CiCea brace for Huddersfield
Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:46:00 BST
Double success at international citizenship conference
Pictured (l-r) Dr Pete Woodcock, Dr Chris Gifford, Camilo Gomez and Dr Andy Mycock.
Academics from the University of Huddersfield pulled off a rare ‘double’ at the recent Children’s Identities and Citizenship in Europe Association (CiCea) annual conference held recently in York.
Camilo Tamayo Gomez, a doctoral student within the School of Human and Health Science, won the prize for best postgraduate paper for his presentation, ‘The instrumentalisation of the communicative citizenship field in the context of armed conflict: the case of the Association of Organised Women of Eastern Antioquia in Columbia’.
Reader in Politics Dr Andy Mycock was awarded the prize for the best research paper for his article ‘A Big Idea for the Big Society? – The Advent of National Citizen Service’, which was published in the internationally-influential journal, Political Quarterly, and co-authored with Professor Jon Tonge from the University of Liverpool.
CiCea is an Erasmus Academic Network, supported by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme and the awards were made under the auspices of its institutional association framework, CiCea. The association is an influential network of about 100 higher education institutions from 30 countries in Europe which explores ways in which children and young people can learn about citizenship in the European context and how they construct their identities.
The University of Huddersfield has been a member of the European Thematic Network since 2006 and is one of main contributors in the UK. Dr Chris Gifford, the University’s Head of Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, was elected to the position of Treasurer on the Executive of the CiCea network and Dr Pete Woodcock, the University’s Head of Criminology, Politics and Sociology, was elected as the UK national coordinator last year.
“CiCea provides a fantastic opportunity for UK scholars to share their high quality research with like-minded scholars from across Europe and, indeed, the wider world,” said Dr Woodcock. “I am delighted that researchers from Huddersfield took part in the recent conference and particularly pleased that Andy and Camille won prizes. This illustrates the strength of research in this field from the UK and Huddersfield in particular.”
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