Paul Miller
Demos Associate
Paul Miller is a Demos associate working with us on innovation, organisational change and democratic renewal.
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- Book club with a difference You might have come across this before but I like the idea. BookCrossing is a community that acts as a sort of distributed library where once people have read books they "release" them for others to read. Quite often people do this by leaving them in a public place (I found one on a park bench in Tuscany). A sticker inside the book allows the finder to trace the book via the website and chat with other people who've read it. from : paulmiller 12th March 2003
- Self-Organising Fireflies Fireflies do funny things when you get a load of them together. If you've ever seen the spectacular scenes along tropical riverbanks, where thousands upon thousands of fireflies in the trees all light up and go off simultaneously, you might have wondered why. The answer according to mathematician Steven Strogatz is that fireflies are self-organizing. As he says in this interview on Edge.org, "They manage to get in step every night of the year and flash in perfect time for hours upon end with... from : paulmiller 13th May 2003
- Working laterally There's something new growing in the Greenhouse. As a bit of an experiment we've set up a discussion board for the new publication Working Laterally by Demos Associate, David Hargreaves. It's adapted from Education Epidemic, also written by David Hargreaves and published in conjunction with the Department for Education and Skills Innovation Unit.Coming soon - blogs and email lists for particular Demos projects. Watch this space. from : paulmiller 27th November 2003
- Demon Headmasters? I?ve always wondered what headteachers are like outside school and this week a few of us from Demos have been finding out. In partnership with the Specialist Schools Trust we?ve been running a series of events with over 150 headteachers and school leaders, helping them develop their own agenda for the future of education. Demos Associate David Hargreaves has been doing the star turn leading conversations focussing on what networking and personalisation mean for the schools system. His starting... from : paulmiller 26th February 2004
- Civitas go back to school Our former office 'buddies' Civitas (we were based on the same floor in our old Waterloo offices) have decided to open a school.Read the Guardian story here. from : paulmiller 31st August 2004
- Mastering sustainability Our friends over at Forum for the Future run a Masters Programme in Leadership for Sustainable Development, which a couple of us here at Demos have been through. I reckon it's one of the most interesting postgrad courses going in the UK so, as applications are currently open, thought I'd post a link. from : paulmiller 20th January 2005