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Can you learn a language with an app? What the research says

Language learning apps are very popular in app stores worldwide – and are said to be revolutionising language learning. These apps offer opportunities to practise grammar and can be a very rewarding way to learn vocabulary

7th June 2018
A stitch in time - part of the artwork

Day 112, Year of #Mygration: Who Are We?

This week, we are focusing on the Who Are We? Project, part of the Tate Exchange Programme, where through arts, activism and academia, those involved communicated the everyday realities of ‘hostile environment’ policies towards migrants and asylum seekers

7th June 2018
Sign from art exhibition

Day 111, Year of #Mygration: Hostile environments and the politics of un-belonging

PhD candidate at The Open University, Anna Colom, shares her experiences of visiting the Who Are We? Project, part of Tate Exchange, and explores the process that led to her own newly acquired status as a British 'citizen'

6th June 2018
Deadly volcanic eruption in Guatemala. EPA-EFE

Fuego volcano: the deadly pyroclastic flows that have killed dozens in Guatemala

Dozens of people have been killed, and with many more missing, after Volcán de Fuego (Fuego) in Guatemala erupted on June 3 2018.

5th June 2018
Laid low: Mariano Rajoy. EPA/Javier Lizon

Spain’s prime minister loses no-confidence vote: what next?

Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, has been forced to resign by his national parliament, which voted by 180 seats to 169 in favour of a motion of no-confidence in his leadership

5th June 2018
Tate Exchange art

Day 110, Year of #Mygration: Journeys from there to here

In today's reflection, OU PhD student, Evgenia Iliadou discusses her experience of visiting the Who Are We? Project at the Tate Exchange, and discusses how the artwork of Natasha Davies particularly compelled her to examine the idea of 'home'

5th June 2018
Art work from Tate Exchange

Day 109, Year of #Mygration: Memories of Migration

This week, we are focusing on the Who Are We? project, part of Tate Exchange. Today, OU PhD student, Dimos Sarantidis, talks us through his experience of visiting and what memories it stirred for him

4th June 2018
'Windrush' gentlemen chatting

Day 108, Year of #Mygration: Windrush, Songs In A Strange Land

Today marks the opening of a British Library exhibition on the Windrush Generation, running until 21 October 2018

1st June 2018

Day 107, Year of #Mygration: Forthcoming Ferguson Centre event on Colonial Migration 2nd July 2018

Forthcoming Ferguson Centre event on colonial migration 2 July
“Migration in colonial Africa and Asia: historical perspectives, connections and comparisons”
Monday 2 July, time 10.30-12.30, Seminar Room 6, The Library, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes

31st May 2018

Day 106, Year of #Mygration: Forthcoming Conference: The 8th Making Diversity Interventions Count Annual Conference

Forthcoming conference: 8th Making Diversity Interventions Count Annual Conference [MDICAC] 

30th May 2018

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