Welcome to The Open University's research Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) in the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies.
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📢 GCSJ/OpenSpace Seminar | Beyond Smoothness: The Textures of Logistical Life
📅 16 June 2026 | ⏰ 11.30–13.00 | Hybrid
Dr Debbie Hopkins (University of Oxford) explores the frictions, interruptions & uneven experiences that shape logistical life.
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📈 Alan Shipman writes about the US economy, which he says is picking up despite energy costs rising as a result of the US war with Iran.
🔗 Read the recent article republished by Yahoo Finance from The Conversation: uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/us…
🌕 Watch again: Care-full lunar exploration – challenges and opportunities for protecting the Moon | GCSJ seminar with Alessandra Marino
How can we ensure activities on the Moon are guided by care, responsibility and protection?
🎥 youtu.be/9hAg39DuP2Q
🚨 We invite you to join us for next week’s GCSJ/OpenSpace seminar "Beyond Smoothness: The Textures of Logistical Life", which will take place as a hybrid event on Tuesday 16th June, 11.30-13.00.
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🎙️ Prof Simon Usherwood spoke on Talk Radio about how politics is changing and the need to engage more in democracy.
🎧 internetradiouk.com/talk/
👉 Featured at 22:08 and again on 4 June at 05:40
📣 Happening next week | Join the GCSJ Research Festival 2026
Our 4th Annual Research Festival on Global Challenges and Social Justice is taking place on 2–3 June 2026.
📅 2–3 June 2026
📍 Online and hybrid
🔗 Full programme and registration: tinyurl.com/mu6yp3nm
📚 Publication highlight | Symposium on Sophie Grace Chappell’s Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience.
It brings together reflections and discussions on the book’s themes in ethics and moral philosophy.
In: Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie.
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📢 The detailed programme is now available for the 4th Annual Research Festival on Global Challenges and Social Justice
📅 2–3 June 2026
💻 Free online
🔗 Registration + full programme: tinyurl.com/mu6yp3nm
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Join us for the online launch of "Heterodox Economics" by Andrew Trigg with panel discussants: @danielle_guizzo, @JoMicheII, Sonal Raghuvanshi, Stephen T. Ziliak
🗓️Thurs 21 May
⏲️16:00 BST
Register: tinyurl.com/46dt9saj
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IKID Seminar: Transition-Driven Windows Of Opportunity: The Role Of China
🗓️Wed 13 May
⌚️13.00pm BST
Join Stine Haakonsson discuss industrial restructuring during socio-technical shifts and rising global competition
Register - bit.ly/42nyLVK
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Beome a Rethinker and check out the Open University's offering of pluralist and inclusive economics courses.
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A fantastic blog from @OpenUniversity Politics student Cameron:
"Does UK Democracy Have a Future? Gen Z Views of Democracy"
open.substack.com/pub/camero…
📖 New publication | Legacies of the Lost in Criminology
This new edited collection explores loss, absence, and social harm in criminological research.
Edited by Tammy Ayres, Daniel Briggs, Craig Kelly, and Stuart Taylor.
💡 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk…
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📅 Happening this Friday | Care-full lunar exploration: challenges and opportunities for protecting the Moon
Exploring scientific, legal, environmental, and cultural perspectives on protecting lunar environments & the first public presentation underpinning the MoonRISE project.
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🚨 New blog post! 🚨Is the UK’s Gen Z Christian “revival” overstated? Paul-Francois Tremlett (@paulftremlett.bsky.social) argues in the blog "The Resurgence That Never Was" that religion in the UK continues to decline: open.ac.uk/blogs/religious-s… @thebasr @informreligion @OU_FASS
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IKID Seminar: Transition-Driven Windows Of Opportunity: The Role Of China
🗓️Wed 13 May
⌚️13.00pm BST
Join Stine Haakonsson discuss industrial restructuring during socio-technical shifts and rising global competition
Register - bit.ly/42nyLVK
@Economics_OU
@OU_FASS
🎥 Watch now | Public opinion & national security in the UK
In this recent GCSJ seminar, Dr Thomas Martin explores a people-centred approach to national security, focusing on public opinion and everyday experiences.
📺 Watch: youtu.be/go3DRDhhXsE
📜 Programme overview now available | GCSJ Research Festival 2026 (2–3 June)
Explore the 4th Annual GCSJ Research Festival—two days of global challenges research, panels & discussion (in person + online).
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