Previous Events
Researching, collaborating and responding in real time: Digital technology and everyday practices during the pandemic
Monday, April 29, 2024 - 17:00 to 18:00
MS Teams
Contact: Dr Manik Deepak Gopinath
Join us on 29 April to hear how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted people’s use of technology in several countries across the world.
CSGD Seminar: Towards a theory of development and development studies of liberation
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online
Join the Centre for the Study of Global Development (CSGD) for a seminar discussion with Dr Sebeka Plaatjie on development studies.
OCLC Distinguished Speaker Series: Crime fiction - past, present and future with Simon Brett
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online - MS TEAMS
Contact: Dr Mirjam Hauck (series convenor)
In conversation with The Open University’s Dr Bill Alder (School of Languages and Applied Linguistics), author Simon Brett will lead us on a journey of discovery of crime fiction’s past, present and future.
Ageing Well Public Talks Series: Ways to eat well and stay well – Sinead Eccles
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
In this talk, we hear from Dr Sinéad Eccles who introduces a new way of improving our individual eating behaviours.
CSGD Seminar: Digital-by-default service delivery & the vicious circle of digital poverty
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online
In this CSGD seminar, Dr Becky Faith will discuss digital poverty and the digitalisation of government service delivery; drawing on her research in the UK and Nigeria.
Ageing Well Public Talks Series: Life; thriving, not just surviving – Lynne Watson and Marina Postlethwaite-Bowler
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Join us in a talk with Lynne Watson and Marina Postlethwaite-Bowler as we explore how positive wellbeing and a proactive approach to life can enhance our lives.
What is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and what does it mean for older adults?
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 10:00 to 11:30
Microsoft Teams
Contact: Manik Deepak-Gopinath
Join us on the 26th of February and for the next seminar in the Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies' public seminar series 2022-23 to hear from Dr Elena Moschini (London Metropolitan University, UK) and Dr Barbara Barbosa Neves (Monash University, Australia).
Ageing Well Public Talks Series: Anything but being sedentary – Declan Ryan
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Join us for a webinar with Dr Declan Ryan as we look at how we can exercise as we age even as life becomes more sedentary.
Research Conversations: Gathering Children’s Perspectives of Learning
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 14:30 to 16:30
Online
Contact: Children's Research Centre
Join us for a seminar that aims to inspire and inform, as well as provide a shared space to discuss.
Ageing Well Public Talks Series: Memory and spending time outdoors – Ellie Broad & Jitka Vseteckova
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
In this webinar, Dr Jitka Vseteckova will be in conversation with Ellie Broad of The Parks Trust to discuss preserving memory and the outdoors.
Open Thanatology panel: Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
Online
Contact: Professor Erica Borgstrom
Join the Open Thanatology research group for a panel discussion which will seek to unpack the assumptions and implications of the notion that communities should be and are prepared to help in death, dying, and bereavement.
Ibali Learning and Impact Event in the UK
Thursday, December 14, 2023 - 09:30
In December, the Ibali team came together from Nigeria, South Africa and the UK to hold a Learnin
Ageing Well Public Talks Series: Learning to the top and enjoying every minute – lnma Alvarez & Lesley Boyd
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
In the next edition of the 2023/2024 Ageing Well Public Talks Series, Dr Inma Alvarez and Dr Lesley Boyd share the motivations behind taking on the ultimate study challenge – doing a doctorate – later in life.
Tackling Early Pregnancy and Motherhood: The Health and Education Nexus
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
Exploring Teachers' Identity - Towards Mental Health Wellbeing
Thursday, November 30, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Teachers' professional identity is a critical aspect of their lives.
Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies: How to Age Well?
Monday, November 27, 2023 - 17:30 to 18:30
Online - Microsoft Teams
Contact: Chrispina Odunewu
What does Eating, Drinking, Moving, Connecting, and Thinking have to do with ageing well? Join us on the 27th of November to explore this topic further through a panel discussion between members from the Open University.
