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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. 

Projects

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    SMART Feedback: Exploring the impact of action-focused student feedback on the student experience of learning

    Project Team: Charlotte Lattin-Rawstrone

    The proposed study intends to investigate the application of aspects of the research and framework through an intervention that builds on this framework with a specific focus on the reciprocal process and enactment of outcomes of feedback components by using SMART goals in the feedback process.

    The Experience of BAME Students on DE300

    Project Team: Sharon Xuereb

    It is well documented that Black and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) students are awarded lower grades at university than their White counterparts. In the UK, a first class and second upper class degree classifications are considered ‘good degrees’.

    Embedding Accessibility into the Curriculum: An Accessibility Tool as a Checklist

    Project Team: Rhiannon EdwardsShazna MuzammilVanessa Moore

    The Accessibility Tool is currently being piloted on modules presenting in 22B and 22J with the goal of disseminating the final version across OU by 23J.

    Closing the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Enquirer and Recruitment Gap in FASS

    Project Team: Karen HaganLystra Hagley-DickinsonPepta Joefield-BeebyAnna Clarke

    The BAME Insight Factsheet produced by Marketing demonstrated that there is a BAME enquirer gap in the OU.

    Dyspraxia (Developmental Coordination Disorder): Understanding Students’ Requirements

    Project Team: Jo HorneRhiannon EdwardsAngela Eyre

    Integrating OUAnalyse into DE100 to Aid Retention and Progression

    Project Team: Cathy SchofieldTracey Elder

    Dyslexia: Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Success at Postgraduate Study

    Project Team: Rhiannon EdwardsJo Horne

    Supporting Younger Students with Weekly Communications

    Project Team: Sue Nieland

    University Connectedness, Relational Depth, Wellbeing, Anxiety, and Academic Achievement in FASS Students

    Project Team: Gina Di MaltaNaomi MollerKaty Smith

    Strengthening the PhD Culture in the School of Psychology & Counselling

    Project Team: Eleni AndreouliSimon ClarkeJulian Bond

    A longstanding challenge faced by students and educators alike is the difficulty in maintaining an active PhD research culture, which, in turn, can have a negative impact on doctoral students’ progression and in the quality of their studies. The reasons of this are multiple.