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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'Constructing Global Polity': a new book on how to grasp changes in world politics

Olaf Corry’s recent publication Constructing Global Polity: Theory, Discourse and Governance (Palgrave 2013) argues that our current understanding of globalization makes it impossible to grasp some crucial chan

Policing the Crisis: 35th anniversary edition

The 35th anniversary edition of Policing the Crisis: Mugging, The State and Law and Order (by Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke and Brian Roberts) has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Neoliberalism and “workfare” regimes: an interview with John Clarke

An interview conducted by Florin Faje and Alina-Sandra Cucu (Central European University) with John Clarke has just been transcribed and can be found in the LeftEast section of CriticAtac.

Exclusion & Human Rights

Paul Stenner has just published the following two chapters.

'Enacting European Citizenship' is now available

What does it mean to be a European citizen? The rapidly changing politics of citizenship in the face of migration, diversity, heightened concerns about security, and financial and economic crises, has left European citizenship as one of the major political and social challenges to European integration.

The Sociological Review Prize for 2011 has been awarded to Liz McFall

The Sociological Review Prize for 2011 has been awarded to Dr Liz McFall for her article ‘A “good, average man”: calculation and the limits of statistics in enrolling insurance customers’ (The Sociological Review, 59, 4: 661-84, November, 2011).

What is the secret of a long marriage?

Dr Jacqui Gabb has been invited today to present the Enduring Love? Research Project she is conducting with Dr.Janet Fink in the BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour.

CCIG welcomes a new PhD. visiting student

Omer Ozgor is a PhD researcher in Bielefeld University and he will join CCIG until July 2013.

Jovan Byford discusses conspiracy theories surrounding the Boston bombings

Senior Lecturer in Psychology Jovan Byford appeared on BBC 5 Live Breakfast (23/04/2013) and discussed conspiracy theories surrounding the Boston bombings.

Rose Capdevila becomes co-editor of Feminism & Psychology

The co-editorship of the prestigious Sage journal Feminism & Psychology is now held in the OU, in the Psychology department, Faculty of Social Sciences.