4th March 2010 (Thurs 4 March, Thurs 1 April & Thurs 20 May 13.00 - 19.00)
Location: Open University in Wales, 18 Custom House Street, Cardiff, CF10 1AP
The OU in Wales would like to welcome you to their Open Day. This is an opportunity for you to 'drop in' and speak with one of their educational advisers and/or careers advisers about the courses that are available to you and ways in which you can help recession-proof your career.
For further information please contact The Open University in Wales office.
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12th March 2010
Location: www.openuniversity.co.uk/esrcfestival
These are just two of the subjects you can explore online with The Open University Business School as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's Festival of Social Science, running from 12th - 21st March 2010.
Visit our dedicated website at www.openuniversity.co.uk/esrcfestival (live on 12th March)
Should alcohol advertising be banned…? How effective are marketing techniques in encouraging young people to exercise more and feel healthier…?
What role can Buddhism play in global economics…?
What research do we do …?
Feel free to browse the site and take part in the discussions and voting - your thoughts are greatly valued so we would love to hear your views.
Please contact us on oubs-research-admin@open.ac.uk if you have any queries about any of the events.
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24th March 2010
Location: Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
Dr Dalia Mogahed will deliver a special lecture on responses to terrorsim and extremism. This lecture is linked to an international symposium on Islamic Studies in Europe, taking place at the British Academy, in conjunction with the Higher Education Council for England (HEFCE), on 23-24 March 2010.
About the speaker
Dr Dalia Mogahed is Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies in Washington DC and coauthor of the book What a Billion Muslims Really Think (2008). She leads the collection and analysis of Gallup's survey of worldwide Muslim opinion, and directs the MuslimWest Facts Initiative, in collaboration with the Coexist Foundation, which disseminates the findings of the Gallup World Poll to key opinion leaders in the Muslim World and the West.
The lecture will be introduced and chaired by Henry Hogger CMG, Chairman of the Centre for British Research in the Levant and a former British ambassador to Syria, who specialises in Middle East affairs.
Lecture
6.00-7.00pm (please note time). Registration is not required and seats will be allocated on arrival.
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25th March 2010 (7.00pm - 8.30pm)
Location: The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 5AH
PANEL DISCUSSION
For the first time, the Government is proposing legislation that bans discrimination on socio-economic grounds. The Equality Bill, now before Parliament, proposes that public authorities take account of the inequalities experienced both by members of their workforce, and the communities that they serve. The Bill will also ban discrimination on the grounds of these inequalities.
Why is it now possible for a government to credibly propose such a statutory duty? How and why have these changes happened? Why are they still incomplete? What are the continuing obstacles to change? Can history help us to understand how further change can come about?
To mark the publication of Unequal Britain: Equalities in Great Britain since 1945, edited by Pat Thane FBA, a panel of high profile speakers will come together to explore these questions, and others concerning equalities in Great Britain in current and historical contexts, ultimately seeking to discover what the most important driver for change may be.
Chair:
Rob Berkeley, Director of the Runnymede Trust and Chair of Naz Project London
Speakers:
Pat Thane FBA, Professor of Contemporary British History & Co-founder of History & Policy
Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
Peter Tatchell, Human rights campaigner, coordinator of the LGBT rights group OutRage! and Green Party human rights spokesperson
Baroness Greengross, Equality and Human Rights Commissioner and Chief Executive of the International Longevity Centre
Judith Okely, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, Hull University, Deputy Director, International Gender Studies Centre, Oxford University, and author of The Traveller Gypsies.
The event takes place at the British Academy at 7pm, followed by a drinks reception at 8.30pm.
Registration is essential, please RSVP to historyandpolicy@sas.ac.uk/0207 862 8768.
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30th March 2010
Location: Open University in London, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP
If you have a degree and are thinking about studying at higher degree level, we are delighted to invite you to an Open Day specifically designed to help you make decisions about your study plans. Come along and speak to our advisers and subject specialists or take the opportunity to look at a selection of Postgraduate course materials.
