GCSJ seminar series: (In)visibility, business continuity and remote working in the UN system during the COVID pandemic

Speaker:

Dr Georgina Holmes, Lecturer in Politics and International Studies for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University.

Abstract:

This GCSJ seminar discusses the recent research project investigating how organisational change processes take effect in international bureaucracies. Dr Georgina Holmes is Principal Investigator for a project supported by UN Women which examines men and women’s experiences of working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2022).

Dr Georgina Holmes joined the Department as a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies in September 2022. She also lectures in Politics at Imperial College London and is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

The seminar series is organised by The Open University's Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ). Established in October 2021, the Centre in the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies provides critical, interdisciplinary insight, and innovative, social justice driven solutions to challenges facing contemporary global societies. The Centre’s ambition is to understand the historical and structural underpinnings of contemporary societies; the systems of oppressions and inequalities they reproduce; and the resistances and struggles they generate.