Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance

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

Recent posts tagged with "Seminars"

CCIG/OS lunch seminar 5: Gender and Sexuality Inclusion in Research Design

21 May 2014, 12:30 - 14:00

This seminar is part of our CCIG/OS series. Don’t hesitate to bring your lunch!

This session will be organised by Meg Barker (OU).

CCIG/OS lunch seminar 4: where to publish?

2 April 2014, 12:30 - 14:00

This seminar is part of our CCIG/OS series. Don’t hesitate to bring your lunch!

CCIG/OS lunch seminar 3: how to move your publications from a 2 star to 4 star?

22 January 2014, 12:30 - 14:00

This is the third seminar of our CCIG/OS series. Don’t hesitate to bring your lunch!

CCIG/OS lunch seminar 2: inter-institutional research networks, research centre or large grant?

4 December 2013, 12:30 - 14:00

This is the second seminar of our CCIG/OS series.  Don’t hesitate to bring your lunch!

CCIG/OS lunch seminar 1: How to make a difference?

9 October 2013, 12:30 - 14:00

This is the first seminar of our CCIG/OS series.  Don’t hesitate to bring your lunch!

Impact, knowledge exchange, knowledge transfer, have now become buzzwords in the academic world:

What are ‘impact’, ‘knowledge exchange’, ‘knowledge transfer’ and what to make of it? 

Here Comes the Gurkhas! Studying Ex-Army Immigrants in Aldershot

5 June 2013, 14:00 - 16:00

Mitra Pariyar (Doctoral researcher at Macquarie University, Sydney) will be speaking about his fieldwork with Nepali migrants in Aldershot, a small town in Hampshire which has long served as the HQ of the British Army.

This event relates to two projects run by CRESC and CCIG at the Open University.

Working Lives and Being in the Zone

17 June 2013, 11:00 - 18:00

Being in the zone’ is a term often used to describe the feeling of living ‘in the moment’, or existing in a state of intense concentration or exceptional clarity. To be in the zone is to achieve excellence or perfection beyond the ordinary. But what actually is this ‘zone’? And what are its range of effects?

Across the generations: researching changes, continuities and contexts

13 May 2013, 10:30 - 16:30

This seminar, organised by the FarComm Research Programme, is concerned with the study of generations and intergenerational transmissions. Its aim is to explore the value of ‘generation’ as an analytical tool and how it is used in different disciplines and policy contexts.

Policy in Motion: transnational translation and assemblages

7 May 2013, 10:00 - 16:15

The Publics Research Group presents a seminar based on a current collaborative project exploring policy as translation. The seminar explores the problems of studying mobile policies, in particular how to overcome the limits of conventional approaches to policy transfer and policy learning.

CCIG Lunch Seminar on Impact - HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL THE AUTUMN 2013

13 June 2013, 12:30 - 14:00

This event is part of the CCIG lunch seminar series.

The session will explore “research impact” generally (how to write an impact case for funding, differences between having impact and making an impact etc).