Helen McCarthy
Researcher
Helen joined Demos in September 2002 as a researcher.Her research interests are in the area of gender and race equality, community development, and public services reform. She is co-author of Inside Out: Rethinking Inclusive Communities (February 2003) and London Calling: how mobile technologies will transform the capital (October 2003). She is currently managing a new project on social inclusion in partnership with the WRVS.Helen is co-founder of Thinkingwomen, a...
- Peacemakers for Hire The Guardian today carried this interview with former British diplomat Carne Ross, who quit his post last year out of disgust at the government's shenanigans over WMD and is now selling his services freelance through a new consultancy called Independent Diplomat. The idea is that governments, NGOs and corporations in need of a bit of impartial advice in those tricky international situations can call up Carne and his friends who will pour diplomatic oil on the troubled waters. I caught Carne... continue reading on 20th June 2005
- Selling the Revolution One of the most significant forms of hegemony wielded by the dominant culture is the power to determine the nature of its own countercultures. Or so says this review of a new(ish) book about the rise of 'hip consumerism' - that is, the blending of counter-cultural ideas, values, images and slogans by business people and marketers with their consumer capitalist projects. This won't be news to readers of David Brooks' Bobos in Paradise (2000), or indeed anyone who watches TV or cinema ads these... continue reading on 19th November 2004 Comments (1)
- It's all in the Mindlines This article in the BMJ from a few weeks ago (please don't ask me why I'm reading the BMJ) suggests that primary care clinicians (ie GPs and practice nurses) rarely explicitly or directly access and use evidence from research to inform their practice, relying instead on so-called 'mindlines' - collectively reinforced, internalised, tacit guidelines derived from interactions with colleagues, patients, pharmaceutical reps, opinion-formers and so forth and morphing over time. Word is, if you want... continue reading on 16th November 2004 Comments (7)