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Past Live Projects
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A Common Language
(past)
This project, running in parallel to wider Demos work on adult learning, will begin with first principles – why ESOL matters – and work through to a logical conclusion of how best it can be delivered in practice, within a coherent policy framework.
Researchers: Duncan O'Leary
20 Bookmarks 15 Themes
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An Underwhelming Truth
(past)
2006 was the year of the eco-issue, Priuses on back-order, "An Inconvenient Truth" and Arnold Schwarzenegger's green coup. But is sustainability’s new look only skin deep?
Researchers: Molly Webb
2 BlogPosts 15 Bookmarks 17 Themes
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As You Like It
(past)
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...
Researchers: Kirsten Bound Peter Bradwell
21 BlogPosts 24 Bookmarks 29 Themes
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Beyond Inclusion
(past)
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.
Researchers: Hannah Green
8 Bookmarks 10 Themes
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Bringing it Home
(past)
Researchers: Hannah Lownsbrough Rachel Briggs
6 BlogPosts 4 Bookmarks 10 Themes
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Bringing it Home Local Listening Sessions
(past)
Researchers: Hannah Lownsbrough Jamie Bartlett
4 BlogPosts 6 Themes
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Bristol Urban Beach
(past)
Demos and Zero Zero are helping Bristol to open its own urban beach in summer 2007.
Researchers: Melissa Mean
1 BlogPost 1 Theme
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Business of Care
(past)
From partnering to parenting and social services to wellbeing, care and who provides it are growing issues of national and international concern. While it is widely agreed that we do not want to go back to a model of female-dominated care giving, it is also clear that as a society we are unsure about what is going to replace it...
Researchers: Hannah Green
1 BlogPost 6 Bookmarks 7 Themes
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Children Make Places
(past)
Children’s access to the public realm is currently heavily restricted – as much by physical barriers as by adult attitudes and anxieties. As heavy investment in play provision is currently set to deliver physical improvements, there is a need to address the wider social, cultural and political context in which the children’s public realm is being shaped.
Researchers: Celia Hannon Joost Beunderman
1 BlogPost 18 Bookmarks 19 Themes
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Co-Design: barriers and enablers
(past)
Researchers: Peter Bradwell
1 BlogPost 2 Themes