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Welcome to The Open University's research Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) in the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies.
Joined June 2020
📢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.👉 @PreciousChatD @GunjanSondhi
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As part of #RefugeeWeek join the upcoming event by the Sanctuary Advisory Network at @OpenUniversity . ⏰Fri 13 June, 1:00 PM . 💡Talks by Maryam Rahmani (Womankind Worldwide) & Mir Abdullah Miri (University of Bath). 👉
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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 👉
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🌍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.👉@KudaVan @GunjanSondhi
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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. 🔗
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🙏🏼📣 A big thank you to all speakers and participants of our first GCSJ research festival day today!. More sessions tomorrow - Find all details here 👉
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🎉 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:
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🗣️ Join the conversation on "Cancer Patient Voices in Tanzania".🕒 2:15–3:15 | 5 June | GCSJ. Join Richard Ngilangwa (online) & Cristina Santos (in person) as they explore an innovative, mixed-methods approach & captur the social, economic & systemic dimensions of cancer care.
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The GCSJ research festival is free & many sessions are online; feel free to share @1GeorginaHolmes @agneskh @EricaBorgstrom @KesiMahendran @drjaimewaters @WeiweiChen16 @PreciousChatD @NotoriousCath @KeetieRoelen @AlisonBucklerEd @kwameakyeampon1 @GunjanSondhi @OU_FASS @IntDev_OU.
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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:.🔗
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@walqaisiya @IntDev_OU This is a free online event by Dr Walaa Alqaisiya you can register for via: @LalehKhalili @andrewsgeoff @PreciousChatD @OUPolitics @1GeorginaHolmes @EdwardWastnidge @Dr_DonnaSmith @CKWeatherill @SOAS_MEI @MiddleEastEye @LSEMiddleEast.
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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 .📎
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🌱 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?. 🔗 Mary Ng'endo Kanui & Shonil Bhagwat
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Registration is free for this hybrid event via: 🔗.Please share @shonilbhagwat @GunjanSondhi @IntDev_OU @OU_FASS @OU_CSGD.
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🗣️ 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.👉 #racialjustice
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@IntDev_OU Innovation Knowledge Development (IKD) is organising this free online session, please feel free to share with your networks @MarieBGillespie @MohanGiles @simonearthur @Simonceeta @ddnar @floretta_voice @AndreaBerardiOU @AlisonBucklerEd @MazzucatoM @Smita_Srinivas @GunjanSondhi.
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🗓 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 @IntDev_OU at the GCSJ research festival.👉4 June | 1:45-3PM.🔗#development
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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 👉 @GunjanSondhi.
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❔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.👉
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