Ageing Well Public Talks Series: Taking Control of Dying - Barbara Gale and Victoria Hedges
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
We hear from Dr Barbara Gale and Dr Victoria Hedges as they discuss how we can prepare for, and take control of, dying.
Language Talks: Interpersonal demands and their implications for effective interpreter-mediated Mental Health Act Assessments
Thursday, November 16, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
Online - Zoom
Contact: Dr Caroline Tagg
Join us for a presentation with Rebecca Tipton concerning the Interpreters for Mental Health Assessment study (2020-2023).
Research Conversations: Exploring children and young people’s physical literacy
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 14:00 to 16:00
Online
Contact: Shirley Stevens
In this seminar hosted by The Open University's Children's Research Centre, we consider the impact that engagement in physical activity can have on young children and their parents/carers as well as explore what children want from their physical activity.
Ibali Education Stakeholders’ Forum in Nigeria
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - 10:00
We held the first of our series of planned learning, impact and stakeholder engagement events for
Storytelling Workshop with Teachers in Cape Town
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 10:00
The Ibali team met in Cape Town in October for the another storytelling workshop – this tim
Language Talks: Multimodality and the historical use of science in food advertising
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - 12:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom
Contact: Dr Caroline Tagg
In this seminar we hear from Göran Eriksson, a professor of Media and Communication studies at Örebro University, Sweden as he discusses the relationship between language and food marketing.
Ageing Well Public Talks Series: MENOPAUSE and changing attitudes to what people want from this stage of life
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
In this talk, we will discuss how common age-related conditions affect us and tackling ageism with Dr Catherine Pestano and Lyndsey Simpson.
Postgraduate Research Open Day
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 - 10:00 to 15:00
Online
Contact: WELS Student Enquiries team
You are warmly invited to the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies’ (WELS) Open Day for Postgraduate Studies.
Reducing poverty and improving wellbeing: time for a new ‘human' face?
Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online
Contact: CSGD team
Join us for a discussion on why it's time for a new 'human' face in policies that seek to reduce
Ibali at the ICERDA Conference in Cape Coast, Ghana
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 10:45
Ibali was represented at the International Conference on Education Research for Development in Af
Realising the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: Lessons so far
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 12:30 to 13:30
Online - Zoom
Contact: Open Thanatology
Join us for a webinar that breaks down the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care framework, a national framework which aims to support practitioners deliver the best care in their local areas. Here we will be introducing you to our Grab and Go Guide to help you navigate and apply the framework effectively.
Ibali UK Teachers’ Research Retreat, 21-23 August 2023
Monday, August 21, 2023 - 10:00 to Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 17:00
Devon, United Kingdom
Contact: Jennifer Agbaire
Exploring ethics in the field: the importance of context and culture
Thursday, July 27, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online
Contact: CSGD team
Join us for an online event on 27th July 2023, where we will explore some of the practical realities of undertaking research in the field.
Distinguished Speaker Series: Equitable multilingualism
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online - Zoom
Contact: Dr Mirjam Hauck (series convenor)
In the next talk in the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures (OCLC) Distinguished Speaker Series, Dr Beverley Costa (University of London) will share how she has engaged with the concepts of equitable multilingualism and linguistic security in practice.
Ageing Well Public Talk Series: Ageing, later life and caring in LGBTQ communities
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Join us for our upcoming talk in the 2022/23 Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) series where we will explore ageing, later life and caring in LGBTQ communities with Dr Joe DeLappe and Tony Collins-Moore.
Social History of Learning Disability Conference 2023
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 10:00 to Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 16:30
Hub Theatre, Juniper Room, Medlar Room. OU Campus, Milton Keynes
Contact: SHLD Conference
Presenting the latest in learning and research from the UK and internationally, this inclusive conference will hear from self and family advocates, alongside academics and practitioners. We welcome attendance from people with learning disabilities and their families.
Ibali Story Café at WELS Research Day
Wednesday, July 5, 2023 - 16:00
The Open University - Milton Keynes campus
Improving LGBTQIA+ Tertiary Students’ Mental Health: An Aotearoa New Zealand Perspective
Friday, June 30, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Jim Burrow Building JB113 (and via Teams)
Guest speaker: Claudia Garcia, PhD Candidate & Clinical Psychology Trainee, Department of Psychology University of Otago, New Zealand.
