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<title>Dr. Mark Brandon</title>
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	&nbsp;

	When ice and oceans meet: the ocean driven decay of the great polar ice sheets

	Dr. Mark Brandon

	Key parts of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are melting as our climate changes &ndash; but much of this decay is hidden. It&rsquo;s not increasing air temperatures which are melting the ice, it&rsquo;s where the ice is contact with the ocean.

	It&rsquo;s easy to detect this melting using satellites, but to understand how the ocean is melting the ice and the melt rate we need to get in close to where action is &ndash; the point where the ice and the oceans meet.

	In my talk I&rsquo;ll describe what happens at these relatively small crucial boundaries, and explain why this is vital for the future of the ice, the future global sea level and ultimately for the climate of our planet.

	Mark worked at the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences before he got his PhD from the Scott Polar Research Institute (Cambridge University) and went onto work at the British Antarctic Survey and then The Open University.]]></description>
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<title>Dr. Ellie Dommett</title>
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	&nbsp;

	Neuropharmacology &ndash; drug treatment and the brain

	Dr. Ellie Dommett

	The brain is arguably the most complex organ in the human body and one that is excellently protected from outside intervention by the skull, membranes and cellular barriers.

	However, alterations to its normal function can result in a variety of medical conditions &ndash; from schizophrenia to Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease.

	In many cases, these conditions can be treated effectively with drug treatments but the process of drug development is a long and costly exercise.

	In this talk I will look at what makes the brain so hard to access and some of the ways scientists have got around to provide effective treatment.

	Ellie is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King&rsquo;s College London. She holds a visiting position at the OU where she also teaches as an Associate Lecturer.]]></description>
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<title>Professor Simon Kelley</title>
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	&nbsp;

	Large meteorite impacts &ndash; more than just a hole in the ground

	Professor Simon Kelley

	The Earth has been hit by more large asteroid fragments than the Moon, but it doesn&rsquo;t have a surface dominated by craters because plate tectonics actively resurfaces (I mean they get covered by mountains and volcanoes), and our thick wet atmosphere tends to cause erosion, removing all the evidence. But the truth is that the Earth&rsquo;s surface has been potholed by thousands of asteroid impacts and they have devastating effects on the local and sometimes global environment.

	Also, unlike the Moon, there is more to meteorite impacts on Earth than just a really big explosion and a hole in the ground. On Earth the holes fill with sediments, sometimes very quickly after the impact, so they record evidence for the post-impact environment and sometimes longer term climate change.

	In my talk I&rsquo;ll illustrate this point using the Boltysh Impact Crater in Ukraine which has an age strikingly similar to the famous Chicxulub crater on the Yukatan peninsula of Mexico, and both are co-incident with the end of the Cretaceous period.

	Simon is Professor of Isotopic Geochemistry at the Open University. His research interests cover a wide range of Earth Science including, rates of geological processes and noble gas geochemistry.]]></description>
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<title>Kerry Reid</title>
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	&nbsp;

	Monitoring an active volcano in Nicaragua: from bubbly magma to smelly plumes!

	Kerry Reid

	When most people picture an active volcano, they probably don&rsquo;t imagine one like Masaya in Nicaragua. Instead, it&rsquo;s likely that they picture Hollywood-style ash clouds and lava flows that wipe out massive forests and settlements. However, just as a violent eruption dramatically alters the landscape around it, Masaya&rsquo;s plume powerfully shapes its environment, from destroying crops to attracting bees.

	As a volcanologist, my job is to trace the path and fate of the gases released by the volcano, starting from the volcano&rsquo;s magma and moving up through the plume. Knowledge of how volcanic pollutants are produced, how they travel and where they end up can help people live more harmoniously with the Volcano.

	In my talk I&rsquo;ll explain how my research can help provide a better insight as to what is governing the volcanic activity observed at Masaya, with the potential to improve evacuation plans and mitigation measures.

