News & articles

Dr. Faith Mkwananzi from the University of the Free State, South Africa, will be visiting The Open University on 22 May and holding a seminar exploring 'The complexity of educational aspiration formation among young asylum seekers in South Africa'

Dr Sara de Jong discusses claims for protection, rights & settlement by Afghans & Iraqis who have worked for western military forces & development organisations, and the Home Office's agreement to waive the indefinite leave to remain fee for resettled former Afghan interpreters

'Ideas Lab' to explore identity, belonging, ‘integration’ & xenophobia in Milton Keynes and Wolverton

Calling All Filmmakers! UN Migration Agency Launches Call for Submissions to 2018 Global Migration Film Festival 

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Milton Keynes' Family Arts & Culture Festival, Art in the Park. This year, the event is being held at Willen Lake on 30th June, 1pm - 7pm

Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at The Open University, Tendayi Bloom, explores the six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

Following on from his piece on Windrush poetry, Professor Giles Mohan talks about The Phoenix Dance Theatre's latest production, 'Windrush: Movement of the People'. Giles looks at how the production explores the 'importance of these mobilities and their evolving legacies'.

In this short provocation, Professor Giles Mohan highlights the work of James Berry, used within OU teaching, to express the emotions of migration, 'the hopes, anxieties, sadness, opportunity, racism and much else besides'

This event brings together scholars, third sector workers, and people with direct experience of immigration controls and borders to examine the theme of border harms from different substantive angles and theoretical perspectives.

Sitting with 200 people at the International Mars Sample Return Conference in Berlin recently to discuss the feasibility of bringing samples back from Mars to Earth, I remember the first such conference in Paris ten years ago