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Welcome to *GCSJ* - the Open University's Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice in the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies.
📢 Coming soon > our next GCSJ seminar
🟢 Greening the Gulf? Renewables, Fossil Capitalism, and the ‘East-East’ Axis of World Energy
📅 Friday, 5 December 2025
🔔12-1PM | Online
📍 Speaker: Professor Adam Hanieh (Exeter University)
🖇️ Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/greening-t...
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🎙️Upcoming TESS Talk
⏰Fri 21 Nov, 12–1.30PM
“Afrocentric pedagogical leadership in action - Towards culturally empowered learning”
Prof Eric Addae-Kyeremeh explores how African values, cultures & knowledge systems can reshape educational leadership.
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afrocentri...
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🔭 Many upcoming GCSJ events 2025–26!🗣️

We're delighted to share our line-up of thought-provoking seminars, talks, and PhD hubs exploring issues of inequality, decolonisation, and global transformation.

👉 Explore all details at: fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/GCSJ/events

@gunjans.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
📢 Our next TESS Talk on "Afrocentric pedagogical leadership in action - Towards culturally empowered learning" with Prof Eric Addae-Kyeremeh.
🗓 21 Nov | 12–1.30PM

🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afrocentri...

@gunjans.bsky.social @ietatou.bsky.social @ou-edprimary.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
📖Read about an inspiring journey of resilience, research & hope. In this blog, Xenia Jones recounts the ups & downs of completing a PhD while facing a serious health challenge - sharing the personal, the professional & the human side of academic life.
👉 learn1.open.ac.uk/mod/oublog/v...
November 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📣 Next GCSJ Seminar
🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 | 12–1PM | online
🔎Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey — exploring how Doreen Massey’s archive invites new questions about our troubled present.

Register to join the critical and creative dialogue: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rearticula...
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
In our latest GCSJ seminar, the OU Palestine Solidarity Group discussed the Palestine Exception and their transdisciplinary decolonisation research. Watch the recording now: youtu.be/pMJgxWobZgU?...

More events: fass.open.ac.uk/events

@gunjans.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📢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...

@gunjans.bsky.social @preciouschatd.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🌍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

@gunjans.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
💡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
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🎉 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...
June 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
🗣️ 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...
June 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🎉 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...
June 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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

@parvatiraghuram.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🌱 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
May 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
🗣️ 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
@ougradsch.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🗓 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...
May 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
📢 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
May 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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
May 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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
May 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
‼️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
May 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🚨 The countdown is on!

Join us for the 3rd Annual GCSJ Research Festival – three days of keynotes, seminars & thought-provoking sessions on power, justice, migration, gender & more.

📅 4–6 June 2025
🧠 Hybrid & Online
🌐 fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/GCSJ/events

#research #SocialJustice
May 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Signs of social & political disengagement are growing - the 2024 election’s relatively low voter turnout, a sharp decline since COVID in volunteering...
Learn about OU research & gain insights on active citizenship!
👉GCSJ roundtable
❗️Fri May 16, 12-1pm
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/1027903566237
May 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
❗️Join our upcoming GCSJ roundtable on 'Disengaged or discerning sceptics? Research and insights on active citizenship'
🗓️Fri 16 May
⏰12 - 1 pm
🌐 www.eventbrite.com/e/1027903566...

@gunjans.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📌Learn how academics can shape policy & why engagement matters.
🎥Watch the video of Rajiv Prabhakar's GCSJ talk, sharing insights from his work across the UK Parliament — including the House of Commons Library, POST, and the Members' Services Team.

🔗 youtu.be/kHB9xD0XLIo

@gunjans.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM