Online, via Microsoft Teams
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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 pre-sessions on the 10th and 19th of June. Registration is now open. Spaces are free, but limited in person.
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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 pre-sessions on the 10th and 19th of June. Registration is now open. Spaces are free, but limited in person.
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As part of this roundtable discussion, members of three research teams will reflect on how external engagement and research impact can creatively, effectively and ethically be facilitated to challenge prejudice and disinformation.
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We would like to invite you to join the GCSJ Research Festival on Challenging Power. The festival will bring together a variety of speakers and formats to showcase exciting OU research and give researchers a platform to exchange ideas and expand their networks.
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Political disengagement is rising in the UK, with declining turnout, eroding trust, and growing polarisation. Some groups, particularly young people and the economically disadvantaged, are especially disengaged. Join us for this online event, to get some practical insights into methods of engaging the disengaged in making change in politics, democracy and civil society, specifically aimed at policy makers and campaigning organisations. Find out about our FREE toolkit and how you can use it.
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In this presentation Margaret Ebubedik, Research Fellow in Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS), will draw on her body of work to share insights into her Stakeholder Knowledge Exchange, Engagement, and Partnerships (SKEEP) approach, which she has applied across diverse humanitarian, peacebuilding, and development contexts.
This event is part of the Thinking Expansively Seminar Series (TESS).
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This roundtable will showcase current research from across the OU focused on engaging disengaged citizens across various contexts.
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Part of the Thinking Expansively Seminar Series (TESS), this talk welcomes Dr Adom Philogene Heron (Lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the University of Bristol)
From 2019-2023 Adom successfully spearheaded the GCRF Surviving Storms project, digitally mapping hurricane survivals in Dominica. This paper tells a story of a community self help project by villagers displaced from their homes in the aftermath of fatal landslides brought by Tropical Storm Erika in 2015.
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In this seminar we will introduce the developing work of Existential Dis/Connections. The seminar will offer tasters for making connections from a number of different starting points, opening up conversations and encouraging new spaces that can accommodate discomfort, uncertainty and new possibilities.
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Join us for a talk by Rajiv Prabhakar, Senior Lecturer in Personal Finance. Rajiv will be drawing on his experience of engaging with the UK Parliament to the ways that researchers might engage with policy makers more generally to crate impacts.