Demos Staff overview
Ally Paget
Junior Associate
Ally joined Demos as a Junior Associate in July 2012, working on the public services and welfare programme.
Carl Miller
Research Director at CASM
Carl is co-founder and Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at Demos.
Claudia Wood
Deputy Director
Claudia is Deputy Director of Demos. Her primary research interests are health and social care, public service markets and personalisation, ageing, disability and benefits reform.
Jamie Bartlett
Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme
Jamie is the Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media. His primary research interests are: terrorism, extremism and social media analysis, including the use of social media by political movements and law enforcement agencies.
Jo Salter
Researcher
Jo is a Researcher at Demos, working on the Public Services and Welfare Programme.
Gillian Thomas
Gillian Thomas is a fully trained qualitative specialist with over seven years experience in one-to-one interviewing, focus group facilitation and ethnographic fieldwork. She is experienced in a wide range of innovative research methods including in-home ethnographic studies and large public engagement events.
Hannah Green
Hannah Green ran the Families and Care programme at Demos before going to Japan to carry out comparative research on care and families.
Hannah Lownsbrough
Hannah Lownsbrough became a Demos associate in the summer of 2007. Her expertise is in the field of community organisations, community-led approaches to regeneration and race issues.
Helen Burrows
Associate
Helen Burrows is a Demos Associate, who lead the Risky Business project on the creative industries.
Hilary Cottam
Hilary is a social entrepreneur whose recent projects include a radical re-think of the prison system, a new approach to designing schools for the 21st century and new services for preventative health care.
Howard Reed
Associate
Howard Reed is Director of the economic research consultancy Landman Economics and a Demos Associate providing advice on economic research. He has recently worked on Reinventing Venture Capital.
Nick Claydon
Trustee
Nick is a partner at corporate communication agency, Brunswick, with over fifteen years experience advising clients on financial, corporate and critical media issues.
Penny Egan
Trustee
Penny Egan is Executive Director of the US-UK Fulbright Commission and former Director of the RSA.
Georgia Cooke
Research Intern
Georgia joined Demos as a Research Intern in April 2013 working in the Public Services and Welfare department.
Noelle Rumball
Research Intern
Noelle joined Demos in May 2013 as a Research Intern with the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media.
Raman Degun
Research Intern
Raman joined Demos as a Research Intern in May 2013 for the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media.
Sarah Williamson
Research Intern
Sarah joined Demos in May 2013 and is a research intern for the Centre of Analysis of Social Media.
Victoria Princewill
Communications Intern
Victoria joined Demos in May 2013 as a Communications Intern.
Beth Hacche
Research Intern
Beth joined Demos as a research intern on The Future of Work project in April 2011.
Bill Asquith
Research Intern
Bill joined Demos as a full-time research intern at the end of April 2010, working with Demos director of research Julia Margo.
Calum Benson
Communications Intern
Calum joined Demos in June 2010 as an Events & Communications Intern.
Carolina Gasparoli
Intern
Carolina joined Demos in February 2012 as a communications intern for the Centre for London.
Jamie Bartlett
Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme
Jamie is the Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media. His primary research interests are: terrorism, extremism and social media analysis, including the use of social media by political movements and law enforcement agencies.
Julia Margo
Alumni
Julia was Deputy Director at Demos. Her expertise is in social mobility, wellbeing and capabilities, education policy and anti-social behaviour.
Max Wind-Cowie
Head of the Integration and National Identity programme
Max Wind-Cowie is Head of the Integration and National Identity programme.
Richard Reeves
Director
Richard is a former Director of Demos. His interests include trends in British politics; the economics and politics of wellbeing; liberal political philosophy; and the future of the workplace.
Samuel Jones
Associate
Samuel is an Associate of Demos. His interests include the arts, museums and galleries, and creativity.
Robert Cooper
Advisory Board Member
Robert Cooper is an adviser for High Representative Catherine Ashton with the European External Action Service.
Sir David Omand
Demos Advisory Council
Sir David Omand is visiting Professor in the War Studies Department, King’s College, and former Permanent Secretary of the Home Office.
Stuart White
Demos Advisory Council
Stuart White is a Fellow in Politics and Director of the Public Policy Unit, University of Oxford
Vince Cable
Demos Advisory Council
Vince Cable is the Lib Dem MP for Twickenham and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
