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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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    Tracking retention and building community in distance music study

    Project Team: Alexander KolassaLilian Simones

    There are three objectives of this project (presented in order of priority):

    Employability and Graduate Outcomes in the Arts and Humanities

    Project Team: Richard MarsdenAngeliki LymberopoulouJoanne FallowsEd SwithenbySara WolfsonBeverley MasonClaire Blanchard

    The school of Arts and Humanities faces some significant challenges around employability and graduate outcomes. There is an increasing emphasis on vocational subjects in the public discourse around university education.

    The Next Chapter: Understanding the Career Aspirations of Students on the MA in Creative Writing, and Developing Teaching and Assessment to Support Them

    Project Team: Heather RichardsonEd HoganClaire BlanchardLindsey Smith

    Improving the Retention and Progression of Students on the Arts and Humanities Access Module at the Open University

    Project Team: Hannah LaverySteve PadleyAnactoria Clarke

    Running an Effective Online Gallery Visit

    Project Team: Lindsay CrispVeronica Davies

    We know that there are a number of both tangible and intangible ‘tried and tested’ benefits of face-to-face gallery visits.

    Transition to Postgraduate Study: the MA in Music

    Project Team: Rosemary Golding Byron Dueck

    This project considers some of the barriers students might face when moving onto the MA in Music, either from within the OU or with prior experience of higher education from external institutions.