A landmark project on everyday power shows how far we have to travel to become a nation of powerful people.

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.

Demos has embarked on a new research project aimed uncovering the real life experiences of social housing residents, with the aim of using their personal stories to inform both policymaking and the activities of Housing Associations in the UK.

This project explores how technological and social change impact on universities. Technology has the potential to help all universities become open universities, but its implications, opportunities and uncertainties need deeper explanation.

This project will explore how social networks will transform the workplace, with implications for how people experience work and businesses increase their bottom line.

The Progressive Conservatism Project is undertaking new research into how Britain can reform unemployment benefits in order to spread the cost more fairly between individuals, employers and the state.

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?

This project looks at ways of using conservative theory and ideology to deliver progressive aims in the context of poverty in the UK.

This project seeks to raise profound economic and philosophical questions about the nature of ownership, the structure of the firm and policy options for diversifying Britain's business structures.

One of the most successful sectors of the British economy is the creative and cultural sector - creativity has become increasingly important in other sectors as well. This series of seminars brings together representatives of successful and creative organisations to identify common challenges and examine what lessons there are in how they have each met them.

James Nachtwey won the TED Prize in 2007. He used it to take pictures of an under-reported health issue now affecting 50 countries across the world. We are helping him break and spread his images in London.