📣 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
📚 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
📢 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
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
📖 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
📅 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.
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.
🚨 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
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
🎥 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
📜 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
📅 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
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
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.
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
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.