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Jen Lexmond

Researcher

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

Jen is a Researcher at Demos. Her research interests include modern liberalism, behavioural economics and gender.

Jen works in the Capabilities 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 personalization in social and health care.

Jen authored a major publication parenting and social mobility, Building Character.

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.

 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Home Front

Jen Lexmond, Julia Margo

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.

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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.

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The Character Inquiry

Jen Lexmond, Richard Reeves

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.

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Economic Literacy

Dan Leighton, Jen Lexmond, Eugene Grant

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.

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Bring men into the family

Jen Lexmond writes on gender and work in The Guardian.

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Gender is still behind the City's pay gap

Jen Lexmond writes on gender and the City in the Guardian

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David Cameron's tax incentives for married couples will not solve family breakdown

Jen Lexmond writes on marriage and politics in The Daily Telegraph

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Woman's Hour

Jen Lexmond discusses 'tough love' parenting on Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

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How tough love breeds smart children

The Observer's Anushka Asthana writes on Demos' Building Character report.

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Tough love 'is good for children'

Results from Demos' Building Character report covered by BBC online.

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Tough love: The good parents' guide

The Independent on Sunday covers Demos' new report Building Character.