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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Aug 18

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 ([email protected]) and Markus Roos Breines ([email protected]).

The image contains details for a Call for papers for the IMISCOE Research Network 2026 Annual Conference. The Panel is entitled Class Matters: Community engagement and middle-class migrants in migration research

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Jul 21

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...

Reversing the Gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector

This article reverses the gaze on research on highly skilled migrant (HSM) women by analysing how the patriarchy of the destination country impacts their experience within the workplace. Most literat...

dx.doi.org

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Jul 11

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.

Moving through crisis into spaces of solidarity: Experiences of international students

By Gunjan Sondhi

www.routedmagazine.com

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Jun 2

2 days to go till the @ou-gcsj.bsky.social research festival #ChallengingPower starts. Online and hybrid programme and registration details below.

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Jun 2

🎉 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...

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Jun 2

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.

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · May 29

🌱 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

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · May 22

Taking place in two weeks! Registration details below 👇
As part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival.

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · May 20

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

Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · May 22

Taking place in two weeks. Registration details below 👇👇👇 as part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · May 21

📢 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

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · May 16

Taking place today!!! 👇🏾

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · May 15

‼️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

Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · May 12

Looking forward to contributing to this discussion today.

Richard Budd @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social · May 9

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-...

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reflexivities.bsky.social @reflexivities.bsky.social · May 9

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 🔥

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Richard Budd @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social · May 9

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-...

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Apr 24

Taking place tomorrow!!!

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Apr 18

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

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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Apr 22

📽️ 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

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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Apr 18

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

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Apr 11

Starting in the next hour!

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Apr 10

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

Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Mar 12

Taking place today! Find out how your #climatechange research can shape secondary education curriculum. Registration details below.

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Mar 12

📢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
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Mar 10

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

Teaching equitably about climate change: Linking Higher Education research

Hosted by Global Challenges and Social Justice Research Centre (GCSJ) - Teaching equitably about climate change: Linking Higher Education r

eventbrite.co.uk

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Mar 6

Huge thanks to all the speakers for their contributions.

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Mar 5

So much food for thought! A big thank you to all the speakers @ our GCSJ roundtable on 'AI Opportunities? Responses on implications for research and teaching'.
👍Check out more events in March: fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen...
@ou-edprimary.bsky.social @ouscotland.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Mar 4

#AI opportunities in teaching and research? Join the discussion tomorrow, 5 March, 1300-1430 GMT. Registration details below.

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Mar 3

2 days to go...⏳ On 5 March join the GCSJ roundtable for an open and critical exploration of the concerns, questions & opportunities regarding the use of *AI within teaching and learning*.
🔔 1-2.30pm online
👉Register eventbrite.co.uk/e/1249256843...

@gunjans.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social

Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Feb 28

Catherine Hall considers how we might think of repair. Join in person or online. Details below

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Feb 28

Catherine Hall (Emerita Prof., UCL) speaks about ‘Wrongs not righted: how might we think about repair?’
🗓️18 March, 2-3.15pm - GCSJ Research Talk
👋Join either in person or online
📎Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1153349983...
@ougradsch.bsky.social @oupolitics.bsky.social @oustudents.bsky.social

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Feb 21

CFP #RGSIBG25 Rethinking Categories Under Attack.

Please submit ideas by 5th March, 2025 to [email protected]

#RGSIBG2025 @openspaceou.bsky.social

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Feb 21

Taking place today. Rovincer Najjuma talks about access to education for #Refugee #Students. Registration details below.

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Feb 19

@gunjans.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social

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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Feb 18

✏️For your calendars - many upcoming GCSJ events in Feb and March covering important global topics. All free and open for registration. 🖇️Links via fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/GCSJ/events
#SocialJusticeDay #research #academia
@gunjans.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Feb 17

📢📢 2nd talk of the Thinking Expansively Seminar Series with Rovincer Najjuma.
Taking place this week. Registration details below👇🏾👇🏾

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Feb 13

📢Join our upcoming TESS Talk on 'An Integrated System for Refugee Students' & learn about what digital education can offer to leverage multi-tiered systems of support and education.
Fri 21 Feb, 12-1pm. Free online event:
🔗 eventbrite.co.uk/e/1194826651...
#RefugeeRights #Migration #EducationForAll

Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · Feb 14

taking place now.

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Jan 30

How do we negotiate the boundaries between “just friends” and “dating” 💕❓ Sophie-Grace Chappell offers some pointers including the importance of our assumptions about roles & stereotypes in our next GCSJ seminar.
🗓️Fri 14 Feb, 12.00
Free online event, register now 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/friends-an...