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 project will focus on school-to-work transition: how our education and training systems are preparing young people for employment.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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This project will explore how social networks will transform the workplace, with implications for how people experience work and businesses increase their bottom line.
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A project about personal information, why organisations want it and use it, and why it matters to us as citizens and consumers.
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The Hive is like an art gallery... Except instead of pictures and paintings, there is a catalogue of some of the former interns who have passed through our doors. Prepared to be amazed. Or at least moderately impressed...
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We're working with three local authorities: Lewisham, Knowsley and Bristol, to work out how change happens in local authorities.
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Growing awareness of climate change has not yet been matched by serious cuts in the amount of carbon the UK emits. This NESTA-funded joint project will explore environmental innovation in the UK.
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The security of the UK has been the focus of an extraordinary level of interest since 9/11. This has given rise to new legislation, partnerships between the private and public sectors and created a plethora of initiatives, all accompanied by a vigorous public debate.
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This Demos collection will highlight new thinking about privacy in the UK, and seek to address the future challenges of the privacy agenda in an increasingly open society.
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