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Jonathan Birdwell

Researcher

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020 7367 6336
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jonathan.birdwell@demos.co.uk

Jonathan is a Researcher at Demos. His primary research interests include counter terrorism, theories of democracy and civic regeneration.

Jonathan's current work focuses on counter terrorism, social housing and local government.

Jonathan is currently working on the From Threat To Opportunity Project, focusing on the UK and Canada.  Other projects include evaluating trust in local government and the role social housing plays in social and economic exclusion. 

Prior to Demos, Jonathan worked at the Environmental Law Foundation and for the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York City.  He holds an MSc from the LSE in Philosophy and Public Policy.

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Trust and local government

Jonathan Birdwell, Samuel Jones, Faizal Farook

We've all got a sense that trust in government and public services is declining. But we very seldom step back and ask questions like: what do we mean by trust, how do people form trusting relationships, and how can public service organisations realistically develop more of those relationships?

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On the edge of violence?

Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan Birdwell

This project looks at the relationship between violent and non-violent radicalisation by mapping the flow of ideas, people and money through violent and non-violent radical groups.

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Inside Stories

Celia Hannon, Jonathan Birdwell, Tommy Moody, Pippa Read

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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Neighbourhood Watch 2.0

Jonathan Birdwell, Jamie Bartlett

Demos is looking at how communities can bring neighbourhood watch into the twenty-first century.

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Taking Drugs Seriously

Jonathan Birdwell, Jake Chapman

Demos is designing a new project of work that seeks to crack the stymied debate around UK drugs policy. This project will apply systems theory to imagine what the world could potentially look like if drugs were regulated as opposed to criminalised. Without imagining what such a world would entail it is impossible to move beyond the current impasse.

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A very British foreign policy

Max Wind-Cowie, Jonathan Birdwell

This project aims to facilitate genuine public engagement in British foreign policy.  Demos will ask a representative sample of British people, with advice and debate from internationally renowned experts and thinkers, to draw up a list of principles on which they feel that British foreign policy should be based. 

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