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International Distance Education and African Students (IDEAS)

This collaborative project, co-led by Parvati Raghuram and Ashley Gunter (University of South Africa), and Bart Rienties (Open University) and Clare Madge (University of Leicester) focuses on determining access to and improving the quality of, international distance education (IDE) in South Africa.

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The Interdependence Day project

The Interdependence Day project (ID) was a research, communications and participation project established to create new ways of understanding the links between environment, development and globalization. It was led by Professor Joe Smith (now at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG), working with colleagues in Geography at the OU, the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield and the New Economics Foundation. Researchers explored the nature and significance of interdependencies within and between the social and natural worlds, especially in work on biodiversity and climate change research.

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Spiritualism in the Everyday Life of Stoke-on-Trent

Throughout the twentieth century, Stoke-on- Trent was the national hub of a thriving spiritualist movement. Yet few are aware of this hidden legacy which has been overshadowed by the city’s industrial heritage. This website is an archive of materials used in the Talking with the Dead exhibition held between September and November 2015 at Gladstone Pottery Museum in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. The exhibition was part of the 18-month project ‘Spirited Stoke: Spiritualism in the Everyday Life of Stoke-on-Trent’ funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and developed by the Open University. The overall aim of the project was to acknowledge the place of spirit in the everyday life of this very unique city, drawing on insights from the practices of the local Spiritualist churches and their congregations. The hidden history of Spiritualism reveals a mysterious and enchanted side to Stoke-on-Trent that continues to exist in the city’s urban fabric, and plays an enduring role in the modern Spiritualist Movement. .