Researching Kurdish women’s politics

Pro-Kurdish protestors

Despite ethnic oppression, pro-Kurdish rights parties in Turkey implement innovative, effective gender equality policies, claims research by Dr Umut Erel, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the OU.

Read her research paper: Enacting intersectional multilayered citizenship: Kurdish women’s politics.

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£309k funding to explore how AI can identify breakthrough science

Dr Angelo Salatino, from the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute , has secured £308,702 (£186,028 to the OU) in funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for a project that aims to identify potentially transformative research earlier and more effectively.