Umut Erel, Professor of Sociology at The Open University, chaired a webinar this week which explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 'Politics of Social Reproduction, Migration and the Hostile Environment'. You can now watch it back in full here.

Jeni Williams is Chair of Swansea Women’s Asylum and Refugee Support Group and co-researcher on the COVID-19 Chronicles project. She shares the chilling findings of a report outlining the experiences of refugee and asylum-seeking women during the pandemic

In a recent Open University webinar, a panel of researchers and practitioners explored the numerous issues faced by those conducting research with mobile populations in a time of lockdown and social distancing. Now available to watch again

Dr Kathryn Medièn, OU Lecturer in Sociology, shares an interview she conducted with the authors of a recent report published by Patients Not Passports, a campaign which seeks to challenge the imposition of border controls within UK healthcare institutions

A project led by Marie Gillespie, Professor of Sociology, is exploring what it is like to be an asylum seeker, a refugee or an undocumented person under lockdown. Find out about the COVID-19 Chronicles from the Margins project 

The team behind the HERA-funded European project, Moving Market Places, has produced a film exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on public marketplaces in a range of European countries and reflect on what these spaces may look like after the pandemic

In this video, Professor Sophie Watson, Head of Sociology at The Open University, speaks to Roger Smith, an expert in legal aid, human rights and access to justice, about the various impacts COVID-19 is having on the law