Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence
Podcasts
Audio podcasts of the CCIG Forum 29: Affective Practices and the Constitution of Publics Part 3
This audio file features Jean Carabine (Open University).
More details on this forum here.
Audio podcasts of the CCIG Forum 29: Affective Practices and the Constitution of Publics Part 2
This audio file features Ellie Jupp (Open University): Approaching the emotional geographies of social policy
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Audio podcasts of the CCIG Forum 29: Affective Practices and the Constitution of Publics Part 1
This audio file features Lynn Froggett (University of Central Lancashire): Civic participation, displacement anxiety and community based art
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Family Troubles?
In this video clip, Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Brigid Featherstone and Umut Erel from The Open University present a new book: Family Troubles? changes and challenges in the family lives of children and young people (published by Policy Press, April 2013).
Kath Woodward on 'Being in the Zone': a social sciences perspective
'Being in the Zone' explores the theme of 'peak experience' or 'being in the zone' in music, sport and work. This project is an AHRC funded Research Network, co-investigated by Kath Woodward (OU) and Tim Jordan (King's College London).
Kath Woodward is the author of the following publications:
John Holmwood: Education, Neoliberalism and Democracy
Markets, Expertise and the Public University: A crisis in knowledge for democracy?
Lawrence Grossberg: Publicly engaged social science
What kind of publicly engaged social science work is needed to meet the demands of the contemporary world?
FaRComm Event March 2012 part 6: the video now available
this part features the Launch of “Understanding Family meanings” (presented by Megan Doolittle)
FaRComm Event March 2012 part 5: the video now available
This part is featuring the Launch of the journal Families, Relationships and Society (presented Brid Featherstone)
FaRComm Event March 2012 part 4: the video now available
this part presents the following strands within the FaRComm research programme:
Social relations of neighbourhood (introduced by Janet Fink and presented by Helen Lomax and Ellie Jupp)
Gender, households and work (presented by Alison Andrew and Sue Himmelweit) - @20.30