News

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 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.

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.

With the summer solstice almost upon us, Stephen Peake, Professor of Climate Change, and Graham Harvey, Professor of Religious Studies, are asking others to share how they’ll be celebrating.

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).

Katie Donington and Rosalind Crone, Historians from The Open University, consulted on a new three-part series ‘Jay Blades: No Place Like Home’, exploring the history of Hackney, broadcast on Channel 5.

Dr Rosalind Crone, Head of History and Senior Lecturer, is Historical Consultant for new BBC production Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley, and appears throughout the series, which takes a contemporary feminist perspective to true-crime cases.

Ground-breaking new OU/BBC series Art That Made Us brings an alternative history of the British Isles through art, guided by the expertise of academic consultants from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.