Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance

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

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Past events

Race Critical Public Scholarship – pursuing justice in austere times

17 July 2013, 10:30 - 17:30

The climate of so-called austerity is hardening inequalities, including institutional racism, and has facilitated a resurgence of overtly racist political parties and a troubling renewal of  popular racism across Europe and beyond.

Sport and ‘Being-in-the-Zone’

9 July 2013, 10:00 - 15:30

 

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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.

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

21 June 2013, 11:00 - 17:30

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 Forum 31 'Fathers and Fatherhood'

18 June 2013, 11:00 - 16:00

CCIG Psychosocial and Families, Relationships and Communities Research Programmes have organised the CCIG forum 31 dedicated to 'Fathers and fatherhood: policy, representation and experience'.

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?

Children, families and neighbourhoods: new directions in policy and research

14 June 2013, 10:30 - 14:00

Convenors: Dr Eleanor Jupp and Dr Helen Lomax, Health and Social Care, the Open University

CCIG Lunch Seminar on Impact - HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL THE AUTUMN 2013

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).

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.

Publics then, now and beyond network

4 June 2013, 10:00 - 5 June 2013, 15:30

CCIG's Publics Research Programme (Directed by Prof. John Clarke) and the Creating Publics project (led by Dr. Nick Mahony with Dr. Hilde Stephansen) will be welcoming a group of colleagues from McGill University’s Institute for the Publics Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) who will be visiting the Open University 3-5 June 2013.