Demos Staff overview
Ally Paget
Junior Associate
Ally joined Demos as a Junior Associate in July 2012, working on the public services and welfare programme.
Claudia Wood
Deputy Director
Claudia is Deputy Director of Demos. Her primary research interests are health and social care, public service markets and personalisation, ageing, disability and benefits reform.
Jamie Bartlett
Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme
Jamie is the Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media. His primary research interests are: terrorism, extremism and social media analysis, including the use of social media by political movements and law enforcement agencies.
Jo Salter
Researcher
Jo is a Researcher at Demos, working on the Public Services and Welfare Programme.
Jonathan Todd
Associate
Jonathan is a Demos Associate, currently working on the economics of cities.
Gillian Thomas
Gillian Thomas is a fully trained qualitative specialist with over seven years experience in one-to-one interviewing, focus group facilitation and ethnographic fieldwork. She is experienced in a wide range of innovative research methods including in-home ethnographic studies and large public engagement events.
Hannah Green
Hannah Green ran the Families and Care programme at Demos before going to Japan to carry out comparative research on care and families.
Hannah Lownsbrough
Hannah Lownsbrough became a Demos associate in the summer of 2007. Her expertise is in the field of community organisations, community-led approaches to regeneration and race issues.
Helen Burrows
Associate
Helen Burrows is a Demos Associate, who lead the Risky Business project on the creative industries.
Hilary Cottam
Hilary is a social entrepreneur whose recent projects include a radical re-think of the prison system, a new approach to designing schools for the 21st century and new services for preventative health care.
Howard Reed
Associate
Howard Reed is Director of the economic research consultancy Landman Economics and a Demos Associate providing advice on economic research. He has recently worked on Reinventing Venture Capital.
Nick Claydon
Trustee
Nick is a partner at corporate communication agency, Brunswick, with over fifteen years experience advising clients on financial, corporate and critical media issues.
Penny Egan
Trustee
Penny Egan is Executive Director of the US-UK Fulbright Commission and former Director of the RSA.
Jonathan Senior
Communications and Media Intern
Jonathan joined Demos in January 2013 as the Communications Intern.
Leah Brumer
Research Intern
Leah joined Demos in February 2013 as a Research Intern with the Citizens Programme.
Rutger Birnie
Research Intern
Rutger joined Demos in February 2013 as a Research Intern with the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media.
Paris Gourtsoyannis
Media and Communications Intern
Paris joined Demos in May 2011 as a Media and Communications Intern.
Peter Bradwell
Researcher
Peter is a researcher at Demos. He is interested in the way information and knowledge is shared as well as digital identity, online culture, copyright and intellectual property.
Phillida Cheetham
Alumni
Phillida was a Junior Associate at Demos, working on the Family and Society programme and the Public Services and Welfare programme.
Poonam Pattni
Research Intern
Poonam joined Demos in January 2011 as a research intern on the Family and Society programme.
Rachel Briggs
Rachel is Research and Policy Director, Security and Integration at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Between 2003 - 2008 she worked as Head of International Strategy and Head of the Identity Programme at Demos.
Ravi Shankar Jayaram
Research Intern
Ravi joined Demos in January 2011 as a research intern on the Progressive Conservatism Project.
Jamie Bartlett
Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme
Jamie is the Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media. His primary research interests are: terrorism, extremism and social media analysis, including the use of social media by political movements and law enforcement agencies.
Julia Margo
Alumni
Julia was Deputy Director at Demos. Her expertise is in social mobility, wellbeing and capabilities, education policy and anti-social behaviour.
Max Wind-Cowie
Head of the Progressive Conservatism Project
Max Wind-Cowie runs the Progressive Conservatism Project at Demos, which identifies conservative values and policies that have progressive ends.
Richard Reeves
Director
Richard is a former Director of Demos. His interests include trends in British politics; the economics and politics of wellbeing; liberal political philosophy; and the future of the workplace.
Samuel Jones
Associate
Samuel is an Associate of Demos. His interests include the arts, museums and galleries, and creativity.
Jenni Russell
Demos Advisory Council
Jenni Russell is a columnist for the Sunday Times and the Guardian.
Jonathan Wolff
Demos Advisory Council
Jonathan Wolff is a Professor of Philosophy at University College London.
Julian le Grand
Demos Advisory Council
Julian le Grand is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Chairman of Health England.
Lynsey Hanley
Demos Advisory Council
Lynsey Hanley is a writer and honorary research fellow at Lancaster University.
Richard Best
Demos Advisory Council
Baron Best is a member of the House of Lords, and former Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Richard Sennett
Demos Advisory Council
Richard Sennett is a Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.
Richard Thaler
Demos Advisory Council
Richard Thaler is Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, University of Chicago.