Projects in 2009

Oecumene: Citizenship After Orientalism

This project, led by Prof Engin Isin, is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour ERC-AG-SH2). The project focuses on the interaction between two controversial and contested concepts: citizenship – the process by which belonging is recognised and enacted – and orientalism – the assertion of the superiority of western culture over its eastern counterparts.

Read more about Oecumene: Citizenship After Orientalism

Community participation and social inclusion: The work of Community Mobilisers in Milton Keynes

Investigators: Deb Drake (Lecturer, OU Faculty of Social Sciences), Kate Smith (Curriculum Manager, OU Faculty of Social Sciences), Katy Simmons (OU Faculty of Education and Language Studies)

Read more about Community participation and social inclusion: The work of Community Mobilisers in Milton Keynes

Gender and Intra-Household Entitlements (GeNix): A Cross-National Longitudinal Analysis

Investigators: Susan Himmelweit (Professor, OU Faculty of Social Sciences), Jerome De Henau (Lecturer, OU Faculty of Social Sciences), Cristina Santos (Lecturer, OU Faculty of Social Sciences) and Zeenat Soobedar (Research Associate, OU Faculty of Social Sciences)

Read more about Gender and Intra-Household Entitlements (GeNix): A Cross-National Longitudinal Analysis

Childhoods, Communities and Social Inequalities

Investigators: Helen Lomax (Senior Lecturer, OU Faculty of Health & Social Care) and Janet Fink (Senior Lecturer, OU Faculty of Social Sciences)

Read more about Childhoods, Communities and Social Inequalities

International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies

Funded by ESRC International training and networking opportunities (RES-810-21-0072)

Read more about International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies

Maternal Identity, Care and Intersubjectivity

The aim for this ESRC-funded work is to extend the implications of Prof Wendy Holloway’s recent empirical project on the identity transition involved in becoming a mother to wider theoretical, methodological, epistemological and applied questions raised by a psycho-social approach to identity research.

Research questions:

Read more about Maternal Identity, Care and Intersubjectivity

Everyday Encounters in Children’s Centres: placing women’s participation

Investigator: Ellie Jupp (OU Faculty of Social Sciences)

The research seeks to understand how far interactions and identifications at Childrens Centres are framed by rationalities of parenting policy and how far by other dynamics of collective life including friendship, locality and community activism.

Read more about Everyday Encounters in Children’s Centres: placing women’s participation

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

ENACT is a consortium bringing together researchers from three original member states of the European Union (UK, Belgium and the Netherlands), two new member states (Hungary and Latvia) and a candidate state (Turkey) to explore in depth how European citizenship is claimed, disputed, built – in short, enacted.

Read more about Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

ESRC Director's Research Fellowship: Professor Margie Wetherell

The award will allow a final round of research development and publication. Professor Wetherell will be using the award to write a monograph on new identity theory emerging from the Identities and Social Action programme, focusing in particular on work on affect, the psychosocial and social subjectivities. In addition, she will be continuing to engage in knowledge transfer activities writing up and disseminating overall programme findings on identity, social exclusion and community cohesion.

Read more about ESRC Director's Research Fellowship: Professor Margie Wetherell

Emergent Publics

This two-year Research Seminar Series, running from the start of 2008 to the end of 2009, challenges assumptions about the decline of the public sphere in the face of 'neo-liberal' challenges to public institutions, processes of individualization and transformations of collective solidarities. It reorients analysis towards understanding the development of new practices, sites and definitions of publicness.

The value of publicness has come to the fore because of a number of processes:

Read more about Emergent Publics

1 of 2

Oecumene: Citizenship After Orientalism

Community participation and social inclusion: The work of Community Mobilisers in Milton Keynes

Gender and Intra-Household Entitlements (GeNix): A Cross-National Longitudinal Analysis

Childhoods, Communities and Social Inequalities

International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies

Maternal Identity, Care and Intersubjectivity

Everyday Encounters in Children’s Centres: placing women’s participation

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

ESRC Director's Research Fellowship: Professor Margie Wetherell

Emergent Publics

Research projects archive

The Open University

OU Community

OU Students Community

Support

Study

Policy