Recent posts tagged with "General"

CCIG first Quarterly Newsletter

Please follow the link to access our first quarterly newsletter:

http://ccig.newsweaver.co.uk/Newsletter/bck17qvvmhc?a=6&p=20266505&t=201...

Public Engagement and the use of segmentation technologies. A NCCPE/ESRC report by Clive Barnett and Nick Mahony

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.

CCIG Research Highlights - September 2011

Please find attached our ‘Research Highlights’ that summarizes key CCIG activities of the last few months.

The September Highlights include:

• Our latest publications
• Events organised by our research Programmes on various issues (families and couple relationships, citizen participation in public debates and spaces, contemporary security practices, social remembering, etc.)

Nuclear Families: Dr Jacqui Gabb on BBC Radio 4's 'Thinking Allowed'

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.

Prof John Clarke on BBC Radio 4's 'Thinking Allowed'

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

New book published by CCIG associate member Carol Brown-Leonardi: Encountering the Changing Barents

Encountering the Changing Barents – Research Challenges and Opportunities.  Paul Fryer, Carol Brown-Leonardi and Paivi Soppela (eds.). Arctic Centre Report.

Dr Nick Mahony appointed as new CCIG Research Associate

CCIG is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Nick Mahony as the new CCIG research associate. Nick will be taking over from Dr James Ash who is leaving to take up a lectureship in Media and Cultural Studies at Northumbria University.

Liberty & Security: Multimedia Teaching and Training Module

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, is now available at http://www.libertysecurity.org/module.

Mobile solidarities: The City of Sanctuary movement and the Strangers into Citizens campaign

This report summarises the findings of Dr Vicki Squire's recent research project on the City of Sanctuary movement and Strangers into Citizens campaign.

Follow CCIG on Twitter

It is now possible to get mobile updates on CCIG events, blogs and news through CCIGtweets. One of the more popular new social networking platforms, Twitter is a micro-blogging service that lets its users send and read each others' updates, or ‘tweets’.