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Women and the fight to reclaim higher education
Society, Politics & Law

Women and the fight to reclaim higher education

...Open University's History and Social Sciences courses Background In the context of the growing ‘cost of living crisis’ in 2022, it’s unsurprising that trade union activity in Scotland has featured regularly in public discourse. Waste and recycling workers made headlines when they went on strike over pay and conditions in Glasgow during COP26 in November 2021; then...
Life on the wall: Vindolanda
History & The Arts

Life on the wall: Vindolanda

...source of building stones by local landowners from times immemorial, but it was remote enough from the main modern roads to escape the worst of the destruction. Limited excavation in the early nineteenth century revealed a number of magnificent stone altars, with inscriptions naming the garrison as the Fourth Cohort of Gauls, 500 strong and part-mounted, and in the 1930s...
Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...course provides a taster for studying other Italian short courses at The Open University’s Open Centre for Languages and Cultures. Some activities in this course use an audio-recording tool. This may not work correctly in the Safari browser on Apple Mac computers. Please try another browser such as Google Chrome to run this...Beginners’ Italian: food and...
Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!
Nature & Environment

Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!

...Open University's Geography courses and qualifications Trees have been in the news a lot recently with political parties trying to outdo each other on tree planting pledges. As the climate crisis has risen up the political agenda, trees and tree planting have been recognised as an important response since they take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow. A...
57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One

...Open University's Open degree qualification. [People look at Facebook in this cartoon, with varying responses to the range of gender identities on offer] February is a pretty busy time for somebody who writes about sex, gender and relationships, what with the coinciding of LGBT history month and Valentine’s Day. This year, however, I thought I could rest up a bit on...
Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update

...open pyramid that offered genuine opportunities for clubs to progress to the next level whilst maintaining relegation. WSL teams performing consistently in the UEFA Champions League. Commercial sponsorships that are different to the men’s teams at the same club. Greater diversity in the profile of professional players. As the 2025 edition of the Euros approaches it is...
Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity
History & The Arts

Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity

...Open University during Black History Month in 2020, I discussed the early emergence of Black Majority Churches. In the talk I wanted to highlight a few themes: Diversity and significance While ‘Black Majority Church(es)’ has been adopted by many Black Christian leaders as an umbrella label, this represents a significant theological and ecclesiological diversity. Many...
Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...Open University tried to make their module more inclusive and relatable to the diverse student demographic...Scholars have increasingly come to recognise that Religious Studies as a discipline is based on the legacies of a colonial worldview, i.e. that what we have classified as religious beliefs and practices have used criteria drawn from white Anglo-European...