The Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mary Kellett & FASS Executive Dean, Ian Fribbance continued to press the case for a more favourable funding and policy environment for part-time HE in England.
On Saturday 9th June, OU students and other members of the public attended a buzzing event at Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh where they had the opportunity to meet world renowned authors; Jenny Colgan, Fiona Mozley and William Sutcliffe, as well as literary agent Lucy Juckes and Alysoun Owen, the editor of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook and the Children’s Writers’& Artists’ Yearbook.
Dr Sara Haslam’s commentary piece, ‘No More Parades End: Ford Madox Ford’s last library and what it tells us about the “Tietjens saga”’, was published in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) on 8 June.
We are delighted to be able to share the news that Classical Studies academic Laura Swift has been successful with her application to the British Academy Rising Start Engagement Award.
MA students, Katie Ault, was shortlisted as a runner up for the Art History dissertation prize for her MA dissertation ‘How did Ugolino di Nerio’s Santa Croce Polyptych challenge and change the art historical canon between 1780 and 1887?
The Medieval and Early Modern Research Group at the OU is pleased to announce that registration for the spaces and places conference on 23-24 February is now open. The registration fee includes lunch and refreshments.