Research

CTC offers a unique combination of grassroots involvement and serious academic analysis.  Our aim is to bring theology and other academic disciplines into a deeper dialogue with the inner-city context, producing research which will support faithful and effective ministry.

The Centre's research programme is co-ordinated by Joshua Harris, who also runs its Faithful Citizens blog on Christian action in a pluralist society. The Centre's Fellowship is a team of academics and experienced practitioners who contribute to its work via research, advice and teaching.

Research Streams

Will the first be last?

This is a partnership with The Childrens' Society on (i) the impact of inequality and the related impact of poverty on children and young people; (ii) a Christian vision of the common good; and (iii) the practical contribution the Church can make to a more just social order. Click here for an introduction to the project.  Researcher: Joshua Harris

Papers from Theological Consultation at St George's House, Windsor

Recent blog posts

Community Organising: Global Migration and the 'New Cosmopolitanism'

Part of the University of Notre Dame (UND) Contending Modernities programme, this research partnership is explore the motivations for Christian, Muslim and secular engagement in community organising - and the way these different worldviews negotiate a common life.  It builds on our previous Just Communities research programme on the public dimensions of faith in a pluralist society.  Researchers: Angus Ritchie, Arabella Milbank & Ruhana Ali

Recent blog posts

Angus Ritchie - Introduction to project (on UND's Contending Modernities blog)

Faith and Development

The Centre hosts The Human Capability and Development Association's thematic group on 'Faith and Development' thematic group. This is a network of social scientists, philosophers and theologians interested in justice and poverty issues from a faith perspective. Jellicoe Intern Caitlin Burbridge is helping to co-ordinate this, while pursuing research on community organising in diaspora communities.

Research Papers

Severine Deneulin et al - Affiliation and Community agency: The case of broad-based organising in east London

Recent blog posts

Caitlin Burbridge - Diaspora, Democracy and Citizenship (on the Jellicoe Blog)

New research streams

The Centre is also developing research streams on Formation, Values and Virtue, Mission in Multi-faith England and Responding to the 'Big Society'

Research Papers

See also the books and podcasts on our resource pages

J Milbank, 2011, What a Christian view of Society says about Poverty, CTC briefing paper for The Children's Society

M Ipgrave, 2011, Theology and Inequality: Some Questions, CTC briefing paper for The Children's Society

L Bretherton, 2011, Neither a borrower nor a lender be: Scripture, usury and the call to responsible lending, CTC briefing paper for Citizens UK

A Ritchie, 2010, Community Organising: Contributing to the renewal of politics in The Bible in Transmission (published by The Bible Society)

V Rougeau, 2009. Reforming the Legal Profession through Faith-based Service Learning in Journal of College & Character

A Ritchie, 2009, 'Taxing theology' in The Gospel and the Rich (Christian Aid report)

S Alkire & A Ritchie, 2008, Winning Ideas: Lessons from free-market economics (commissioned by the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative)

S Deneulin, D Hussain & A Ritchie, 2006,  'Affiliation and community agency: the case of broad-based community organising in East London' at the 5th International Conference on the Capability Approach: Knowledge and Public Action at UNESCO, Paris

S Deneulin, D Hussain & A Ritchie, 2005, 'Citizen Organising: Reweaving the fabric of civil society?'
at 'The Future of Multicultural Britain' conference at the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism, Roehampton University

S Deneulin, D Hussain & A Ritchie, 2005, 'Faith Communities in Public Action' at 'Faith's Public Role' conference at St Edmund's College, Cambridge

A Ritchie. 2005 Winning the War of Ideas (consultancy paper commissioned by Harvard's Global Equity Initiative)

A Ritchie, 2005, After Christendom in One in Christ