Our Centres
The Faculty of Business, Government and Law is home to two research centres:
The Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (CDDGG)
Our Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (CDDGG) is a world-leading centre for scholarly and applied research in deliberative governance and democratic innovations. It is home to a critical mass of scholars conducting internationally renowned research on how deliberation can address the complex challenges our societies face today, from local to global levels.
Based within the Faculty of Business, Government and Law, CDDGG’s work is spread across five research areas:
- Deepening citizen engagement
- Innovating global governance
- Building democratic resilience
- Democratising environmental governance
- Advancing theory and methods
The Centre for Environmental Governance
UC’s Centre for Environmental Governance (CEG) is an interdisciplinary centre focused on investigating and solving complex environmental problems such as water management, natural disasters, and climate change through applied policy approaches.
CEG is based within the Faculty of Business, Government and Law but brings together a range of researchers from fields including political science, public policy, public administration, environmental regulation and governance, natural resource management, democratic participation, political communication, online engagement, political participation, and big data analysis.
The Centre’s two research themes are:
- Natural resource management and water governance
- Climate change, disaster recovery and resilience, and wellbeing