	Kerry is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems at the Open University. She is researching persistent degassing behaviour at Masaya volcano in Nicaragua.]]></description>
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<title>Professor Gillian Rose</title>
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	09:00 &ndash; Professor Gillian Rose, &lsquo;Where next for visual research methods?&rsquo;. http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/main/staff/people-profile.php?name=Gillian_Rose]]></description>
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<title>Dr Louise Mansfield</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	14:00 &ndash; Dr Louise Mansfield, &lsquo;Co-production of knowledge to enhance understanding of physical activity, health and wellbeing&rsquo;. http://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/louise-mansfield]]></description>
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<title>Peter Horrocks and Dr Stephanie Taylor</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	08:45 - Peter Horrocks, Introduction

	09:00 -Dr Stephanie Taylor, &lsquo;Advancing discursive research&rsquo;. http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/main/staff/people-profile.php?name=Stephanie_Taylor]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Professor Engin Isin</title>
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	14:00 &ndash; Professor Engin Isin, &lsquo;Acts as objects of research&rsquo;. http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/main/staff/people-profile.php?name=Engin_Isin]]></description>
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<title>JSWEC 2015 - Mental Health Social Work Leading Change in the NHS?</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	10:00 Keynote Martin Webber

	Mental health social workers straddle many boundaries and often experience uncertainty and conflict in our roles as a result. We are employed in NHS Trusts or local authorities, or both. We navigate health and social care systems, but are often on the margins of both. We draw upon multiple disciplines &ndash; including psychiatry, law, psychology and social science &ndash; for our practice knowledge. And our research can be found in psychiatry journals as much as in social work ones. Well, almost. But life on the margins is not easy. We have become defined by our statutory functions (the Approved Mental Health Professional role) rather than by our therapeutic expertise. Our uniqueness comes by dint of our mastery of mental health law. However, this is not sustainable. As statutory functions can be given and taken away at will, we need to restate our intervention potential as champions of social perspectives in mental health services. This requires the adoption of epistemological paradigms beyond social work to influence NICE guidelines and to challenge the dominance of psychiatry and psychology. This keynote will explore how mental health social work intervention research is contributing to the evidence base for mental health practice and makes the case for moving away from narrow individualistic practice. Taking the example of the Connecting People Intervention, it explores how implementing evidence-informed social interventions can provide a clear role for mental health social workers going forward. We are on the cusp of seeing practice in mental health services becoming more oriented towards families, groups and communities. Mental health social workers have a significant opportunity to lead this change and improve outcomes for service users. But this will require us to cross still more boundaries and move into as yet uncharted territory.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Martin Webber</dc:creator>
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<title>JSWEC 2015 - The Forgotten Victims of Crime</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	09:30 Keynote Adele Jones

	Nearly one million children in Europe have a parent in prison. The children of prisoners are one of the largest vulnerable groups of children in Europe.

	These children frequently experience trauma stemming from a violent separation from their parent, prejudices associated with having imprisoned parents, and violations of their rights. They carry the stigma of their parents&rsquo; deeds. And some of them are exposed to social exclusion. They are invisible in terms of policy at the government level, in any country: when people are imprisoned, in very few countries, are questions asked about who is caring for the children. Or about how hard they are impacted by the parental imprisonment.

	But they have basic needs and challenges, independent of culture or nation, or social or economic heritage. We need to safeguard the social, political and judicial inclusion of children with an imprisoned parent, while fostering the pursuit and exchange of knowledge which enhances good practices and contributes to a better understanding of their psychological, emotional and social development.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Adele Jones</dc:creator>
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<title>JSWEC 2015 - Social Work, Social Justice and the Capability Approach</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	11:30 Keynote Anna Gupta

	Social Justice is central to social work. It is arguably absent from much of the dominant discourse in relation to social work with children and families yet in times of austerity is ever more necessary.

	Drawing upon case study material this presentation explores the impact of poverty and inequality on families&rsquo; lives and social work practice and examines the possibilities provided by the Capability Approach, developed the Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen, to offer a framework for humane and socially just social work practice.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anna Gupta</dc:creator>
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<title>OpenMinds: Studying the impact of volcanoes - From underground to outer-space</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	With 800 million people living close to active volcanoes, eruptions on the scale of Eyjafjallaj&ouml;kull (2010) previously spelt disaster. Through monitoring on the ground, air and in space, researchers at The Open University explore whether we are we now equipped to spot the signs of another major volcanic eruption anywhere in the world.

	Join us at the OU or tune in online for an OpenMinds Talk on the impact of volcanoes. Academics from the Science Faculty will explore whether we are now equipped to spot the signs of another major volcanic eruption, describing how their research is helping predict new hazards, mitigating their devastating effects and unveiling a system to monitor volcanoes from space.

