GCSJ at The Open University brings together research, events & collaborations addressing some of the most pressing global and social justice issues of our time. Follow to keep up with events, research insights & opportunities to engage: www.linkedin.com/company/1070... bsky.app/profile/ou-g...

🎉 Launch of the PEERS Gallery & OpenLearn course on Partnering for Equitable Research — exploring how we build fairer research partnerships across institutions & communities 📅 Friday, 20 March 2026 | 2:00 PM Register via 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-... @ouopenlearn.bsky.social

📢 GCSJ Seminar | 10 April | 12–1PM Decolonisation as a Contested Practice: Evidence from The Open University Speaker: Dr Shannon Martin Opening: Prof Allan Laville Exploring how decolonisation & anti-racism are understood and enacted across HE 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982763523...

Two days to go🔔 OPRC free public online lecture this Wednesday Why do we tolerate road deaths? Implications for policy and practice 🗓 11 February | ⏰ 7–8pm 🎙 Professor Gemma Briggs 💻 Free & online 👉 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/279390... @gemmabriggs.bsky.social @catrionahavard.bsky.social

Who's going to be left by lunchtime?

While the workshop has a particular focus on Arts and Humanities, OU colleagues from all disciplines are welcome who are interested in strengthening their funding strategies, exploring opportunities, and sharing experiences. @shaftowheed.bsky.social @gunjans.bsky.social

🗣️American Philosophical Association Member Interview with Sophie Grace Chappell (OU) 👉 blog.apaonline.org/2026/01/23/a... Sophie shares insights into her career, passions, and what drives her enduring commitment to #philosophy. @oupphilosophy.bsky.social @philosophybites.bsky.social

📢 Book launch and discussion with Renu Bhandari. *Examining Stereotypes and Parenting Behaviours of South Asian Heritage Parents: Discourse and Case Studies* 🗓 Monday 9 February 🕛 12 – 1PM | 📍 Online 👉 RSVP via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980176659... @ou-psych-soc.bsky.social @gunjans.bsky.social

📢 Excited to share our latest open-access article! 📄 Anticolonial Inheritances and Responsibilities: Rethinking the Nation-State in Geographies of Migration Research By @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social and @gunjans.bsky.social 🔗 Read the full article (open access) here: doi.org/10.25162/gz-...

📢 Upcoming TESS Talk | Black Studies in Babylon: Practice, Politics and Pedagogy with Dr Rita Gayle (Uni Birmingham) Join the talk & discussion on 🗓 Fri, 23 January 2026 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Free & Online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-stud... #BlackStudies #RaceAndGender #CriticalGeography

New publication: Underwater Cultural Heritage at Risk? Global Insights into Deep-Sea Mining and Trawling Impacts. Open access, free to read and download. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📘Book Launch📘 *International Relations in a Multipolar Middle East* (edited by Edward Wastnidge & Francesco Belcastro) explores the evolving dynamics of the Middle East in today’s shifting global order. 🔔Fri 23 January (online) ⌚11 AM-12 PM Register for free 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

🔔IKD Seminar | Under pressure: Global value chains, structural asymmetries and the political economy of industrial policy. How can countries in the Global South achieve meaningful industrial transformation? 📅 Wed 21 January ⌚ 1-2:30PM 👉Register for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1979879715...

📢 Next GCSJ seminar: Marginalised and stigmatised - sex Work should not cost my life. 🗓️16 Jan 2026 | 12–1PM 📍 Where: Online 🔗 Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marginalis... #decriminalisation #southafrica #health #justice #DecrimSexWork #LaborRights #HumanRights #HealthJustice

🎉 The latest GCSJ December Newsletter is out! Catch up on research highlights, publications, talks, and upcoming events from The Open University’s Global Challenges and Social Justice Centre. 👉 Read the full December edition here: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/decemb...

📢 Upcoming GCSJ seminar: Marginalised and stigmatised – sex work should not cost my life | Dr Bev Orton 🗓 Friday, 16 January 2026 🕛 12:00–1:00PM 💻 Online via Microsoft Teams | Register 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marginalis... @gunjans.bsky.social @oupolitics.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social

📢 Coming soon > our next GCSJ seminar 🟢 Greening the Gulf? Renewables, Fossil Capitalism, and the ‘East-East’ Axis of World Energy 📅 Friday, 5 December 2025 🔔12-1PM | Online 📍 Speaker: Professor Adam Hanieh (Exeter University) 🖇️ Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/greening-t...