Fuel or food? Health and policy implications for older people in the UK
Monday, June 26, 2023 - 17:00 to 18:30
Online
Join us for the last in our 2022-2023 Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies Seminar Series where we hear from Dr Aravinda Guntupalli (Senior Lecturer in Global Health, University of Aberdeen) and Sarah Champagne (PhD Researcher, University of Aberdeen) as they jointly explore the ways in which the cost of living crisis has markedly affected older people.
RSSH Seminar Series: Reproductive Justice - Creating a new reality through feminist knowledge building and participation
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online - Zoom
Contact: Elise Denis-Ramirez
Join the Reproduction, Sexualities and Sexual Health (RSSH) research group on Wednesday 21 June to hear from three inspirational speakers who will discuss 'Reproductive Justice' in the context of feminist knowledge building and participation.
Ageing Well Public Talk Series: Ways to exercise while still having fun
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Join us for our upcoming talk in the 2022/23 Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) series where we will explore ways to exercise while still having fun with Dr Jackie Richards and David Curry.
Ibali at the IVMC Conference in Rome, Italy.
Monday, May 29, 2023 - 13:00 to Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 13:00
Rome, Italy
'Beyond the Secret Garden' a seminar with Darren Chetty
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 15:00 to 16:00
Online - Microsoft Teams
Contact: Centre for Literacy and Social Justice
In this presentation, the writer, teacher and lecturer Darren Chetty will look at what we can learn from the presentation of childhood through the popularity of France Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden.
RSSH Seminar Series: Sexuality Education - Creativity and activism beyond the classroom
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 13:30 to 14:30
Online - Zoom
Contact: Martha Nicholson
Join the RSSH research group for the next talk in their online seminar series exploring creativity and activism in sexuality education, featuring guest speakers Anne Philpott (The Pleasure Project), Laura Ramos Tomás (TabuTabu) and Justin Hancock (Bish Training).
Ageing Well Public Talk Series: Health inequalities and ageing
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Join us for our upcoming talk in the 2022/23 Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) series where we will explore health inequalities and ageing with Sonal Mehta.
Distinguished Speaker Series: China and the shaping of its own modernity
Thursday, May 11, 2023 - 15:30 to 16:30
Online - Zoom
Contact: Dr Mirjam Hauck (series convenor)
Professor Roger T. Ames joins us for another public talk to discuss the shaping of Chinese modernity through cultural and linguistic translation, in this special edition of our Distinguished Speaker Series to celebrate the first anniversary of the OU's Online Confucius Institute.
LLP Seminar Series: The Critical Citizen?: Donna Smith, Michelle Matherson and Dylan Moore, 'Citizens’ Voices, People’s News: Making the media work for Wales'
Thursday, May 4, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Online - MS TEAMS
Contact: Alice Rhodes
The Language, Literature and Politics (LLP) research group's seminar series on ‘The Critical Citizen?’ presents Dr Donna Smith, Michelle Matherson, and Dylan Moore on citizens' voices and engagement in and with the media.
Young people in advisory roles informing health and wellbeing research and practice
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 13:30 to 15:00
Online - Zoom
Contact: Centre for Children and Young People's Wellbeing (CCW)
In this year's Centre for Children and Young People's Wellbeing Spring seminar, we hear from two speakers discussing participatory research and practice.
Ageing Well Public Talk Series: Let’s talk about sleep
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Join us for our upcoming talk in the 2022/23 Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) series where we will explore sleep with Dr Abigail Methley.
RSSH Seminar Series: Period poverty - pathways to equitable and stigma-free menstrual health
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online
Contact: Martha Nicholson
Join the OU RSSH Research Group for a webinar exploring period poverty, in conversation with Rachel Grocott, Dr Mandi Tembo and Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik.
