Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online
Join us for a session on community and nature, part of the Ageing Well Public Talks series 2024/2025
Thursday, November 28, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
This seminar will draw insights from the MEWAKA teacher professional development programme in Tanzania.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 - 13:30 to 15:00
Online
The second in the 2024/25 series of seminars from The Open University's Centre for Children and Young People's Wellbeing.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
This session with Dr Dorothy Tse will explore the influence of prior knowledge on memory.
Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00
In the first in the Global Development Annual Lecture series, Abolition and International Aid and Development, Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, offers reflections on what it means to take anti-colonial and decolonial critiques of international aid and development seriously.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Victoria Hedges and Victoria Bradley will present on what are the things we don’t talk about & preparing for our death and as a relative preparing for someone else’s death. We will also talk about ways we can take some of the control over our dying and the ways we can co-create our care plans.
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 17:30 to 18:30
Online via MS Teams
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
This seminar will explore the perspectives of AI researchers living and working in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs).
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
In this session, Doug and colleagues will share learning from experiences working with older people directly in the community and explorations into offline pledging.
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
Closing this year's Ageing Well Public Talks Series 2023/2024 we learn about the experiences of older people from an ethnic minority background and how services can become more inclusive
Thursday, June 27, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
In this CSGD seminar, Dr Hania Sholkamy, an associate research professor at the Social Research Centre of the American University in Cairo, will discuss whether social protection should speak to social justice.
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 17:00 to 18:30
Microsoft Teams
Contact: Manik Deepak Gopinath
Join us for the next in the Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies' public seminar series 2022-23 and hear from Dr Catherine Pestano and Ms Alison Craig as they discuss the impact of the menopause.
Thursday, June 20, 2024 - 19:00 to 20:30
Online - Zoom
Join us for an online ‘watch party’ of the mini-documentary film, Wholly Trinity: Abortion, Art and Activism in Ireland, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with the academics and artist-activists involved in the creation of the film; exploring the influence of art and activism beyond borders.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
In this talk, we explore the role of storytelling and culture in language learning for older adults with Dr Natalia Balyasnikova
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:00
Online - MS TEAMS
Contact: Dr Mirjam Hauck (series convenor)
Join the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures (OCLC) for their next public talk in their Distinguished Speaker Series, welcoming Professor Catherine Boyle from Kings College London.
Monday, June 3, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:00
Microsoft Teams
Contact: Manik Deepak Gopinath
Join us on 3 June for the next Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies' public seminar series 2022-23 to hear from Dr Deborah Morgan (Centre for Innovative Ageing, Swansea University) and Dr Hannah Marston (School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, The Open University)
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
Online
Join the OU's Centre for Literacy and Social Justice (CLSJ) for an online seminar presented by Professor Natalia Kucirkova on ‘Children's scented stories: The power of smell in reading for pleasure’.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 - 11:00 to 13:00
Online - Zoom or Stadium
Contact: Dr Jitka Vseteckova
In the next webinar in the Ageing Well Public Talks Series 2023/2024, we explore different ecosystems, nature and how pet ownership can improve and challenge our lifestyles as we get older - with Dr Yoseph Araya and Dr Gráinne O’Connor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, December 14, 2023 - 09:30
In December, the Ibali team came together from Nigeria, South Africa and the UK to hold a Learnin
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.
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 14:00 to 15:00
Thursday, November 30, 2023 - 13:00 to 14:00
Teachers' professional identity is a critical aspect of their lives.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - 10:00
We held the first of our series of planned learning, impact and stakeholder engagement events for
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 10:00
The Ibali team met in Cape Town in October for the another storytelling workshop – this tim
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.
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.
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.
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
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 10:45
Ibali was represented at the International Conference on Education Research for Development in Af
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.
Monday, August 21, 2023 - 10:00 to Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 17:00
Devon, United Kingdom
Contact: Jennifer Agbaire
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, July 5, 2023 - 16:00
The Open University - Milton Keynes campus
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.
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.
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.
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.
Monday, May 29, 2023 - 13:00 to Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 13:00
Rome, Italy
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Monday, April 17, 2023 - 11:15 to Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 11:15
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 - 10:30 to Friday, March 24, 2023 - 10:30
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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