DEMOS

Kirsten Bound is a senior researcher at Demos, where she has worked since 2004. Her work broadly looks at democracy and innovation and she has a particular focus in developing Demos’ international research relationships.

Her work on governance and participation includes a co-authored publication for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on Mapping Governance at the Local Level and a report for The Electoral Commission on the 2004 European Parliamentary elections. In 2006 Community Participation: Who Benefits? -  a report Kirsten co-authored with Paul Skidmore and Hannah Lownsbrough -  was published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Kirsten worked with the British Council and Swedish think tank SNS to initiate the first ever Network Effect, an ongoing biannual forum that nurtures networks between next generation European leaders. Scandinavian links extend to other work with the Finnish innovation agency, SITRA. She also set up and managed a series of monthly seminars called Open Secrets, designed to diffuse learning and create a space for new ideas about public sector innovation.

In 2007 Demos launched The Atlas of Ideas: China, India, South Korea and the New Geography of Science, a set of publications forming part of a major research programme about science, innovation and globalization. Kirsten led the India stream of the research. After in depth fieldwork in India in 2006, in 2007 Kirsten authored India: the uneven innovator. Phase two of the Atlas of Ideas began in April 2007.

In addition to the Atlas of Ideas, building her knowledge of the impact of international migration on innovation, Kirsten is currently leading a piece of new research into talent attraction and qualities of place for Scottish Enterprise.

Kirsten has a First Class degree in European Social and Political Studies from University College London, speaks fluent French, is learning Spanish and so far has at least 3 words of Hindi.