News

Gripping OU/BBC series ‘Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland’ unveils the hidden stories behind The Troubles
25th May 2023
Hard-hitting new OU/BBC series Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland explores the human experiences of The Troubles, giving voice to the people who share intimate stories from all sides of the conflict.
Art Historians go Wild
13th April 2023
Sam Shaw and Carla Benzan, lecturers in Art History, have been contributing to the buzz around the highly popular BBC/OU co-production Wild Isles.
Acclaimed writer Daniel Tammet awarded Honorary Doctorate
13th April 2023
Award-winning writer and OU graduate, Daniel Tammet, praised the “vital role” played by the arts as he received an Honorary Doctorate for services to the arts and sciences.
Panel puts careers in Arts & Humanities centre stage
22nd March 2023
FASS academic chairs a cross-sector panel on the value of education in Arts & Humanities to freelancers, major employers, and the UK economy as part of the Creative Coalition Festival in London.
OU Historian returns as expert consultant for second series of Lady Killers
17th March 2023
Professor Rosalind Crone, Head of History, returns as Historical Consultant for BBC’s Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley, and appears throughout the new series, which takes a contemporary feminist perspective to true-crime cases.
Arts project to explore surprising Victorian asylum treatments
25th January 2023
A new OU research network has been awarded £25,000 in Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding to explore the use of arts in Victorian asylums, as well as its relevance today. The Psychiatry and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Britain Network (PAN) will be led by Staff Tutor and Senior Lecturer in Music Dr Rosemary Golding.
BBC Philharmonic concert to feature Music academic’s research
4th November 2022
Research carried out by an OU Music academic will be featured in the upcoming BBC Philharmonic: Rediscovered Composers concert.
Star Wars study puts film industry’s sustainability under the spotlight
6th September 2022
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.
Brand new short courses launching
5th September 2022
Next month, the Faculty is launching brand new short courses, with no less than three coming from our Music discipline.
The OU offers Classical Studies scholarships to UK schoolteachers
6th July 2022
The OU is offering three fully funded bursaries for UK schoolteachers to study an undergraduate module in Latin or Classical Civilisation.