Projects
Members of the Centre are currently involved in the following collaborative projects:
Muslim Participation in Contemporary Governance
The research analyses the participation of Muslim actors within a range of governance arrangements at local and national levels. It aims to understand: how current government strategies and policies relating to citizenship recognise and respond to Muslim religious difference; how participatory forms of governance engage with Muslim groups, religious values and identities; and the impact of Muslims’ participation in governance on policy processes and outcomes and for the organisation of and relations between Muslim civil society organisations more broadly.
ACCEPT: Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion (Britain and Hungary)
ACCEPT is concerned with the increasing cultural diversity that characterises European societies and the ways in which it is possible to enhance societal cohesion while respecting ethnic, religious and cultural plurality. ACCEPT debates the principles, practices, and institutional arrangements that are needed to promote tolerance and acceptance of cultural differences. The British and the Hungarian contributions to ACCEPT are coordinated at the Centre.
EURISLAM: Finding a Place for Islam in Europe
EURISLAM examines how Muslims are portrayed in the mass media and relate this to migrant groups’ own perceptions, identities and cultural behaviour that are gauged by opinion data. This approach will allow the research team to examine the extent to which mass-media representations of ‘culture clashes’ and Muslims’ cultural demands are similar to, or different from, the experiences of ordinary people. It will also show to what extent public discourses over the position of Islam – often repeated in academic and policy debates – are representative of the real demands and cultural issues that confront Muslims, and over which they have concerns and opinions.
The Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship
The Leverhulme Trust has awarded a grant of over a million pounds to a joint research programme of the Bristol University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, hosted by the Department of Sociology, and the Migration Research Unit, based in the Department of Geography, University College London.This joint Programme, consists of eight linked projects over 5 years and looks at three elements in human mobility and its consequences.
EMILIE: A European approach to multicultural citizenship
This interdisciplinary project is a response to the current “crisis of multiculturalism” and the lack of a common EU intellectual framework to discuss the relevant challenges. The nine partners are selected from nine countries (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Poland, Spain, UK) so as to represent different experiences of migration and integration, including those still in transition with regard to migration.