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.

Building on The New Face of Digital Populism, Demos is publishing a series of country-specific reports on the growth of populism in Europe.

This projects asks the extent to which young people can discriminate between the wealth of information found online.

The project looks at how the English Defence League work and who its supporters are.

This project from the Violence and Extremism team looks at the growth of populism across Europe.

This project will investigate youth 'binge drinking', focusing in particular on the impact of parenting and peer influences on drinking behaviour.

Demos is looking at how government can approach new harmful chemical substances, or 'legal highs', in an effective way.

Demos are working with Scottish Enterprise to investigate what role place plays in the attraction of talent to Scottish cities.

The government's Building Schools for the Future scheme is a momentous opportunity to catalyse change on a local community level. The key question that this project seeks answers to is how can community participation in BSF be utilised to move beyond the design of new buildings, to shaping and creating learning communities fit for the demands of modern society?

This project is a chance to explore the tensions in the current debate between fostering a 'nanny state' and finding a response to some of the most pressing social issues of our time.

From partnering to parenting and social services to wellbeing, care and who provides it are growing issues of national and international concern. While it is widely agreed that we do not want to go back to a model of female-dominated care giving, it is also clear that as a society we are unsure about what is going to replace it...

Demos and Zero Zero are helping Bristol to open its own urban beach in summer 2007.

A project with NESTA, exploring the extent to which the perceptions of and attitudes of school-age pupils towards work and innovation differ from or complement the working world they are likely to experience.

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.