This project will analyse the generational shift in attitudes towards the welfare state and its far-reaching implications.
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This project aims to quantify and measure the actual economic and social value of Britain's 5,500 charity shops within communities.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This research is exploring the potential of prepaid card technology to achieve a personalised, integrated, empowering state.
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This project looks at the role social housing providers can play in helping people back to independent living following a period in hospital.
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Demos is currently looking at how social housing providers can act as co-ordinators and hubs for support and earlier intervention for their clients.
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This projects asks the extent to which young people can discriminate between the wealth of information found online.
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This project explores the tensions, hidden assumptions and challenges to the ideals and institutions that make open societies.
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This research will look at the potential benefits of a British international citizen service, investigating how it can be integrated into Big Society initiatives and increase civic engagement.
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The project will explore the possibilities for a new politics of work.
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A landmark project on everyday power shows how far we have to travel to become a nation of powerful people.
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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.
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This research will analyse the phenonemon of 'majority retreat', using the 2011 Census and demographic surveys to investigate the true nature of immigration and integration in Britain.
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This project will focus on 'practical patriotism', investigating the things that make people feel proud and give them a sense of belonging.
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The Centre produces new political, social and policy insight and understanding through social media research.
MoreBuilding on The New Face of Digital Populism, Demos is publishing a series of country-specific reports on the growth of populism in Europe.
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Demos Finance is a new financial services research unit, providing industry leaders, policymakers and the public with reliable, objective and easy to understand analysis of the sector.
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The way young people use technology outside school is changing and so are the ways they learn. This project, funded by the NCSL, aims to explore how schools should respond to children's informal learning with digital media such as games consoles, the internet and mobile phones.
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We are examining emerging approaches to public service delivery from across the globe to understand what a new wave of reform might look like in New Zealand, and to examine how unions can take a proactive role in helping their members adapt and thrive in the future.
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The debate about what support young people with special educational needs receive for their learning, needs to start with what young people themselves really value - not just where they go to school.
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The Atlas of Ideas was a three year programme at Demos, which explored changes in the global geography of science and innovation. Between 2005 and 2008, it published studies of China, India, South Korea and Brazil.
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The planning system has been reborn – what roles will planners be playing, and what tools will they need, to maximise the democratic potential of the planning system?
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This collection will outline the lessons to be learned from inter-organisational collaboration in practice, through case studies looking at successful collaboration in action, and conceptual and systems analysis.
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