Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG)

Enactments

We critically engage with the question of how people, things and places are brought into being through various practices or acts.
Families, Relationships and Communities

We consider notions of families, personal relationships, households and communities, whilst also recognising their continuing significance at political, policy and personal levels.
Psycho-Social

We see the social and the psychological as both inseparable and individual forces that produce each other and our research gives equal emphasis to both.
Publics

We focus on understanding the registers and mediums through which publics are mobilised, summoned, and performed.
Postgraduate research

Our aim is to think, debate and develop new approaches to politics collaboratively and, hopefully, stimulate new thinking and public discussion on these key topics of our time.
Oecumene: Citizenship After Orientalism

Oecumene explores how the concept of citizenship is being refigured and renewed around the globe.
Being in the Zone

Being in the Zone explores the theme of 'peak experience' or 'being in the zone' in music, sport and work.
Creating Publics

Creating Publics aims to innovate new ways of engaging publics in the on-going processes of social science research and public life.
Enduring Love?

Why couples stay together? Our research focuses on the meanings and everyday experiences of long-term relationships.
Governing by Inspection

The project explores the role of school inspection in governing complex systems of schooling in three different national settings: England, Scotland and Sweden.
Making publics across time and space

This project aims at building a new network of connections between researchers in the UK and North America around the issue of Publics and publicness.
Mission Impossible?

This project seeks to explain an unexpected political outcome: why Francoist deputies voted overwhelmingly for the 1976 Law for Political Reform which brought about their own political demise.

About CCIG

CCIG is a designated Centre of Research Excellence within the Faculty of Social Sciences. Our aim is to lead research and debate on citizenship, identity formation and practices of governance in contemporary society.

Upcoming events

Enactments

Families, Relationships and Communities

Psycho-Social

Publics

Postgraduate research

Oecumene: Citizenship After Orientalism

Being in the Zone

Creating Publics

Enduring Love?

Governing by Inspection

Making publics across time and space

Mission Impossible?

CCIG Blogs

News

About CCIG

Upcoming events

The Open University

+44 (0) 845 300 60 90
Email us

Enactments

Families, Relationships and Communities

Psycho-Social

Publics

Postgraduate research

Oecumene: Citizenship After Orientalism

Being in the Zone

Creating Publics

Enduring Love?

Governing by Inspection

Making publics across time and space

Mission Impossible?

CCIG Blogs

News

About CCIG

Upcoming events

The Open University

+44 (0) 845 300 60 90 Email us

+44 (0) 845 300 60 90
Email us