DEMOS

Celia Hannon joined Demos as a researcher in 2005. Her research interests include children and young people, gender, new media, and creativity. While at Demos she has carried out research into parental engagement, family life and education. She has also worked with a range of partners such as YWCA, National College for School Leadership, European Cultural Foundation and Play England.

Her publications include: 

• Their Space: Education for a digital generation this pamphlet looked at how young people are learning, communicating and creating with digital technology. Downloaded over 60,000 times since January 2007 Their Space argued that the skills children are developing through digital activities, such as creativity, communication and collaboration, are those that will enable them to succeed in a globally networked, knowledge-driven economy.
  

• Mind the Gap: The women that policy forgot this think piece argued that the first phase of policy countering gender discrimination did not go far enough. Macro level approaches that established government departments and research taskforces represent an impressive start, but the next phase must look to the micro-level.  Policy must start to address the day-to-day reality of young disadvantaged women.

• Seen and Heard: Reclaiming the public realm with children and young people this report is the result of nine months of  in-depth research into children's everday experience of public spaces. Drawing on interviews with professionals and six case studies it argues that  children suffer from a mix of invisibility, segregation and exclusion from the public realm.  It goes on to outline ways in which our cities can be made more  playful for children, and for all who live in them.

Celia is currently working on Children of Europa, a year long project looking at young people's audio visual culture in Europe, along with a project exploring elderly people's use of the internet. She graduated from the University of Oxford.