“Can the UK afford to fight a war?” Join this open Chatham House event on 📅 27 November 2025 🕕 6-7PM Hybrid – In-person (Chatham House, London) & Online 👉 Register via: www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/o... @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social @gunjans.bsky.social @oliviaosullivan.bsky.social

🎙️Upcoming TESS Talk ⏰Fri 21 Nov, 12–1.30PM “Afrocentric pedagogical leadership in action - Towards culturally empowered learning” Prof Eric Addae-Kyeremeh explores how African values, cultures & knowledge systems can reshape educational leadership. 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afrocentri...

Vote for the OU's Open Societal Challenges (OSC) collaborative research platform in the Knowledge Exchange Awards 2025! 🏆 OSC aims to tackle some of the most important challenges of our time through impact-driven research 🔬🌏 👉 https://ke.org.uk/news/ke-awards-2025-public-vote-is-now-open/

"Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey" This Friday's GCSJ seminar discusses what it might mean to keep thinking with Doreen Massey today. 📅 Friday, Nov 14 | Online ⌚ 12-1PM 👉 fass.open.ac.uk/events/reart... @gunjans.bsky.social @colinlorne.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social

🔭 Many upcoming GCSJ events 2025–26!🗣️ We're delighted to share our line-up of thought-provoking seminars, talks, and PhD hubs exploring issues of inequality, decolonisation, and global transformation. 👉 Explore all details at: fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/GCSJ/events @gunjans.bsky.social

📢 New Open Access Publication Alert! Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies with @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social rdcu.be/eN1I6

📢 Our next TESS Talk on "Afrocentric pedagogical leadership in action - Towards culturally empowered learning" with Prof Eric Addae-Kyeremeh. 🗓 21 Nov | 12–1.30PM 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afrocentri... @gunjans.bsky.social @ietatou.bsky.social @ou-edprimary.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social

📖Read about an inspiring journey of resilience, research & hope. In this blog, Xenia Jones recounts the ups & downs of completing a PhD while facing a serious health challenge - sharing the personal, the professional & the human side of academic life. 👉 learn1.open.ac.uk/mod/oublog/v...

📣 Next GCSJ Seminar 🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 | 12–1PM | online 🔎Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey — exploring how Doreen Massey’s archive invites new questions about our troubled present. Register to join the critical and creative dialogue: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rearticula...

In our latest GCSJ seminar, the OU Palestine Solidarity Group discussed the Palestine Exception and their transdisciplinary decolonisation research. Watch the recording now: youtu.be/pMJgxWobZgU?... More events: fass.open.ac.uk/events @gunjans.bsky.social

🔭 Explore what’s coming up at GCSJ - the Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice! From GCSJ seminars to TESS Talks, our events bring together researchers, practitioners & communities committed to tackling today’s most pressing global challenges. 🔗 All events: fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen...

⏰ Today from 12 to 1PM | Oct 17 📢 GCSJ seminar on "The Palestine Exception: Tackling Inequalities through Transdisciplinary Decolonial Research" Teams link via Eventbrite 👉 lnkd.in/d3rRvGa6 With Mustafa Ali, Eleni Dimou, Tracie Farrell, Kristina Hultgren, Les Levidow, Julia Molinari, Farnaz Rais.

📢Join this Friday's GCSJ seminar on "The Palestine Exception: Tackling Inequalities through Transdisciplinary Decolonial Research". ⏰12:00 to 1:00PM | Oct 17 Register on Eventbrite 👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/1577507540...

📢Join tomorrow's roundtable: how can external engagement & research impact creatively, effectively and ethically be facilitated to challenge prejudice & disinformation? ⏰1-2.30PM | June 18 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/challengin... @gunjans.bsky.social @preciouschatd.bsky.social

As part of #RefugeeWeek join the upcoming event by the Sanctuary Advisory Network at The Open University. ⏰Fri 13 June, 1:00 PM 💡Talks by Maryam Rahmani (Womankind Worldwide) & Mir Abdullah Miri (University of Bath) 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empowermen...

A huge thank you to all presenters and participants of the third and last day of our annual GCSJ festival 🙏🏼

Many thanks to all of today's speakers and participants for their contributions to day 2 of the GCSJ Research Festival 🙏🏼 Join us tomorrow for the 3rd and last day; register via 👉 fass.open.ac.uk/events/3rd-annual-gcsj-research-festival-challenging-power

🌍Today’s Keynote: Thinking from the Global South 🎙️Dr Kudakwashe Vanyoro unpacks how migration is shaped by power & explores implications of Global North–South dynamics in shaping discourse, decisions, and justice. 🕚 11–12:00 👉 tinyurl.com/bduev9sk @gunjans.bsky.social

💡Join us for Day 2 of the GCSJ research festival focusing on "Challenging Power – Thinking from the Global South" 📅 Thu 5 June 2025 | 🖥️ Hybrid 🔗 fass.open.ac.uk/events/3rd-annual-gcsj-research-festival-challenging-power

🙏🏼📣 A big thank you to all speakers and participants of our first GCSJ research festival day today! More sessions tomorrow - Find all details here 👉 fass.open.ac.uk/events/3rd-a...

