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Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence
The launch of The Bisexuality Report (conducted by Meg Barker - Senior Lecturer in Psychology, OU, CCIG, Rebecca Jones - Lecturer, Health & Social Care, OU, Christina Richards, Helen Bowes-Catton & Tracey Plowman - of BiUK) organised last week has been a great success.
15/02/2012: Engin Isin (Principal Investigator of the Oecumene Project hosted by CCIG), has participated to BBC 4 'Thinking Allowed' and has discussed the new politics of citizenship.
Click here to access audio recordings of two presentations given as part of the ongoing CCIG series on 'Big Cuts, Big Society: politics of the present' given at CCIG Forum 18 (7 December 2010).
Click here to access a recording of CCIG's 'Big Cuts, Big Society' Politics of the Present Roundtable event. It features a line-up of eight CCIG speakers and is followed by a broader discussion. Following the Roundtable event, two further talks were also programmed as part of this CCIG Forum.
This event brought together leading academics who came together to celebrate the work of Janet Newman to mark the occasion of her retirement. Janet was Director of CCIG's Publics Research Programme and Professor in the Social Policy Dept.
Listen to the audio clips from this event
Professor Stuart Elden from the University of Durham recently visited CCIG to talk about his latest book project on the history of the concept of territory as part of Forum 14.
For those unable to attend the Citizenship without Community workshop held on May 10th 2010 all of the talks are now available to listen to in podcast format here.
Podcasts from the last two CCIG Forums, CCIG Forum 12 and Forum 13 are now available to listen to and download from the CCIG site.
Three talks from the recently held CCIG Forum 11 are now available online. In the first Professor Ida Susser from New York University speaks about material from her new book on AIDS and South Africa.
Prof Tania Li recently gave an excellent keynote lecture at CCIG Forum 10, one of the monthly CCIG events. After the event Tania gave a short interview about her research, her background as an anthropologist and some of her key concepts such as 'assemblage'.