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Peter Bradwell

Researcher

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0207 3676 331
Email
peter.bradwell@demos.co.uk

Peter is a researcher at Demos. He is interested in the way information and knowledge is shared as well as digital identity, online culture, copyright and intellectual property.

Peter Bradwell is a researcher at Demos. He works mainly on the way information and knowledge is shared. He also researches digital identity, online culture, copyright and intellectual property.

Following the FYI personal information project, he is starting a new project looking at how the public can drive personal information policy and practice. You can read a short intorduction to the work here.

Peter also works on Demos' podcasts and other audio-visual outputs.

Peter joined Demos in February 2006. He holds a Masters with distinction in Critical Theory and Politics from the University of Nottingham, and previously worked at the Campaign for Freedom of Information.

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Future Planners
Authors
Peter Bradwell
Publication Date
2007-02-06
Publication Type
Report

This report argues that as our places become more important, planners can play a key role in ensuring that place-making is sustainable and democratically legitimate. The challenge is to respond to a radically changed world that offers new a democratic contexts; planners will need to be able consider the needs of people who work, play and visit places as well as local residents' interests. And they need to plan for the global as well as the local environmental impacts of new development.

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As You Like It
Authors
Samuel Jones, Peter Bradwell
Publication Date
2007-03-15
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Around the world, the way that English is used has come to reflect the changing powers of globalisation; it is spoken in different ways, by different people, for different purposes. The UK has developed an unsustainable complacency to its native tongue. Opportunity and influence remain tied to English, but As You Like It argues that native speakers are at risk of being left behind.

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Seen and Heard
Authors
Peter Bradwell, Celia Hannon, Joost Beunderman
Publication Date
2007-11-14
Publication Type
Pamphlet

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FYI
Authors
Peter Bradwell, Niamh Gallagher
Publication Date
2007-12-07
Publication Type
Report

FYI: the new politics of personal information argues that individuals do not have enough influence over how personal information is used, and that we need to reconnect the everyday experience of giving away our details with the longer-term consequences.

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Making the most of collaboration
Authors
Peter Bradwell
Publication Date
2008-06-30

Co-design has become an international movement. This discussion paper reports on the findings of a ground-breaking international survey of 466 public service practitioners, and sets out the challenges that will affect the implementation of collaborative design principles in the future.

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Video Republic
Authors
Charlie Tims, Peter Bradwell, Celia Hannon
Publication Date
2008-10-06
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Cheap digital technology and broadband access have broken the moving-image monopoly held by production companies and broadcasters. In its place a new theatre of public information has emerged.

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Network Citizens
Authors
Peter Bradwell, Richard Reeves
Publication Date
2008-10-29
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Humans are social animals, spinning intricate webs of relationships with friends, colleagues, neighbours and enemies. These networks have always been with us, but the advance of networking technologies, changes to our interconnected economy and an altering job market have super-charged the power of networking, catapulting it to the heart of organisational thinking.

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The Edgeless University
Authors
Peter Bradwell
Publication Date
2009-06-23
Publication Type
Pamphlet

British universities enjoy a position as international leaders in higher education. But their slowness to adapt to new technology and social media, as well as funding threats and fierce global competition, have put universities under intense pressure. The Edgeless University argues that online and DIY learning can create 'edgeless universities' where information, skills and research are accessible far beyond the campus walls.

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Future Planners

Peter Bradwell

The planning system has been reborn – what roles will planners be playing, and what tools will they need, to maximise the democratic potential of the planning system?

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Demos Podcasts

Charlie Tims, Peter Bradwell

New, improved Demos podcasting.

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As You Like It

Samuel Jones, Peter Bradwell, Kirsten Bound

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...

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Children Make Places

Peter Bradwell, Celia Hannon, Joost Beunderman

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.

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Private Lives?

Charlie Edwards, Peter Bradwell, Catherine Fieschi

This Demos collection will highlight new thinking about privacy in the UK, and seek to address the future challenges of the privacy agenda in an increasingly open society.

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For Your Information

Peter Bradwell, Niamh Gallagher

A project about personal information, why organisations want it and use it, and why it matters to us as citizens and consumers.

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Video Republic

Charlie Tims, Peter Bradwell, Celia Hannon

Production companies and broadcasters no longer hold a monopoly over moving-images - instead, a new theatre of public information has emerged. Spread across the internet, television, festivals and campaigns this emerging ‘Video Republic’ is a messy, alternative realm of video creation and exchange, dominated by young people. Who inhabits, shapes and regulates the Video Republic?

