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...Open University’s Department of Geography where I currently work as a Research Associate. I’m going to examine how conflict in the Middle East risked disrupting research into the future security of the world’s food supplies, and find out how a revolutionary project on the remote island of Spitsbergen acted to keep that research going. This case captures, for me,...

...Open University. And I'm currently leading a research project called Smart Cities in the Making, learning from Milton Keynes. It's a two year research project. It started in January 2017, and it's funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, as well as the Open University. And in this podcast, what I'd like to do is tell you a little bit about what we're going to...

...Open or closed Europe? With the outsourcing of EU border controls and member states taking back control of their own borders, the overarching impression is of a territory closing in on itself, restricting the right of movement and blocking access. But that’s really only half the story. The OU geography module DD205 Living in a Globalised World teaches us that territory...