Jamie's primary research interests are:
Jamie has just completed a major project about user-led design and personal budgets in social care, published in January 2008. He has also worked with the Victorian state government, Australia on reforming public services, and with Eastern European governments on trust in government.
Prior to working for Demos, Jamie was a research associate at the international humanitarian agency Islamic Relief and conducted field research in Pakistan and Bangladesh, an advisor for Cambridge Univeristy professor Dr. Noreena Hertz, and a researcher/communications officer for UNESCO.
Jamie holds an M.Sc from the London School of Economics with distinction in International Development Management, an M.St from Oxford University with distinction in Historical Research, and a first-class BA in Modern History from the University of Southampton.
Public service reform is one of the major preoccupations of the three main parties in the run up to the next general election. In fact they all seem to be heading in a similar direction: greater citizen involvement in design and delivery; more local decision making, better freedom for front line-staff, combined with greater efficiency.
A Constitution for Social Care sets out a fair settlement between social care users and society.
The Participative Public Services project will explore how to make participative, person-centred approaches to social care the norm over the next three to five years.
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Counter terrorism policy is increasingly about preventing violent extremism before it arises but we are still a long way from understanding what that appeal is. This think-piece explores some explanations which are often overlooked.
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The government is committed to rolling out personal budgets across all of social care in the next three years. The scale of the transformation is enormous will turn care provision on its head. Demos is carrying out research to find out how this can work and how it will succeed.
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This research is takes a fresh look at government efficiency through types of reform that can – and in many places already are – transforming public services: personalisation, prevention, and collaboration.
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Demos has partnered with two leading charities, the Multiple Sclerosis Society and Leonard Cheshire Disability, to create A Constitution for Social Care. As the government plans an overhaul of social care in 2009, we wished to investigate a series of outstanding issues and fundamental flaws in the current system.
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Jamie Bartlett and Professor Paul Gregg (author of the Gregg Report on welfare reform) are editing a collection of essays about the future of welfare.
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This project looks at ideas for raising aspirations amongst young Muslims in the UK.
MoreAticle describing new recruitment site Zubka.com: It 'gives people the chance to earn a recruitment fee for placing their contacts into new jobs. Users are offered thousands of pounds for successful referrals, and the founders hope it will revolutionise job hunting in the same way Lastminute.com changed the travel business'
Mapping the NPO/NGO software space. Useful tools and applications!
Nanowerk News: Nanotechnology in China: ambitions and realities event
Last week, John Ralston Saul, a renowned philosopher, novelist, political penseur came to...
I've recently blogged about social enteprise and its potential for social europe journal...
Simon Parker and I have just published a provocation paper with the State Services Authority...
Simon Parker and I have published a provocation paper with the State Services Authority...
A new year return for the Demos podcast. This time we're talking about the new pamphlet...
I am blogging directly from the EastWest Institute’s 5th Annual Conference on Security...
I have written a short think piece which questions some of the assumptions about our...
I recently wrote on Comment is Free about what we should do with the so called preachers...
I've a short piece in this month's Prospect magazine which looks at the suicide...
Jamie and I have a piece on Comment is free on the Government's new new-ish radicalisation...
A new podcast. This week, Jamie Bartlett explains why we need to understand what the appeal...
I didn’t attend George Osborne’s recent speech here at Demos “on fairness...
The issue of discrimination and representativeness in the police has long been an important...
The relationship between language and politics is a strange one. In 1946, George Orwell...
In recent months, the use of Whitehall targets to drive public sector performance has...
09/10/09 So the post European election autopsy begins - and the two big stories are the...
24/06/09 So we have a new speaker. I'd like to hear what advice people would give Mr...