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A dour looking Michael Gove, Conservative Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister, facing the camera during an interview for the series.

Economics Senior Lecturer advises on hard-hitting Britain’s Housing Crisis: What went wrong?

Economics Senior Lecturer Martin Higginson consulted on hard-hitting series OU/BBC co-production Britain’s Housing Crisis: What went wrong? which interviewed key decision makers and influencers.

25th October 2023
Police forensic experts examine a crime scene, with a white car taped off on a suburban street, and the Crime Scene Investigation team’s white van in the foreground

OU/BBC’s The Met returns for series 4, advised by Head of Social Policy and Criminology Professor Louise Westmarland

OU/BBC co-production ‘The Met’ returns for series four, advised by Head of Social Policy and Criminology Professor Louise Westmarland

24th October 2023
Ben Fogle sits at the top of the Quiraing on Skye with rock formations and the coast behind him in the distance

Religious Studies academics consult on Ben Fogle’s new Scottish Islands series

Stunning new Open University/BBC series Scotland’s Sacred Island with Ben Fogle explores how faith and belief took root continue to thrive in island communities today.

19th October 2023
Presenter Historian David Olusoga against a backdrop of a dramatic nineteenth century oil painting of a naval battle

FASS academic experts advise on new OU/BBC series Union with David Olusoga

Fascinating new Open University/BBC co-production Union with David Olusoga explores the origins and development of the United Kingdom

12th October 2023

Economics seminar series: Quo Vadis Development Studies? Changing dynamics in a contested field

Drawing from recent publications below, the seminar explores the role of critical development policies, and emergent theoretical paradigms.

6th October 2023
Local & Global Magazine cover

Fresh thinking brought to the fore in new look SSGS Magazine: Local & Global

Introducing Local & Global, the digital magazine for new debates and fresh ways of thinking from experts in the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies.

29th September 2023

Economics seminar series: Sovereign Debt and Feminist Political Economy

OU Economics is proud to celebrate a recently published collaborative book on feminism and sovereign debt, edited by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky (CONICET) and Mariana Rulli (UNRN).

26th September 2023
Heather Richardson and Bree Hocking stand either side of a large patchwork blanket hanging on the wall. The blanket is based on a map and is made up of white, blue, pink, yellow and black squares.

Powerful textile art inspired by psychology research now on display

A piece of textile art inspired by a Psychology research project has gone on display at Northern Ireland’s Linen Biennale. ‘The Belfast Quilt’ was the brainchild of Heather Richardson, Staff Tutor in English and Creative Writing. 

25th August 2023

Words, Music & Silence – The House of Life

This lecture recital will consider Ralph Vaughan Williams’ settings of 6 sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1904). The first of these to be composed was 'Silent Noon’; singer Julia Hollander and pianist Peter McMullin will focus on this song, its relationship to the rest of the cycle and especially the theme of silence. They analyse the ways Vaughan Williams’ music depicts silence, and consider the role of Rossetti as both painter and wordsmith: calling on both our listening and our (silent) visual powers.

18th August 2023
Heather Annan

Former FASS Grad gains top US scholarship award

A former FASS graduate is named as one of a select few researchers to gain a Kennedy Scholarship in the United States to pursue her studies into autism. Heather Annan’s research focuses on philosophy of mind, perception, and attention.

9th August 2023

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