Research

CTC offers a unique combination of grassroots involvement and serious academic analysis.  At the heart of the Centre's work is its Fellowship, a team of academics and experienced practitioners who contribute research, advice and teaching.  CTC's aim is to bring theology - and other disciplines such as economics, geography and cultural studies - into a deeper dialogue with the inner-city context.  A selection of papers generated by the Centre's reserach  collaborations and consultancy is at the foot of this page.

Research Partnerships

This centre's Just Communities research partnership works with relevant departments at Oxford, Notre Dame and East London Universities on the public dimensions of faith in a pluralist society.

The Human Capability and Development Association (HDCA) was launched in September 2004 to promote high quality research in the interconnected areas of human development and capability. The Centre co-ordinates HDCA's '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.

The 'Faith and Development' webpage

Consultancy Work

Centre officers have engaged in consultancy work for Harvard and Oxford Universities and (on a pro bono basis) for Christian Aid (see below).

Research Papers by Centre Staff

From the 'Just Communities' partnership

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

A Ritchie, 'Why we need Institutional Religion', THEOS Current Debate, April 2008

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, After Christendom in One in Christ

Consultancy work by the Centre

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)

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