Demos will act as secretariat to the Commission on Assisted Dying, an independent inquiry into the issue of assisted dying in the UK.

Drawing on older people’s perspectives, this project will explore ageing in culture and society and investigate how public policy should respond to the challenges posed by our ageing society.

This project explores how pre-work training can improve life chances for young people, particularly disadvantaged groups.

This project will investigate the causes and the implications of a perceived decline in confidence and well-being amongst young women and girls.

Demos will build on its research on personal budgets in providing health and social care through this project, continuing the work reported in At Your Service.

This project examines how death can be a less clinical, more personal and more positive experience.

This project aims to quantify and measure the actual economic and social value of Britain's 5,500 charity shops within communities.

This research will seek to explore the extent to which the Scouting movement helps impart employability skills such as team work, confidence, interpersonal skills and leadership

This project examines how a parent's problematic relationship with alcohol can impact on parenting and children’s perceptions of alcohol.

This project explores the role of faith groups in 21^st century British society – in particular, their role in progressive politics.

This project will investigate young people's attitudes towards the EU across Europe.

This project will explore how the European Union can prevent 'backsliding' on democratic commitments among member states.

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.

In October 2008, Charlie Edwards, Head of Security at Demos made a trip to Basra, Iraq.

Tackling the causes of risks and the drivers of insecurity is complex, time consuming and rarely has an immediate or obvious impact.

This pamphlet calls for a radical rethink of resilience. Instead of structures and centralised services, it argues that citizens and communities are the true source of resilience for our society. People must learn adapt and work together to make Britain a resilient nation.

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.

Nanotechnology - the science of small things - promises to be one of the defining technologies of the 21st Century. But what will it mean for society and the environment? And how can public engagement in deciding the direction of research be moved 'upstream'?

Glasgow 2020 is the non-institutional story of Glasgow’s future - a project to collect-together the imagination of the city through workshops, competitions, events and creative-projects.

Drawing on all of our public services work of the last three years, as well as over fifty interviews with service innovators in the public, commercial and voluntary sectors, this project explores the emerging discipline of service design, and what it has to offer to ways of approaching the transformation of public services.

The project highlights a number of practices – some current, others aspirational – which constitute a manifesto for twenty-first-century corporate security.

This project outlines a new agenda for debate about family life and argues that it is in the public interest to strengthen the relationships between families, state and civil society.

This research aims to identify precisely what values people associate with dying in a home environment and establish why so many more people say they want to die at home.

This project will analyse the generational shift in attitudes towards the welfare state and its far-reaching implications.

Demos is exploring the possibility of personalised end of life care that reflects personal values and also involves maximum choice and control for care users and their families.

Through this project, Demos hopes to paint a detailed and evidence-based picture of the lives of families who are struggling with the cumulative effect of multiple disadvantage in Scotland today.

This research is exploring the potential of prepaid card technology to achieve a personalised, integrated, empowering state.

This project looks at the role social housing providers can play in helping people back to independent living following a period in hospital.

The London Olympics are on track to regenerate a vast swathe of East London, turning a poisonsed industrial site into the biggest new park since Hyde Park, but how will Londoners really benefit and have the goals been met?

Smart city technologies promise to make cities more efficient, liveable and productive. There are real implementation challenges on introducing new technologies at scale in an established city. What are the costs and benefits for London?

Despite being one of the most prosperous cities in the world, London has among the UK’s highest rates of worklessness: one in three working age Londoners is out-of-work. What will be the impact of welfare reforms on London and how London can get the best from this new system? How can models of localism and devolution boost employment in the capital?

This project focusses on access to higher education in London's schools and boroughs and looks at high skills as a key economic driver. 

The Thames is one of London's greatest assets but also presents one of its more pressing challenges. How can improvements to the quality of the architecture and public spaces, and more use of the banks and the river itself be financed, managed and delivered?

The plans for East London Tech City have generated a good deal of excitement. But the way ahead is far from clear. This project looks at how these plans can be best achieved, by comparing East London to other international tech based regenerations and by talking directly to entreprenuers.