For further info please contact Caroline Collyer.
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10th April 2010 (13.30)
Location: Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB.
Find out how your brain shaped your personality, if you are you stuck with it, how it can go wonky, and whether it could kill you! Professor Ian Deary tells you about modern discoveries in personality research.
Meet in foyer of the Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, at 13:30. Purchase own tickets in advance £7/£5.
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Lewis McKay +44(0)131 445 3598
13th April 2010 (17.30)
Location: Appleton Tower, 11 Crichton Street, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9LE.
Scotland has given the world numerous life-changing innovations for centuries. Hear from a panel of innovators in a discussion chaired by Nigel Brown, Vice-Principal at Edinburgh University.
Meet at the venue, the Appleton Tower at 17:30. Purchase own tickets in advance £7/£5.
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15th April 2010 (18.30)
Location: Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE.
The former co-chair of the Nobel Prize winning International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), John Houghton discusses one of the major issues facing us today and what role faith has to play in it.
Meet in foyer of the Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street at 18:30. Purchase own tickets in advance £7/£5.
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16th April 2010
Location: British Academy, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 5AH
Internationally distinguished economic historians will provide commentaries on the Great Depression and the subsequent recovery during the 1930s. Their emphasis will be on aspects which are relevant to policy making during the current economic crisis. Speakers will address topics such as: the causes of the steep economic decline which began in 1929; the part that bank failures played in the crisis; the reasons for the persistence of mass unemployment; why successful international co-operation was so elusive; the links between the New Deal and economic revival; the role of fiscal and monetary policy; the achievement of bank stability and an assessment of whether policy stimulus was withdrawn prematurely, thus precipitating a further economic contraction. The focus will be on the USA, the UK and on the international economy.
About the Convenors
Nicholas Crafts is Professor of Economic History at the University of Warwick and Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). He has published extensively on both historical and contemporary topics, including unemployment in Britain during the 1930s and the effect that the Great Depression had on the productive potential of the UK economy.
Peter Fearon is Emeritus Professor of Modern Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester. He has published extensively on the impact of the Great Depression with special emphasis on the United States. He delivered the 2005 Bernard Bailyn Lecture at La Trobe University, Melbourne, on 'Unemployment, Relief and the New Deal'. His most recent book is Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole and Rehabilitation (2007).
Conference
Registration is required for this conference and places are limited. Please visit the British Academy Website for further information.
This conference is jointly sponsored by the Royal Economic Society, the Economic History Society and the ESRC.
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21st April 2010
Location: British Academy, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 5AH
Language learner strategies (LLSs) are an important area of research within the field of foreign language teaching and learning. Explicit instruction in LLSs is proven to enhance learning effectively. In the current educational climate, the 'learning to learn' agenda has been put into practice in ways that do not always take full account of research findings and theoretical developments which can support teachers and flesh out policy. Likewise, classroom-based assessments for learning and notions of learner autonomy have not always been closely related to the strategies which our research has shown students actually adopt in their language learning. A main aim of the conference is to share with language teachers and policy makers how learner strategies contribute to language learning and to suggest how they can be embedded into classroom practice. The conference aims to provide a forum for wide consultation and dissemination.
About the Convenor
UKPOLLS (UK Project on Language Learner Strategies) is an established research group of self-funding educationalists/applied linguists working in the universities of Reading, Oxford, Dublin, Aberdeen and Goldsmiths College, London. Their work has focused on learner strategies within UK foreign language classrooms and on how they can contribute to more effective learning from both learners' and teachers' perspectives.
The conference organiser is Professor Suzanne Graham. She has worked in the field of language learner strategies since the early 1990s and her publications in this area are well-known both nationally and internationally, offering researchers and practitioners insights into how learner strategies contribute to more effective language learning. She leads the PGCE Secondary MFL course at the University of Reading, where she is also Director of Research within the Institute of Education.
Conference
Registration is required for this conference and places are limited. Please visit the British Academy Website for further information.
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22nd April 2010 (5.30pm)
Location: British Academy, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 5AH.
