Gunjan Sondhi
@gunjans.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Geography at the Open University, UK. Director, Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice(@ou-gcsj.bsky.social). Researching migration, gender, education and work.
📢 New Open Access Publication Alert!
Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies
with @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social
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Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies
with @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eN1I6
Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies
rdcu.be
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
📢 New Open Access Publication Alert!
Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies
with @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eN1I6
Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies
with @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eN1I6
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 (gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk) and Markus Roos Breines (mrb@fafo.no).
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 (gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk) and Markus Roos Breines (mrb@fafo.no).
August 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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 (gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk) and Markus Roos Breines (mrb@fafo.no).
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 (gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk) and Markus Roos Breines (mrb@fafo.no).
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...
@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
July 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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...
@parvatiraghuram.bsky.social and Clem Herman
dx.doi.org/10.1111/glob...
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.
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
July 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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.
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.
2 days to go till the @ou-gcsj.bsky.social research festival #ChallengingPower starts. Online and hybrid programme and registration details below.
🎉 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...
📅 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...
June 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
2 days to go till the @ou-gcsj.bsky.social research festival #ChallengingPower starts. Online and hybrid programme and registration details below.
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.
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.
🌱 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
@gunjans.bsky.social
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
@gunjans.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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.
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.
Taking place in two weeks! Registration details below 👇
As part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival.
As part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival.
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
🗓 5 June | ⏰ 11:00–12:00
📡 online & on-site
🔗 tinyurl.com/bduev9sk (free registration)
@KudaVan @gunjans.bsky.social
#research #GlobalSouth #Migration
May 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Taking place in two weeks! Registration details below 👇
As part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival.
As part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival.
Taking place in two weeks. Registration details below 👇👇👇 as part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival
📢 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
🗓️ 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
May 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Taking place in two weeks. Registration details below 👇👇👇 as part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival
Taking place today!!! 👇🏾
‼️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
👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/1027903566237
#elections #citizenship #research
@gunjans.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Taking place today!!! 👇🏾
Looking forward to contributing to this discussion today.
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-...
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-...
May 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Looking forward to contributing to this discussion today.
Reposted by Gunjan Sondhi
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 🔥
May 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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 🔥
Reposted by Gunjan Sondhi
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-...
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-...
May 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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-...
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-...
Taking place tomorrow!!!
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
🗓️Fri 25 April
⏰12-1pm
🖇️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/1299300906...
@gunjans.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social #climatejustice
April 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Taking place tomorrow!!!
Reposted by Gunjan Sondhi
📽️ 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
👉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
April 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
📽️ 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
👉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
Reposted by Gunjan Sondhi
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
🗓️Fri 25 April
⏰12-1pm
🖇️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/1299300906...
@gunjans.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social #climatejustice
April 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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
🗓️Fri 25 April
⏰12-1pm
🖇️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/1299300906...
@gunjans.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social #climatejustice
Starting in the next hour!
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
🗓️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
April 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Starting in the next hour!
Taking place today! Find out how your #climatechange research can shape secondary education curriculum. Registration details below.
📢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
@gunjans.bsky.social
👉Eventbrite link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1254547498339
@gunjans.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Taking place today! Find out how your #climatechange research can shape secondary education curriculum. Registration details below.
Reposted by Gunjan Sondhi
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
✅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
March 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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
✅Wed 12 March
🔔6-7. 15pm
Register for free via eventbrite.co.uk/e/1254547498339
@gunjans.bsky.social @ouscotland.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social
Huge thanks to all the speakers for their contributions.
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
👍Check out more events in March: fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen...
@ou-edprimary.bsky.social @ouscotland.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social
Events
fass.open.ac.uk
March 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge thanks to all the speakers for their contributions.
#AI opportunities in teaching and research? Join the discussion tomorrow, 5 March, 1300-1430 GMT. Registration details below.
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
🔔 1-2.30pm online
👉Register eventbrite.co.uk/e/1249256843...
@gunjans.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
#AI opportunities in teaching and research? Join the discussion tomorrow, 5 March, 1300-1430 GMT. Registration details below.
Catherine Hall considers how we might think of repair. Join in person or online. Details below
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
🗓️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
February 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Catherine Hall considers how we might think of repair. Join in person or online. Details below
CFP #RGSIBG25 Rethinking Categories Under Attack.
Please submit ideas by 5th March, 2025 to gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk
#RGSIBG2025 @openspaceou.bsky.social
Please submit ideas by 5th March, 2025 to gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk
#RGSIBG2025 @openspaceou.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
CFP #RGSIBG25 Rethinking Categories Under Attack.
Please submit ideas by 5th March, 2025 to gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk
#RGSIBG2025 @openspaceou.bsky.social
Please submit ideas by 5th March, 2025 to gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk
#RGSIBG2025 @openspaceou.bsky.social
Reposted by Gunjan Sondhi
✏️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
#SocialJusticeDay #research #academia
@gunjans.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
✏️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
#SocialJusticeDay #research #academia
@gunjans.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social
📢📢 2nd talk of the Thinking Expansively Seminar Series with Rovincer Najjuma.
Taking place this week. Registration details below👇🏾👇🏾
Taking place this week. Registration details below👇🏾👇🏾
📢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
Fri 21 Feb, 12-1pm. Free online event:
🔗 eventbrite.co.uk/e/1194826651...
#RefugeeRights #Migration #EducationForAll
February 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
📢📢 2nd talk of the Thinking Expansively Seminar Series with Rovincer Najjuma.
Taking place this week. Registration details below👇🏾👇🏾
Taking place this week. Registration details below👇🏾👇🏾