As part of the Citizenship Studies seminar series, Prof. Marie Gillespie investigates how forced migrants from around the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic via creative and artful resistance to marginalisation. 

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

As part of the Citizenship Studies seminar series, Dr Dan Taylor discusses how social care remains woefully underfunded and what it reflects

This roundtable with POLIS academics is designed to allow students to engage with OU research and ask questions on what is happening and what it means for the future of international politics.

As part of the Citizenship Studies seminar series, Professor Catherine Neveu uses empirical research carried out in France and other contexts to discuss the gains to be obtained by exploring citizenship processes “through the ordinary”.

Part of Open Politics seminar series, after an introduction to UK Parliament, this session focuses on the practicalities of working with members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and how to engage with the legislative process.

Part of our Open Politics seminar series, this interactive webinar explores ways to get your voice heard and participate in democracy, explains the process of elections and the difference between government and parliament.

This is first talk in the OU Migration Research Seminar Series 2022.

This 2021 Conference is hosted by the Religious Studies, Art History, Music and Politics Departments in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University. Deadline for abstract submission: 30 September 2021

We’re building on our partnership with UK Parliament Week, and the work undertaken so far by ‘Open Politics’, with the launch of a brand new guide to making political and social change. The guide encourages people to engage with the UK Parliament in particular, as well as politics more generally, giving people the essential knowledge and tools needed to make change.