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Catherine Fieschi

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+44 (0)20 7367 6335
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catherine.fieschi@demos.co.uk
Catherine Fieschi is the Director of Counterpoint, the British Council's think-tank and a visiting scholar at St Antony's College, Oxford. She is interested in how citizens, institutions and organisations create new forms of social and political resilience in the face of change.

Catherine Fieschi is Director of Counterpoint, the British Council's think-tank and a visiting scholar at St Antony's College, Oxford. She was Director of Demos from 2006 to 2008. She is interested in how citizens, institutions and organisations create new forms of social and political resilience in the face of change.   Her work on mobilisation, identity formation and institutional development addresses how citizens, institutions and  states engage in self-definition as traditional coordinates seem to vanish under the pressures of globalisation.  What does this mean for the nature of our commitment to parties, groups, places (homes, work-places or cities for instance) and ideas?

Catherine holds a PhD in Comparative Political Science from McGill University in Canada.   Prior to joining Demos in 2005, she was Director of the Centre for the Study of European Governance at the University of Nottingham. She is a regular commentator on  far right politics, identity politics and institutional analysis both in the UK and the rest of Europe and the author of In the Shadow of Democracy (MUP 2004) .

Catherine is a contributing editor for Prospect Magazine, she is co-editor of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, a Visiting Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, a Fellow of The Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queens University in Canada and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol.  She is also a trustee of The Institute for Jewish Policy Research and a Member of the Board of  MASS LBP, a Canadian company that is re-inventing the concept of public consultation.

Born in Senegal, Catherine grew up in Italy, France and the US.  After a wonderfully long spell in Canada she came to the UK in 1993 for a six month research fellowship--and stayed.

Her articles include:

 

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Bringing it Home
Authors
Hannah Lownsbrough, Rachel Briggs, Catherine Fieschi
Publication Date
2006-12-04
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Based on over twelve months of embedded research, Bringing it Home: Community based approaches to counter-terrorism argues that, despite some commendable attempts at engagement, the Government’s actions continue to drive a wedge between the majority of British Muslims and the rest of society, rather than isolating the violent few.

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DIY Professionalism
Authors
John Craig, Catherine Fieschi
Publication Date
2007-05-22
Publication Type
Report

Today, we expect teachers to ensure child safety, regenerate whole communities and to search young adults for weapons. The public’s and policy makers’ sense that teachers can save society, the pupils’ trust in them and teachers’ own shared norms and ethics all shape and define teacher professionalism.

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UK Confidential
Authors
Charlie Edwards, Catherine Fieschi
Publication Date
2008-05-19
Publication Type
Collections

The transformation of our social lives and the increase in surveillance and technological innovations have led us to believe that privacy is in the midst of a very public death. But privacy is not dying, nor can we let it do so.

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Northern Lights Seminar Series

Catherine Fieschi

A seminar series to discuss social innovation and explore the secrets of the Nordic Model

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Private Lives?

Charlie Edwards, Peter Bradwell, Catherine Fieschi

This Demos collection will highlight new thinking about privacy in the UK, and seek to address the future challenges of the privacy agenda in an increasingly open society.

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RecruiterMagazine.co.uk - Promotion more important than pay

Promotion and moving up the career ladder are the most important factors when searching for a job, according to a survey by recruitment agency Brook Street. Pay and benefits, the people you work with and location, also scored highly. However, surprisingly few said the company profile was an important aspect when job seeking.

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    Engaging engagement

    Last week I went to one of a series of events run by JRF on the Governance of Britain. The...

    Mar 11

    Who's who?

    It’s a well kept secret, but apparently Britons know exactly what it means to be British...