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Narratives of Everyday Resistance, Reconfiguring Protest

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Photo credit: The Open University Living with the Pandemic: Everyday Narratives of Resistance and Reconfigurations of Political Protest At the atmospheric and intimate Chelsea Theatre, a group of academics (including The OU's Dr Anthony English, Sue Nieland and Professor Kesi Mahendran) and creatives gathered on the 18th April to explore some pressing questions for our… Continue reading Narratives of Everyday Resistance, Reconfiguring Protest

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Practising with care in mind: Supporting social care training

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Photo credit: Professor Crafter Prof Sarah Crafter from the Open University and Dr. Evangelia Prokopiou from the University of Northampton, have developed an online training course for social workers, senior practitioners, personal advisors, differently qualified and other professionals working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. In this blog, they say more about the course and how it builds on a… Continue reading Practising with care in mind: Supporting social care training

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The loneliness pandemic?

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Dr David Jones publishes in a special edition of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies Images: Dr David Jones own photo; Image of Journal by permission of Journal of Psychosocial Studies The Loneliness Pandemic? A Special Edition of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/jps/jps-overview.xml?tab_body=latest-issue By David W Jones Olivia Sagan approached me a while ago, in… Continue reading The loneliness pandemic?

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Sexual Citizenship and Social Change – Prof. Darren Landridge

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Photo credit: Professor Darren Langdridge/Oxford University Press Professor Darren Langdridge of The Open University's Psychology and Counselling School has recently published a fascinating new book on sexual politics. Read more on the Open Psychology Research Centre's News page. Langdridge, D. (2024). Sexual citizenship and social change: a dialectical approach to narratives of tradition and critique. New… Continue reading Sexual Citizenship and Social Change – Prof. Darren Landridge

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The Relational Dynamics of Everyday Extremism – A report from OppAttune’s knowledge exchange event with CuSP and WP6’s co-working day in Milton Keynes (UK)

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Photo Credit: Kesi Mahendran and Timer feature. On the 13th and 14th February 2024, the members of work package six (WP6),  Public Dialogue & Narratives – Psychological Drivers, met at the Open University’s Walton Hall Campus in Milton Keynes, UK. The two-day gathering promised to be an engaging period of collaboration and dissemination. The members… Continue reading The Relational Dynamics of Everyday Extremism – A report from OppAttune’s knowledge exchange event with CuSP and WP6’s co-working day in Milton Keynes (UK)