Profile:
Full name: Matthew Taylor
Area of interest: Current affairs, Politics, Arts, Education
Journals/Organisation: The Guardian
Email: matthew.taylor@rsa.org.uk | contact details
Personal website:
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/matthewtaylorrsa
Blog: Matthew's blog at the RSA (formerly mtblog - the view from the 4th floor of john adam street)
Representation:
Networks: https://api.twitter.com/#!/RSAMatthew
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Biography:
About: Became Chief Executive of the RSA in November 2006. Prior to this appointment, he was Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to the Prime Minister, see: http://www.matthewtaylorsblog.com/about
Education: Emanuel School (public school in Battersea); University of Southampton: BA Sociology (first); Warwick University: MA Industrial relations
Career: Set up a research unit at the teachers' union, the NASUWT, 1985/1988; Director, West Midlands Health Service Monitoring Unit, 1988/1990; Senior research fellow, University of Warwick, 1990/1993; Assistant general secretary, Labour party (during the 1997 general election was Labour's director of policy and a member of the Party's central election strategy team), 1994/98; Director, Institute for Public Policy Research, 1999/2003; Chief adviser on political strategy to the Prime Minister, 2003/2006; Chief Executive RSA, 2006-
Current position/role: Comments on education and other issues
- also writes/has written for: The Observer, New Statesman, Prospect
Other roles/Main role: Chief Executive of the RSA info (VIDEO)
Other activities:
Disclosures:
Viewpoints/Insight:
- Interview: For the good of society - As Tony Blair's favourite adviser, Matthew Taylor had to be careful what he said in public. Now, having left politics to head up the Royal Society of Arts, he wants to tackle issues no politician would dare touch. By Damian Thompson - The Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2007
- BBC Politics Show: Matthew Taylor interview transcript - On the Politics Show, Sunday 14 January 2007, Jon Sopel interviewed Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA
- Article: Why life is good - A dangerous gap exists between our personal experience, which is mainly happy, and our view of a society in decline - New Statesman, 3rd January 2008
Broadcast media: makes frequent appearances
Video:
Controversy/Criticism: The limits of the 'think tank' revolution - By Gerry Hassan for openDemocracy.net, 9th September 2008 (from the International Relations and Security Network)
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Scoops:
Other: Son of sociologist and broadcaster Professor Laurie Taylor
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Articles:
- To resist the Kelly reforms of party funding is an invitation to scandal - Labour and Conservative reaction to the Kelly proposals shows no lessons have been learned from the MPs' expenses debacle - 22nd November 2011
- Brain science and the law: should we understand more and condemn less? - Matthew Taylor, who presents a new series about neuroscience on Radio 4, argues we should favour treatment over punishment - 15th November 2011
- If we can organise the Olympics, why can't we get the basics right? - When it comes to grand occasions, few can beat us. If only we were better at improving our vital infrasctructure - 31st July 2011
- The big idea: councils must be ingenious not innovative - Making the most of the resources you have is the key to redesigning services – and that goes for local government too - 3rd May 2011
- Help people help themselves - We need to turn public services inside out to make our money go further, but it could be an opportunity for invention and progress - 6th october 2009
- Reform should begin by cutting the number of ministers - Cost-cutting changes to public services should start with slimming down central government - 24th June 2009
- A new politics: Citizens not consumers - We need a radically new political discourse that makes voters take real responsibility and make tough choices - 3rd June 2009
- New Labour's lessons for Obama - The incoming American president could learn from post-1997 Blair mistakes - 6th November 2008
- Behaviour battleground - Whether trying to get us to give up smoking or stop carrying knives, politicians want to make us mend our ways. But will we listen? - 17th September 2008
- Darling, you've done us a favour - The chancellor's honesty may not help Labour, but he's done the rest of us a good turn: it's time we faced up to recession - Monday, 1st September 2008
- Let's set a new standard - Any replacement for Sats must combine their accountability with scope for more creative learning - 13th August 2008
- Likeability to electability - The political winds blow in Cameron's favour, but he may yet be dismissed as a policy-free pessimist - 17th July 2008
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