{"id":34,"date":"2025-09-04T13:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:13:53","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.open.ac.uk\/alison-fox\">Professor Alison Fox<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/iet.open.ac.uk\/people\/elizabeth.fitzgerald\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/iet.open.ac.uk\/people\/elizabeth.fitzgerald\">Dr Liz FitzGerald<\/a>, ably supported by Hannah Clarkson, research administrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/alison.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35\" style=\"width:314px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/alison.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/alison-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Prof Alison Fox<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"689\" height=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/liz.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36\" style=\"width:270px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/liz.png 689w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/liz-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/liz-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/liz-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Dr Liz FitzGerald<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hannah2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54\" style=\"width:264px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hannah2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hannah2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hannah2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hannah2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hannah2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/hannah2.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Hannah Clarkson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are Professor Alison Fox and Dr Liz FitzGerald, ably supported by Hannah Clarkson, research administrator. Prof Alison Fox Dr Liz FitzGerald Hannah Clarkson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/PDL\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}