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Diana Purcell studied Philosophy at The University of Sydney. She was a lecturer in Language and Communication at Ulster University in the late 1960s and while working there was appointed in 1971 as a part-time tutor and counsellor in Humanities with The Open University. Diana was part of a group of academics who went in to the Long Kesh Internment Camp in the early 1970s to give lectures to the internees on a voluntary basis. From the mid-1970s she tutored the Open University Arts Foundation course and was academic counsellor for students in the Compounds (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison). She took up the post of Senior Counsellor in 1977 a...nd in this role pioneered and coordinated teaching and academic counselling of Open University students in the prisons in Northern Ireland and from 1985 in the Republic of Ireland. From 1997 until 2003 Diana continued to work part-time in an advisory role and as an academic counsellor with Open University students in prison in Ireland.
Diana Purcell studied Philosophy at The University of Sydney. She was a lecturer in Language and Communication at Ulster University in the late 1960s and while working there was appointed in 1971 as a part-time tutor and counsellor in Humanities with The Open University. Diana was part of a group of academics who went in to the Long Kesh Internment Camp in the early 1970s to give lectures to the internees on a voluntary basis. From the mid-1970s she tutored the Open University Arts Foundation course and was academic counsellor for students in the Compounds (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison). She took up the post of Senior Counsellor in 1977 a...nd in this role pioneered and coordinated teaching and academic counselling of Open University students in the prisons in Northern Ireland and from 1985 in the Republic of Ireland. From 1997 until 2003 Diana continued to work part-time in an advisory role and as an academic counsellor with Open University students in prison in Ireland.
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| Title: | Diana Purcell Interview |
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| Interviewer: | Pat Jess |
| Date of interview: | 11/06/2012 |
| Interview duration: | 00:36:34 |
| Recording type: | Audio interview |
| Rights statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | Contact the OU Archive prior to any re-use. Contact university-archive@open.ac.uk |
| Interviewer note: | Interviewed by former colleague |
| Available to public: | no |