	Programme:

	18:30 Introduction Lucian Hudson, Director of Communications

	18:32 Professor Hazel Rymer, Dean of the Faculty of Science

	18:44 Dr Dave McGarvie, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Science

	18:56 Professor Fabrizio Ferrucci, Professor in Geophysics in the Faculty of Science

	19:08 All speakers to take questions, seated on stage and Lucian Hudson to chair from the podium and to sum up and close

	You can find out more, and&nbsp; register your attendance here.

	Twitter #OUtalks]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Australian Perspective</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	09.10&nbsp;Campbell Macgregor. Researcher, Central Queensland University, Queensland, Australia.

	09.30&nbsp;DrAndrew Harvey,&nbsp;Director, Access and Achievement Research Unit&nbsp;La Trobe&nbsp;University, Melbourne, Australia

	09.50&nbsp;Jennifer Stokes&nbsp;&ndash; A Pre-recorded presentation. Program Coordinator, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.

	10.10&nbsp;Questions, reflection and discussion coordinated by DrJohn Butcher, Senior Lecturer / Deputy Director, CICP, Open University.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The European Perspective</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	The European Perspective

	10.30&nbsp;Professor&nbsp;Christian Helms J&oslash;rgensen. Department of Psychology &amp; Educational Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark.

	10.50&nbsp;Questions, reflection and discussion coordinated by Dr&nbsp;John Butcher, Senior Lecturer / Deputy Director, CICP, Open University.

	Increasing Policy Divergence Across the UK

	11.00&nbsp;Dr&nbsp;Lindsay Ann Hewitt,&nbsp;Learning and Teaching Coordinator, The Open University in Scotland.

	11.20&nbsp;Gayle Hudson, Widening Access Development Officer, Open University in Wales.

	11.40&nbsp;Questions, reflection and discussion coordinated by Dr&nbsp;John Butcher, Senior Lecturer / Deputy Director, CICP, Open University.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>20 yeaars of Knowledge Media</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	As a corporate laboratory for the OU, with a 70 strong team, representing 18 world nationalities, it also works closely with lead Units such as IET and LTS to impact the University itself. Over 20 years, knowlege media technologies and innovations have flowed through to practice - from historical giants such as Lyceum, Stadium and Flashmeeting to currently hot systems such as Data.Open, Compendium, iTunes U, DiscOU, and now OUAnalyse and OUAlive.

	This first part of the celebration is opened by the OU&#39;s new Vice Chancellor, Peter Horrocks, followed by former OU Vice Chancellor Sir John Daniel who together with presentations from Marc Eisenstadt, Tom Vincent and Peter Scott will reflect on the history and success of the last 20 years of Knowledge Media.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What next for Knowledge Media?</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	As a corporate laboratory for the OU, with a 70 strong team, representing 18 world nationalities, it also works closely with lead Units such as IET and LTS to impact the University itself. Over 20 years, knowlege media technologies and innovations have flowed through to practice - from historical giants such as Lyceum, Stadium and Flashmeeting to currently hot systems such as Data.Open, Compendium, iTunes U, DiscOU, and now OUAnalyse and OUAlive.

	The second half of the celebration looks forward to the future of Knowledge Media, with external speakers and longtime collaborators&nbsp;Frank van Harmelen and&nbsp;Marcus Specht presenting their views and then followed by a panel discussion with questions from the audience.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	09:30&nbsp;Welcome to the conference from&nbsp;Cllr Peter Marland, Leader, Milton Keynes Council

	09:35&nbsp;Welcome&nbsp;and overview from Conference&nbsp;Chair&nbsp;Sir Alan Wilson&nbsp;FBA, FRS,&nbsp;Professor of Urban and Regional Systems, UCL and Chair, Lead Expert Group, Foresight Future Cities Project, Government Office for Science

	09:50&nbsp;Geoff Snelson,&nbsp;Director of Strategy, Milton Keynes Council - MK The Future City Roadmap

	10:05&nbsp;Mark Prisk&nbsp;FRICS, MP, Chair of Smart Cities, All-Party Parliamentary Group

	10:20&nbsp;Panel - Data and the Internet of Things&nbsp;Enrico Motta,&nbsp;Professor of Knowledge Technologies, KMi, MK:Smart, The Open University&nbsp;Dr Nicola Millard,&nbsp;Customer Experience Futurologist, BT Global Services&nbsp;Gary Atkinson, Director Emerging Technologies, ARM Holdings&nbsp;Neil Crockett,&nbsp;CEO, Digital Catapult]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	11:35&nbsp;Keynote -&nbsp;Martha Lane Fox, Chancellor of The Open University and Chair, Go-ON UK with Q &amp; A

