Category Archives: Awards

Staff in the Faculty of Arts are at the forefront of their fields, as their award winning activities attest.

Arts and Humanities PhD Studentships, Faculty of Arts

Posted on 19/03/2013 by admin

Faculty of Arts, Open University: 9 full-time, 3-year PhD studentships available from 1 October 2013. In 2013-14, 5 AHRC-funded studentships are available in: History, with the National Library of Wales; English, with the British Library; and Music, with the National Library of Scotland. The 2 final awards with these partners are in English (e-manuscript collections) and History (digital heritage/crowdsourced data). We are also offering a Music studentship attached to the Listening Experience Database, a major AHRC-funded project in collaboration with the Royal College of Music.
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Classical Studies Lecturer wins most outstanding publication award

Posted on 05/02/2013 by admin

Dr Aaron Alzola-Romero (Lecturer in Classical Studies) is to be awarded the 2012 “Journal of Distance Education” Editor’s Award for the most outstanding publication or contribution in the Journal of Distance Education that year. Continue reading →

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‘Atlantic Sounds: Ships and Sailortowns’

Posted on 05/11/2012 by admin

Dr. Catherine Tackley (The Open University) and Dr. Graeme Milne (University of Liverpool) are delighted to announce a new AHRC Research Networking project ‘Atlantic Sounds: Ships and Sailortowns’ which ims to investigate, from a UK perspective, the role that music has played in cross-cultural encounters around the Atlantic rim (which includes the Americas, Africa and the Caribbean) from around 1740 to the present.
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