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The Open University, UK
Joined October 2018
Walking and talking could be one of the most effective forms of therapy. This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek is all about the benefit of movement, but it's not just moving your limbs that can help! 💬 Read more about it in our #MHAW collection: open.edu/openlearn/health-sp…
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Registration is now open for the Praxis Festival of Scholarship 2024! We will hear from many of our Praxis project leads as well as our keynote speaker Dr Felix Kwihangana. @OU_WELS @OUStudents Further details and registration (OU login required): openuniv.sharepoint.com/site…
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📣 Upcoming events on OpportunityHub! Job search strategy - live workshops 📅 Tue 6 Feb Teach First: Pioneering paths into teaching - webinar 📅 Wed 7 Feb Empower your journey: Unlocking the rewards of volunteering 📅 Thu 8 Feb Find out more here opportunityhub.open.ac.uk/st…
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Have your say on Wednesday 15 November. Meet other OU students, share your experiences and get inspired! Register now AND attend the session to win an OU hoodie or a £50 shopping voucher. ow.ly/SGbj50Q4Ww9
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The process of forgetting starts as soon as learning finishes. Here are 5 research-backed strategies you can use when you need to make something stick. 🧠
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Routes to great careers come from studying Arts and Humanities. Richard Marsden and Angeleki Lymberopoulou share the skills our 15,000 students can obtain to entice employers in the creative industries and beyond. @HEPI_news @OpenUniversity 👉 ow.ly/kjkq50P1ovM
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✒️@OpenUniversity's Creative Writing MA scholarships for UK residents from Black backgrounds earning below 25K 📅Apply by 24/07/23 3 scholarships for 2023/24 w/full tuition cost rb.gy/9idso Please share widely🌍🙏
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Read our new #AHRCBlog by Mike Collins, Head of Public Engagement at @ahrcpress, exploring the role of public engagement at AHRC and how it can support researchers - orlo.uk/HApw4 @mikeyc74
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If you are a programme or module leader, academic developer, in a QA team, student rep/officer or curriculum partner, Inclusive Curriculum could help to understand how to best design your curriculum. Learn more: bit.ly/3hPWRVj
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Huge congratulations to everyone receiving #OUResults today! We're incredibly proud of you! 🎓 Tell us 👇 what (or who!) helped you get through the tough times?
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‘Save the Date’ and/or submit an abstract for presentation at our 7th International Biennial Access, Participation and Success Conference on 26th & 27th April 2023. Full details can be found on the conference website by following the link ow.ly/RMtI50LvYOK @OU_WELS
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📢 Are you an OU student? Want to make your voice heard? It's @OUstudents #StudentVoiceWeek, a week-long event including informal, fun sessions, chances to meet other students and opportunities to make the most of your time with the OU. ow.ly/VkBl50LkbuH #OUStudentVoice
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Are you an early career research interested in undertaking a fellowship at cultural heritage institution? Expressions of interest stage open now until 16 January 2023. Learn more at townhall meetings & information webinars taking place November – January: orlo.uk/bPZDk
Researchers at IET are working with partners across Europe, applying expertise in #DesignThinking and harnessing the power of the latest technology, to co-create the next generation of in-person and #OnlineLearning. Find out about this #OUResearch below: open.ac.uk/research/news/ou-…
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✨ The second issue of Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning has been published! ✨ osotl.org/index.php/osotl/is… What is pedagogical alchemy? How do we understand bullying in higher education? How do we frame feedback around student development? All this and much more...
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‘Expectations and aspirations – how does data, metrics and evidence enable the Board’ is one of the panel sessions in Governance Conference 2022. The panel is chaired by Kim Ansell, Assistant Director Governance, who delves into this topic in her blog. bit.ly/3eqhYMw
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Get involved at Advance HE's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2023. Why not submit a proposal for an interactive workshop, presentation or lightning talk session. Call closes 12 noon, 17 October 2022. Find out more bit.ly/3SWveHH
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Earlier this month, we announced that The @OpenUniversity's Dr Saraswati Dawadi and Dr Margaret Ebubedike won the OU Research Excellence People's Choice award. Their #OUResearch has explored ways that the survivors of human trafficking can be empowered. iet.open.ac.uk/research/empo…
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Congratulations to @OpenUniversity Dr Margaret Ebubedike (@meeify), Dr Saraswati Dawadi (@SaraswatiDawadi) and team who have won the #OUresearch projects People's Choice Award for their research to empower victims of human trafficking. rb.gy/ooiw8o
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✨ Introducing our Emotional Resilience Toolkit ✨ Created to help educators affirm and sustain students' #EmotionalResilience skills, our toolkit aims to remove barriers to learning emotionally challenging content and promote #wellbeing for all. 🧰 >>> bit.ly/emotional-resilience-…