Paul Miller is a Demos associate working with us on innovation, organisational change and democratic renewal.
He is co-author of a number of Demos reports:
Paul has worked with a wide range of partners from business, the public sector and the not-for-profit sectors. He’s an experienced public speaker and has written feature articles for a wide range of national and international publications including the FT Magazine, the Guardian and Green Futures magazine as well as being interviewed about his work for TV and radio around the world.
Paul was senior researcher at Demos between 2002-5 and before joining Demos, worked as policy advisor at sustainable development charity Forum for the Future where his publications included Open Policy: threats and opportunities in a wired world (2002). He also worked as a campaigner for the Jubilee 2000 Coalition.
Paul has a degree in Physics from the University of Nottingham and an MProf in Leadership for Sustainable Development from Middlesex University through Forum for the Future's Scholarship Programme.
e-mail: paul [at] paulmiller [dot] org
weblog: www.paulmiller.org
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A new approach is needed to tackle on-going discrimination against disabled people: one that coherently leverages positive change as it emerges in society, rather than relying on legislation.
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From memory pills to designer babies, extended lifespans to GM athletes, enhancement technologies promise (or threaten) to radically change our society. Is ours a cyborg future or will we resist the drive to improve human performance? How should policy makers and the public respond?
Bringing together data about ‘disablism’ from a large number of sources in one place for the first time, this report catalogues the ways in which British society discriminates against disabled people and prevents them from living the lives they want to lead.
Independent living is what non-disabled people take for granted – living the life you want to live; deciding what you want to do (and what you don’t), and then having the opportunity and, if necessary, the support, to get on and do it.
The way young people use technology outside school is changing and so are the ways they learn. This project, funded by the NCSL, aims to explore how schools should respond to children's informal learning with digital media such as games consoles, the internet and mobile phones.
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