A growing body of evidence shows that character is the most important factor in determining life chances.  The Character Inquiry brings together research leaders and experts to explore how developing character skills can be encouraged in public and private life.

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

Anatomy of Youth is a new research project which will look at society and policy making from the perspective of young people in Britain aged 16-25.

This project will feature a 'People's Inquiry' to explore people's attitudes to the use of their personal information. It will use the outcomes from the deliberative groups to develop practical ideas for matching public expectations and personal information policy.

Open Left is about rediscovering the Left's idealism, pluralism and appetite for radical ideas. It starts by asking an essential, but contested question: what does it mean to be on the Left today?

The health of the economy has a profound effect on our lives. Too often, however, the economy is experienced as something that happens to us, rather than something we are part of. Few speak the language of the ‘dismal science’, and this impacts negatively on our democratic public life. Demos’ Economic Literacy project will probe this ‘democratic deficit’ in economic life.

A growing body of evidence shows that character is the most important factor in determining life chances.  The Character Inquiry brings together research leaders and experts to explore how developing character skills can be encouraged in public and private life.

Anatomy of Youth is a new research project which will look at society and policy making from the perspective of young people in Britain aged 16-25.

Taking a child away from its parents is one of the most significant, life-altering powers available to the state. This wide ranging project will start with the views of young people, to ask how the state can ensure that they are financially, academically and emotionally resilient once they leave the care system.

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.

Demos is undertaking a year-long research project focused on children aged 7-16 who are already displaying signs of being at risk of social exclusion and deprivation in later life.

Wishful Thinking delves into the hopes and dreams of everyday Britain, discovering that in the face of collective pessimism, as individuals we are positive, pragmatic and generous in our wishes and expectations.

Jamie Bartlett and Professor Paul Gregg (author of the Gregg Report on welfare reform) are editing a collection of essays about the future of welfare.

This project will feature a 'People's Inquiry' to explore people's attitudes to the use of their personal information. It will use the outcomes from the deliberative groups to develop practical ideas for matching public expectations and personal information policy.

The health of the economy has a profound effect on our lives. Too often, however, the economy is experienced as something that happens to us, rather than something we are part of. Few speak the language of the ‘dismal science’, and this impacts negatively on our democratic public life. Demos’ Economic Literacy project will probe this ‘democratic deficit’ in economic life.

We've all got a sense that trust in government and public services is declining. But we very seldom step back and ask questions like: what do we mean by trust, how do people form trusting relationships, and how can public service organisations realistically develop more of those relationships?

This project will investigate how infrastructure contributes to making places resilient and what opportunities infrastructure might provide in the future.

This project looks at the relationship between violent and non-violent radicalisation by mapping the flow of ideas, people and money through violent and non-violent radical groups.

Counter terrorism policy is increasingly about preventing violent extremism before it arises but we are still a long way from understanding what that appeal is. This think-piece explores some explanations which are often overlooked.

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

Open Left is about rediscovering the Left's idealism, pluralism and appetite for radical ideas. It starts by asking an essential, but contested question: what does it mean to be on the Left today?

Demos has launched a major new project to explore progressive conservative thinking and policy.

We are working with the Royal Shakespeare Company as it embarks on a major programme of change in the way it is led and managed, to mirror the physical transformation of its home in Stratford-upon-Avon.

This project aims to facilitate genuine public engagement in British foreign policy.  Demos will ask a representative sample of British people, with advice and debate from internationally renowned experts and thinkers, to draw up a list of principles on which they feel that British foreign policy should be based. 

Demos is designing a new project of work that seeks to crack the stymied debate around UK drugs policy. This project will apply systems theory to imagine what the world could potentially look like if drugs were regulated as opposed to criminalised. Without imagining what such a world would entail it is impossible to move beyond the current impasse.

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?

Demos is looking at how communities can bring neighbourhood watch into the twenty-first century.

The Progressive Conservatism Project will set out a new, radical agenda for how older people can be better supported by the state and each other in a time of shrinking budgets, by creating a new facilitator services to unscramble the complex web of state and charitable help already on offer.

This project will look at what underpins the willingness of adults to engage with children and young people in their local area and how this creates cultural and behavioural norms to monitor behaviour.