🎉 The 3rd GCSJ Research Festival starts today! 📅 4–6 June 2025 | 🌐 Free hybrid & online events 📍Theme: Challenging Power 3 days of critical conversations, keynotes, panels and creative sessions led by researchers from across the OU & beyond. Visit: fass.open.ac.uk/events/3rd-a...

🗣️ Join the conversation on "Cancer Patient Voices in Tanzania" 🕒 2:15–3:15 | 5 June | GCSJ | hybrid Join Richard Ngilangwa & Cristina Santos as they explore an innovative, mixed-methods approach & capture the social, economic & systemic dimensions of cancer care. 👉 fass.open.ac.uk/events/3rd-a...

🎉 Just 2 days to go until GCSJ's 3rd Annual Research Festival at the @OpenUniversity! 📅 4–6 June 2025 | 🌐 Online & Hybrid 🗣️ Keynotes, panels & conversations on power, justice, migration, environment & more! 📍Full programme & registration: 🔗 fass.open.ac.uk/events/3rd-a...

Join Anindita Datta & Parvati Raghuram on how transnational feminist collaborations can create powerful counterspaces in a male-dominated academic landscape. 📣 Transability & Transferability of Concepts: Thinking from India ⏰12:15-1:15 | 5 June 📎 tinyurl.com/bduev9sk @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social

🌱 This #WorldEnvironmentDay join our "Indigenous Environmental Knowledge" session | GCSJ festival 5 June | 3:30-4:30 What can global environmental thinking learn from Indigenous knowledge rooted in the Global South? 🔗 lnkd.in/evs9WegX With Mary Ng'endo Kanui & Shonil Bhagwat @gunjans.bsky.social

🗣️ Talking Race: From Discomfort to Disruptive Action | GCSJ Research Festival ⏳4 June | 3:15–4:30PM From Grenfell to global discourse, from lived experience to academic insight - explore the work of OU's Racial Justice Working Group 👉 tinyurl.com/y2tmtcw9 #racialjustice @ougradsch.bsky.social

🗓 Don’t miss research insights on 'Power & Global Development'. From who sets the agenda to whose voices are heard, power is central to how we understand global development. Join IKD's conversation at the GCSJ research festival! 👉4 June | 1:45-3PM 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1303977043...

A big thank you to Margaret Ebubedik for her TESS talk on "Leveraging SKEEP for equitable responses to addressing societal challenges" & thanks to all of today's participants. Our next TESS talk will be part of the GCSJ Research Festival 👉 fass.open.ac.uk/events/3rd-a... @gunjans.bsky.social

❔How do borders - physical, political, psychological - shape the lives of those on the move? The OU Migration Group's panel unpacks migration in the context of climate change, right-wing politics, and conflict... 🗓️ 4 June | 11:45–1PM | GCSJ Festival 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1303971115...

📢 Join us at the Festival's Keynote by Dr Walaa Alqaisiya 🗓️ 4 June 🕥 10:15-11:30AM "Palestine and the Battle of Ideas in the 21st Century" Explore how ideological mobilisation shape global narratives. Free Eventbrite registration: tinyurl.com/2kt4j5yu @gunjans.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social

Don’t miss Dr Kudakwashe Vanyoro keynote on "Thinking from the Global South” - a powerful talk on migration, power & North–South relations. 🗓 5 June | ⏰ 11:00–12:00 📡 online & on-site 🔗 tinyurl.com/bduev9sk (free registration) @KudaVan @gunjans.bsky.social #research #GlobalSouth #Migration

Get ready for 📡keynotes📡 at our 3rd GCSJ Research Festival June 4-6! 1️⃣Keynote 1 by Dr Walaa Alqaisiya 2️⃣Keynote 2 by Dr Kudakwashe Vanyoro 3️⃣Many more conversations on locating and challenging power & creative approaches @gunjans.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social

A big thank you 🙏🏼to all the speakers of our latest GCSJ roundtable today who discussed the timely topic of 'disengaged or discerning sceptics? Research and insights on active citizenship'. 🗓️ More events coming up: fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen... @gunjans.bsky.social