We're pleased to announce the publication of SSGS Magazine, which offers insight into the breadth of work across the School's eight disciplines.
Open Politics aims to be student-led, with OU POLIS academics and students working in partnership to further the ambitions and interests of students, promote the study of and interest people have in politics, and create better links between the OU and UK political institutions
The Open University's Dr Filippo Boni writes for the London School of Economics detailing the recent history of Sino-Pakistan relations, and how COVID-19 has impacted them over the last few months
Measures to control the current pandemic impact more heavily on everyone whose access to internet and digital technologies is limited. But in some countries, the impact can be particularly devastating, says PhD student Anna Colom
Dr Donna Smith offers reassurance and advice to educators tasked with rapidly moving their teaching online. Donna is a Lecturer in Politics and Deputy Associate Dean, Teaching and Students in the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies
SEPAD project, co-led by POLIS academic Edward Wastnidge, has just been awarded an extension to its finding worth $400,000 from Carnegie Corporation for a further two years of work.
POLIS academic has been publishing a series of articles related to COVID-19 pandemic.
OU academics/Citizenship and Governance Stratigic Research Area (SRA) members Dr Agnes Czajka and Dr Eleni Andreouli have published a blog on the future of UK citizenship.
Dr Georgina Blakeley, Director of Teaching and Deputy Head of School in FASS has been announced as the winner of the prestigious 2019 European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
We are all interdependent, but a person’s economic situation determines whether dependency is seen as acceptable or not, argues Kiran Nihalani, Phd Student at FASS in a new article in Open Democracy. We are all familar with terms such as 'hardworking families' or the supposed binary between 'shirker or worker' and '‘strivers versus scroungers'. In this article, Kiran explores how this language contributes to justifying and explaining current welfare policy. Yet it has devastating effects on people it demonizes. Based on her research and her work with the skillsnetwork, Kiran challenges assumptions underlying and driving punitive welfare policies.
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