OU Geography

Welcome to the home of geographical and environmental research, teaching and #OpenSpace activities at the Open University.

[OU Geography @GeographyOU]

What would Professor Doreen Massey think of the troubles of the present? Join the @OU_GCSJ seminar to find out an answer to this question. Details in the link below.

[OU Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @OU_GCSJ]

"Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey"
This Friday's GCSJ seminar discusses what it might mean to keep thinking with Doreen Massey today.

📅 Friday, Nov 14 | Online
⌚ 12-1PM
👉 https://t.co/bEQEinkFGW

[Gunjan S @GunjanSondhi]

CFP #RGSIBG25: Rethinking Categories Under Attack
Please email ideas by 5th March to [email protected]

#RGSIBG2025 @GeographyOU

[RGS-IBG Higher Ed @RGS_IBGhe]

📢Upcoming Area 'Classics Revisited' webinar taking place on Wednesday 26 February 📢

Almost 30 years on, this event will revisit the classic Area paper ‘Diasporic Connections’ featuring the original authors Irene Hardill & @ParvatiRaghuram.

Register. 👇https://t.co/XBb8JSAVjY

[Geographical Association @The_GA]

We are delighted to launch the Global Inequalities and the Climate Crisis curriculum resources.

This innovative resource package for key stage 3 was developed in partnership with OU Geography Project and academics Parvati Raghuram of the Open University, Melis Cin of Lancaster University and Manu Lekunze of Aberdeen University.

The resource pack uses testimonies from Cameroonian people to construct a Cameroon country case study.

Our Global Inequalities and the Climate Crisis curriculum resources respond to the APPG for Africa Education Report (2022) by developing a detailed country case study, drawing on lived experiences of African citizens and situating Cameroon in a global context.

View the resources here: https://t.co/Zo0zDfSDtS

[OU Geography @GeographyOU]

*How can we shift the power balance in global research?*

New blog post by Parvati Raghuram (OU) and Mariangela Palladino (University of Keele) on forging transformative changes in equitable research partnerships through local engagement:

https://t.co/QjErRaSdJh

[EPE: Nature and Space @envplane]

OnlineFirst - "Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the ‘rendering investable’ of urban moss" by @MarionErnwein and @JamesR_Palmer:

@GeographyOU @BristolGeog #NatureBasedSolutions #UrbanNature #DigitalEcology #moss

https://t.co/4Rat12hzES

[RGS-IBG Higher Ed @RGS_IBGhe]

📣Applications are invited for an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award, in partnership with the @OpenUniversity.

Closing date: Tuesday 7 January 2025.

More information: https://t.co/O6LwGYw3F1

[OU Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @OU_GCSJ]

How far did we decolonise: a cross-disciplinary conversation @rod_earle @philosopher1978 @geetreddy Folasayo Olalere, Jaspal Singh and @ParvatiRaghuram on the challenges and successes of decolonising research and teaching. 16 Oct, 1230-1400. Register https://t.co/XQbp2vTl6T

[OU Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @OU_GCSJ]

Sonja Rewhorn is the OU lead for the Digital Transformation in Learning - Đigi:Đổi Consortium, funded by @vnBritish. The showcase event will take place on 2nd October, 8 am. Details at the link
https://t.co/hXOi91NhTs

[Carry van Lieshout @Carry_vLieshout]

New paper out in Journal of #UrbanHistory. Drawing on my PhD on water in London, as part of a special issue on all things urban #waterhistory.
Managing Flow: Drainage and Flood Control in Eighteenth-Century London https://t.co/xbGjkVBr8L

[Gunjan S @GunjanSondhi]

Are you a researcher interested in issues of migration related to India? Join a new online community to discuss topics related to India and migration and share opportunities, events and publications. https://t.co/tnVMlDcNHH

[Markus Breines @MarkusBreines]

Call for papers @IMISCOE 2025: We welcome abstracts to our panel ‘Decentring and Recentring: Changing Agendas and Practices of Migration Studies’ where we explore how to move beyond critique to envision a recentred world.
Chairs: @GunjanSondhi @ParvatiRaghuram & @MarkusBreines

[Gunjan S @GunjanSondhi]

Being adjacent to this project and hearing about its work over the years has been incredibly influential in shaping my thinking around what it takes to actually do #decolonial work. If you can make the time, do attend this event! @GeographyOU @OU_GCSJ

[The Open University @OpenUniversity]

Congratulations to all our amazing #OUfamily collecting their results today! We're so proud of you all! 💙

Share your achievements using #OUresults so that we can join in with your celebrations! 🥳

[ABIFreiburg @AbiFreiburg]

📅 Join us this Wednesday!
@GunjanSondhi (@OpenUniversity) will present her research on

Repairing infrastructures of (im)#mobility - lessons from the #Covid-19 crisis

26 June 2024, 6 p.m.
@UniFreiburg , KG III, HS 3042

https://t.co/6ZLxLsgd45

[Jodie Bettis @jodiebettis]

@timfarron I’ll be talking about my PhD research into criminalising acts of ecocide at an event in Parliament (PH) next Wednesday.

🤞 Hopefully I’ll get to speak to MPs who voted (in favour or against) & find out why Labour abstained.

@OpenUniversity @OU_Law @GeographyOU

[OU Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @OU_GCSJ]

Join "Starting from elsewhere: storytelling and telling geographical stories"!⏰16 May, 3.15-4.15pm, GCSJ research festival.
Speakers: Claire Wellesley Smith, Edward Wigley, Gunjan Sondhi. Link 👉https://t.co/lmMnxqh138
@cwellesleysmith @edward_wigley @GunjanSondhi @GeographyOU

[Gunjan S @GunjanSondhi]

Looking forward to sharing insights from research with @ParvatiRaghuram on Indian migrant women in the EU.

@GeographyOU @OU_FASS @ILONewDelhi

[OU Geography @GeographyOU]

That’s a wrap! @edward_wigley concluding a fantastic day. Thanks to all our amazing students both online and in person in Cardiff!