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A photograph showing film props that have been left after a shoot as debris in the Tunisian desert

Star Wars study puts film industry’s sustainability under the spotlight

Landmark research project to trace life cycle of four Star Wars props, from the extraction of materials all the way through to disposal, examining the environmental impacts of this epic scale of production.

6th September 2022
A DJ mixing music on turntables

Brand new short courses launching

Next month, the Faculty is launching brand new short courses, with no less than three coming from our Music discipline.

5th September 2022
Houses of Parliament from the skies

Tory leadership race: FASS Politics academics help make sense of the debate

The countdown is on – after weeks of vociferous campaigning, on 5 September the Conservative Party will have a new leader and the UK will have a new Prime Minister.

16th August 2022
Tutor teaching in classroom using whiteboard

The OU offers Classical Studies scholarships to UK schoolteachers

The OU is offering three fully funded bursaries for UK schoolteachers to study an undergraduate module in Latin or Classical Civilisation.

6th July 2022

Workshop: Dwelling on the everyday: Architecture, Ghosts, Ellipses

The two international interdisciplinary workshops that examine dwellings and the ways in which the past resonates in and through them.

22nd June 2022

Refugee Week 2022 seminar: Blood and Gold – a journey

As part of Refugee Week 2022, the Sanctuary Working Group at the OU is hosting three events. In the final session, Mara Menzies explores migration journeys through her award-winning show Blood and Gold.

16th June 2022

Refugee Week 2022 seminar: Identity over time

As part of Refugee Week 2022, the Sanctuary Working Group at the OU is hosting three events, including a digital photographic exhibition of works by amateur and professional Swansea photographers.

16th June 2022

Refugee Week 2022 seminar: No Friends but the Mountains

As part of Refugee Week 2022, the Sanctuary Working Group at the OU is hosting three events, starting with a showing of the wonderful short film ‘No Friends but the Mountains’, composed of Kurdish voices and Welsh animation.

16th June 2022

GCSJ seminar series: To smell is to kill: sensate regimes of war and martial power

Dr Kevin McSorley (OU) offers a critical inquiry into war and its sensate regimes.

15th June 2022

GCSJ seminar series: Medical circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya is a social justice issue (but we don't talk about it)

Dr Mark Lamont (OU) discusses medical circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya as a social justice issue (but we don't talk about it).

15th June 2022

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