🔭 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

‼️Tomorrow, Friday 12-1pm - Join our GCSJ roundtable on 'Disengaged or discerning sceptics? Research and insights on active citizenship' 👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/1027903566237 #elections #citizenship #research @gunjans.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social

🚨 The countdown is on! Join us for the 3rd Annual GCSJ Research Festival – three days of keynotes, seminars & thought-provoking sessions on power, justice, migration, gender & more. 📅 4–6 June 2025 🧠 Hybrid & Online 🌐 fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/GCSJ/events #research #SocialJustice

Signs of social & political disengagement are growing - the 2024 election’s relatively low voter turnout, a sharp decline since COVID in volunteering... Learn about OU research & gain insights on active citizenship! 👉GCSJ roundtable ❗️Fri May 16, 12-1pm 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/1027903566237

❗️Join our upcoming GCSJ roundtable on 'Disengaged or discerning sceptics? Research and insights on active citizenship' 🗓️Fri 16 May ⏰12 - 1 pm 🌐 www.eventbrite.com/e/1027903566... @gunjans.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social

🌍 How can we teach equitably about climate change?🎓 🎥Watch the recording of this GCSJ event exploring decolonial climate education in schools. With insights from researchers & educators behind new Key Stage 3 materials tackling global inequalities 🔗 youtu.be/iURd-Q_DFWs @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social

📌Learn how academics can shape policy & why engagement matters. 🎥Watch the video of Rajiv Prabhakar's GCSJ talk, sharing insights from his work across the UK Parliament — including the House of Commons Library, POST, and the Members' Services Team. 🔗 youtu.be/kHB9xD0XLIo @gunjans.bsky.social

Thanks a lot to our speaker at today's TESS Talk, Dr Adom Philogene Heron & to all participants. 👉Future events can be found via fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen... @gunjans.bsky.social

⏰🚨Starting at 12.00 noon today - our TESS talk with Dr Adom Philogene Heron on 'A Road to Repair. Displacement, Disaster Capital & Communal Resoration in Dominica' Register for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tess-talk-a-road-to-repair-tickets-1299300906989

📽️ Wrongs Not Righted: How Might We Think About Repair? 👉Watch Professor Catherine Hall’s powerful Open Sociology & GCSJ talk on Britain’s entanglement with Jamaica, the legacies of slavery, and what repair might look like. 🔗 youtu.be/LsIYjFizeWU?... #Colonialism #Jamaica @gunjans.bsky.social

Our next TESS Talk tackles the complicated politics of #climate displacement with a talk by Dr Adom Philogene Heron on "Surviving Storms" in #Dominica. 🗓️Fri 25 April ⏰12-1pm 🖇️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/1299300906... @gunjans.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social #climatejustice

Join us tomorrow for April’s GCSJ seminar on 'Existential Dis/Connections: Opening up conversations'! 🗓️Friday 11th April 12:00 -13:30 🗨️Speaker: Jane McCarthy 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1058332373619 to register @gunjans.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social

💡Stay tuned! GCSJ is finalising the program for our 3rd Annual Research Festival 4-6 June. ✅Online & hybrid ✅Keynotes: Walaa Alqaisiya & Kudakwashe Vanyoro ✅Sessions on power & global #development & racial #justice, labor rights, #gender, #indigenous environmental knowledge @gunjans.bsky.social

📢 Join our upcoming GCSJ seminar on Fri 11 April! We will introduce the developing work of 'Existential Dis/Connections: Opening up conversations' with Dr Jane Mccarthy. 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/existential-disconnections-opening-up-conversations-tickets-1058332373619 @gunjans.bsky.social

📢Just launched! 'Remember, Resisting: Realities of people’s struggles under the second Marcos regime' 👉 download the book via iboninternational.org/download/rem... @gunjans.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social

A big thank you 🙏🏼 to today's TESS talk speaker Dr Agostinho M N Pinnock for sharing & discussing ideas of dreams and Blackness as futurity in Black geographies scholarship. 🔗For more GCSJ events visit fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen... @gunjans.bsky.social

🚨Starting at 12 noon🚨 Our TESS talk on 'I do not sleep to dream, but dream to change the world’: Black Dreaming in ‘the Wake’; Reflections on Futures Past. 📢 Speaker: Dr Agostinho M N Pinnock 👉 fass.open.ac.uk/events/refle... @gunjans.bsky.social

🚨Happening tomorrow🚨 Professor Catherine Hall's GCSJ research talk on ‘Wrongs not righted: how might we think about repair?’ 🗓️18 March ⏰2-3.15pm 📷http://eventbrite.co.uk/e/1153349983849 #jamaica #slavery #colonialism

Join us on 18 March for a special GCSJ research talk with Professor Catherine Hall. She explores the troubling history of the entanglements between Britain & Jamaica, through the establishment of a slave society. ⏰2-3.25pm 🌐 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1153349983849 #jamaica #slavery #colonialism

Thank you Roosa Lambin, for a thought-provoking seminar earlier today on how colonial pasts have influenced social protection policies & institutions in Tanzania & Cote d’Ivoire. 👋More GCSJ events fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/GCSJ/events 🎞️If you missed any, check www.youtube.com/@OU_GCSJ

🚨Happening tomorrow🚨, Friday: GCSJ seminar on 'overcoming colonial continuities in the area of social protection', in Tanzania and Cote d’Ivoire, with Roosa Lambin. 📌online ⏰12-1pm 🔗 eventbrite.co.uk/e/1059588992199 #Tanzania #cotedivoire @gunjans.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social

📢Today 6-7.15pm, join the discussion on how higher education research can feed directly into school #teaching materials on #climatechange with @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social, Melis Cin, Manu Lekunze & @danwhittal.bsky.social 👉Eventbrite link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1254547498339 @gunjans.bsky.social