OU Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice

Welcome to The Open University's research Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) in the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies.

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

📣 Happening next week | Join the GCSJ Research Festival 2026

Our 4th Annual Research Festival on Global Challenges and Social Justice is taking place on 2–3 June 2026.

📅 2–3 June 2026
📍 Online and hybrid

🔗 Full programme and registration: https://t.co/Vtcme5bvYp

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

📚 Publication highlight | Symposium on Sophie Grace Chappell’s Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience.

It brings together reflections and discussions on the book’s themes in ethics and moral philosophy.

In: Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie.

🔗https://t.co/1GpPQVvdu4

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

📢 The detailed programme is now available for the 4th Annual Research Festival on Global Challenges and Social Justice

📅 2–3 June 2026
💻 Free online
🔗 Registration + full programme: https://t.co/Vtcme5aY8R

#SocialJustice #ResearchFestival #GlobalChallenges

[The OU Economics Department @Economics_OU]

Join us for the online launch of "Heterodox Economics" by Andrew Trigg with panel discussants: @danielle_guizzo, @JoMicheII, Sonal Raghuvanshi, Stephen T. Ziliak

🗓️Thurs 21 May
⏲️16:00 BST
Register: https://t.co/bXbCnbXWmG
@rethinkecon
@IntDev_OU @OU_FASS

[Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD) @IntDev_OU]

Still time to register for our IKiD seminar today with Stine 👇

[The OU Economics Department @Economics_OU]

Beome a Rethinker and check out the Open University's offering of pluralist and inclusive economics courses.
@RethinkMarxism

[POLIS @OUPolitics]

A fantastic blog from @OpenUniversity Politics student Cameron:

"Does UK Democracy Have a Future? Gen Z Views of Democracy"

https://t.co/UuOcr6boK9

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

📖 New publication | Legacies of the Lost in Criminology

This new edited collection explores loss, absence, and social harm in criminological research.

Edited by Tammy Ayres, Daniel Briggs, Craig Kelly, and Stuart Taylor.

💡 https://t.co/TZ72A93vsN

#Criminology

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

🔗 MoonRISE: https://t.co/7lGXOgdann

🎟️ Register: https://t.co/fpgORGBlmb #SpaceResearch

#MoonExploration #SpacePolicy #Sustainability

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

📅 Happening this Friday | Care-full lunar exploration: challenges and opportunities for protecting the Moon

Exploring scientific, legal, environmental, and cultural perspectives on protecting lunar environments & the first public presentation underpinning the MoonRISE project.

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

Join us for this free event
🗓 15 May 2026
⏰ 12:00–13:00 (UK time)
💻 Online
🗣️ Speaker: Dr Alessandra Marino | Chair: Dr Nick Bingham

MoonRISE is funded with £1.245m from UKRI.

[OU @religion_ou]

🚨 New blog post! 🚨Is the UK’s Gen Z Christian “revival” overstated? Paul-Francois Tremlett (@paulftremlett.bsky.social) argues in the blog "The Resurgence That Never Was" that religion in the UK continues to decline: https://t.co/2wMAX9tQcK @thebasr @informreligion @OU_FASS

[Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD) @IntDev_OU]

IKID Seminar: Transition-Driven Windows Of Opportunity: The Role Of China
🗓️Wed 13 May
⌚️13.00pm BST
Join Stine Haakonsson discuss industrial restructuring during socio-technical shifts and rising global competition
Register - https://t.co/Lr739zWBt6
@Economics_OU
@OU_FASS

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

🎥 Watch now | Public opinion & national security in the UK

In this recent GCSJ seminar, Dr Thomas Martin explores a people-centred approach to national security, focusing on public opinion and everyday experiences.

📺 Watch: https://t.co/38QnRRWCHT

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

📜 Programme overview now available | GCSJ Research Festival 2026 (2–3 June)

Explore the 4th Annual GCSJ Research Festival—two days of global challenges research, panels & discussion (in person + online).

@GunjanSondhi

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

📅 Happening soon: 15 May 2026 | 🌕 Care-full lunar exploration: challenges and opportunities for protecting the Moon | GCSJ Seminar Series

🔹 Dr Alessandra Marino
🗓 15 May 2026
⏰ 12:00–13:00 (Online)

🔗 https://t.co/fpgORGBlmb

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

Congratulations!

[POLIS @OUPolitics]

We held a Student Blog competition and received some amazing entries. We can now announce a winner and several excellent runners up.
Read our students' work here:
https://t.co/CJkMj5wx7d
And our winner, "Democracy and me" by Mark Jones:
https://t.co/NJT7atVjVT

[POLIS @OUPolitics]

Congratulations to our Dr Claire Malcolm for organising Caring for Carers Cymru - a fantastic day bringing together unpaid carers, support services, academics and even a genuinely fun drum circle. More in the pipeline.

[POLIS @OUPolitics]

In case you missed it, our Dan Taylor was on BBC Radio 4's Free Thinking programme last month, discussing humility and Spinoza with Matthew Sweet, Robert Buckland and guests. Listen here: https://t.co/WJUvh7Jvs9

[Geoff Andrews @andrewsgeoff]

On Friday at the @MKlitfest I’ll talk about some of the forgotten radicals whose ideas could help Labour in its ongoing identity crisis. These include thinkers, writers and dramatists: plus Jennie Lee and the early @OpenUniversity pioneers.