Recent posts tagged with "Projects"

The Oecumene team is back from China!

The Oecumene team has been travelling in China between the 2d of June and the 26 of June 2013.

On the Oecumene website the team shared their impressions and reflections, the encounters that left imprints, on a daily basis during the journey.

Enduring Love? project and its interim results discussed in a NetMums article

The Enduring Love? Project – led by Jacqui Gabb and Janet Fink - and its interim results are discussed in in a NetMums article, in particular the different contributions of each partner to the relationship.

Enacting European Citizenship: a success story

Net4Society, the coordinating body for individual member countries' applications for Social Science and Humanities funding from the EU, has picked the ENACT project as one of seven 'Impact Success Stories' in January 2013.

Enduring Love? Interim report now available!

The Interim Report from the ‘Enduring Love?’ Project is now available on the Enduring love website.

Interim findings show that everyday gestures such as taking out the bins and saying thank you are viewed as important by those in long-term relationships.

Oecumene and Open Democracy Partnership

Engin Isin recently was the guest Editor of OpenDemocracy (5-9 November, 2012)

This Oecumene/ Open Democracy partnership introduced us to “ideas and practises that will inform new modes of citizenship” at a time when events from the Arab Spring to Occupy are calling for a deeper understanding of the purpose of citizenship.

Being in the Zone: funded by an AHRC Research Network Grant

Prof Kath Woodward (CCIG Member) received an AHRC Research Network Grant for £30,000 with Dr Tim Jordan (King’s College London) on the theme of ‘peak experience’ or ‘being in the zone’ in music, sport and work.

Enduring Love? in ESRC Seven days of social science series

The ESRC Seven days of social science series featured the Enduring Love? Project in its Friday’s child: Relationships and Family video, publish

CCIG establishes new Postgraduate Research Group

To find out more see the CCIG Postgraduate Resarch Group's homepage. Or listen to CCIG Postgraduate Group Co-ordinator Helen Arfvidsson introduction to the group's aims and activities that she gave at CCIG Forum 17 on 18 November 2010.

New Public Engagement section of website now open

CCIG members may like to note that a new public engagement section of the website has been published and is now live. This section of the website is designed to begin to think about the emerging 'impact' and 'public engagement' agendas being forumalated under the REF.

Engin Isin awarded ERC Advanced Grant

Prof Engin Isin has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for his research project Oecumene: Citizenship after Orientalism. 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.

The project will formally commence in April 2010.