Demos Staff overview
Julia Margo
Alumni
- Telephone
- 020 7367 4200
- julia.margo@demos.co.uk
Julia was Deputy Director at Demos. Her expertise is in social mobility, wellbeing and capabilities, education policy and anti-social behaviour.
Julia Margo was Deputy Director at Demos.
Julia's areas of expertise include:
- Social trend analysis, including demographic change (fertility, ageing, family formation)
- Social mobility
- Social and Emotional wellbeing and character development
- Education policy: schools reform and teaching
- Childhood, youth and adolescence
- Anti-social behaviour and crime
Julia is a regular commentator in the international and national press. She also writes for national, online and specialist press and is an experienced chair and public speaker on a wide range of subjects.
Previously Julia was Associate Director and Head of the Strategic Research Team at the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr). She was also Editor of Public Policy Research (PPR) the leading policy and politics journal published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Previous to working at ippr she worked as commissioning editor on the Sunday Times’ News Review, and as Parliamentary Researcher to Paddy Ashdown and Simon Hughes.
Previous publications include:
- Those who can? (ippr 2008)
- Make me a Criminal (ippr 2008)
- Thursday’s Child (ippr 2008)
- Get Happy (NCH 2007)
- Politics for a new Generation (ed.) (Palgrave Macmillan 2007)
- Beyond Liberty (ed.) (ippr 2007)
- Freedom’s Orphans (ippr 2006)
- Population Politics (ippr 2006)
- PPR vols 13, 14 and 15 (2006-2008)
- Authors
- Julia Margo, William Bradley
- Publication Date
- 2010-02-09
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
A concern with inequality lies deep in liberal DNA. More than a century and a half ago, John Stuart Mill argued for a cap on inheritance so that wealth might be more fairly distributed in society. His views jarred with Victorian attitudes, but this pamphlet argues for a renewed liberal equality agenda, based on evidence of the divisive impact of inequality on society and recent findings of the central role that financial security and access to resource plays in life chances and child development.
- Authors
- Sonia Sodha, Julia Margo
- Publication Date
- 2010-02-25
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
With 1 in 10 five year olds arriving at school without the behavioural skills to become learn in the classroom, this report explores how these children and their parents are being let down and can be supported.
- Authors
- Jen Lexmond, Louise Bazalgette, Julia Margo
- Publication Date
- 2011-01-14
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
This pamphlet explores the increasingly important role of parenting in policy and argues that economic and environmental circumstances can shape and influence parental approaches for better or worse.
- Authors
- Jonathan Birdwell, Matt Grist, Julia Margo
- Publication Date
- 2011-03-11
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
This pamphlet explores the school to work transitions of the 50 per cent of young people who don't go to university.
- Authors
- Richard Darlington, Julia Margo, Sarah Sternberg , Beatrice Karol Burks
- Publication Date
- 2011-04-22
- Publication Type
- Pamphlet
This pamphlet investigates the emotional wellbeing of teenage girls in the UK.
Economic Lives
Julia MargoBritain's experience with recession has highlighted deep-rooted public misgivings about what living in an advanced capitalist society means for individuals. What would a new British political economic model look like if it was led by an economic culture that placed real value on a work ilfe balance, social justice and skill-building across the life cycle?
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The Home Front
Jen Lexmond, Julia Margo, Louise BazalgetteFollowing on from our publication Building Character on parenting and early years, Demos is building the case for ‘character’ as the key to life chances.
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Party Conferences 2010
Claire Coulier, Julia Margo, Max Wind-Cowie, Philip CollinsDemos will hold some great events at the three major party conferences this autumn. Find out who's involved, what we'll be discussing and how you can be part of it.
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Through the Looking Glass
Julia Margo, Richard DarlingtonThis project will investigate the causes and the implications of a perceived decline in confidence and well-being amongst young women and girls.
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Access All Areas
Eugene Grant, Julia Margo, Dom LongfordThis project explores how pre-work training can improve life chances for young people, particularly disadvantaged groups.
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The Modernisation of Masculinity
Jen Lexmond, Julia Margo, Aaron PetersThis project explores how society and public policy could better support men’s changing roles in their relationships, in their workplaces and in their homes.
MoreGladwell: the talent myth
Cites a an interesting-sounding study: 'Carol Dweck, a psychologist at Columbia University, has found that people generally hold one of two fairly firm beliefs about their intelligence: they consider it either a fixed trait or something that is malleable and can be developed over time.' Study found that only those with the veiw that intelligence is maleable were disposed to further learning.
Cruel parenting is not a class issue
This is a cross-post from Thus Magazine, to which Julia Margo is a contributor.I expect...
Compelling teen mothers to work could be Labour's worst social policy idea yet
This is a cross-post from Thusmagazine.com to which Julia Margo, Head...
Another wrong move in the war against teenage binge drinking
This is a cross-post from Thusmagazine.com to which Julia Margo, Head of Demos’ Capabilities...