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The Polyphonic Cornett album released
29th January 2025A collaboration between James Dooley (The Open University) and Jamie Savan (Birmingham City University), The Polyphonic Cornett (album released November 2024) presents music exploring the intersection of ‘old’ musical instruments with ‘new’ music technology.
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'Navigating the Nineteenth Century Institution' published
29th January 2025This edited volume brings to the forefront the pauper voice to explore how different groups of men, women and children sought to navigate their way through the asylum and workhouse of the nineteenth century from 1834 onwards.
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Building bibliotherapy project awarded £29,657 by the Northern Ireland Department for the Economy
27th January 2025Open University researchers Francesca Benatti, Siobhan Campbell and Alessio Antonini awarded £29,657 for 'Immersive Online Reading for Mental Wellbeing' project
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From Okinawa to Cornwall: the music of Kikuko Kanai introduced by Maiko Kawabata
21st January 2025The Open University is proud to support the Truro Sinfonia in bringing Japanese composer Kikuko Kanai's music to life in Cornwall. Collaborating with OU researcher Dr. Maiko Kawabata, the orchestra performed Kanai’s symphonic poem Ryūkyū where the Deigo Flowers Blossom on 9 November 2024, marking a rare UK appearance for the composer’s work.
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Art History secures PhD partnership with Transport for London
21st January 2025Art History have secured a funded PhD studentship, ‘Art on the Underground’ with the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership.
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Warriors’ Wives by Emma Bridges republished as an Open Access book by Oxford University Press
21st January 2025Thanks to the Open University’s pilot Open Access Book Fund, Warriors’ Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience by Emma Bridges will be re-published as an Open Access book by Oxford University Press in 2025.
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Togas, truncheons, and terrific panellists – OpenARC Research Centre launches
11th July 2024The new research centre for the School of Arts and Humanities, OpenARC, launched on 10 June with a lively on-campus and online event.
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History academic consults for 80th Anniversary series D-Day: The Unheard Tapes
31st May 2024History Lecturer Dr Frances Houghton consults for OU/BBC co-production 80th Anniversary series D-Day: The Unheard Tapes.
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‘Poetry and Performance’ nominated for award
17th May 2024‘Poetry and Performance’ interactive for ‘Being Kae Tempest’ nominated for Learning on Screen award.
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History and Politics academics consult for new series on Cold War spies
9th May 2024The Open University History and Politics academics consult for new OU/BBC co-production on Cold War spies.
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OU Creative Writing partner with MK Lit Fest for fiction writing series
19th April 2024OU-sponsored MK Lit Fest series The Long and Short of It: From flash fiction to the doorstop novel brings new audiences to ground-breaking Creative Writing research and offers PhD students valuable public engagement experience.
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Classical Studies academics consult for new OU/BBC series ‘Pompeii’
15th April 2024Classical Studies academics Dr Emma-Jayne Graham and Professor Phil Perkins bring their expertise as academic consultants for new OU/BBC co-production Pompeii: The New Dig.
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Unknown heritage of military bases unveiled by groundbreaking project
20th March 2024Unknown military heritage of island of Ireland is unveiled by groundbreaking project.
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