IKD Workshop: “Building the OU gender-social policy network, global governance and policy impact”

Milton Keynes, Walton Hall. Room TBC

This is the second workshop of the newly established IKD Gender and Social Policy Research Theme-Network which follows a brilliant launch event of the gender and social policy research theme- network back in May. It is an interdisciplinary platform that connects various academics who study gender in different topics and from different discipline at the OU. Link to the event - workshop organised in May 2019 here https://www.open.ac.uk/ikd/events/gender-and-social-policy.  A summary of the May 2019 event is available here: https://www.open.ac.uk/ikd/blog/launch-gender-and-social-policy-network-ou

10:20-10:30 – welcome and coffee

10:30 - 12:00 - First round of presentations

Dr Cristina Santos (OU Economics) “Group versus individual relational capabilities: why it matters for gender”

Dr Michael Ngoasong (OU Management BS) “Investing with a Gender Lens: Fund Managers’ Narratives about African Women Entrepreneurs”

Dr Lorena Lombardozzi (OU Economics) “Unpacking gender multidimensional inequality in low-income countries: the case of Uzbekistan”

12:00 14:00 – lunch + seminar book launch

Prof Nicola Yeates (OU Social Policy OU) “International Health Worker Migration and Recruitment: global governance, politics and policy”  

Discussant: Dr Lorraine Frisina (Senior Research Fellow University of Bremen, Germany)

14:00 - 15:15 - second round of presentations

Dr Gunjan.Sondhi (OU Geography) “gender and international student migration”

Dr Ariane Hillig (Goldsmiths and OPEG OU) ‘Many Bags in the Corner’ – Intra-Household Imbalances in Times of Asset-Based Welfare?

15:15 - 15:30 Concluding remarks

Please register for this workshop via international-development-research@open.ac.uk. You can attend the lunchtime seminar only, if necessary.