@gunjans.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Geography at the Open University, UK. Director, Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice(@ou-gcsj.bsky.social). Researching migration, gender, education and work.
🎉 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...
Call for papers for IMISCOE Regional conferences in Agadir.
📢 Call for Papers: 2026 @imiscoe.bsky.social Regional Forum, Agadir, Morocco, October 28-30, 2026
Exploring Equitable Research Partnerships across Africa and Europe
Panel organised by Parvati Raghuram, Markus Breines and me.
Please email short abstracts by 13th February to mrb@fafo.no
📢 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
📢 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
📘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...
📢 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-...
📢 New Open Access Publication Alert!
Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies
with @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eN1I6
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Call for papers for IMISCOE 2026 Annual Conference.
Class Matters: Community engagement and middle-class migrants in migration research.
Please email abstracts no longer than 250 words by 10th September to Gunjan Sondhi (gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk) and Markus Roos Breines (mrb@fafo.no).
Delighted to share our new #openacess paper in Global Networks. Reversing the gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector. #womenintech #migrants
@parvatiraghuram.bsky.social and Clem Herman
dx.doi.org/10.1111/glob...
Blog alert: Moving through crisis into spaces of solidarity: Experiences of #internationalstudents
www.routedmagazine.com/post/moving-...
It is related to a keynote I gave in June 2024 at Freiburg University, entitled: Repairing infrastructures of (im)mobility: lessons from the Covid-19 crisis.
2 days to go till the @ou-gcsj.bsky.social research festival #ChallengingPower starts. Online and hybrid programme and registration details below.
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This Thursday, 5th June, on #WorldEnvironmentDay
Mary Ng'endo Kanui and @shonilbhagwat.bsky.social explore 'what can global environmental thinking learn from Indigenous knowledge rooted in the Global South?' Registration details below.
Taking place in two weeks! Registration details below 👇
As part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival.
Taking place in two weeks. Registration details below 👇👇👇 as part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival
22.05.2025 16:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Taking place today!!! 👇🏾
16.05.2025 08:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to contributing to this discussion today.
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Wonderful first day of discussions on Reflexivities in Migration Studies and future directions of our Standing Committee at the Centre for Migration Research in Warsaw! Special thanks to Anna Amelina and @kudavan.bsky.social for your stimulating inputs. To be continued tomorrow 🔥
09.05.2025 14:42 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
A timely reminder of our @centreforhere.bsky.social public online roundtable on Monday next week:
Why is UK HE in crisis, and (how) can we fix it?
Discussants are @gunjans.bsky.social , @ronaldhartz.bsky.social, Kalpana Shankar, and Susan Robertson.
www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
Taking place tomorrow!!!
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📽️ 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
Starting in the next hour!
11.04.2025 10:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Taking place today! Find out how your #climatechange research can shape secondary education curriculum. Registration details below.
12.03.2025 11:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Want to know more about teaching equitably about climate change and linking Higher Education research with School teaching? Join our next event!
✅Wed 12 March
🔔6-7. 15pm
Register for free via eventbrite.co.uk/e/1254547498339
@gunjans.bsky.social @ouscotland.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social
Huge thanks to all the speakers for their contributions.
06.03.2025 09:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#AI opportunities in teaching and research? Join the discussion tomorrow, 5 March, 1300-1430 GMT. Registration details below.
04.03.2025 16:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Catherine Hall considers how we might think of repair. Join in person or online. Details below
28.02.2025 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
CFP #RGSIBG25 Rethinking Categories Under Attack.
Please submit ideas by 5th March, 2025 to gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk
#RGSIBG2025 @openspaceou.bsky.social
Taking place today. Rovincer Najjuma talks about access to education for #Refugee #Students. Registration details below.
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