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GCSJ seminar series: French revolutionary politics in Frankenstein

This GCSJ seminar, by Dr Alex Barber, will explore French revolutionary politics in Frankenstein.

18th November 2022

Conference: Multidisciplinary Futures of United Nations Peace Operations

Sponsored by the BISA Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group and the Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice at The Open University, the two-day conference seeks to bring together scholars developing new theoretical and empirical research on the future of UN peacekeeping operations. We invite papers, panel and roundtable submissions. The submission deadline is Wednesday 7 December 2022.

16th November 2022
The six black British participants of We Are Black and British sharing cups of tea. Copyright Cardiff Productions

FASS supported OU/BBC co-production wins prestigious award

OU/BBC co-production We Are Black and British, supported by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences academics, wins prestigious Grierson Award.

16th November 2022
profile pictures of Jane Hutt (Minister for Social Justice, Wales) and Mark Drakeford ((First Minister of Wales)

Wales’ First Minister and Social Justice Minister to discuss radical basic income pilot at OU Economics seminar

The First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford MS and the Minister for Social Justice Jane Hutt MS will join an Open University Economics seminar next month to discuss the Welsh Government’s radical pilot of a basic income for care leavers.

7th November 2022
OU Music academic Mai Kawabata

BBC Philharmonic concert to feature Music academic’s research

Research carried out by an OU Music academic will be featured in the upcoming BBC Philharmonic: Rediscovered Composers concert.

4th November 2022

Economics seminar series: Green finance, energy transitions and geo-political crisis in Eurasia and beyond

Olena Borodyna, Senior Transition Risk Analyst from the Overseas Development Institute and Basani Baloyi from the Institute for Economic Justice in South Africa will discuss the challenges posed in the climate–security nexus.

14th October 2022

Economics seminar series: The Welsh Basic Income Pilot

The Open University Economics Seminar Series is honoured to host the First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford and Minister for Social Justice Jane Hutt as they discuss the Welsh basic income pilot for people leaving care. The event will be introduced and chaired by Rajiv Prabhakar.

27th September 2022

Society’s biggest challenges explored by third annual SSGS magazine

The new SSGS magazine showcases the most up-to-date teaching and research from the school, delving into everything from the cost-of-living crisis to space ethics, via the science of long-term love and decolonising religious studies.  

26th September 2022
A photograph showing film props that have been left after a shoot as debris in the Tunisian desert

Star Wars study puts film industry’s sustainability under the spotlight

Landmark research project to trace life cycle of four Star Wars props, from the extraction of materials all the way through to disposal, examining the environmental impacts of this epic scale of production.

6th September 2022
A DJ mixing music on turntables

Brand new short courses launching

Next month, the Faculty is launching brand new short courses, with no less than three coming from our Music discipline.

5th September 2022

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