Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence
Current projects
Creating Publics
What is the Creating Publics project?
The Creating Publics projects aims to collectively, interactively and innovatively create publics by engaging people beyond the academy in on-going processes of social science research and public life. The project emerges out of the recognition that publics are entities that must be summoned, mediated, assembled and performed; entities that require resources (e.g. material, social, intellectual) to be developed and sustained; and, entities that are always are in a process of becoming.
Enduring Love?
The Enduring Love? project is a mixed methods study on long-term adult couple relationships. The findings will add an important dimension to understandings of personal and family lives in contemporary society.
Oecumene: Citizenship After Orientalism
This project, led by Prof Engin Isin, is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour ERC-AG-SH2). 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.