Working with Teachers and Young people in Nigeria
Monday, April 17, 2023 - 11:15 to Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 11:15
LLP Seminar Series: The Critical Citizen?: Engin Isin, ‘The conditions of planetary citizenship’
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Online - MS TEAMS
Contact: Alice Rhodes
The Language, Literature and Politics (LLP) research group's seminar series on ‘The Critical Citizen?’ presents Professor Engin Isin on the conditions that are creating planetary citizenship movements in the 21st century.
LLP Seminar Series: The Critical Citizen?: Tim Christiaens, 'Becoming your own boss in the gig economy, a story of disappointment'
Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Online - MS TEAMS
Contact: Alice Rhodes
The Language, Literature and Politics (LLP) research group's seminar series on ‘The Critical Citizen?’ presents Dr Tim Christiaens on how the algorithmic domination of labour limits worker autonomy and which institutions the critical citizen could use to enhance autonomy.
‘Adapting an innovation’ when scaling global development projects
Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Jennie Lee Building L1 Blue Ash on Milton Keynes campus (hybrid event)
Contact: CSGD team
The Centre for the Study of Global Development is delighted to commence their external seminar se
Florence Nightingale Foundation webinar: Promoting professional relationships through neurodiversity awareness
Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:00
Online
Contact: Florence Nightingale Foundation
Join OU Adult Nursing student, Jade Wareham, and the Florence Nightingale Foundation for an interactive webinar on neurodiversity.
LLP Seminar Series: The Critical Citizen?: Quentin Williams, ‘In search of Kaaps: from slavery to linguistic citizenship futures’
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 16:00 to 17:00
Online - MS TEAMS
Contact: Alice Rhodes
The Language, Literature and Politics (LLP) research group's seminar series on ‘The Critical Citizen?’ presents Professor Quentin Williams on linguistic citizenship futures.
Forgotten families: Exploring children, young people and family experiences
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 13:30 to 15:00
Online - Microsoft Teams
Contact: Children's Research Centre
Join the Open University, Families First and Operation Paramount to hear findings from two projects that focus on the often invisible lives of families of prisoners
Actors, not voices: engaging rural women and girls as researchers
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:30
Online
Contact: CSGD team
At the CSW67 (2023) sixty-seventh session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
Ageing Well Public Talk Series: Relationships and intimacy while ageing
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Join us for our upcoming talk in the 2022/23 Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) series where we will explore relationships and intimacy while ageing with Dr Andreas Vossler.
Distinguished Speaker Series: Key intercultural communication issues for language learning
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online - Zoom
Contact: Mirjam Hauck
Join us for the first Distinguished Speaker Series talk of 2023, where we will welcome Professor Zhu Hua (UCL) who will reflect on the key shifts in conceptualisation and methodological positioning within intercultural communication research and discuss their implications for language learning.
Postgraduate Training Seminar on Storytelling
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 - 10:30 to Friday, March 24, 2023 - 10:30
University Mental Health Day Panel Event: Staff and student partnerships - Student mental health in higher education
Thursday, March 9, 2023 - 12:00 to 14:00
Online - Zoom
Contact: Stacey Overton
Join us on University Mental Health Day to examine staff and student partnerships in relation to student mental health in higher education.
Am I a girl? Defining the adolescent life stage in the context of education
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 13:00 to 15:00
Online
Contact: CSGD team
Join CSGD for an online event, taking place on International Women’s Day, where we will be bringing together leading actors from academia and the NGO sector to discuss the ways in which girls and young women are framed during adolescence. Register on Eventbrite.
Addressing the inequalities faced by LGBTQ+ people as they grow older
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 17:00 to 18:30
Online - Microsoft Teams
Contact: Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies
Join the Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies and the charity Opening Doors for a panel discussion on the inequalities faced by older LGBTQ+ people.
Ageing Well Public Talk Series: What should we know about nutrition and living with Diabetes Type 2 while ageing
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Join us for our upcoming talk in our 2022/23 Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) series where we will explore what should we know about nutrition and living with Diabetes Type 2 while ageing with Dr Jitka Vseteckova and Mr Alan Hastings.
