The Citizenship DRC is currently focusing on three research themes
Deepening Democracy in States and Localities
Looking at how various types of
democracies and citizenships are
developed and institutionalized across
different contexts.
Local-Global Citizen Engagements
Exploring how citizens perceive and engage with global processes and in turn, what impact global processes actually have on the meanings and practices of citizenship, given their locations in diverse historical and cultural settings.
Citizenship, Participation and Violence
Examining how issues of violence, hate and fear affect the capacities of citizens to participate, and the ways in which a transition from violence to citizenship can be facilitated thorugh participatory social action.
During 2000-2005, the Citizenship DRC's research agenda focused on four research programmes:
Meanings and expressions of rights and citizenship
This theme looks at poor peoples' perceptions and experiences of rights and citizenship in different contexts. It draws on empirical findings to feed into existing conceptual debates on these issues.
Realising Rights and Claiming Accountabilities
Exploring how to improve accountability mechanisms within civil society and the corporate sector in order to make development policy more responsive to poor peoples' struggles to realise their rights.
Examining the issues of participation, deliberation, inclusion, and the dynamics of citizen voice and influence in health policy.
Citizens Science in Global context
Looking at how citizens mobilise to claim rights around knowledge and expertise in relationship to science and the environment.
Latest Publications
Science and Citizens: Local and Global Voices
Melissa Leach , Ian Scoones and Kirsty Cockburn
IDS Policy Briefing Issue 30
April 2006
Making Space for Citizens. Broadening the ‘new democratic spaces’ for citizen participation
Alex Schankland
IDS Policy Briefing Issue 27
March 2006
Mobilisation Working Paper Series
Citizens and Science Research Programme
Lyla Mehta
IDS Working Paper No. 260
November 2005, Brighton: IDS
News and Events
Citizenship DRC Synthesis Conference, 28-29 November 2005, University of Sussex, Brighton
At the end of November, the Citizenship DRC held a two day Synthesis conference. This event provided the opportunity to discuss key findings and lessons across programmes from the last five years. Eight synthesis papers were presented and discussed. On the second day, partners also presented their videos on their work. The report of this conference will soon be available.