Do you believe in fairies? We all remember the fraught declaration made in Peter Pan (1904): 'Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies," there's a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.' When we turn further back, to the age of Shakespeare, perhaps the beginning of an age of disenchantment, can we ascertain either whether Shakespeare and other writers 'believed in' fairies, or what they thought about them? The problem turns out to be unsolvable, but we can examine how both writers of the English Renaissance and Reformations and also modern theatre directors have thought with fairies, used them to explore many aspects of life then and now. Fairy-lore was woven into cultural debates over the proper roles for women, over masculine and feminine sexuality - and fairies served as border-land figures in domestic and rural life. In Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio's Queen Mab speech) and A Midsummer Night's Dream the fairies may serve rather to signal mental states and power the machinery of the play than as figures of supernatural agency. We shall also consider the ways in which the textual descriptions of the smallness of fairies can be matched with theatrical images in selected productions.
About the Speaker
Michael Hattaway was educated in New Zealand and Cambridge. He taught at the Universities of Kent, British Columbia, and Massachusetts, is Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the University of Sheffield and now teaches at New York University in London. His books include Renaissance and Reformations (2005), studies of Elizabethan popular theatre, of Hamlet, and of Richard II, editions of 1-3 Henry VI, As You Like It, and A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2010).
Shakespeare Lecture
In 1910 Mrs Frida Mond provided for the foundation of the Shakespeare Lecture, requesting that it be delivered 'on or about 23rd April on some Shakespearean subject, philosophical, historical, or philological, or some problem in English dramatic literature, or some study in literature of the age of Shakespeare.'
Lecture
5.30-6.30pm, followed by a reception.
Registration is not required for this event. Seats will be allocated on arrival.
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10th May 2010 (14.30)
Location: Murchison House Reception, University Kings Building, West Mains Road, Edinburgh.
Find out all about Scottish geology, geo-science, seismology, off-shore drilling, hydro-carbons, the Great Barrier Reef and lots more during a tour + tea break round the British Geological Survey.
Meet at 2.30 pm at Murchison House Reception, part of the University Kings Building complex along West Mains Road. (If early you can browse in the Geology shop). Full details/directions on the bgs website.
Limited parking or the 41, 38 or 67 bus will take you there. Cost: £3.00.
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Lewis McKay +44(0)131 4453598
19th May 2010 (14.00 - 18.00)
Location: The OU in London, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London NW1 8NP
Come along to the London Regional Centre during Adult Learners' Week to find out more. During the afternoon we hope to present a number of taster sessions in first level mathematics (MU123), health & social care (K101), environment (U116), technology courses (U101) and psychology.
If you wish to book for any of these sessions please contact Ray Wheeler.
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21st May 2010 (Various)
Location: The Dome Box Office, 29 New Road, Brighton, BN1 1UG
Charleston was the one time home of the Bloomsbury painters Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolf's sister) and Duncan Grant. It nestles under the South Downs between Brighton and Eastbourne.
All events take place in a traditional marquee in the grounds at Charleston Farmhouse.
To see the list of events taking place, please visit the Charleston Festival website.
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27th May 2010 (8.30am - 6.30pm)
Location: The Millbrook Golf Course, Ampthill Bedfordshire
For the ninth year, students and alumni are again invited to join current staff for a day of golf at the OU's home course, The Millbrook Golf Course, Bedfordshire, on Thursday 27th May 2010.
The format will be unchanged - a fun 9-hole scramble in the morning of teams put together on the day. Then the main event in the afternoon - individual, full handicap Stableford over 18 holes for the OU Challenge Trophy, won last year, once again by a student, by Patricia Blyth.
Of course there will also be nearest-the-pin and longest drive prizes.
The event is supported by both the OU Club and The Millbrook GC, so the day's golf plus coffee, bacon butty, lunch and prizes costs only £25.
Students and alumni, with current handicaps, can obtain full details and enter by contacting Andy Harding, Faculty of Maths, Computing and Technology, OU, Walton Hall MK7 6AA, email a.v.harding@open.ac.uk or phone 01908 653328.
