Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 11:00 to Friday, May 17, 2024 - 15:00
Online and in-person, Library seminar rooms 1&2
We would like to invite you to join the GCSJ Research Festival on Global Challenges and Social Justice. The festival will bring together a variety of speakers and formats to showcase exciting OU research and give researchers a platform to exchange ideas and expand their networks.
13th March 2024
This OU Economics Seminar, joint with IKD, will explore the direction economists are taking in with environmental breakdown.
22nd February 2024
Inflation in the UK reached their highest rates in 2022 and 2023 for three decades, putting an end to over a decade of historically low interest rates and pushing many into a cost of living crisis with poverty deepening for many. Drawing from recent publications, the seminar explores evidence based understanding of recent hikes in inflation and the distributional conflict between wages and profit that ensue.
29th January 2024
The Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) aims to connect PGR students with experienced researchers in the format of a ‘methods surgery’ where practical challenges, obstacles, tips and tricks can be discussed.
17th November 2023
Community-led Policy Innovation for Local Food-Growing is a seminar that will present a pilot study funded by the OSC programme.
16th November 2023
Drawing from recent publications below, the seminar explores the role of critical development policies, and emergent theoretical paradigms.
25th October 2023
OU Economics is proud to celebrate a recently published collaborative book on feminism and sovereign debt, edited by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky (CONICET) and Mariana Rulli (UNRN).
20th June 2023
Privatisation policies have been heavily promoted worldwide by governments and international agencies using the claim that markets will do better at allocating resources and improve inefficient and under-invested public sector systems.
25th May 2023
The Covid crisis and financial turbulence of September 2022 exposed the linkages between pension funds and short-term liquidity, casting doubts about their ability to act as patient investors, especially as stabilising forces during crises. In this seminar, Jennifer Churchill, senior lecturer at UWE, Bristol Business School, and Bruno Bonizzi, Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, Business School, will talk about the persion funds and market tumult.
18th April 2023
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and OU Economics are delighted to host the Book Launch of Imperialism and the Political Economy of Global South's Debt, where experts connect the history of this issue with a range of factors including class dynamics, the changing landscape of sovereign debt markets, the global liquidity cycle, the enduring constraints of commodity dependence, ecological sustainability and the limitations of the current ad hoc sovereign debt restructuring procedures.
9th March 2023
The Open University Economics Seminar Series is honoured to host Chiara Putaturo (Oxfam), Baba Aye (Public Services International) and Lucia Pradella (King’s College London) as they discuss the driving forces for the on-going wave of protests and strikes. The event will be chaired by Julia Ngozi Chukwuma (The Open University).
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