RSSH Seminar Series: HIV and digital health
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online
The Reproduction, Sexualities & Sexual Health (RSSH) seminar series continues in January with a critical conversation on digital health for communities affected by HIV.
Ageing Well Public Talk Series: General Practice 'COVID-19 and beyond'
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Join us for the next talk in our 2022/23 Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) series where we will explore General Practice 'COVID-19 and beyond' with Andrew Potter.
Children's Research Centre webinar: Empowering children - A framework for observation and reflection
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 19:00 to 20:30
Online
Contact: Shirley Stevens
Launching the Empowerment Framework - a tool to assess the impact of empowerment in children's learning and development.
Storytelling with Young People in South Africa
Saturday, January 7, 2023 - 09:00 to Friday, January 13, 2023 - 16:00
2023 started on an exciting note for us – we were in Cape Town, South Africa, from 7th to 1
Ageing Well Public Talk Series: Equality, diversity and inclusion in access and provision of care in health services
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Join us for the next talk in our 2022/23 Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) series where we will explore equality, diversity and inclusion in access and provision of care in health services with Dr Carlos Moreno Leguizamon.
Distinguished Speaker Series: Professor Alison Phipps on the Languages of Crises
Monday, December 12, 2022 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online - Zoom
Contact: Dr Mirjam Hauck (series convenor)
Join us for the fifth talk in our Distinguished Speaker series, where our guest speaker Professor Alison Phipps (UNESCO Chair, University of Glasgow) will share the work of key research projects which have focused on the Languages of Crises.
Ibali Session for CIRE Event at Bristol
Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 10:00
We were invited by the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE) at t
RSSH Seminar Series: Trans and gender diverse experiences within clinical sexual health services
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 - 14:30 to 15:30
Online - Zoom
Contact: Martha Nicholson
The Reproduction, Sexualities and Sexual Health (RSSH) Research Group invites you to the second talk in their online seminar series, with a conversation on trans and gender diverse people’s experiences with sexual health services.
‘Bereavement - what helps?’ online panel event
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online
Contact: Dr Erica Borgstrom
Join us for an online panel discussion on bereavement, co-hosted by the Faculty of WELS and the Open Thanatology research group. To commemorate Grief Awareness Week 2022 expert panellists will share different strategies to deal with bereavement and answer your questions.
Better together: Participatory research with children and young people
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 13:30 to 15:00
Online
Contact: Shirley Stevens
The Children's Research Centre invites you to the online seminar ‘Better together: Participatory research with children and young people’ which will discuss different approaches involving children in the research process. The seminar aims to inspire and inform, as well as provide a shared space to discuss.
Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies Seminar: Climate Change and Older People
Monday, November 28, 2022 - 17:00 to 18:30
Online
Contact: Dr Manik Deepak Gopinath
Join us on the 28th of November to hear talks from Emeritus Professor Sheila Peace (The Open University) and Briony Latter (PhD Researcher, Cardiff University) on climate change and older people
Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr Heriberto Cuayáhuitl on Artificial Intelligence
Monday, November 21, 2022 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online - Zoom
Contact: Dr Mirjam Hauck (series convenor)
Join us for the fourth talk in our Distinguished Speaker series where we will be welcoming Dr Heriberto Cuayáhuitl who will explore the themes in our short course AI Matters in his talk titled: Robots Interviewing Patients.
Ageing Well Public Talk Series: Memory and preserving Sense of Self while ageing and spending time outdoors
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Join us for the next talk in our 2022/23 Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) series where we will explore Memory and preserving Sense of Self while ageing and spending time outdoors with Dr Helen Joannidi and Ms Ellie Broad.
Engaging children and young people in the management of their own wellbeing
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 - 13:00 to 15:30
Online - Microsoft Teams
Contact: Professor Joan Simons
The Centre for Children's Wellbeing invites you to their next seminar which will share the challenges and highlights of two current research studies that engage children and young people in qualitative participatory research approaches.
