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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.

13th June 2018

English Academic Sara Haslam’s Commentary Piece Published in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS)

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.

12th June 2018

Identity & the Identifiable debate

Debate: Identity and the Identifiable

31st May 2018

The Launch of Culture and Social Psychology Group (CuSP)

You are cordially invited to the launch of Culture and Social Psychology (CuSP), a new research nexus stemming from The Open University’s School of Psychology. Alongside director Professor Paul Stenner’s introduction, the launch event will feature talks by Professor Lynne Segal (Birkbeck) and Professor Peter Hegarty (University of Surrey).

21st May 2018

Who Are We? Tate Exchange

Join Counterpoints Arts and The Open University at Who Are We? Tate Exchange for a week of experimental arts production and collective action.

18th May 2018

New Book Release: 'Creativity and Critique in Online Learning'

The new book 'Creativity and Critique in Online Learning: Exploring and Examining Innovations in Online Pedagogy', co-authored by FASS academic, is to be released and ready for pre-order. This book explores emerging practices in distance education that have been facilitated by the development of educational technology.

18th May 2018

Citizenship, Infrastructure and the Postcolonial

An interdisciplinary symposium is to be held on Friday June 29th at OU Camden looking at ‘Citizenship, Infrastructure and the Postcolonial'. Keynote speaker Nikhil Anand from University of Pennsylvania will be talking about his work on water infrastructures in Mumbai. We are hoping this will be of particular interest to OU colleagues in the Citizen & Governance stream. The call for papers is still open, so please send in an abstract and/or come along on the day. Please also pass on details to students and colleagues. CFP and registration details are available through this link. The event is free.

17th May 2018

FASS Academic Dennis Walder Wins Fish Publishing Poetry Prize

Dennis Walder, Emeritus Professor of Literature, has won the third prize in the Fish Publishing poetry competition for his poem 'Someone Said'.

17th May 2018

Classical Studies Academic Won the British Academy Rising Start Engagement Award

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.

26th March 2018

What can the UK learn from India to bridge the IT skills gap?

This breakfast meetup, will outline lessons the UK can learn from India’s successes in bridging the IT skills gap. This event is organised by GSM-IT (Gender, skilled migration and IT: a comparative study of India and the UK Research Project funded by Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) (UK))

15th March 2018

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