Recent posts tagged with "ESRC"

Public Knowledges: Emergent Publics Seminar 4

This event is by invitation only.

This last seminar in the Emergent Publics ESRC Seminar Series will include reflections on the progress made in the previous seminars. It will also focus on the task of articulating research on emergent publics with various audiences, including policy arenas, media, and NGOs.

ESRC Identities and Social Action Research Programme

Identities and Social Action was a major, five-year research programme funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. The programme ran from 2004 to 2008 and was directed by Prof Margaret Wetherell at The Open University. The ESRC invested £4 million in 25 research projects based in universities around the UK.

Spectacular Political Experiments

We are witnessing the emergence of a multitude of political experiments. Globally and across the domains of government, social movement, media, arts, academia and business these experiments offer ways of channelling disenchantment with political parties and institutional practices.

The Pedagogical State

This ESRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship project investigated the cultural practices of governing through pedagogical means, and an evolving pedagogical relationship between state and citizen.

ESRC Director's Research Fellowship: Professor Margie Wetherell

Professor Margie Wetherell has been awarded a competitive one-year ESRC Director's Research Fellowship, which are awarded to former Directors of large ESRC investments (in this case the Identities and Social Action programme). The award will allow a final round of research development and publication.

The Good Citizen

The Good Citizen was a Research Seminar Series funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (RES-451-25-4039). Despite the fact that the general topic of citizenship is all around us, the notion of the good citizen is rarely explored.

Maternal Identity, Care and Intersubjectivity

The aim for this ESRC-funded work is to extend the implications of Prof Wendy Holloway’s recent empirical project on the identity transition involved in becoming a mother to wider theoretical, methodological, epistemological and applied questions raised by a psycho-social approach to identity research.

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Emergent Publics

This two-year Research Seminar Series, running from the start of 2008 to the end of 2009, challenges assumptions about the decline of the public sphere in the face of 'neo-liberal' challenges to public institutions, processes of individualization and transformations of collective solidarities.

Looking Through the Lens of the Metropolitan Newspaper: The Changing Political Geographies of Journalism, Media and Cities

Using the metropolitan or city newspaper as lens, this project explores how the histories, technologies, and economic, political and institutional rationalities coalescing around news media connect to changing patterns of urban public life and citizenship.

Identities in Process: Becoming Bangladeshi, African Caribbean and White Mothers

Does motherhood change a woman's identity? How does becoming a mother differ from how it did a generation ago? And how do such changes differ depending on a woman's ethnic background? While much research has been done on the transition to motherhood, little is known about how ethnicity and 'race' differentiate the process of becoming mothers.