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Web I'm 64

Peter Bradwell, Celia Hannon

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?

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Co-Design: barriers and enablers

Peter Bradwell

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.

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Network Citizens

Duncan O'Leary, Peter Bradwell, Richard Reeves

This project will explore how social networks will transform the workplace, with implications for how people experience work and businesses increase their bottom line.

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James Nachtwey's TED Wish to Change The World

Charlie Tims, Shelagh Wright, Peter Bradwell, Peter Harrington

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.

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The Edgeless University

Peter Bradwell

This project explores how technological and social change impact on universities. Technology has the potential to help all universities become open universities, but its implications, opportunities and uncertainties need deeper explanation.

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Health Records

Peter Bradwell, Faizal Farook

This project explores the opportunities and uncertainties of access to patient records.

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A People's Inquiry into Personal Information

Peter Bradwell, Dan Leighton

This project will feature a 'People's Inquiry' to explore people's attitudes to the use of their personal information. It will use the outcomes from the deliberative groups to develop practical ideas for matching public expectations and personal information policy.

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BLDG BLOG

Architectural conjecture; urban speculation; landscape futures.

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Neighbourhoods

Research, thoughts and writing on communities in their place.

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Mapping Strategy

Strategic thinking

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The Tryanny of Participation in Information Systems

A brief and accessible look at the problems associated with participation.

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Carphone Warehouse : Mobile Life Report

Survey mapping the public's attitudes to, and uses of, mobile phones. Some interesting stats.

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Serious Organised Crime Agency - marketing fraud figures

Serious Organised Crime Agency - marketing fraud figures

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AC Grayling on Privacy

AC Grayling on Privacy

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Mick Fletcher: The lesson is clear - people will invest in their future

"Colleges moving courses outside LSC funding altogether are seeing the benefits of not having to worry about whether they are within the national qualifications framework or someone's idea of regional priorities. The approach might have the gratifying side-effect of allowing them to tell the LSC that their provision really is demand-led - providing what the customer actually wants, and will pay for - because it responds to paying customers rather than a dodgy dossier of labour market analysis"

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IndustryWeek : Taking The Nanopulse -- Good News! The Public Is Ready For Nanotechnology In 2007

IndustryWeek : Taking The Nanopulse -- Good News! The Public Is Ready For Nanotechnology In 2007

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The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Surveillance - Paul Ohm

Paul Ohm, University of Colorado Law School, writes on how policy makers can determine between legitimate and illegitimate collection of data by Internet Service Providers.

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'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy - Daniel J. Solove

In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument.

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What is Deep Packet Inspection? a project from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

'This web site is meant to serve as a resource on deep packet inspection. It grew out of a desire at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to understand more about a technology that has application in network traffic management, behavioural advertising, and law enforcement.'

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U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation: Hearing on Advertising Trends and Consumer Protection

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Stealing Phorm Cookies

Richard Clayton, of University of Cambridge, on Phorm - a firm that specialises in targeted advertising by monitoring web use.

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Professor David Lyon

Lots of excellent writing on surveillance studies at Professor Lyon's University home page.

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Biotechnology: Ethical and social debates

A report prepared by Nicolas Rigaud for OECD International Futures Project on “The Bioeconomy to 2030: Designing a Policy Agenda"

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Long live the database state

Tim Kelsey argues that smarter use of public service statistics can save lives as well as money.

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Can a website identify a user based on IP address?

Google's Privacy Counsel, Peter Fleischer, on whether an IP address is personal information.

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Joseph Turow - Research and Scholarship

Bibliography of American academic Joseph Turow - who writes on the development and effects of niche and targeted advertising.

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Policy discourse and data retention: The technology politics of surveillance in the United Kingdom

by Edgar A. Whitley and Ian Hosein

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LSE homepage of Dr Gus Hosein

A privacy and technology policy expert

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EFF on targeted advertising

Electronic Frontier Foundation on the coalition of consumer and privacy groups calling for greater protection against targeted advertising.

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Documents from the EU Data Protection Working Party

The store of documents and outputs from the EU's Artcle 29 Data Protection Working Party, which is an EU body looking at the new issues of data protection.

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2003 Court Judgement that helps define the meaning of 'personal data'