Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance

The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence

CCIG

Events

CCIG Lecture series: John Clarke on 'Governing the Social in an age of Austerity'

21 May 2013, 18:00 - 20:00

We are living on the line. Ours is a time of intensified disruption of the familiar. Rights depletions, loss of public and community life, identity crises, pervasive insecurities, and lack of imaginative governance seem to rule the day.

Cultural Haunting and the Shared Unconscious:an experiment with dream and art in cosmopolitan space

24 May 2013, 10:15 - 16:00

Organised by Elizabeth Silva (Professor of Sociology, Open University), Lynn Froggett (Professor of Psychosocial Welfare, University of Central Lancashire) and Julian Manley (Research Associate, Psychosocial Research Unit, University of Central Lancashire).

Here Comes the Gurkhas! Studying Ex-Army Immigrants in Aldershot

5 June 2013, 14:00 - 16:00

Mitra Pariyar (Doctoral researcher at Macquarie University, Sydney) will be speaking about his fieldwork with Nepali migrants in Aldershot, a small town in Hampshire which has long served as the HQ of the British Army.

This event relates to two projects run by CRESC and CCIG at the Open University.

CCIG Lunch Seminar on Impact

13 June 2013, 12:30 - 14:00

This event is part of the CCIG lunch seminar series.

The session will explore “research impact” generally (how to write an impact case for funding, differences between having impact and making an impact etc).

 

Working Lives and Being in the Zone

17 June 2013, 11:00 - 18:00

‘Being in the zone’ is a term often used to describe the feeling of living ‘in the moment’, or existing in a state of intense concentration or exceptional clarity.  To be in the zone is to achieve excellence or perfection beyond the ordinary. But what actually is this ‘zone’? And what are its range of effects?

CCIG Forum 31 (Psychosocial and Families, Relationships and Communities RP)

18 June 2013, 11:00 - 16:00

Forums are scheduled in advance for each academic year, and are intended to feature a wide selection of events held throughout the day, including seminars, colloquia, keynotes, workshops, and conversational groups.

Children's Family Troubles? Changes and Challenges Through Diverse Lenses

21 June 2013, 11:00 - 16:30

This symposium will consider children’s family lives and ‘troubles’ through diverse lenses, across varied disciplines, cultural contexts, and practice settings, addressing such themes as:

CCIG Lecture series: Paul Stenner on 'Living on the line: conceptualising liminal enactments'

25 June 2013, 18:00 - 20:00

We are living on the line. Ours is a time of intensified disruption of the familiar. Rights depletions, loss of public and community life, identity crises, pervasive insecurities, and lack of imaginative governance seem to rule the day.

Affectivity and Liminality: Conceptualising the dynamics of suspended transition

17 November 2013, 18:00 - 19 November 2013, 16:00

This event is part of the project 'Affectivity and Liminality' led by Prof Paul Stenner in collaboration with Megan Clinch, Johanna Motzkau and Monica Greco (Goldsmiths College), and funded through the European Science Foundation (ESF) Exploratory Workshop scheme.