Research

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.

Research Programmes

Enactments

We critically engage with the question of how people, things and places are brought into being through various practices or acts.

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

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.

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

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.

Oecumene: Citizenship After Orientalism

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

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

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

This field study explores effects of intergroup contact on the political solidarity of historically disadvantaged groups in Pietermartizburg (South Africa)

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

This project's aim is to establish a network of leading social scientists working on British emigration to diverse contexts such as Spain, France, Australia, Hong Kong, Dubai, Beijing and Thailand.

The project explores the role of school inspection in governing complex systems of schooling in three different national settings: England, Scotland and Sweden.

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.

This project investigates what shapes migrant mothers’ cultural and caring work in enabling their children to occupy a place as future citizens

Mission Impossible? The 1976 Spanish Law for Political Reform

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.

A project that explores how new forms of public engagement are working to reshape contemporary life.

Research

Research Programmes

Enactments

Families, Relationships and Communities

Psycho-Social

Publics

Postgraduate research

Funded Projects

Oecumene: Citizenship After Orientalism

Being in the Zone

Creating Publics

Divide and rule, unite and resist

Enduring Love?

Exploring the British Diaspora

Governing by Inspection

Making publics across time and space

Migrant Mothers Caring for the Future

Mission Impossible?

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The Open University

+44 (0) 845 300 60 90
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Research

Research Programmes

Funded Projects

The Open University

+44 (0) 845 300 60 90 Email us

+44 (0) 845 300 60 90
Email us