FASSTEST brings together colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, providing a mechanism for professional development through practice-based scholarship within a mentored community.
Much of our work is organised on a project basis with project management aimed at the delivery of new educational outcomes and scholarship outcomes. FASSTEST supports a rolling portfolio of approximately 40 active scholarship projects under a number of themes which include:
If you are interested in learning more about a particular project or connecting with a project team, please contact us at FASS-Scholarship@open.ac.uk.
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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:
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
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.
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.
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.
Project leader(s): Philip O’Sullivan Gabi Kent Michael Doorley
Our purpose is to explore institutional learning from teaching in prisons during the conflict in Northern Ireland, in particular, how The Open University responded at that time to an immediate and emerging educational and social need.
Project leader(s): Alessandra Marino Gunjan Sondhi Karl A. Hack Suki Haider
The purpose of the project is to create spaces to test what an anti-racist pedagogy entails in the context of decolonization.
Project leader(s): Kevin Deane Susan Newman Lorena Lombardozzi Francis Garikayi
The discipline of Economics in the UK has a significant diversity and inclusivity problem. Women, black students, and students from working class backgrounds are under-represented in higher education and academia.
Project leader(s): Alan Shipman
This project aims to investigate how other UK providers of Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) degrees have addressed the challenges of the three-way combination, through their structuring of the three disciplines, curriculum choices within them, and other aspects of design and delivery
Project leader(s): Suzanne Newcombe Paul-François Tremlett John Maiden Hugh Beattie Maria Nita
In line with colleagues in many other institutions, the Religious Studies Department at the Open University has adopted a pedagogical emphasis roughly known as the ‘lived religion’ thesis.