The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence. The Centre is an inter-disciplinary institution whose primary goal is to conduct and promote research, dialogue, and debate that contributes to a greater understanding of the manifold connections between notions of citizenship, processes of identity formation and practices of governance in the contemporary world. These three themes are crosscut by, explored through, and represented in CCIG’s current Research Programmes, which focus on vital and urgent political and ethical questions of our times.

Research in CCIG is developed in dialogue with other key research centres based in or connected to the Faculty of Social Sciences. These include the ESRC Centre for Research on Social Cultural Change, the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR), and OpenSpace: Centre for Geographical and Environmental Research.

CCIG builds upon and extends the Faculty's reputation for innovative, socially and politically conscious and relevant research. It does so through facilitating and promoting what might be termed the Faculty's distinctive research signature – critical and interdisciplinary. This implies openness to various theoretical and empirical approaches and methods, including discourse analysis, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis and cultural studies. It is critical in that it seeks to set its face against established or developing orthodoxies to highlight the conditions of existence and emergence of, as well as the various forms of oppression and marginalization associated with, particular social, political and cultural arrangements, and to support reflexive approaches to the conduct of social science research and knowledge production.

For more information, please visit the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) website.