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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This work examines the implications of current trends in the English Language for policy agendas. Run in association with Cambridge Assessment, and ESOL Examinations at the University of Cambridge, it will identify not only areas in which policy makers will have to change to meet the challenges posed by the emergence of variants of English - Englishes - but also how government and others can work with providers to take advantage of the many opportunites that 'Englishes' present...
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Following the recent public diplomacy review, now seems like a good time to revisit what we mean by cultural diplomacy and the ways in which culture helps to deliver Britain’s foreign, developmental, and sustainability objectives. This project asks what this means for cultural institutions and whether they could play a role in fostering public debate and engagement. It also set out a new and practical framework for policy makers and practitioners in the UK and beyond.
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Demos has undertaken futures work with a wide range of organisations – helping groups from trade unions to international security bodies plan ahead.
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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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