{"id":5,"date":"2014-01-20T13:51:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T13:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:39:02","slug":"who-are-we","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"Who are we?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Team-Photo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Team-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Team-Photo.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Team-Photo-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Team-Photo-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Team-Photo-1024x801.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Team-Photo-624x488.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This blog is authored by the following academic staff at The Open University:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kat Allott, Central Academic &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.open.ac.uk\/katherine-allott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mark Antrobus, Central Academic &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.open.ac.uk\/mark-antrobus\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dean Armstrong, Staff Tutor &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/da6874\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Steph Doehler, Staff Tutor &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/sd24695\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Caroline Heaney, Central Academic &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/ch5997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nichola Kentzer, Central Academic &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/njk84\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ben Langdown, Central Academic &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/bl3269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Candice Lingam-Willgoss, Central Academic &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/clw469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jim Lusted, Central Academic \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/jl23226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ian MacDonald, Central Academic &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.open.ac.uk\/i-macdonald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ben Oakley, Central Academic &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/bo355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Helen Owton, Central Academic &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/ho596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Simon Penn, Central Academic &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/srp279\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jessica Pinchbeck, Central Academic\u00a0&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/jp6933\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Simon Rea, Central Academic &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/sjrr3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Alex Twitchen, Central Academic &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/abt48\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gavin Williams, Staff Tutor &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/gw3862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nigel Wright, Central Academic &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/nw3734\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Michele Zanini, Central Academic &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/mz2356\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kat Allott, Central Academic &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.open.ac.uk\/katherine-allott\" >click here to see staff profile<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All staff work on the BSc (Hons) Sport, Fitness and Coaching programme at The Open University. For more information on sport and fitness courses at The Open University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?page_id=216\" >click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To follow the team on Bluesky <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ou-sport.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is authored by the following academic staff at The Open University: Kat Allott, Central Academic &#8211; click here to see staff profile Mark Antrobus, Central Academic &#8211; click here to see staff profile Dean Armstrong, Staff Tutor &#8211; click here to see staff profile Steph Doehler, Staff Tutor &#8211; click here to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}