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Welcome to *GCSJ* - the Open University's Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice in the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies.
📢 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...
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🎙️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...
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🔭 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
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📢 New Open Access Publication Alert!
Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies
with @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social
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📢 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...
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📖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...
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📣 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
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🔭 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.
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15.10.2025 19:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Presenters 🗣️ Mustafa Ali, Eleni Dimou, Tracie Farrell, Kristina Hultgren, Les Levidow, Julia Molinari, Farnaz Rais
15.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📢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...
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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 🙏🏼
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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
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💡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...
The GCSJ research festival is free & many sessions are online; feel free to share @gunjans.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @simonusherwood.bsky.social @katemarburg.bsky.social @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social @ids.ac.uk @nuglobaldev.bsky.social @soasdevelopment.bsky.social
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🎉 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
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