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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Jun 17

📢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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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Jun 11

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...

Empowerment and Belonging amongst Afghan Refugees

The Sanctuary Advisory Network at The Open University would like to invite you this seminar to mark the occasion of Refugee Week 2025.

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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Jun 6

A huge thank you to all presenters and participants of the third and last day of our annual GCSJ festival 🙏🏼

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

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

3rd Annual GCSJ Research Festival on Challenging Power

We would like to invite you to join the GCSJ Research Festival on Challenging Power. The festival will bring together a variety of speakers and formats to showcase exciting OU research and give resear...

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

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

💡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

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Jun 4

🙏🏼📣 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...

3rd Annual GCSJ Research Festival on Challenging Power

We would like to invite you to join the GCSJ Research Festival on Challenging Power. The festival will bring together a variety of speakers and formats to showcase exciting OU research and give resear...

fass.open.ac.uk

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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · Jun 4

🎉 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...

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

🗣️ 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...

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

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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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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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · May 31

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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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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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · May 27

🗣️ 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
👉 tinyurl.com/y2tmtcw9

#racialjustice
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · May 26

Innovation Knowledge Development (IKD) at the OU is organising this free online session, please feel free to share with your networks & register via 👉 t.co/2TFucCZXKQ

@lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social @ids.ac.uk @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @globaldevinst.bsky.social @nuglobaldev.bsky.social

GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · May 25

🗓 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 IKD's conversation at the GCSJ research festival!
👉4 June | 1:45-3PM
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1303977043...

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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · May 23

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 👉 fass.open.ac.uk/events/3rd-a...

@gunjans.bsky.social

3rd Annual GCSJ Research Festival on Challenging Power

We would like to invite you to join the GCSJ Research Festival on Challenging Power. The festival will bring together a variety of speakers and formats to showcase exciting OU research and give resear...

fass.open.ac.uk

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

❔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
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1303971115...

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

This is a free online event you can register for via: tinyurl.com/2kt4j5yu
@filippoboni.bsky.social @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @preciouschatd.bsky.social ‪@emmalclarence.bsky.social @oupolitics.bsky.social @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social @drgholmes.bsky.social ‪‪‪@ckweatherill.bsky.social‬

Keynote Speech - Palestine and the Battle of Ideas in the 21st century

3rd Annual GCSJ Research Festival Challenging Power: Keynote Speech

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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

@gunjans.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social

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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

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

Get ready for 📡keynotes📡 at our 3rd GCSJ Research Festival June 4-6!
1️⃣Keynote 1 by Dr Walaa Alqaisiya
2️⃣Keynote 2 by Dr Kudakwashe Vanyoro
3️⃣Many more conversations on locating and challenging power & creative approaches

@gunjans.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social

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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · May 16

A big thank you 🙏🏼to all the speakers of our latest GCSJ roundtable today who discussed the timely topic of 'disengaged or discerning sceptics? Research and insights on active citizenship'.

🗓️ More events coming up: fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen...

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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

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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · May 14

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