Plato - Philosophy

Heaven - Religious Studies

Hell - Art History

Michel Foucault - Psychology and philosophy

Flow - Sport coaching and psychology

Football language and chanting - linguistics and sport

Humiliation - philosophy

Plato - Philosophy

Heaven - Religious Studies

Hell - Art History

Michel Foucault - Psychology and Philosophy

Football language and chanting - Linguistics and language

Humiliation - Philosophy

Flow - Sport coaching and psychology

Copyright: Angeliki Lymberopoulou Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou - Senior Lecturer in Art History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - Heaven and Hell

Angeliki Lymberopoulou's research interests include the heritage of Byzantine art in the Renaissance period. Furthermore, with Prof. Dr Vasiliki Tsamakda, she is co-managing the Leverhulme funded International Networks project, which examines the representations of hell on Cretan frescoes from the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries.

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Copyright: Suzanne Newcombe Dr Suzanne Newcombe - Lecturer in Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - Heaven and Hell

Suzanne Newcombe is interested in the interfaces between religion, health and healing. She is currently working half-time on a project funded by the European Research Council (Horizon 2020) entitled ‘Medicine, Immortality and Moksha: Entangled Histories of Yoga, Ayurveda and Alchemy in South Asia’ where she is focusing on overlaps between yoga, ayurveda and Indian alchemy in the modern period. Her research focuses on ideas about immortality, rejuvenation practices and the medical interventions of sadhus. 

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Copyright: Photo by Elmer Professor Paul Stenner - Professor of Social Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - Michel Foucault

Paul Stenner works with process approaches to Psychosocial issues. He has published work in numerous fields including the emotions, human rights, quality of life and active ageing. He is currently interested in 'liminal' experiences where people find themselves in transition 'betwixt and between' different identities and positions. His most recent book is called Liminality and experience: a transdisciplinary approach to the psychosocial (Palgrave, 2017) 

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Copyright: Cristina Chimisso Dr Cristina Chimisso - Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - Michel Foucault

Cristina Chimisso is a historian of philosophy, with particular interest in philosophy of science and historiography. She has written extensively on twentieth-century French philosophy, including a monograph on the philosopher Gaston Bachelard (Routledge 2001) and Writing the History of the Mind: science and philosophy in France 1900-1960s (Ashgate 2008). At the OU she has written teaching material at all levels for Philosophy and interdisciplinary modules. Recently, she has contributed to the MA in Philosophy with a Block on Power, which is focussed on Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt.

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Copyright: Frank Monaghan Dr Frank Monaghan - Staff Tutor in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics - Football language and chanting

Frank Monaghan is a Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics. He works mainly on Open University modules on language and creativity (E302) and on a new Level 1 module (L101) ‘An Introduction to English Language Studies’.  His research focuses on Liverpool football fan identity and creativity, and he has a particular focus on the Hillsborough disaster and the fans’ fight for justice. He blogs about LFC fans’ banners here: www.lfc-fan-banners.com, where you can find out more about what makes them so creative!

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Copyright: jessica pinchbeck Jessica Pinchbeck - Sport and Fitness Lecturer, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies - Flow

Jessica is a Sport and Fitness lecturer at the Open University. She has worked as an academic at the university since October 2011. Prior to that she worked as an associate lecturer at the Open University and as a lecturer in sport and exercise science within the FE sector. Jessica's specialist area includes the topics of youth sport participation and the influence of the family in sport. Jessica is currently undertaking her PhD investigating the role of the family in women's participation in club sport. Follow the Sport and Fitness qualification team on Twitter. Read the Sport and Fitness team blog.

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Copyright: karen howells Dr Karen Howells - Sport and Fitness Lecturer, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies - Flow

Karen is a Lecturer in Sport and Fitness as part of the Faculty of Education and Languages at the Open University. Karen’s specialist area is sport and performance psychology. She is a Chartered Sport Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).  She regularly provides sport and performance psychology support to athletes from a wide range of individual and team sports competing at a variety of levels.  She has also delivered non-technical skills to teams within the Oil and Gas Industry and is an ex-Royal Air Force Officer. She is also a UKCC Level 2 swimming coach and currently coaches in voluntary and paid positions.

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Copyright: Manuel Dries Dr Manuel Dries - Head of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - Humiliation

Manuel Dries (MPhil PhD Cantab) is currently Head of Philosophy at The Open University. He focuses on questions at the interface between metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of mind. He has a particular interest in Post-Kantian European Philosophy and its contributions to contemporary debates in those fields. He has lectured in Cambridge and Oxford before coming to the OU, and recently taught at China’s Tongji University, Shanghai (Feb 2017) and Renmin University, Beijing (July 2017). He has been a module team member of the interdisciplinary module A207 From Enlightenment to Romanticism c.1780–1830 (Deputy Chair 2014–16), and A333: Key Questions in Philosophy (Module Chair 2016–18). He is a contributing author to the new MA in Philosophy (F30) on Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality (A854 Philosophy MA Part II). In 2016 he acted as Lead Academic on the BBC's Genius of the Modern World: Nietzsche, first shown in June 2016.

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