Previous Events

Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:00 to 13:00

Online, via Microsoft Teams

How does innovation affect income inequality? This talk explores how innovation systems can both increase and reduce inequality. It challenges the conventional explanations offered by mainstream economics - such as the skill-biased technological change account - and highlights the critical role of t...

Friday, January 16, 2026 - 12:00 to 13:00

Online, via Microsoft Teams

After researching sex workers in Cape Town and the UK there seems to be a desperate need for the safeguarding of sex worker.

Friday, December 5, 2025 - 12:00 to 13:00

Online via MS Teams

Drawing upon his recent book Crude Capitalism (Verso 2024), Adam Hanieh explores the growing role of the six Gulf Arab states (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman) in solar, wind, and other climate technologies that underpin dominant approaches to the 'Green Transiti...

Friday, November 21, 2025 - 12:00 to 13:30

Online, via Microsoft Teams

This session explores the limitations of conventional learning-centred leadership models and introduces a transformative Afrocentric approach rooted in African cultural values and epistemologies. Drawing on emerging research, it presents five foundational principles: culturally grounded pedagogy, Ub...

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...