Event: OIPA Symposium 2025 This page shares resources and information that came out of the online OIPA Symposium 2025, held on Tuesday 21st October 2025, 13:30-16:00 BST, online via Zoom. Video Rec…

Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles

A book launch and discussion, organised by the Radical Library in the Global Studies Resource Centre, and Open University Press Sussex.

Why, when so many people understand the severity of environmental problems, is progress so slow and sustainability such a distant goal? What gets in the way? Perhaps you have immediately thought of se...

Universities and Climate Action explores how higher education can drive systemic change to tackle the climate crisis. It offers a practical framework for integrating climate engagement into teaching, ...

Contemporary philosophers have argued that framing new concepts can bring about both moral and epistemic progress. In this paper, I argue that such intelligibility also has downsides. This paper introduces the phenomenon of ‘over-intelligibility,’ which obtains when a concept truly applies and facilitates understanding, yet hinders someone as a knower. This takes place when concepts normalize or detrimentally standardize our epistemic lives.

Dr Michael Woodrow joins Professor Philip Schofield to discuss how dyslexia’s image-based, big-picture thinking fuels engineering creativity.

Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...

Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society is an ambitious and innovative study of the social, political and religious histories of medieval England and Wales. Using the Palmers’ Guild of Ludlow as a...