Gunjan Sondhi
@gunjans.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Geography at the Open University, UK. Director, Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice(@ou-gcsj.bsky.social). Researching migration, gender, education and work.
🌍 What would a world beyond borders look like? Join Gracie Mae Bradley in conversation with Gunjan Sondhi @ MK Literary Festival. A discussion on #borders, #migration, and #globaljustice inspired by Against Borders. 🗓 23 Mar | 7–8 PM 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/milto... @mklitfest.bsky.social
At a time of significant global instability, how does the public understand national security — and what role should citizens play in shaping it? 👉️ GCSJ seminar "Public Opinion & National Security in the UK: A People-Centred Approach" with 🎙️Thomas Martin 📆 Fri 13 March ⏰ 12:00–13:00 🔗 in comments
🎉 Launch of the PEERS Gallery & OpenLearn course on Partnering for Equitable Research — exploring how we build fairer research partnerships across institutions & communities 📅 Friday, 20 March 2026 | 2:00 PM Register via 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-... @ouopenlearn.bsky.social
📢 GCSJ Seminar | 10 April | 12–1PM Decolonisation as a Contested Practice: Evidence from The Open University Speaker: Dr Shannon Martin Opening: Prof Allan Laville Exploring how decolonisation & anti-racism are understood and enacted across HE 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982763523...
📢 Call for Papers: 2026 @imiscoe.bsky.social Regional Forum, Agadir, Morocco, October 28-30, 2026 Exploring Equitable Research Partnerships across Africa and Europe Panel organised by Parvati Raghuram, Markus Breines and me. Please email short abstracts by 13th February to mrb@fafo.no
📢 Book launch and discussion with Renu Bhandari. *Examining Stereotypes and Parenting Behaviours of South Asian Heritage Parents: Discourse and Case Studies* 🗓 Monday 9 February 🕛 12 – 1PM | 📍 Online 👉 RSVP via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980176659... @ou-psych-soc.bsky.social @gunjans.bsky.social
📢 Upcoming TESS Talk | Black Studies in Babylon: Practice, Politics and Pedagogy with Dr Rita Gayle (Uni Birmingham) Join the talk & discussion on 🗓 Fri, 23 January 2026 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Free & Online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-stud... #BlackStudies #RaceAndGender #CriticalGeography
📘Book Launch📘 *International Relations in a Multipolar Middle East* (edited by Edward Wastnidge & Francesco Belcastro) explores the evolving dynamics of the Middle East in today’s shifting global order. 🔔Fri 23 January (online) ⌚11 AM-12 PM Register for free 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
📢 Excited to share our latest open-access article! 📄 Anticolonial Inheritances and Responsibilities: Rethinking the Nation-State in Geographies of Migration Research By @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social and @gunjans.bsky.social 🔗 Read the full article (open access) here: doi.org/10.25162/gz-...
Anticolonial Inheritances and Responsibilities: Rethinking the Nation-State in Geographies of Migration Research
Decolonisation has become a key concern for researchers across disciplines and interdisciplinary areas in several parts of the world. The categories, ...
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📢 New Open Access Publication Alert! Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies with @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social rdcu.be/eN1I6
Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies
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Call for papers for IMISCOE 2026 Annual Conference. Class Matters: Community engagement and middle-class migrants in migration research. Please email abstracts no longer than 250 words by 10th September to Gunjan Sondhi (gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk) and Markus Roos Breines (mrb@fafo.no).
Delighted to share our new #openacess paper in Global Networks. Reversing the gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector. #womenintech #migrants @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social and Clem Herman dx.doi.org/10.1111/glob...
Reversing the Gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector
This article reverses the gaze on research on highly skilled migrant (HSM) women by analysing how the patriarchy of the destination country impacts their experience within the workplace. Most literat...
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Blog alert: Moving through crisis into spaces of solidarity: Experiences of #internationalstudents www.routedmagazine.com/post/moving-... It is related to a keynote I gave in June 2024 at Freiburg University, entitled: Repairing infrastructures of (im)mobility: lessons from the Covid-19 crisis.
Moving through crisis into spaces of solidarity: Experiences of international students
By Gunjan Sondhi
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2 days to go till the @ou-gcsj.bsky.social research festival #ChallengingPower starts. Online and hybrid programme and registration details below.
GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice@ou-gcsj.bsky.social · last yr.🎉 Just 2 days to go until GCSJ's 3rd Annual Research Festival at the @OpenUniversity! 📅 4–6 June 2025 | 🌐 Online & Hybrid 🗣️ Keynotes, panels & conversations on power, justice, migration, environment & more! 📍Full programme & registration: 🔗 fass.open.ac.uk/events/3rd-a...
This Thursday, 5th June, on #WorldEnvironmentDay Mary Ng'endo Kanui and @shonilbhagwat.bsky.social explore 'what can global environmental thinking learn from Indigenous knowledge rooted in the Global South?' Registration details below.
GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice@ou-gcsj.bsky.social · last yr.🌱 This #WorldEnvironmentDay join our "Indigenous Environmental Knowledge" session | GCSJ festival 5 June | 3:30-4:30 What can global environmental thinking learn from Indigenous knowledge rooted in the Global South? 🔗 lnkd.in/evs9WegX With Mary Ng'endo Kanui & Shonil Bhagwat @gunjans.bsky.social
Taking place in two weeks! Registration details below 👇 As part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival.
GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice@ou-gcsj.bsky.social · last yr.Don’t miss Dr Kudakwashe Vanyoro keynote on "Thinking from the Global South” - a powerful talk on migration, power & North–South relations. 🗓 5 June | ⏰ 11:00–12:00 📡 online & on-site 🔗 tinyurl.com/bduev9sk (free registration) @KudaVan @gunjans.bsky.social #research #GlobalSouth #Migration
Taking place in two weeks. Registration details below 👇👇👇 as part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival
GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice@ou-gcsj.bsky.social · last yr.📢 Join us at the Festival's Keynote by Dr Walaa Alqaisiya 🗓️ 4 June 🕥 10:15-11:30AM "Palestine and the Battle of Ideas in the 21st Century" Explore how ideological mobilisation shape global narratives. Free Eventbrite registration: tinyurl.com/2kt4j5yu @gunjans.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social
Taking place today!!! 👇🏾
GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice@ou-gcsj.bsky.social · last yr.‼️Tomorrow, Friday 12-1pm - Join our GCSJ roundtable on 'Disengaged or discerning sceptics? Research and insights on active citizenship' 👉 www.eventbrite.com/e/1027903566237 #elections #citizenship #research @gunjans.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social
Looking forward to contributing to this discussion today.
Richard Budd@ddubdrahcir.bsky.social · last yr.A timely reminder of our @centreforhere.bsky.social public online roundtable on Monday next week: Why is UK HE in crisis, and (how) can we fix it? Discussants are @gunjans.bsky.social , @ronaldhartz.bsky.social, Kalpana Shankar, and Susan Robertson. www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
Wonderful first day of discussions on Reflexivities in Migration Studies and future directions of our Standing Committee at the Centre for Migration Research in Warsaw! Special thanks to Anna Amelina and @kudavan.bsky.social for your stimulating inputs. To be continued tomorrow 🔥
A timely reminder of our @centreforhere.bsky.social public online roundtable on Monday next week: Why is UK HE in crisis, and (how) can we fix it? Discussants are @gunjans.bsky.social , @ronaldhartz.bsky.social, Kalpana Shankar, and Susan Robertson. www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
Why is UK HE in crisis, and (how) can we fix it?, Monday 12 May, 12:30pm - Lancaster University
Four experts from different disciplines will provide their overview of why (or if) UK higher education is in a period crisis and what needs to change.
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Richard Budd@ddubdrahcir.bsky.social · last yr.Labour and the OfS are sitting by while UK HE crumbles, selling off land, shedding staff, closing courses, as if this is just a natural market realignment, not a huge failure in policy and leadership. They're not asleep at the wheel, they're not even in the car. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Taking place tomorrow!!!
GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice@ou-gcsj.bsky.social · last yr.Our next TESS Talk tackles the complicated politics of #climate displacement with a talk by Dr Adom Philogene Heron on "Surviving Storms" in #Dominica. 🗓️Fri 25 April ⏰12-1pm 🖇️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/1299300906... @gunjans.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social #climatejustice
📽️ Wrongs Not Righted: How Might We Think About Repair? 👉Watch Professor Catherine Hall’s powerful Open Sociology & GCSJ talk on Britain’s entanglement with Jamaica, the legacies of slavery, and what repair might look like. 🔗 youtu.be/LsIYjFizeWU?... #Colonialism #Jamaica @gunjans.bsky.social
Our next TESS Talk tackles the complicated politics of #climate displacement with a talk by Dr Adom Philogene Heron on "Surviving Storms" in #Dominica. 🗓️Fri 25 April ⏰12-1pm 🖇️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/1299300906... @gunjans.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social #climatejustice
Starting in the next hour!
GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice@ou-gcsj.bsky.social · last yr.Join us tomorrow for April’s GCSJ seminar on 'Existential Dis/Connections: Opening up conversations'! 🗓️Friday 11th April 12:00 -13:30 🗨️Speaker: Jane McCarthy 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1058332373619 to register @gunjans.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social
Taking place today! Find out how your #climatechange research can shape secondary education curriculum. Registration details below.
GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice@ou-gcsj.bsky.social · last yr.📢Today 6-7.15pm, join the discussion on how higher education research can feed directly into school #teaching materials on #climatechange with @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social, Melis Cin, Manu Lekunze & @danwhittal.bsky.social 👉Eventbrite link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1254547498339 @gunjans.bsky.social
Want to know more about teaching equitably about climate change and linking Higher Education research with School teaching? Join our next event! ✅Wed 12 March 🔔6-7. 15pm Register for free via eventbrite.co.uk/e/1254547498339 @gunjans.bsky.social @ouscotland.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social
Teaching equitably about climate change: Linking Higher Education research
Hosted by Global Challenges and Social Justice Research Centre (GCSJ) - Teaching equitably about climate change: Linking Higher Education r
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Huge thanks to all the speakers for their contributions.
GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice@ou-gcsj.bsky.social · last yr.So much food for thought! A big thank you to all the speakers @ our GCSJ roundtable on 'AI Opportunities? Responses on implications for research and teaching'. 👍Check out more events in March: fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen... @ou-edprimary.bsky.social @ouscotland.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social
#AI opportunities in teaching and research? Join the discussion tomorrow, 5 March, 1300-1430 GMT. Registration details below.
GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice@ou-gcsj.bsky.social · last yr.2 days to go...⏳ On 5 March join the GCSJ roundtable for an open and critical exploration of the concerns, questions & opportunities regarding the use of *AI within teaching and learning*. 🔔 1-2.30pm online 👉Register eventbrite.co.uk/e/1249256843... @gunjans.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social
Catherine Hall considers how we might think of repair. Join in person or online. Details below
GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice@ou-gcsj.bsky.social · last yr.Catherine Hall (Emerita Prof., UCL) speaks about ‘Wrongs not righted: how might we think about repair?’ 🗓️18 March, 2-3.15pm - GCSJ Research Talk 👋Join either in person or online 📎Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1153349983... @ougradsch.bsky.social @oupolitics.bsky.social @oustudents.bsky.social
