Demos Staff overview
Gillian Thomas
- Telephone
- gillian@tellingresearch.co.uk
As Telling Research www.tellingresearch.co.uk Gillian offers high quality analysis and writing fully grounded in the context of public policy and social change. She is the author of numerous research publications looking at cultural change in a range of contexts such as schools, the workplace and the family. She has a particular research interest in people’s relationship to the environment and collaborates with a number of other consultants and research organisations.
Gillian is experienced in a wide range of innovative research methods including in-home ethnographic studies and mass public engagement events. She regularly uses projective techniques and visioning exercises in her work to get beyond customary responses and to foster dialogue between diverse individuals or groups.
Gillian is author of a number of publications including Seeing the light: the impact of microgeneration on the way we use energy (with the Hub Research Consultants, Sustainable Consumption Roundtable, October 2005) A Child’s Place: Why environment matters to children (Demos 2004) and co-author of Carrots, Sticks and Sermons: Influencing public behaviour for environmental goals (Green Alliance/Demos 2003).
Her previous roles have been at Demos, the environmental charity Green Alliance and the qualitative research agency SW1.
- Authors
- Gillian Thomas
- Publication Date
- 2001-01-01
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
International volunteers develop ‘global awareness’ which enables them to think strategically about issues such as diversity and globalisation. However many employers fail to recognise the so-called ‘higher order skills’ which volunteers develop.
- Authors
- Gillian Thomas, Gina Hocking
- Publication Date
- 2003-02-06
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
This book argues that children should be empowered to win a louder public voice. It calls for a lowering of the voting age and an introduction of 'baby ballots'.
- Authors
- Gillian Thomas, Guy Thompson
- Publication Date
- 2004-05-24
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
In order to achieve goals of sustainable development, we must involve children in the decisions which will determine the shape of their own future environment.
- Authors
- Catherine Pamplin, Gillian Thomas, Qamer Anwar
- Publication Date
- 2004-05-26
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
A short video, featuring some of the interviews and field trips which were part of the research process for A Child's Place.
- Authors
- Gillian Thomas, Helen McCarthy
- Publication Date
- 2004-06-29
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
The same factors which give us unprecedented freedom when we are young can put us at risk of isolation when we are older.
- Authors
- Gillian Thomas, Hannah Lownsbrough
- Publication Date
- 2004-10-12
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
Most homeless people lack the everyday life skills such as dealing with bureaucracy, networking and negotiating that we all take for granted. This report argues that we need a new approach to developing life skills as a way to tackle social exclusion. Attempts to help people develop life skills should start from the actual experiences of their lives, rather than attempting to teach life skills in a formal setting.
- Authors
- Gillian Thomas, James Wilsdon, Rebecca Willis, Joanna Collins
- Publication Date
- 2003-12-01
Happy Birthday Congestion Charge
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Puddle
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Wind Up Wonder
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Hedonism no more
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Tug of love and money
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Nano-marketing
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Teachers need teaching too
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From astrology to algebra
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Quiet kids
According to this article in the Guardian (click here to read), children are not learning...
Beautiful schools
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nursery or prison?
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