This is essentially a fun event, but it is restricted to golfers with handicaps. The event is extremely popular and places will be allocated strictly on a first come, first served basis.
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19th June 2010 (14.00)
Location: Currie Post Office (corner of Lanark Rd W. and Riccarton Mains Rd).
Meet at bus stop & bench by Currie Post Office (corner of Lanark Rd W. and Riccarton Mains Rd). For car parking: down Kirkgate take the steep left opposite HBOS and Hope Scott Garage, signed in blue for the WL walkway.
We walk about two miles along the Walkway through Colinton and Craiglockhart Dells to Slateford, finishing for refreshments at the Dell Inn opposite 24 Lanark Rd. As parking is limited at both ends of the walk, it is advisable for some cars to be left at each end. Buses for walk start: LRT 44, 45; First 44, 66; Prentice, 424; walk end: LRT 44, 34 and 20.
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24th June 2010 (16.30 - 19.00)
Location: The Open University in the South West, 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol BS1 6ND.
We provide a broad range of supported learning courses at a variety of levels. You may be looking for a course to help enhance your career prospects or purely for interest. At our Open Event, you will find expert help available to assist you in making your decisions. In addition to specialist advice, our library will be open and course materials will be available for your reference. Workshops are being planned for the day.
For further information please contact The Open University in the South West office.
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26th June 2010
Location: The Open University in Yorkshire, 2 Trevelyan Square, Boar Lane, Leeds, LS1 6ED
We provide a broad range of supported learning courses at a variety of levels. You may be looking for a course to help enhance your career prospects or purely for interest. At our Open Event, you will find expert help available to assist you in making your decisions. In addition to specialist advice, our library will be open and course materials will be available for your reference. Workshops are being planned for the day.
For further information contact The OU in Yorkshire office.
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9th July 2010
Location: University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL
There are a number of key thinkers who have shaped our way of thinking about what it is like to be a person and have provided the foundations for modern psychology. Based on the 'Mind Shapers' series of books, this conference gives you a unique opportunity to find out more about these people, where their ideas came from and the relevance of their contribution today, as well as exploring the similarities and differences between them. The conference will provide an in-depth grounding in the roots of psychology and its core issues.
The authors of the books in the series will be talking on the following seminal figures in psychology:
B.F. Skinner - key figure in behaviourism, presented by Professor Frederick Toates
Sigmund Freud - founder of psychoanalysis, presented by Dr Richard Stevens
Hans Eysenck - explored the influences of identity, childhood and society on the person, presented by Professor Philip Corr.
George Kelly - founder of personal construct theory, presented by Dr Trevor Butt
Erich Fromm - existential humanistic psychologist, presented by Dr Annette Thomson
Stanley Milgram - social psychologist and explorer of the nature of obedience, presented by Professor Peter Lunt
Other eminent and influential figures in psychology we are hoping to feature include William James and Charles Darwin
Fully inclusive price of £210 for OUPS members (non members £225). All meals, including dinner, and social events included. Ensuite rooms available for an additional £60.
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Irene Baumgartl 0208 315 0049
17th July 2010 (13.00)
Location: 1 Rectory Lane, Dysart.
Stuart is one of Australia's famous early inland explorers but is almost unknown in his native land. On 25 July 2010 Australia celebrates the 150th anniversary of the safe return of Stuart's expedition to the centre of the continent.
Travel by bus - Stagecoach X58 - or shared car. Admission free. Please note there is no wheelchair access and steps up to and inside the museum. Meet at 13:00 at the Museum.
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11th September 2010 (11.00)
Location: National Gallery Complex
This major exhibition of around 90 works, the only one in the UK, will include spectacular loans from collections from around with works by Monet, Renoir and Sisley plus post-Impressionists such as Klimt.
After our self-guided tour lunch can be taken in the Gallery's Cafe/Restaurant. Admission: £10 (£7; NGS Friends free with membership card. Meet at 10:45 in the Weston Link foyer.
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