@UErel

Professor of Sociology , The Open University

 London, England
open.ac.uk/socialsciences/main/staff/people-profile.php?name=Umut_Erel
Joined December 2011
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Ethnic and Racial Studies is seeking Editorial Board Members Deadline: 30th November 2023 Think this could be you? Read more and apply today: think.taylorandfrancis.com/e…
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Updating our safeguarding training. Striking that - given the definition of child neglect - when is it perpetrated by a parent it is acted upon - but when it is caused by the housing crisis or the hostile environment we find it impossible to get children the help they need.
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🗓️GCSJ seminar: 14 July, 12-1pm Alex Barber will consider Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a political allegory...The prompt for doing so is a recently rediscovered novella written in revolutionary Paris three decades earlier. fass.open.ac.uk/events/gcsj-… @OU_FASS @UErel @OU_Philosophy
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The Orwell Prize@TheOrwellPrize22 Jun 2023
The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2023 is awarded to Gary Younge (@garyyounge) for an entry including essays and a podcast on race, inequality and the history and legacy of slavery in Britain. Congratulations, Gary!
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Prof @garyyounge is discussing #BlackLivesMatter as Movement or Moment? Symbol or Substance? Join this important keynote. ❗️21 June 1-2pm Online and on campus at OU #MiltonKeynes register 👉eventbrite.com/e/64619176596… @Usherwood @ourmiltonkeynes @OU_FASS @GaskarthJamie @OUstudents
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Our #SSAHE webinar on #IdentityPolitics is just kicking off...
Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment@ssahe_uk13 Jun 2023
Less than a week until next #SSAHE webinar 5pm 19 June "Identity politics and the Hostile Environment", with @RimaSaini3105. @bengidley & Nira Yuval-Davis. Details: ssahe.info/2023/04/28/june-w… Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ssahe-jun…
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🔑The key to successful grant applications...? Simon @Usherwood and Suzanne Duncanson-Hunter will share best practices, funding opps, and support available 🚨 Today (Mon) 12-1.30pm Free event🔗eventbrite.com/e/64814457687… @OpenUniversity @OU_FASS @WELSPGResearch @GaskarthJamie @UErel
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❗️Starting shortly at 12 noon The #globalcommons roundtable 🌐with leading experts @DerekMatravers @dantaylor42 @MohanGiles Free event🔗eventbrite.co.uk/e/648134466… @gerrymooney60 @OU_CSGD @globalcommonshq @MCC_Berlin #Space #climate #rights @UErel @DrAlmarino
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Ecological grief as #climate interrogation - In Every Bite of the Emperor...keynote by artist/human geographer Youngsook Choi will take place on 🗓️21 June 2.15-3.15 🔗eventbrite.co.uk/e/646199469… #ClimateEmergency #environment #Artists @OU_FASS @OpenUniversity @OUstudents @OU_STEM
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The GCSJ research festival has kicked off today and continues until 21 June, featuring the latest OU research on #global challenges and #socialjustice 🌐 All events 👉 fass.open.ac.uk/events/resea… @gerrymooney60 @HPMurphy @OU_CSGD @OUFreeLearning @UErel @GaskarthJamie @shonilbhagwat
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Learn more about the multiscalar narratives of Chinese infrastructure investment in Europe, with @MohanGiles Ran Hu & @WeiweiChen16 ❗️Tomorrow 15 June 1-2pm Free event 👉eventbrite.co.uk/e/651274087… @ERedefine @OUGradSch @IntDev_OU
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If you’re in Milton Keynes come along.
OU Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice@OU_GCSJ11 Jun 2023
Prof @garyyounge is coming to #MiltonKeynes discussing #BlackLivesMatter as Movement or Moment? Symbol or Substance? Join the important discussion ❗️21 June 1-2pm Limited seats at The Open University 👉eventbrite.com/e/64619176596… @Usherwood @ourmiltonkeynes @IFMKfest @mk_citizen
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Searching for funding? Packed with hands-on info, Sophie Watson and Simon @Usherwood who successfully received #research funding will share their best practices with S Duncanson-Hunter Online🗓️19 June 12-1.30pm eventbrite.com/e/64814457687… @OU_FASS @OU_Library @OUPolitics @OUResEnt
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Who owns the #globalcommons and what's so common(s) about Outer Space? Join our free online roundtable on 🗓️Fri 16 June 12-1.30pm 🔗eventbrite.com/e/64813446663… @globalcommonshq @MCC_Berlin @ProGloCommons @UNOOSA @Space4WomenOOSA
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How did the #UnitedNations system survive during COVID-19 crisis? Learn about fascinating research on #UNWomen and virtual offices. 👉 free online event 🚨16 June 1.30-2.15pm with @1GeorginaHolmes, @FilippoBoni1 eventbrite.com/e/64814163808… @UN_Women @UNWomenWatch @cov19chronicles
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Prof @garyyounge is coming to #MiltonKeynes discussing #BlackLivesMatter as Movement or Moment? Symbol or Substance? Join the important discussion ❗️21 June 1-2pm Limited seats at The Open University 👉eventbrite.com/e/64619176596… @Usherwood @ourmiltonkeynes @IFMKfest @mk_citizen
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Did you know...the high seas, the deep-sea bed, Antarctica, the atmosphere, and outer space are all defined as “global commons”? So... #rights for none and all? Learn more on Fri 16 June 12-1.30pm 🔗eventbrite.com/e/64813446663… @DerekMatravers @dantaylor42 @nat_geo_theory @OUstudents
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Please share widely~ a great post in an excellent teaching, learning & research environment @Soc_Assoc_Ire @britsoci @AcadSocSciences @SocialPolicyUK @ESA_Sociology @TracyShildrick @ProfImogenTyler @UErel @drtraceyjpotts @GillianWylie7 @MorrissLisa @TAReynolds12 @LisaMor71178061
UCC Research@UCCResearch10 Jun 2023
UCC wishes to appoint an experienced academic to the role of Lecturer in Social Policy (Youth & Community Work). This position is being filled as part of UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures. ucc.ie/en/futures/collective… @UCCAppSoc | @CACSSS1 | @maggieoneill9 #UCCFutures
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STORIES [that] MATTER: read the blog @LadanRahbari & I wrote, introducing our book on #migrant #academics published #OpenAccess with @OpenBookPublish. @CEE_Feminisms @UvA_AISSR @ECPR_Gender @ECPR_Migration @AMIINetwork blogs.openbookpublishers.com…

Stories [that] Matter: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe

Read now a blog post by Ladan Rahbari & Olga Burlyuk on their latest edited volume 'Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe'

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Please do cascade this to all your networks people! We are really at a stage where we need someone amazing and experienced to be our backstop, our cheerleader, our rudder, our safe pair of hands.
Reach Volunteering@ReachVolunteer8 Jun 2023
The Magpie Project provides a safe & fun place for mums & pre-school children suffering in temporary or insecure accommodation. They seek a Chair to support the board to make strategic decisions for the benefit of the families they serve: buff.ly/3CeRjdC @magpieprojectuk
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