This project draws together existing and new evidence and present practical policy recommendations for improving nutrition for children aged 0-3.

Demos is investigating the different experiences of older people across EU countries.

This project will identify ways that private companies can make use of their local presence and existing operating structures to generate new social opportunities for older people.

This project explores how society and public policy could better support men’s changing roles in their relationships, in their workplaces and in their homes.

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 aims to identify an effective cross-border approach to tackling forced marriage in Britain.

This project explores the tensions, hidden assumptions and challenges to the ideals and institutions that make open societies.

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.

The project will explore the possibilities for a new politics of work.

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.

Tackling the causes of risks and the drivers of insecurity is complex, time consuming and rarely has an immediate or obvious impact.

This pamphlet calls for a radical rethink of resilience. Instead of structures and centralised services, it argues that citizens and communities are the true source of resilience for our society. People must learn adapt and work together to make Britain a resilient nation.

Counter terrorism policy is increasingly about preventing violent extremism before it arises but we are still a long way from understanding what that appeal is. This think-piece explores some explanations which are often overlooked.

Public diplomacy – diplomacy directed at people rather than other diplomats – is vital for tackling global risks like climate change, terrorism or HIV obliterate geographic, disciplinary and organisational borders. This project explores how governments can equip themselves to operate effectively in this new context.

We rely on experts more and more. But we trust them less and less.

Nanotechnology - the science of small things - promises to be one of the defining technologies of the 21st Century. But what will it mean for society and the environment? And how can public engagement in deciding the direction of research be moved 'upstream'?

Glasgow 2020 is the non-institutional story of Glasgow’s future - a project to collect-together the imagination of the city through workshops, competitions, events and creative-projects.

Drawing on all of our public services work of the last three years, as well as over fifty interviews with service innovators in the public, commercial and voluntary sectors, this project explores the emerging discipline of service design, and what it has to offer to ways of approaching the transformation of public services.

The project highlights a number of practices – some current, others aspirational – which constitute a manifesto for twenty-first-century corporate security.

This project outlines a new agenda for debate about family life and argues that it is in the public interest to strengthen the relationships between families, state and civil society.

This project looks at the role social housing providers can play in helping people back to independent living following a period in hospital.

Demos is currently looking at how social housing providers can act as co-ordinators and hubs for support and earlier intervention for their clients.

This project will focus on school-to-work transition: how our education and training systems are preparing young people for employment.

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.