508 research outputs found

    (E)quality not quantity matters: the role of apprenticeships in an equality agenda

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    With clear evidence that young people’s early experiences in the labour market can shape their working lives, the question is what can be done to support young people from different ethnic groups as they transition into work. Ceri Hughes writes that ensuring quality apprenticeship opportunities are accessible to young people from ethnic minorities is more important than simply increasing the number of apprenticeships available

    Does changing employers offer a route out of low pay?

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    New data from ONS makes clear that those who remain in work year on year have been seeing the greatest pay increases, whereas people who changed jobs tended to see higher pay increases between 2004/05 and 2007/08. Ceri Hughes looks at the trends

    We need to ensure that young Londoners gain the skills and experience that will be of value to them in the labour market

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    While there is evidence that suggests people with no or low qualifications should benefit from living in more successful urban labour markets, where employment rates and wages tend to be higher for low-skilled workers relative to low-skilled workers elsewhere, this isn’t the case in London. Ceri Hughes discusses research that shows that young people with low skills in London are at a particular disadvantage

    Penser l’hégémonie dans le monde contemporain

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    Is There a Possible Dialogue Between Hegemony and Cosmopolitanism? Interview with Frédéric Ramel -- What do the two concepts of hegemony and cosmopolitanism imply? Are they opposed or is there a possible dialogue between them? In a recently published chapter (“Competition for Hegemony ” in the edited volume Cosmopolitanism in Hard Times), Professor of political science at Sciences Po CERI Frédéric Ramel questions these concepts and explores their scope. The following is an interview with the author. Interview by Miriam Perier, CERI

    sj-docx-1-usj-10.1177_00420980231187884 – Supplemental material for ‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development

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    Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-usj-10.1177_00420980231187884 for ‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development by Richard Crisp, David Waite, Anne Green, Ceri Hughes, Ruth Lupton, Danny MacKinnon and Andy Pike in Urban Studies</p

    The State from its Margins: A perspective from street level Turkey

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    Muhtars, the lowest-level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy. Research Professor at CERI Elise Massicard is the author of Street-Level Governing (Stanford University Press ), the first book to investigate how muhtars carry out their role—not only what they are supposed to do, but how they actually operate—providing an ethnographic study of the state as viewed from its margins. She answers our questions on the muhtar as a hybrid object and her research

    Internship as degree modality at inter-institucional relations centre -CERI-, 2019-3

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    Este documento da cuenta el trabajo de pasantía realizado por el autor durante el período 2019-3 como modalidad de grado en el Centro Interinstitucional de la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. El objetivo propuesto es "contribuir desde los conocimientos particulares de la Licenciatura en Educación Básica con Énfasis en Inglés, a los procesos misionales del Centro Interinstitucional -CERI- ". Para lograrlo, las actividades se llevaron a cabo en diferentes oficinas del CERI, incluida la oficina del director. Entre otras, las tareas realizadas fueron: Traducción de documentos, organización de archivos físicos, participación en el programa "Relacciones" en LAUD 90.4 FM Stereo, etc. Al final, los beneficios fueron mutuos. El estudiante adquirió experiencia en el campo de la administración educativa y el CERI recibió apoyo en diferentes campos desde la perspectiva del estudiante.This paper documents the internship work carried out by the author during the period 2019-3 as a degree modality at the Interinstitutional Center -CERI- of the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. The proposed objective is "to contribute from the particular knowledge of the Bachelor of Basic Education with an Emphasis in English, to the missioanl processes of the Inter-institutional Center -CERI- ". To achieve this, the activities were carried out in different CERI offices, including the director's office. Among others, the tasks performed were: Document translation, organization of physical files, participation in the "Relacciones" program at LAUD 90.4 FM Stereo, etc. In the end, the benefits were mutual. The student gained experience in the field of educational administration, and CERI obtained support in different fields from the student´s perspective

    Writing, creativity and environments : [book review] Ceri Sullivan and Graeme Harper (eds) Authors at Work: The Creative Environment

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    The author reviews the book : Ceri Sullivan and Graeme Harper (eds) Authors at Work: The Creative Environment, Essays and Studies Collection, vol 62, 2009 (ISSN 0071-1357) The English Association, UK/DS Brewer, Cambridge, ISBN 978-1-84384-195-

    Dictatorship of Law and a Power Vertical under Putin

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    Entretien publié sur le site du CERIGilles Favarel-Garrigues, Senior researcher at CERI/CNRS, has recently published La verticale de la peur. Ordre et allégeance en Russie poutinienne (The Verticality of Fear. Order and allegiance in Putin's Russia) with La Découverte. In his book based on twenty years of research, Gilles Favarel-Garrigues explores the political and social roots of Putinism, and how fear has become a pillar of the Russian president’s geopolitics. The book offers original keys to understanding how such a destructive power endures and, perhaps, how it extends far beyond the walls of the Kremlin. The following is an interview with the author. Interview by Corinne Deloy. English version by Miriam Périer and Caitlin Gordon Walker

    Internet Censorship, Surveillance and Algorithmic Governmentality. An Interview with Félix Tréguer

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    contribution à un site webFélix Tréguer is postdoctoral researcher at CERI Sciences Po and associate researcher at CNRS Centre for Internet and Society. At CERI, he is part of the French research team of the ANR-ORA project “GUARDINT: Oversight and Intelligence Networks: Who Guards the Guardians?” He is the author of L'utopie déchue : une contre-histoire d'Internet, XVe-XXIe siècle (Fayard , 2019). Félix answers our questions on his research interests and focus, and presents the aims and scope of the project he works on, GUARDINT. Interview by Miriam Périer, CERI
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