Podcasts in 2013

Contemporary politics and policies of governing the social in the age of ‘austerity’: Wendy Larner and Sarah Neal discuss John Clarke

10 July 2013

CCIG launched on the 21^st of May a lecture Series: ‘Being on the line: citizenship, identities and governance in times of crises’.

In this series, leading CCIG researchers examine social sciences’ potentials and limits, rework old concepts and develop new ideas and methods to draw out possibilities for critique, social justice and positive social change in times of crises.

Contemporary politics and policies of governing the social in the age of ‘austerity’: opening lecture by John Clarke

10 July 2013

CCIG launched on the 21^st of May a lecture Series: ‘Being on the line: citizenship, identities and governance in times of crises’.

Audio podcasts of the CCIG Forum 29: Affective Practices and the Constitution of Publics Part 3

22 April 2013

This audio file features Jean Carabine (Open University).

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Audio podcasts of the CCIG Forum 29: Affective Practices and the Constitution of Publics Part 2

22 April 2013

This audio file features Ellie Jupp (Open University): Approaching the emotional geographies of social policy

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Audio podcasts of the CCIG Forum 29: Affective Practices and the Constitution of Publics Part 1

22 April 2013

This audio file features Lynn Froggett (University of Central Lancashire): Civic participation, displacement anxiety and community based art

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Family Troubles?

11 March 2013

In this video clip, Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Brigid Featherstone and Umut Erel from The Open University present a new book: Family Troubles? changes and challenges in the family lives of children and young people (published by Policy Press, April 2013).

Kath Woodward on 'Being in the Zone': a social sciences perspective

12 February 2013

'Being in the Zone' explores the theme of 'peak experience' or 'being in the zone' in music, sport and work. This project is an AHRC funded Research Network, co-investigated by Kath Woodward (OU) and Tim Jordan (King's College London).

Kath Woodward is the author of the following publications:

Woodward, K. (2012) Planet Sport, London, Routledge.

Woodward, K. (2012) Sex Power and the Games, Basingstoke, Palgrave.

Horne,J.,Tomlinson,A.,Whannel, G. and Woodward,K. (2012) Understanding Sport, London, Routledge.

John Holmwood: Education, Neoliberalism and Democracy

5 February 2013

Markets, Expertise and the Public University: A crisis in knowledge for democracy? This was the question addressed by Professor John Holmwood in a keynote lecture he delivered as part of the Creating Publics Project’s keynote series on June 28 2012 at The Open University in Milton Keynes.

Lawrence Grossberg: Publicly engaged social science

5 February 2013

What kind of publicly engaged social science work is needed to meet the demands of the contemporary world? This was the question Professor Lawrence Grossberg addressed in the keynote lecture he delivered at the public launch of the Creating Publics project on March 26th at The Open University in Milton Keynes.

FaRComm Event March 2012 part 6: the video now available

1 February 2013

this part features the Launch of “Understanding Family meanings” (presented by Megan Doolittle)

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Contemporary politics and policies of governing the social in the age of ‘austerity’: Wendy Larner and Sarah Neal discuss John Clarke

Contemporary politics and policies of governing the social in the age of ‘austerity’: opening lecture by John Clarke

Audio podcasts of the CCIG Forum 29: Affective Practices and the Constitution of Publics Part 3

Audio podcasts of the CCIG Forum 29: Affective Practices and the Constitution of Publics Part 2

Audio podcasts of the CCIG Forum 29: Affective Practices and the Constitution of Publics Part 1

Family Troubles?

Kath Woodward on 'Being in the Zone': a social sciences perspective

John Holmwood: Education, Neoliberalism and Democracy

Lawrence Grossberg: Publicly engaged social science

FaRComm Event March 2012 part 6: the video now available

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