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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OU secures major grants to strengthen trust in AI

A researcher from The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute has secured a major UK Research and Innovation grant to help ensure artificial intelligence can be used safely, fairly and transparently in research assessment.