Julia Huber
Researcher
Julia joined Demos as a researcher in June 2002. Her main research interests are in the area of demography, social change and learning. She is leading Demos' work on the ageing society and her Demos publications in this area include; together with Paul Skidmore The New Old: Why the baby boomers won't be pensioned off (2003); and together with James Harkin Eternal Youths: How the baby boomers are having their time...
Contact details:
Email: julia.huber@demos.co.uk
Julia joined Demos as a researcher in June 2002. Her main research interests are in the area of demography, social change and learning.
She is leading Demos' work on the ageing society and her Demos publications in this area include;
- together with Paul Skidmore The New Old: Why the baby boomers won't be pensioned off (2003);
- and together with James Harkin Eternal Youths: How the baby boomers are having their time again (2004).
Both reports argue that in order to understand the implications of an ageing society and the challenges it will present, we need to examine the attitudes and values of the next generation of older people - the baby boomers. While the New Old examines the attitudes of boomers in a whole range of areas from working during retirement to intergenerational relations, Eternal Youths focuses on the expectations and demands that the ageing boomers will have from service and consumer goods providers.
Currently Julia is developing the agenda for a continuing research programme on the ageing society as well as working on several other projects on social change and learning. She is also intern co-ordinator and publications manager at Demos.
Previous to joining Demos, Julia did an undergraduate degree in History at the University of Hull, followed by a MA in History of International Relations at the London School of Economics.