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Jen Lexmond

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Telephone: 020 7367 6340
Email: Jen.Lexmond@demos.co.uk

Jen was a Senior Researcher at Demos.

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Jen worked in the Family and Society Programme developing Demos’s work on families, parenting, and child development. She has also worked on public service innovation projects at Demos, specifically exploring routes to personalisation in social and health care.

Jen authored a major publication on parenting and social mobility, Building Character, and a report on the prospects facing recent graduates, Class of 2010.

Her research interests include modern liberalism, behavioural economics, and gender. She has a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Warwick University and grew up in the United States.

Making of Me

Authors: Jen Lexmond, Shelagh Wright
Publication Date: 2009-11-02
Publication Type: Report

This paper looks at how families could be better to encourage cultural engagement and creativity.

Building Character

Authors: Jen Lexmond, Richard Reeves
Publication Date: 2009-11-09
Publication Type: Pamphlet

Character - empathy, application and self-regulation - counts. This report looks at the vital impact parents have on forming children's character in the pre-school years. It makes a case for greater focus on parental support during the early years and places character as the most important 'skill' a child can have.

The Home Front

Authors: Jen Lexmond, Louise Bazalgette, Julia Margo
Publication Date: 2011-01-14
Publication Type: Pamphlet

This pamphlet explores the increasingly important role of parenting in policy and argues that economic and environmental circumstances can shape and influence parental approaches for better or worse.

Engaging Mosques

Authors: Jamie Bartlett, Jen Lexmond
Publication Date: 2010-06-15
Publication Type: Pamphlet

This pamphlet is a toolkit comprised of a collection of ideas to increase youth participation in Britain’s mosques and Muslim communities.

The Character Inquiry

Authors: Jen Lexmond, Matt Grist
Publication Date: 2011-05-10
Publication Type: Collections

This collection draws together emerging research from the social sciences about the formation and development of character to inform public policy.

Building Character

Jen Lexmond, Richard Reeves

Demos has embarked on a new research project exploring the influence of parenting in character development of children and the link between character, life chances, and well-being.

The Home Front

Jen Lexmond, Julia Margo, Louise Bazalgette

Following on from our publication Building Character on parenting and early years, Demos is building the case for ‘character’ as the key to life chances.

Participative Public Services

Charles Leadbeater, Niamh Gallagher, Jamie Bartlett, Jen Lexmond

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.

The Character Inquiry

Jen Lexmond, Matt Grist

A growing body of evidence shows that character is the most important factor in determining life chances. The Character Inquiry brings together research leaders and experts to explore how developing character skills can be encouraged in public and private life.

Economic Literacy

Dan Leighton, Jen Lexmond

The health of the economy has a profound effect on our lives. Too often, however, the economy is experienced as something that happens to us, rather than something we are part of. Few speak the language of the ‘dismal science’, and this impacts negatively on our democratic public life. Demos’ Economic Literacy project will probe this ‘democratic deficit’ in economic life.

The Character Inquiry: Call for evidence

Jen Lexmond

Demos is issuing a call to evidence for it's work on The Character Inquiry.

The Modernisation of Masculinity

Jen Lexmond, Julia Margo, Aaron Peters

This project explores how society and public policy could better support men’s changing roles in their relationships, in their workplaces and in their homes.

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