LLP Liberty & Freedom Series: Quentin Skinner on Three Concepts of Liberty
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:00
Online - Microsoft Teams
Register online for the next talk in the Language, Literature and Politics (LLP) Liberty & Freedom series. This next session looks at the three concepts of liberty with Professor Quentin Skinner.
Online conference 20 & 21 October 2022 - 'Distance education: a brave new world?'
Thursday, October 20, 2022 - 15:00 to Friday, October 21, 2022 - 19:00
Online
The Open University are co-hosting a bilingual French-English conference on the challenges and opportunities of distance education in the time of Covid-19 and its aftermath. Distance education: a brave new world? will take place online on 20 and 21 October 2022.
Distinguished Speaker Series: Focus on Ukraine
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online
We're inviting you to join us for a special public talk on Ukraine from Dr Olga Onuch and the launch of a new short course in Ukrainian language and culture. The event takes place on Wednesday 19 October, 13:00-14:00.
Ageing Well Public Talk Series: Taking control of dying
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Join us for the next talk in our 2022/23 Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) series where we will explore taking control of dying with Dr Barbara Gale and Dr Victoria Hedges.
WELS Postgraduate Research Open Day
Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 10:00 to 15:00
Online - MS TEAMS
Contact: WELS Student Enquiries (WELS-Student-Enquiries@open.ac.uk)
You are warmly invited to the WELS Postgraduate Research Online Open Day on Thursday 13 October, 10:00-15:00. Come along to find out more about the postgraduate research programmes we offer across the Faculty and how to apply.
Ageing Well Public Talk Series: Are we ready to live longer?
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Join us for the first talk in our 2022/23 Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) series where we will explore if we are ready to live longer with Dr Jitka Vseteckova, Lyndsey Simpson and Dr Catherine Pestano.
Ibali’s Creative Session at the BAICE 2022 Conference
Tuesday, September 13, 2022 - 10:00 to Thursday, September 15, 2022 - 16:00
Ibali Storytelling Workshop with Young People in the UK
Friday, July 15, 2022 - 10:00 to Tuesday, July 19, 2022 - 16:00
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Diversity and social justice in language learning, teaching and research: bringing theory and practice together
Thursday, July 14, 2022 - 09:00 to Friday, July 15, 2022 - 17:00
Online - Zoom
Contact: Organising Team
The aim of this conference is to progress ideas of 'Decolonising the curriculum in Languages' by collectively reflecting on the relationship between language learning and teaching, inclusion, and social justice, from a multifaceted view.
Creativity in Chinese language teaching and learning - Research and practice in challenging times
Friday, June 24, 2022 - 09:00 to Saturday, June 25, 2022 - 17:00
The Open University, Milton Keynes - Online available
Contact: Dr Shejiao Xu
The British Chinese Language Teaching Society (BCLTS) and the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at The Open University are pleased to announce the 19th International Conference of BCLTS, Creativity in Chinese Language Teaching and Learning -- Research and Practice in Challenging Times.
Open Thanatology Inaugural Conference: 16 & 17 June 2022
Thursday, June 16, 2022 - 13:00 to Friday, June 17, 2022 - 14:00
The Open University, Milton Keynes & Online
Contact: Dr Joseph De Lappe
The OU's Open Thanatology Research Group is hosting an inaugural conference on 16 and 17 June which will comprise a face-to-face event on campus in Milton Keynes (16 June), plus an online event the following day (17 June).
Online Confucius Institute Public Talks: A tale of Chinese characters with Dr YAN Tong
Wednesday, June 1, 2022 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online - Zoom
Contact: Online Confucius Institute
Join us for this fascinating and interactive talk on Chinese characters as part of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures (OCLC) & The Open University's Online Confucius Institute Public Talks.
Exhibition: Muriyan Yaran Lake Chad
Friday, May 27, 2022 - 12:30 to 14:30
Hub Theatre, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Contact: Dr Margaret Ebubedike
‘Muriyan Yaran Lake Chad’ or ‘The voices of the children of Lake Chad’ is an exhibition of photographs taken by children and young people living in the conflict and crisis context of the Lake Chad region.
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