	11:50&nbsp; Panel - Transport and Intelligent Mobility&nbsp;John Miles, Professor of Transitional Energy Strategies, University of Cambridge&nbsp;Dr George Gillespie, CEO, MIRA&nbsp;Steve Yianni, Chief Executive, Transport Systems Catapult&nbsp;Richard Parry-Jones, Founder and CEO, RPJ Consulting

	12:35&nbsp;Keynote -&nbsp;Ian Dalton CBE, President, Global Government &amp; Health, BT Global Services]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Session 3</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	14:10&nbsp;Keynote -&nbsp;Tim Blackman, Acting Vice-Chancellor, The Open University

	14:25&nbsp;Panel -&nbsp;Citizens&nbsp;and Communities&nbsp;James Goodman, Director of Futures, Forum for the Future&nbsp;Lorraine Hudson, MK:Smart Research Associate, The Open University&nbsp;Liz Brandt,&nbsp;CEO, Crtl-Shift&nbsp;Usman Haque,&nbsp;Founding Partner, Umbrellium

	15:10&nbsp;Keynote -&nbsp;Peter Madden OBE, Chief Executive, Future Cities Catapult]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Session 4</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	16:10&nbsp; Panel - Opportunities for Cities&nbsp;&nbsp;Lean Doody, Associate, ARUP&nbsp;Stuart Martin, CEO, Satellite Applications Catapult&nbsp;Brian Kilkelly, FRSA, CEO, World Cities Network&nbsp;Justin Anderson, Chairman and CEO, Flexeye

	16:55&nbsp;Final address from Chair and partners]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>OpenMinds: Talks from the Open University - Landing on a Comet: What we found from Rosetta Mission and how we are applying it on Earth</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	For nearly 20 years The Open University researched and developed tools for the Rosetta mission and literally jumped for joy when the European Space Agency (ESA) probe, Rosetta, deployed its landing craft, Philae, and achieved the first ever landing on a comet in November 2014. Now three months later, key OU academics are in a position to share their initial findings and their new perspective on the properties and formation of comets as a result of the landing and the applications for the science on Earth, particularly in industry.

	Programme:

	Professor Ian Wright, Professor of Planetary Sciences, who led the design of Ptolemy, will report how the instrument performed and what it found.

	Dr Simon Green, a researcher, whose workfocuses on physical studies of planetary surfaces and small solar system bodies, will reveal what the GIADA (Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator) made of the cometary dust it found and what it tells us about how a comet works.

	Dr Colin Snodgrass, an Ernest Rutherford Research Fellow, will show imaging of the results which show some of the variations in terrain on the comet and speculate about what this means for the large scale structure and formation of comets.

	Dr Geraint Morgan, Project Manager,will focus on how the collective expertise used to develop an instrument that can &ldquo;sniff&rdquo; the environment around a comet is now being used by industry to monitor the atmosphere in submarines, improve the quality of perfumes and even &ldquo;sniff&rdquo; for bed bugs in hotels.

	The talk will also be streamed live on OpenLearnwith the subsequent recording being made available on the same page.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>OpenMinds: Talks from the Open University - The Future of Technology in Education: What needs to change in 2015?</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	We are delighted to announce that OpenMinds: Talks from The Open University will launch in January 2015 to showcase the University&rsquo;s thought leadership in learning and teaching and the application of research to policy and practice across the UK.

	The OpenMinds Talks will bring cutting-edge research and developments to both physical events in the OU&rsquo;s Berrill Lecture and through live video streaming, providing a platform for those who watch or attend to engage with leading academics and respected figures within specific research fields.

