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Gunjan Sondhi

@gunjans.bsky.social
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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.

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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📢 What happens when we study the UK through the experiences of Indian migrant women in the IT sector? Our new paper argues for provincialising patriarchy as a methodological intervention, challenging assumptions about where patriarchy "belongs" and how it operates. doi.org/10.1111/tran...
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🌍 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
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🎉 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
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📢 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...
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
📢 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
Call for papers for IMISCOE Regional conferences in Agadir.
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
📢 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
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
📢 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
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
📘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...
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
📢 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-...
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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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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
📢 New Open Access Publication Alert! Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies with @parvatiraghuram.bsky.social rdcu.be/eN1I6
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Decolonising This, Decolonising That: Beyond Rhetorical Decolonisation in Migration Studies
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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).
The image contains details for a Call for papers for the IMISCOE Research Network 2026 Annual Conference. The Panel is entitled Class Matters: Community engagement and middle-class migrants in migration research
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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...
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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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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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.
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Moving through crisis into spaces of solidarity: Experiences of international students
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
2 days to go till the @ou-gcsj.bsky.social research festival #ChallengingPower starts. Online and hybrid programme and registration details below.
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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.
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Taking place in two weeks! Registration details below 👇 As part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival.
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Taking place in two weeks. Registration details below 👇👇👇 as part of @ou-gcsj.bsky.social annual research festival
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Taking place today!!! 👇🏾
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Looking forward to contributing to this discussion today.
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reflexivities.bsky.social @reflexivities.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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 🔥
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Richard Budd @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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-...
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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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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Taking place tomorrow!!!
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
📽️ 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
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Starting in the next hour!
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Taking place today! Find out how your #climatechange research can shape secondary education curriculum. Registration details below.
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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
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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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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Huge thanks to all the speakers for their contributions.
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
#AI opportunities in teaching and research? Join the discussion tomorrow, 5 March, 1300-1430 GMT. Registration details below.
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Catherine Hall considers how we might think of repair. Join in person or online. Details below
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
CFP #RGSIBG25 Rethinking Categories Under Attack. Please submit ideas by 5th March, 2025 to gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk #RGSIBG2025 @openspaceou.bsky.social
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Taking place today. Rovincer Najjuma talks about access to education for #Refugee #Students. Registration details below.
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
✏️For your calendars - many upcoming GCSJ events in Feb and March covering important global topics. All free and open for registration. 🖇️Links via fass.open.ac.uk/research/centres/GCSJ/events #SocialJusticeDay #research #academia @gunjans.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
📢📢 2nd talk of the Thinking Expansively Seminar Series with Rovincer Najjuma. Taking place this week. Registration details below👇🏾👇🏾
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
taking place now.
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Taking place tomorrow! Registration details below.
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Looking forward to Rovincer Najjuma (University of Edinburgh) sharing her insights on the experiences of refugee students' access to and success in education as part of the Thinking Expansively Seminar Series (TESS). 21st Feb, online, 1200-1300. Registration details below.
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Centre for HE Research and Evaluation @centreforhere.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
3. Why is UK HE in crisis, and (how) can we fix it? 12 May, 12:30pm Dr @gunjans.bsky.social (Open University), Prof @ronaldhartz.bsky.social (TU Imenau), Prof Susan Robertson (Cambridge University), Prof Kalpana Shankar (University College Dublin) www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
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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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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Really looking forward to chairing the first session of the Thinking Expansively Seminar Series (TESS talk) with Dr Omolala Olarinde as the speaker. Reflexivity in migration research. Taking place today at 12pm(UK time)!
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Sayaka Osanami Törngren @sayakaosa.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
From January i took over the responsibility for Migration Seminars at our research Institute MIM @mau.se Check out the line-up for the Sping term. Join us every Thursday from 13:15-15 in person (at Niagara) or online 💻📆👇🏼 mau.se/en/research/...
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Malmö Institute for Migration Studies (MIM) | Malmö University
Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) is an international research centre with a multidisciplinary profile and a strong international presence. Within the centre and it...
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Taking place tomorrow! Registration details below
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
How do you start the practice of reflexive research? Dr Omolola Olarinde offers insights in her talk as part of Thinking Expansively Seminar Seminars (TESS). @ou-gcsj.bsky.social Registration details below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Taking place Friday, 24th January 1200-1330 (GMT).
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Read 📚about the entrepreneurial (welfare) state tinyurl.com/hhe8h4un & what kind of innovation state matters for social justice? doi.org/10.1007/s432... 👥Join the discussion: next GCSJ seminar, 17 Jan, 12.00 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/1027879855... @gunjans.bsky.social @ouopenlearn.bsky.social
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Taking place today!!!👇🏾
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🔔GCSJ event alert! Join Theo Papaioannou, OU & Ville Takala, UCL for a deep dive into the Entrepreneurial Welfare State. Discover how governments can foster innovation while ensuring it benefits all🌍 📅 Fri 17 Jan, 12.00 🔗 eventbrite.co.uk/e/1027879855... @oustudents.bsky.social @gunjans.bsky.social
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🚨A question of #reflexivity : how 3 African scholars initiated reflexivity & its the impact on their #migration & #inclusivegrowth research in #Africa. A talk by Dr Omolola Olarinde Friday, 24 January 2025 @ 12pm (UK), online (Teams) @ou-gcsj.bsky.social Register: tinyurl.com/GCSJTESS1
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A question of reflexivity: experiences of African researchers
Thinking Expansively Seminar Series (TESS). TESS is an interdisciplinary series hosted by GCSJ at the Open University
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
FYI: PhD funding, #remotesensing Deadline:20 January 2025. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/cri...
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Critical remote sensing of Indigenous fire use in Guyana | TREES DLA
Controlled fire use plays an important cultural role within small-scale livelihoods and Indigenous cultures. However, regional-scale estimates of burned area have likely omitted many human fires, as t...
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Starting now!
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Gunjan Sondhi @gunjans.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
TODAY! Global online booklaunch: #Border #Abolition Now together with @plutopress.bsky.social and Centre for #GlobalChallenges and #SocialJustice @ 4-5 PM (GMT) Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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