Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance

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

CCIG

Research programmes

The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) conducts research in order to enhance our understanding of citizenship, identity formation and practices of governance in the contemporary world. All its three strands are represented in these research programmes and funded projects, which focus on vital and urgent political and ethical questions of our times.

Enactments

About the programme

The programme places emphasis on how social methods (as part of social life) play a role in sustaining, abandoning or transforming people, things and places.

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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

About the programme

Our focus is the diverse ways in which people live and experience their personal lives and relationships. We take a comprehensive view, which includes material and...

We consider notions of families, personal relationships, households and communities, whilst also recognising their continuing significance at political, policy and personal levels.
Oecumene: Citizenship After Orientalism

This project, led by Prof Engin Isin, is funded by the ...

Oecumene explores how the concept of citizenship is being refigured and renewed around the globe.
Psycho-Social

About the programme

We map out the ways in which social, cultural, historical, and material factors help to produce and are part of subjective and psychological phenomena and, conversely...

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

About the programme

This involves exploring the shifting relationships between public and private, personal and political, as matters of faith, sexuality, reproduction, care, and personal...

We focus on understanding the registers and mediums through which publics are mobilised, summoned, and performed.
Being in the Zone

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...

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

The project emerges out work undertaken under the auspices of CCIG’s Publics Research Programme and the recognition that there is a need to bring contemporary research on public mediation to...

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

The Enduring Love? project is a mixed methods study on long-term adult couple relationships. The findings will add an important dimension to understandings of personal and family lives in...

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

Governing by Inspection: School Inspection and Education Governance in Scotland, England and Sweden

This three-year research project (2010-2013), funded by the ESRC and the Swedish Research...

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

Making publics across time and space is an ESRC International Partnership and Networking Grant and is lead by John Clarke and Nick Mahony.

The aim of this project is to construct a new...

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 British Academy funded research project led by Georgina Blakeley seeks to explain an unexpected political outcome: why Francoist deputies voted overwhelmingly for the 1976 Law for Political...

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.
Postgraduate research

The CCIG postgraduate group came into being in October 2010 with the intention to make the postgraduate students more visible and active within the centre and to provide a platform for...

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.