This research will seek to explore the extent to which the Scouting movement helps impart employability skills such as team work, confidence, interpersonal skills and leadership

This project examines how a parent's problematic relationship with alcohol can impact on parenting and children’s perceptions of alcohol.

This project explores the role of faith groups in 21^st century British society – in particular, their role in progressive politics.

This project will investigate young people's attitudes towards the EU across Europe.

This project will explore how the European Union can prevent 'backsliding' on democratic commitments among member states.

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

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. 

This project will focus on 'practical patriotism', investigating the things that make people feel proud and give them a sense of belonging.

The Centre produces new political, social and policy insight and understanding through social media research.

Building on The New Face of Digital Populism, Demos is publishing a series of country-specific reports on the growth of populism in Europe.

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.

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.

This report explores how collaborative design, between public service practitioners and designers is taking hold across the globe. It opens the door better-functioning transport, health, social welfare and education sectors, across the UK, USA, Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

The expansion of the internet has distributed itself unevenly across the generations. Around 70% of people over 65 do not use the internet, compared to 30% of the overall population. Elderly people also experience some extreme forms of social exclusion; for example, 300,000 older people have gone a full month without speaking to family or neighbours. Will the ‘age based digital divide’ fade away or is it here to stay? The connections between old people‘s digital and social exclusion remain unclear. Exactly what does the internet do for old people? Can it help make for a better old age?

We know that the doctor-patient relationship is changing. Sources of health information have multiplied and the GP’s monopoly on knowledge is wobbling. But as we move from paternalism to ‘patient-centred’ how should we think about professionalism and expertise? What are the advantages and challenges of patients and the public playing a more active role in their own healthcare? As the questions patients ask of their doctors become more complicated, how do conversations with doctors need to change?