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Celia Hannon

Head of the Capabilities Programme

Ceilia
Telephone
0207 3676346
Email
celia.hannon@demos.co.uk

Celia is Head of the Capabilities Programme at Demos. Her research interests include gender, childhood, new media and public space.

Celia Hannon joined Demos as a researcher in 2005.  Her research interests include children and young people, equalities, digital media, and citizenship. While at Demos she has carried out research into family life, education and parental engagement. She has also worked with a range of British and international partners such as YWCA, National College for School Leadership, The European Cultural Foundation, Play England and the Helsinki based Helsingin Sanomat Foundation.

Her publications include:

  • Their Space: Education for a digital generation this pamphlet looked at how young people are learning, communicating and creating with digital technology. Downloaded over 70,000 times since January 2007 Their Space argued that the skills children are developing through digital activities, such as creativity, communication and collaboration, are those that will enable them to succeed in a globally networked, knowledge-driven economy.
  • Mind the Gap: The women that policy forgot this think piece argued that the first phase of policy countering gender discrimination did not go far enough. Macro level approaches that established government departments and research taskforces represent an impressive start, but the next phase must look to the micro-level.  Policy must start to address the day-to-day reality of young disadvantaged women.

  • Seen and Heard: Reclaiming the public realm with children and young people this report is the result of nine months of  in-depth research into children's everday experience of public spaces. Drawing on interviews with professionals and six case studies it argues that  children suffer from a mix of invisibility, segregation and exclusion from the public realm.  It goes on to outline ways in which our cities can be made more  playful for children, and for all who live in them.

  • Video Republic Drawing on extensive research with experts and young people in the UK, Turkey, Germany, Romania and Finland this report charts the rise of the ‘Video Republic’ across Europe, a new space for debate and expression dominated by young people.

Celia is currently leading a project on children in care called 'In Loco Parentis' and another called 'New Anatomy of Youth'. She is the Programme Lead for Capabilities at Demos.

She has a degree from the University of Oxford and has also worked in Policy and Research at Gingerbread One Parent Families.

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Their Space
Authors
Hannah Green, Celia Hannon
Publication Date
2007-01-11
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Their Space: Education for a digital generation draws on qualitative research with children and polling of parents to counter the myths obscuring the true value of digital media.

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Mind the Gap
Authors
Celia Hannon
Publication Date
2007-06-06

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Seen and Heard
Authors
Peter Bradwell, Celia Hannon, Joost Beunderman
Publication Date
2007-11-14
Publication Type
Pamphlet

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Video Republic
Authors
Charlie Tims, Peter Bradwell, Celia Hannon
Publication Date
2008-10-06
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Cheap digital technology and broadband access have broken the moving-image monopoly held by production companies and broadcasters. In its place a new theatre of public information has emerged.

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A Citizens' Charter for Reform
Authors
Celia Hannon, Sonia Sodha
Publication Date
2009-06-08
Publication Type
Report

Demos convened the first Citizens Convention on MPs’ Expenses in association with Ipsos MORI on 4th June 2009, in London. The Convention brought together a representative group of the public for an informed, constructive debate on the key aspects of MPs’ remuneration. Following three hours of debate, discussion, and deliberative voting, the convention produced a Citizens’ Charter – their view on how the system should be changed. This charter represents the views of the people who took part, and we are submitting it to the Committee for Standards in Public as evidence on their behalf.

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Greening Up Demos

Charlie Tims, Melissa Mean, Molly Webb, Celia Hannon, Joost Beunderman

We're committed to being an environmentally-friendly organisation. With all the travel we're doing, it's not going to be easy. We want to share our experiences and efforts at going green on this page - with the ultimate aim of becoming a zero carbon/zero waste workplace.

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Digital Curriculum - Their Space

Hannah Green, Paul Miller, Celia Hannon

The way young people use technology outside school is changing and so are the ways they learn. This project, funded by the NCSL, aims to explore how schools should respond to children's informal learning with digital media such as games consoles, the internet and mobile phones.

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Children Make Places

Peter Bradwell, Celia Hannon, Joost Beunderman

Children’s access to the public realm is currently heavily restricted – as much by physical barriers as by adult attitudes and anxieties. As heavy investment in play provision is currently set to deliver physical improvements, there is a need to address the wider social, cultural and political context in which the children’s public realm is being shaped.

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Video Republic

Charlie Tims, Peter Bradwell, Celia Hannon

Production companies and broadcasters no longer hold a monopoly over moving-images - instead, a new theatre of public information has emerged. Spread across the internet, television, festivals and campaigns this emerging ‘Video Republic’ is a messy, alternative realm of video creation and exchange, dominated by young people. Who inhabits, shapes and regulates the Video Republic?

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Web I'm 64

Peter Bradwell, Celia Hannon

The expansion of the internet has distributed itself unevenly across the generations. Around 70% of people over 65 do not use the internet, compared to 30% of the overall population. Elderly people also experience some extreme forms of social exclusion; for example, 300,000 older people have gone a full month without speaking to family or neighbours. Will the ‘age based digital divide’ fade away or is it here to stay? The connections between old people‘s digital and social exclusion remain unclear. Exactly what does the internet do for old people? Can it help make for a better old age?

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In Loco Parentis

Celia Hannon, Claudia Wood, Louise Bazalgette

Taking a child away from its parents is one of the most significant, life-altering powers available to the state. This wide ranging project will start with the views of young people, to ask how the state can ensure that they are financially, academically and emotionally resilient once they leave the care system.

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Inside Stories

Celia Hannon, Jonathan Birdwell, Tommy Moody, Pippa Read

Demos has embarked on a new research project aimed uncovering the real life experiences of social housing residents, with the aim of using their personal stories to inform both policymaking and the activities of Housing Associations in the UK.

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Anatomy of Youth

Celia Hannon, Charlie Tims

Anatomy of Youth is a new research project which will look at society and policy making from the perspective of young people in Britain aged 16-25.

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Using Flickr as an educational tool

This blog outlines some fascinating ideas for encouraging kids to use Flickr in the classroom.

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How to do your homework on the bus, with a little help from a school i pod

Twenty-three pupils at Astley Community high school in Seaton Delaval will be given iPods in September at the start of their GCSE year in an attempt to encourage them to practice foreign languages outside the classroom. The pupils, who are studying French and Spanish, will be able to download tailormade study material to their iPods from the school's website.

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How to do your homework on the bus, with a little help from a school i pod.

Twenty-three pupils at Astley Community high school in Seaton Delaval will be given iPods in September at the start of their GCSE year in an attempt to encourage them to practice foreign languages outside the classroom. The pupils, who are studying French and Spanish, will be able to download tailormade study material to their iPods from the school's website.

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Dr Joolz: Snapshotz on Life: Flickr in the classroom

Dr Joolz: Snapshotz on Life: Flickr in the classroom

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TV gets left behind as kids head for the web

A new survey has shown that two thirds of kids spend more time online than watching TV. More than half use Social Networking sites every week.

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Online TV news update for Young Europeans

Online TV news update for Young Europeans

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Pan European Youth and media

Julian Rolfe, Manager, Planet Edge, Synovate, commented: "The findings from the study demonstrate that with an increasing lack of faith in the education system and employment market, young people across Europe are investing more and more of their time and energy in their leisure activities in order to give themselves a sense of identity and belonging.

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London Development Agency and its role in the 2012 Olympics

Outlines the LDA's role in the Olympics, its vision of the Olympic Park, and its role in generating business and stimulaing London's economy.

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Cultural Renaissance or Cultural Divide?

Bill Ivey, Steven J Tepper