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FASSTEST brings together colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, providing a mechanism for professional development through practice-based scholarship within a mentored community. 

Much of our work is organised on a project basis with project management aimed at the delivery of new educational outcomes and scholarship outcomes. FASSTEST supports a rolling portfolio of approximately 40 active scholarship projects under a number of themes which include:

  • Online and blended tuition 
  • Assessment
  • Employability/careers 
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Multisensory/multimodal learning

If you are interested in learning more about a particular project or connecting with a project team, please contact us at FASS-Scholarship@open.ac.uk

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    Developing Academic Integrity in Postgraduate Students

    Project Team: Sue NielandPaige Cuffe

    This project will explore the development of postgraduate students’ understanding and practice of academic integrity, that is of good academic conduct, focusing particularly on the module Principles of Social and Psychological Inquiry.

    Exploring and Testing Anti-Racism and Decolonising Pedagogy in Online-Forum Learning

    Project Team: Alessandra MarinoGunjan SondhiKarl A. HackSuki Haider

    Better Understanding Study Motivation and Module Choice

    Project Team: Suzanne ForbesElayne ChaplinSara Wolfson

    Embedding Inclusivity in Economics Curriculum Development

    Project Team: Kevin DeaneSusan NewmanLorena LombardozziFrancis Garikayi

    Arts-based Collaborative Digital Eco-Pedagogies for Teaching about the Climate Crisis and Intersecting Global Challenges in Higher and Distance Education

    Project Team: Maria NitaYoseph Araya

    The project aims to start a cross-faculty conversation about the current use of novel reflective, digital, public engagement and teaching methodologies in Higher and distance education (Cooke, Araya, Bacon, et al. 2021; Walsh and Powell, 2019).

    Academic Conduct Matters: Assessing the Impact of Academic and Disciplinary Interventions on Student’s Retention, Progression, and Completion

    Project Team: Encarnacion Trinidad-Barrantes

    This project is primarily concerned with investigating historic data (2011-2020) on referrals for poor academic practice in order to determine: 

    Flexible Study Intensity in Arts and Humanities: Classical Studies and History

    Project Team: Elayne ChaplinTrevor FearAnna PlassartSuzanne Forbes

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