	The first talk in the series is entitled: The Future of Technology in Education: What needs to change in 2015? For nearly 45 years, The Open University has championed the application of technology in education. Now, four professors will explore what needs to change in 2015 to remain at the forefront of learning:

	Programme:

	18:30 Introduction - Professor Tim Blackman - PVC Research Scholarship &amp; Quality

	18.34 Professor Peter Scott - Director of The Open University&rsquo;s Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)

	18.44 Professor Eileen Scanlon - Associate Director (Research &amp; Innovation) of The Open University&rsquo;s Institute of Educational Technology (IET)

	18:54 Professor Mike Sharples - Chair in Educational Technology, The Open University&rsquo;s Institute of Educational Technology

	19:04&nbsp;Professor Sian Bayne - Professor of Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh

	19:14&nbsp;Q&amp;A session

	19.30 Drinks Reception.

	For more information and to access a range of additional learning materials, visit OpenLearn (Hyperlink - http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/events/the-future-technology-education-what-needs-change-2015)

	If you are able to attend, please respond to Carol Ruditis, Events Co-ordinator, at OpenMinds-Talks@open.ac.uk. We look forward to seeing you there.]]></description>
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<title>Introduction by Simon Kelly</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Open University research in the physical and environmental sciences focuses on the origins, systems and processes that form the stars and planetary bodies, the processes and natural systems that shape the environment of our habitable world now and in the past, and essential properties of a Solar System that allows life to develop on one of its planets.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Mercury: new views of the Sun&rsquo;s innermost planet

	David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University

	Thanks to NASA&rsquo;s MESSENGER (orbiting Mercury since March 2011) we now know far more about the closest planet to the Sun than was possible from ground-based astronomy and the Mariner-10 flybys in the 1970s. &nbsp;Through this talk you&rsquo;ll find out more about what scientists know about this rocky planet, its disproportionately large iron core, and the dynamo processes there generate a magnetic field (unique among the terrestrial planets apart from Earth).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Dr Encarni Montoya, NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Back to the future II: mad for mud!

	Dr Encarni Montoya, NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Open University

	We are aware that planet Earth is different from the poles to the equator, and that we suffer climatic variations from year to year. &nbsp;Thanks to science we also know that a given location has not been always the same.&nbsp; Both the vegetation and climate have changed through time. &nbsp;We have been able to understand these changes thanks to the study of the past, which also can provide insights about our future world. &nbsp;How then do scientists measure and analyse environments that do not exist anymore or have not occurred yet? &nbsp;In this sequel to the 2013 talk by Frazer Bird, Encarni will explain how scientists act as detectives, piecing together the puzzle of environments that have been and could be.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Dr Geraint (Taff) Morgan, Project Officer</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Down to Earth: Translating space know-how to challenges nearer to home

	Dr Geraint (Taff) Morgan, Project Officer, The Open University

	After 10 years and a 4 billion mile journey around our solar system, Rosetta finally made it to comet 67P in August 2014. &nbsp;In November 2014 we succeeded in the first ever soft landing on a comet to analyse what it is made from. This was a truly remarkable achievement of science and engineering, generating widespread interest through media channels across the world. &nbsp;What have we scientists been doing between 2001, when we delivered the Ptolemy instrument to the Philae lander, and November 2014 when we landed on Comet 67P? &nbsp;The answer is bringing science and engineering back down to Earth.&nbsp; In this talk, Taff will discuss how space technology can be adapted for a series of healthcare applications. Come and hear how it is we can copy a dog, using scientific instruments to sniff cancer.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Jessica Barnes, Post-Doctoral Research Associate</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Moon river: is our nearest neighbour really dry?

	Jessica Barnes, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, The Open University

	For almost 25 years lunatics (people who study the Moon!) thought that our nearest neighbour was completely devoid of water.&nbsp; It is only in the last six years that we have re-examined the Apollo sample and lunar meteorite collections, and found that this longstanding paradigm may need revising. &nbsp;In this talk Jess will outline the latest discoveries of &lsquo;volatiles&rsquo; (elements that easily become gasses) in lunar rocks and what these findings tell us about water inside the Moon, and where in our Solar System water may have originated.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Question and Answers</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	In this programme of school lectures, jointly organised with the Denbigh Teaching School Alliance, we bring together four Open University scientists.&nbsp; These Open University scientists work at the cutting edge of physical and environmental science research, exploring aspects of planetary science, ecology and geochemistry, respectively. &nbsp;One of them is part of the team that is conducting research on the comet 67P as part of the European Space Agency&rsquo;s Rosetta Mission.

	The talks will be followed by an opportunity to ask questions as the four speakers return to the stage for a panel Q&amp;A session.]]></description>
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<title>Rosetta at the OU - Comet Landing LIVE</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Join us for a special event to mark the culmination of over 20 years of OU research and a landmark in space science - the world&rsquo;s first ever mission to land on a comet.

