OU Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice

📢 Join tomorrow's TESS Talk on Whiteness as a Spectre in Space? The Case of Post-Apartheid Cape Town | Fri 20 March | 12:00–13:30 (online) 👥 Speaker: Danielle Isler 🖇️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/whiteness-as…

Core programme includes: ☑️ Seminar Series ☑️ TESS Talks ☑️ Research Cafés ☑️ Book Launches ☑️ Roundtables ☑️ Annual Research Festival 📅 Next highlight: GCSJ Research Festival (2–4 June 2026). Theme: Shifting global power relations.

↗️ Momentum is building: • ~30 events in 2024–25 • 23 events already (Oct–Feb 2025–26) +20 more coming. GCSJ advances critical, interdisciplinary research on: • Inequality & power structures • Social justice & resistance • Policy impact & real-world change

Research, dialogue & collaboration on #SocialJustice are growing fast at @OpenUniversity’s GCSJ 🌐 Since 2021, the Centre for Global Challenges & Social Justice has become a hub for interdisciplinary research tackling today’s biggest global issues. @GunjanSondhi

Next month's IKID Seminar addresses climate change and development 👇

🎥 TESS Talk Recording Now Available | Black Studies in Babylon Dr Rita Gayle (University of Birmingham) reflects on Black Studies in Britain, drawing on her research on millennial Black women’s creative collectives (2013–2020). ▶️ youtu.be/aAfVozrnEMc @bham_uni @IETatOU

🌍 What would a world beyond borders look like? Join Gracie Mae Bradley in conversation with Gunjan Sondhi @ MK Literary Festival. A discussion on #borders, #migration, and #globaljustice 🗓 23 Mar | 7–8 PM tickettailor.com/events/miltonk… @graciemaybe

🎙️ BBC Radio 4 | Jamie Gaskarth on The Moral Maze: What role should morality play in foreign policy? Exploring ethical dilemmas in international relations, including UK–US tensions over the Iran crisis:🎧 Listen: bbc.com/audio/play/m00…

📚 Happening tonight! Author Kit de Waal in conversation with Dan Taylor on literature, identity & borders. 🗓 16 Mar ⏰ 7–8 PM GMT 💻 Online Part of the Borders: Routes and Roots series. 🔗tickettailor.com/events/miltonk… Follow us on 🦋@ou-gcsj.bsky.social @mk_citizen @IntDev_OU

⏰Next week, Friday, learn more about Partnering for Equitable Research at the launch of the PEERS Gallery & OpenLearn course. 📅 Friday, 20 March 2026 | 2:00 PM Register via 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-th…

More details of my talk @GlosHistFest (which will also include something on early plays of Dennis Potter) gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/radical…

📣📣Postdoc position @DondenaCentre @Unibocconi Join us to study how urban regeneration shapes inequality and social inclusion and contribute to impactful research supported by @FondCariplo 📍Milan 🗓️1 June 🔗jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?id=920 Please share!

🚨 New blog post! 🚨 Was Jeffery #Epstein a Satanist? Scholar of conspiracy theories, @d_g_robertson, critically investigates the dismissal of claims of abuse by elites as #conspiracytheories open.ac.uk/blogs/religiou… #EpsteinFiles @OpenUniversity @OU_FASS @OUPReligion

Still time to sign up for our exciting seminar today! Artists from the This is Essential Work online gallery in conversation with Rebecca Carson 🗓️Wed 11 Mar 📷12.30pm GMT Register - bit.ly/3ZToLCA @Economics_OU @OU_GCSJ

In this upcoming guest lecture, Associate Lecturer Deborah Wood will consider what we mean by modern slavery and will explore its prevalence both in the UK, and globally. OU Law students, no need to register - join the online room at the event start: ow.ly/OASC50Y3BNf

OU Head of Economics, Emilie Rutledge on the emerging economic situation in the Middle East. theconversation.com/the-middle-eas…

🚨 This Friday 13 March! Join us for our next upcoming GCSJ seminar on Public Opinion & National Security in the UK: A People-Centred Approach | Dr Thomas Martin 🔗 eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-opini… @Dr_DonnaSmith @PreciousChatD #nationalsecurity #politics #research

Open Research Week 2026 (16–20 March) brings together researchers, technicians, librarians & professional services teams to explore open, transparent and collaborative research. Discover new ideas, discussions and opportunities for collaboration. Find out more & register:ow.ly/EVPy50Yqb1k

Research Spotlight 💡 In “Fighting for a Share: How Rural Women Push Back on Land Inheritance in Northern India,” Ece Kocabıçak explores how rural women challenge social norms and legal barriers to claim their rightful inheritance. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2tp8f6yn

⏳ Still time to see River Stories exhibition & explore our relationships with local waterways through community-created artworks by Many Hands Craft Collective with artists Fiona Brehony & Liz Wewiora. 📍 Manchester Histories Hub 📅 Until 21 March manchesterhistories.co.uk/news-list/rive…