Institute of Citizenship, Society and Change

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The Institute benefits from a wide range of researchers from across the University. Members are well placed to respond to urgent and profound questions concerning a sustainable future, relationships among individuals and communities, arts and culture, public institutions of health, welfare and security.

Citizenship, civil society and the public realm itself are currently in flux. These are affected by Brexit, austerity, a refugee crisis and mass migration, increase in global energy demand, climate change and environmental degradation, terrorism, violence against women and children, political instability and polarisation. Institute’s members are doing research into how the future is to be imagined, who is to be included in any new settlement, and on what terms. The Institute will respond to these new social challenges by working together across disciplines, generating new fields of enquiry, new questions and new responses. This Institute is made up of 13 research groupings drawn from across the University. Its researchers have been awarded nearly £6m in research funding, from sources including the EU Horizon 2020 programme, Big Lottery, public bodies, UK and European research councils, the Home Office, and local councils and trusts.

The Institute aims to develop new ways of thinking about inequality, insecurity, diversity and fragmentation and building responsive services for sustainable communities. It will do this through:

• Social justice and sustainability
• Relationships, risks and safety
• Community and the public realm

The Institute’s vision is:

• To produce high-quality research to address urgent questions for people and society • To recognise new political and global contexts • To advance wellbeing, public good, civil society, democracy and sustainability • To focus on impact and action • To pioneer distinctive and innovative methodological approaches

Measures of its success will be through:

• Year on year growth in transdisciplinary research activity, grant capture, quality outputs and impact
• International academic recognition as an Institute for addressing urgent questions regarding the future of society
• International influence on policy and practice, by 2025, to achieve effective implementation of strategic solutions that the institute has identified
• A rich research environment that facilitates the growth of PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and early career researchers
• Added value-enhancing student experience and community engagement

The Institute membership will do this by:

• ‘Cross-pollinating’ ideas, skills, knowledge and resources across Centres and disciplines
• Providing shared/pooled resources and advantages of scale
• Providing ‘seedcorn funding’ for transdisciplinary ideas
• Offering a peer review process and other assistance to support successful publication and bidding
• Enabling a stronger projection to the outside world

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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University of Central Lancashire
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Preston
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