread together before the start of the teaching year.
Register ↗A chance for incoming fellowship candidates to break bread with faculty before the year begins.
Register ↗A weekend to introduce our new fellowship candidates to the year ahead:
Saturday Morning: Introduction to Political Technology
Saturday Afternoon: Overview of Core Modules
Saturday Evening: Fellows’ Dinner (please register)
Sunday Morning: Overview of Advanced Modules
Sunday Afternoon: Group Exercise
Calling all fellows of Newspeak House!
Please come together for our annual gathering to see the graduation of fellows from 2024 and to welcome new fellowship candidates for 2025. Eat, drink, see some old faces, and hear updates from the college.
Register ↗