Cultures and Identities

Google puts ancient places on the map

The way scholars research the ancient world, and the way in which we can all access and understand information about it is set to change thanks to an Open University led project Google Ancient Places (GAP).

Prof Susheila Nasta awarded MBE

Professor Susheila Nasta (Chair in Modern Literature, Faculty of Arts) has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours list for her services to black and Asian Literature.

Top Award for Media Professor

The Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) has conferred the award of Academician on Richard Collins, Professor of Media Studies at The Open University.

Performing National Identity

The role of South African theatre in contemporary identity formation is the topic of a new joint project between the OU’s Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and The University of Warwick.

Identity and the single woman

Even at a time when it is increasingly likely that most women will spend periods of their lives alone, without a committed partner relationship, there remains a degree of social stigma attached to being an independent, single women.

A good beginning...a better life

Professor Martin Woodhead and senior lecturer John Oates, from the OU's Child and Youth Studies Group of The Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET), have received further funding for their Early Childhood in Focus (ECIF) project - a new series of research dissemination publications on global early childhood issues.