Community-led Policy Innovation for Local Food-Growing is a seminar that will present a pilot study funded by the OSC programme.

The Open University and York University present a monthly webinar series featuring graduate students and early career scholars.

Next seminar is on Thursday 12 October from 12:30 to 14:00 (GMT) by Dr Simone Vegliò from Malmö University, speak on: "Global China" in South America: Infrastructure, Urbanization, and The Postcolonial Question.

The Open University and York University present a  monthly webinar series featuring graduate stud

Join Dr Yameng Zhang from Xi'an (Jiaotong-Liverpool University), Dr Weiwei Chen and Dr Filippo Bon (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University) give a talk on ‘The Impacts of International Friendship Cities (Sister Cities): Evidence from Chinese Cities’.

Richard Heffernan discusses enabling electoral disenchantment to be expressed at an election.

Prof Shonil Bhagwat will give a short lecture followed by a dialogue with British artist Luke Jerram, creator of Gaia, on the topic of Gaia, Sacred Earth, asking if the ways in which we map, represent, talk about, and even talk to the Earth, can change the unsustainable ways in which we relate to our planet.

Drawing upon the archive’s visual and audio materials, this presentation will discuss the importance of the project in capturing educational journeys and stories of the past which highlight contested spaces and political identities, as well as illustrating that the collection provides an important resource in the present and future.

Speaker: Philip O’Sullivan and Gabi Kent (Open University)

Join the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) for a free event on November 19th in collaboration with the British Museum; the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge; and the Natural Environment Research Council Arctic Office.

The panel discussion will reflect on the best practices learned from India to recruit and retain women in tech. The panellists will reflect on the findings published from Gender, Skilled Migration and IT project (GSM-IT).  The speakers will share what they have learned from the published findings, how they have used the findings to change their practice, and how they might use the findings in the future.

Open Space Seminar: Liberal Violence and the Racial Borders of the European Union - Dr Arshad Isakjee (Geography, University of Liverpool)