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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
We took stock of the implications of the UK Riots in 2011, launched a ground-breaking report on bisexuality, organised a major international symposium looking at new practices and boundaries of citizenship, and discussed racism and diversity in military institutions.
Please follow the link to access our first quarterly newsletter:
Read the latest CCIG newsletter
Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) has just published a report, Segmenting Publics, co-written by Clive Barnett and Nick Mahony, which reviews the use of market segmentation technologies and other segmentation practices for the purposes of public engagement.
Please find attached our ‘Research Highlights’ that summarizes key CCIG activities of the last few months.
The September Highlights include:
In the last of the BBC series 'Thinking Allowed' on changing nature of households in UK, Jacqui Gabb was invited to take part in a discussion about 'Nuclear Families'. She and Prof Peter Bramham from Leeds Metropolitan University attempted to divine the future for Britain's private life.
John was invited to take part in a discussion about 'streetlife' which reflected on how - throughout modern history as well as now - streets make social life and social life makes streets. If you missed the programme, you can listen again via IPlayer here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0100gr4
Encountering the Changing Barents – Research Challenges and Opportunities. Paul Fryer, Carol Brown-Leonardi and Paivi Soppela (eds.). Arctic Centre Report.
A multimedia module critically engaging with debates about balancing liberty and security in the European Union, including the changing nature of border controls and war.
Showing how the solidaristic relations that are forged through each movement challenge the assumptions on which contemporary integration and cohesion policies are based, it includes key recommendations that are designed to take the challenges posed by relations of hostility and fear seriously without their being approached as a necessary presupposition.
It is now possible to get mobile updates on CCIG events, blogs and news through @CCIG_Open. One of the more popular social networking platforms, Twitter is a micro-blogging service that lets its users send and read each others' updates, or ‘tweets’.