Award-winning writer and OU graduate, Daniel Tammet, praised the “vital role” played by the arts as he received an Honorary Doctorate for services to the arts and sciences.
FASS academic chairs a cross-sector panel on the value of education in Arts & Humanities to freelancers, major employers, and the UK economy as part of the Creative Coalition Festival in London.
Professor Rosalind Crone, Head of History, returns as Historical Consultant for BBC’s Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley, and appears throughout the new series, which takes a contemporary feminist perspective to true-crime cases.
A new OU research network has been awarded £25,000 in Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding to explore the use of arts in Victorian asylums, as well as its relevance today. The Psychiatry and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Britain Network (PAN) will be led by Staff Tutor and Senior Lecturer in Music Dr Rosemary Golding.
Research carried out by an OU Music academic will be featured in the upcoming BBC Philharmonic: Rediscovered Composers concert.
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.
Next month, the Faculty is launching brand new short courses, with no less than three coming from our Music discipline.
The OU is offering three fully funded bursaries for UK schoolteachers to study an undergraduate module in Latin or Classical Civilisation.
A new FASS series using art history to examine climate change is set to launch at the Glasgow Science Festival.
OU Music academics celebrate a double win for their published work with the announcement of the CB Oldman Awards by the International Association of Music Libraries (UK & Ireland branch).
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