Projects

Planning Online Conferences in the Arts and Social Sciences

Project leader(s):  Maria Nita Stefanie Sinclair David Robertson Alison Kirkbright Heather Scott

The foci of this project is to understand best practice in (1) the delivery of online conferences; (2) promoting and hosting; and (3) engagement and inclusion. Consequently, the research questions are:

Challenges of Distance Teaching Masters in International Relations

Project leader(s):  William Brown

In the age of digital information and high levels of technology in academic life, critical thinking skills are not just considered as an element of academic literacy; they have been interpreted in terms of the ability to use Microsoft Office and reference managing software effectively when underg

Communication Strategies and the Tutor-Student Relationship

Project leader(s):  Wendy Humphreys Vicky Johnson

One of the findings of our completed project, The Quality of Tutor-Student Early contact in Post Level 1 Modules, was the extreme variation in both the interpretation and practice of tutors, in terms of early communication within a module.

Embedding Employability Resources in DB125: An Evaluation

Project leader(s):  Jonquil Lowe

DB125 You and Your Money replaced DB123 from October 2018J.

Supporting DD102 Students to Develop the ‘Reflection on and Articulation of Employability Skills’

Project leader(s):  Ieman Hassan

The project aims are to draw on employability guidance to enable ALs through a practitioner enquiry to ‘make the components of employability explicit to students’ in order to further ‘support students in articulating their skills, values and behaviours gained and developed through their study at

Closing the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Enquirer and Recruitment Gap in FASS

Project leader(s):  Karen Hagan Lystra Hagley-Dickinson Pepta Joefield-Beeby Anna Clarke

The BAME Insight Factsheet produced by Marketing demonstrated that there is a BAME enquirer gap in the OU.

Evaluating the Impact of ‘You Can Do It!’ Catch-up Sessions

Project leader(s):  Zoe Doye Ieman Hassan Joanna Robson Judith Wilson-Hughes

We have been trialling tutor-led module-wide ‘you can do it’ catch-up sessions on three modules within SSGS (DD102 – 20J and 21B, DD206 – 20J and DD308 – 20J).  DD206 and DD308 ran these sessions initially, with DD102, co

Understanding African Postgraduate Student Experience

Project leader(s):  Cristina Santos Kevin Deane Frangton Chiyemura Maureen Mackintosh

The higher education sector has recognised and aims to address recruitment, retention, and award gaps of BAME students.

Responding to Educational Need: Learnings from Time to Think

Project leader(s):  Philip O’Sullivan Gabi Kent Michael Doorley

Exploring and Testing Anti-Racism and Decolonising Pedagogy in Online-Forum Learning

Project leader(s):  Alessandra Marino Gunjan Sondhi Karl A. Hack Suki Haider