Demos Staff overview

Back

Julia Margo

Director of Research

Julia_margo_100x100
Telephone
020 7367 4200
Email
julia.margo@demos.co.uk

Julia is Director of Research at Demos. Her research interests include social mobility, wellbeing and character, education policy and anti-social behaviour.

Julia Margo is Director of Research at Demos.

Julia's areas of expertise include:

  • Social trend analysis, including demographic change (fertility, ageing, family formation)
  •  Social mobility: sioeconomic and consumer trends
  •  Social and Emotional wellbeing and character development
  •  Education policy: schools reform and teaching
  • Political ideologies
  • Childhood, youth and adolescence
  • Anti-social behaviour and crime

Julia is a regular commentator in the international and national press. She also writes for national, online and specialist press and is an experienced chair and public speaker on a wide range of subjects.

Previously Julia was Associate Director and Head of the Strategic Research Team at the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr). She was also Editor of Public Policy Research (PPR) the leading policy and politics journal published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Previous to working at ippr she worked as commissioning editor on the Sunday Times’ News Review, and as Parliamentary Researcher to Paddy Ashdown and Simon Hughes.

Previous publications include:

  • Those who can? (ippr 2008)
  • Make me a Criminal (ippr 2008)
  • Thursday’s Child (ippr 2008)
  • Get Happy (NCH 2007)
  • Politics for a new Generation (ed.) (Palgrave Macmillan 2007)
  • Beyond Liberty (ed.) (ippr 2007)
  • Freedom’s Orphans (ippr 2006)
  • Population Politics (ippr 2006)
  • PPR vols 13, 14 and 15 (2006-2008)
Screen_shot_2010-02-09_at_00
Wealth of opportunity
Authors
Julia Margo, William Bradley
Publication Date
2010-02-09
Publication Type
Pamphlet

A concern with inequality lies deep in liberal DNA. More than a century and a half ago, John Stuart Mill argued for a cap on inheritance so that wealth might be more fairly distributed in society. His views jarred with Victorian attitudes, but this pamphlet argues for a renewed liberal equality agenda, based on evidence of the divisive impact of inequality on society and recent findings of the central role that financial security and access to resource plays in life chances and child development.

Picture_11
Ex Curricula
Authors
Sonia Sodha, Julia Margo
Publication Date
2010-02-25
Publication Type
Pamphlet

With 1 in 10 five year olds arriving at school without the behavioural skills to become learn in the classroom, this report explores how these children and their parents are being let down and can be supported.

Way_we_live_2

The Way We Live Now

Julia Margo

Demos is exploring how lifestyles in Britain have changed in the past few decades and what it is that make our modern lives unique.

More
Economic_lives_2

Economic Lives

Julia Margo

Britain's experience with recession has highlighted deep-rooted public misgivings about what living in an advanced capitalist society means for individuals. What would a new British political economic model look like if it was led by an economic culture that placed real value on a work ilfe balance, social justice and skill-building across the life cycle?

More
Project_rectangle

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.

More
Julia

Gladwell: the talent myth

Cites a an interesting-sounding study: 'Carol Dweck, a psychologist at Columbia University, has found that people generally hold one of two fairly firm beliefs about their intelligence: they consider it either a fixed trait or something that is malleable and can be developed over time.' Study found that only those with the veiw that intelligence is maleable were disposed to further learning.