The OU's Citizenship and Governance Strategic Research Area is rethinking the changing relationships between governance, institutions and citizens. Find out about our six Research Streams.
Considers the relationship between law, religion, and politics, as well as exploring how communities around the world view the rule of law and its implementation.
Explores the ways in which governance pervades every part of human endeavour; whether constitutional, cultural, economic, political, and social with respect to citizenship.
Responsible for research about how digital technologies are reshaping what participation means in social, political, cultural, organisational and economic contexts.
Investigates how public and private spheres intersect and separate, illustrating how the personal is profoundly political, at every level.
Addresses some of the most polarising debates around borders, politics, and knowledge production, which are the forefront of debates and conflicts around global inequalities.
Explores the implications for how societies are led in ways which create (or destroy) public value, and how governments and public services are managed.
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Citizenship and Governance SRA
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
United Kingdom