Notcing roads and places beside roads - A short essay

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If you are someone who has been interested in trees, walking, and the transforming place that Delhi is, consider being part of the project. Any queries? Happy to have a chat about it - just dm or email!

Apart from walking, I would love to engage in some conversations about what this practice of tree walking means to you and how it shapes your everyday life.

Hi, I am looking for some tree walkers to facilitate some tree walks in rural parts of Delhi for 10-15 teenagers. The location (tentatively) is around Madanpur Khadar region so if you are familiar with that area, that would be really helpful.

Heritage Open Days return to The Open University from 17–19 Sept with campus tours, new exhibitions, a choir performance, and a brand-new Archive Cinema experience! 🤩

🎟️ Free to attend – tours require booking!
🔗 Full schedule & info: www.open.ac.uk/library/libr...

#MiltonKeynes #Heritage

CSGD & IKID #GlobalDevelopment Doctoral Day — always a calendar highlight! A joy to co-host with colleagues in Innovation, Knowledge & Development at FASS. Thanks to all OU #DoctoralResearch students & supervisors who came to connect & inspire. #PhDCommunity #CSGD #IKID #ResearchMatters

📢Registration for our event is open until 30 June✅

We warmly welcome in-person attendance on 09 July to ensure discussions are critical & spontaneous♨️
But online places are still available {JM}.
#DoctoralWriting #AcademicLiteracies #tleap #AcWri
#OpenUniversity
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Registration Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...

The deadline for registration is 30 June 2025.

The Seminar and future Manifesto offer a collaborative space in which to question and propose what it means to write a doctorate in current and future times. Participants will be invited to collectively author a 'Manifesto on the Future of Doctoral Writing'.

Permanent teaching and research lectureship in sociology at the university of Manchester. Linked to the Morgan centre. For researchers in areas of everyday lives, personal life and relationships. Please share! Deadline April 7th

Registration is open for our final 'Rethinking Fables' conference (May 22-24, 2025: University of Kent, Canterbury UK & online) with Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh as our keynote speakers. Please spread the word – and we'd be delighted if you can join us. research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

Please take a look at my conversation with the fabulist Suniti Namjoshi, ‘Birds Talk Back’. Your thoughts and comments are most welcome! 😊 research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

The wonderful @rethinkingfable.bsky.social made this lovely video of the workshop on Fable Writing.

youtu.be/ouhOByeS6hw

I had a stimulating time preparing for it and then facilitating it. Thank you to the participants for trusting their wonderful stories to this process of inquiry. Keep writing ✍🏽

These are dark & disconcerting times for the environment and our future. I am reposting our 'Call for Fables'. Drop us a line if you can think of a fable that speaks to you at this moment (& please try writing a fable yourself, to make sense of what’s happening) research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-f...

NCRM is inviting researchers to contribute to its unique new event, the Research Methods Rendezvous!

The two-day, online event will provide attendees with the opportunity to present research ideas and develop them with other researchers.

Read the call: https://buff.ly/3EnkrUs

Spring: Are we there yet?
Smell of roses to a student on campus: I am quite certain!!

Thinking about starting a PhD in 2025? Current funded PhD studentships now live on our Employment pages with closing dates in January: www5.open.ac.uk/employment/a...

Please share!
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@ou-ld-social.bsky.social
@oustudents.bsky.social

As part of this activity, I am trying to gather experiences of students from different institutions. Please connect via DM if anyone would like to speak to me about your experience. It would just be a 20-minute video/voice call between 26 December - 3 January

Hi, I am doing a scoping activity regarding restrictions surrounding Tier 4 Student Visa (now called as Student Visa). The aim of this activity is to particularly understand the restrictions of visa policy in terms of conducting field work outside the UK.