Covid-19

In this article, Dr Victoria Cooper, a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at The Open University, reflects on the deaths of care home residents and social care workers in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic

As COVID-19 forces us to work from home and attend endless online meetings, our bookshelves are suddenly on public display. An online conference this November will be critically examining this particular cultural phenomenon

In a recent Open University webinar, a panel of researchers and practitioners explored the numerous issues faced by those conducting research with mobile populations in a time of lockdown and social distancing. Now available to watch again

Richard Danson Brown is a Professor of English Literature at the OU. In this blog, he discusses the work of Edmund Spenser, written in the 16th century, during the height of the plague. Find out what his writing tells us about that experience

How can monks help us to cope with COVID-19? Richard Irvine, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at The Open University explores this question in a blog written for the OU's Religious Studies blog series

In 2020, after 50 years of Glastonbury, festival fields will be silent. An online conference has been organised, hosted by The Open University, to reflect on the impact COVID-19 has had on festivals, protestivals, activism and spirituality

Professor Steve Tombs from the OU and Professor Joe Sim from Liverpool John Moores University explore the numbers game that has been played by the Government since the start of the coronavirus crisis and question their efforts now to move on from it

Helen Chambers is an Honorary Associate in English at the OU. She explores the role that reading played for those embarking on epic voyages to Australia in the late nineteenth century, namely those who travelled on the purpose-built passenger clipper the Torrens

Dr Christine Plastow is a Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University. In this blog, Christine talks about the implications lockdown has had on public performances, drawing on examples sourced through her involvement with the By Jove Theatre Company

Dr Rajiv Prabhakar, Senior Lecturer in Personal Finance at the OU, explores the role that Child Trust Funds, initiated by the Labour Government in 2002, could play in helping young people struggling with the financial effects of COVID-19