Previous Events

Friday, November 14, 2025 - 12:00 to 13:00

Online, via Microsoft Teams

In this talk, we discuss what it might mean to keep thinking with Doreen Massey today. As a profoundly influential geographer based at the Open University for many decades, our aim is not a retrospective focused on Massey as an individual academic figure.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 - 14:00 to 16:00

Online via MS Team

Dr. Tareeq Jalloh (Oxford) will give a talk, arguing against censoring drill on the assuption that it causes violence.

Friday, October 17, 2025 - 12:00 to 13:00

Online, via Microsoft Teams

This theme is being pursued by the OU Palestine Solidarity Group within the OU’s Open Societal Challenge programme. Our Challenge aims to de-exceptionalise Israel/Palestine through research, education, partnerships with other university Palestine solidarity groups and national campaigns to build a t...

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - 19:00 to 20:00

Online, via Microsoft Teams

You are invited to the first Open Psychology Research Centre (OPRC) public online lecture of the 25/26. The first talk will be delivered by Prof Catriona Havard, Co-Director of OPRC.

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 19:30 to 20:45

Online

This Open Day is an exciting opportunity to explore the study of Sociology at The Open University (OU). Sociology is a dynamic and relevant field of study that enables students to critically examine social issues, inequalities, human behaviour, and societal structures.

Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 15:00 to Saturday, June 21, 2025 - 19:00

Foundling Museum, London

Co-hosted by Creative Interactions and Contemporary Cultures of Writing at The Open University, together with colleagues from Falmouth University and Northwestern University in Qatar, this event will be held at the Foundling Museum in London on the 20th and 21st of June, with online p...

Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 11:00 to Friday, May 16, 2025 - 18:00

Hybrid; Online (via Microsoft Teams) and In Person (Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes)

The Annual Gender and Otherness (GOTH) Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for two days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate, with a  focus on aspects of gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama, lit...

Monday, March 24, 2025 - 10:00 to Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 14:00

Online, via Microsoft Teams

Join The Open University (OU) from Monday 24th March to celebrate and promote open research, showcasing examples of our open practices across many disciplines. Throughout the week, you’ll hear about the real world applications and engagement of our openly available data, outputs and ...

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 09:00 to Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 16:30

Hub Theatre, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA

Welcome to the Researching Global China Conference, with this year’s theme looking at methodologies around Innovation and Challenges.

Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 12:30 to 14:00

Online via MS Teams

Come along to our seminar and hear Dr Viktor Eszterhai from John Lukacs Institute for Strategy and Politics speak on: Chinese Investment Boom in Hungary: Semi-Peripheral Perspectives and Implications for European Identity.