Category Archives: In the News

OU Arts and Humanities students and staff making the news

Creative Writing tutor wins Fish Short Memoir Prize 2013

Maureen Boyle, tutor on Level 2 module ‘Creative Writing’, has won the Fish Publishing Short Memoir Writing Contest 2013 Continue reading

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Ford Madox Ford International Conference and Celebration event

The Ford Madox Ford Society holds its international conference “Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End: Modernism and the First World War” 27-29 September 2012 at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. The conference includes “Parade’s End: A Celebration, with a Q&A director Susanna White, producer/director Rupert Edwards and Dr Sara Haslam (Chair of the Society) Continue reading

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Disability vs enhancement – BBC’s Newsnight looks at Eugenics 100 years after the 1st Int Eugenics Congress.

Last night Newsnight on the BBC talked about eugenics and asks the question “If you knew for certain your child was going to be born with a disability, would you, should you still have a baby?”.  Prof James Moore, social … Continue reading

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