	After 10 years journeying through the solar system, the European Space Agency (ESA) probe, Rosetta, will deploy its landing craft, Philae, to attempt the first ever soft-landing on a comet on Wednesday 12 November 2014. OU researchers have contributed to and developed a number of instruments for the mission including, on-board Philae, &nbsp;the Ptolemy instrument which will analyse samples from the sub-surface of comet and tell us what the comet is made of.

	Alongside a panel of OU academic experts will be presentations from:

	David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University will a short talk on the landscape of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, looking at what has been revealed so far and what the lander may have encounter.

	Dr Colin Snodgrass, Ernest Rutherford Research Fellow, The Open University will report live on the latest images of comet 67P seen from the European Southern Observatory&rsquo;s Very Large Telescope in Chile and what ground-based telescopes do to support the mission.

	Dr Ross Burgon, Knowledge Exchange Fellow, The Open University will take the audience through the OU&rsquo;s involvement with the Rosetta mission and the journey the craft has taken to reach landing day.

	We will also be joining the live feed from the European Space Agency (ESA) during the event to watch the landing live.&nbsp;&nbsp;

	Programme: 

	(Please note that as we will be linking live to the feed from ESA during the event these timings are subject to change)

	15:00&nbsp;Welcome and introduction

	15:10&nbsp;The science of comets

	15:25&nbsp;Rosetta at the OU

	15:25&nbsp;Countdown to landing

	16:05&nbsp;Reactions and Q&amp;A

	16:15&nbsp;Closing remarks and refreshments]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Introduction-Alan Berg-Patrick Lynch and Chris Lowis</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	10:00 Introduction and welcome

	10:15 &lsquo;The Apereo Learning Analytics initiative&rsquo;, Alan Berg (University ofAmsterdam and Apereo Foundation)and Patrick Lynch (Hull University)

	10:45 &#39;Learning analytics at massive scale&#39;, Chris Lowis (FutureLearn)]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Lightning Presentations</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	11:45 Lightning Presentations]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Summary and Future Directions</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	15:45 Summary and Future Directions]]></description>
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<title>Dr Stanley Love</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	10:00 Talk - Dr Stanley Love followed by&nbsp;Q&amp;A from the theatre]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>QA from the remotely attending audience</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	11.15 Q&amp;A life and pre-sent from the remotely attending audience]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The OU World Space Week Talks - Is there life beyond Earth?</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	For most of our history, the question of whether the Earth hosts all life in the entire Universe was a matter for speculation rather than scientific study.

	Now, researchers at the OU are investigating the possibility of life on comets, moons and exoplanets and we invite you to attend a special World Space Week lecture at The Open University, Milton Keynes where our academics will discuss their recent findings and developments.

	Speakers and themes include:

	Ian Wright, Professor of Planetary Sciences, The Open University. Discussing what we can learn about life on Earth from the materials on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. OU experimental technology is aboard the European Space Agency&#39;s comet-chasing spacecraft, Rosetta, which is due to land in November.

	David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University. Looking at whether the conditions necessary for life are likely to occur at or beneath the surfaces of the icy moons of giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn. &lsquo;Are we alone in the Universe?&rsquo; - A look at the potential for life beyond Earth, by David Rothery.

	Dr Carole Haswell, Senior Lecturer in Astronomy, The Open University. Discussing the international efforts to find habitable conditions on planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, and her work revealing a new population of potentially habitable planets which offer the possibility for life in our Galaxy.

	(Image - ESA - C. Carreau and NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute).

	From mythbusting moons to adventures in astronomy, access a fascinating range of content on our World Space Week site on OpenLearn: http://bit.ly/1rlKrRS 

	You can also join in the conversation online by posting your questions to http://on.fb.me/1Ba1tng

	Programme:

	19:00 Introduction Simon Kelley, Associate Dean for Research at the Centre for Physical and Environmental Sciences.

	19:05 Ian Wright, Professor of Planetary Sciences.

	19:20 David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences.

	19:35 Dr Carole Haswell, Senior Lecturer in Astronomy.

	19:50 Q&amp;A All speakers to take questions

	20:00 End

	&lsquo;Please note a full HD recording of the lecture will be available to view after the event on our YouTube channel&#39;]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	10:00&nbsp;Our programme and purpose&nbsp;Tony O&rsquo;Shea-Poon,&nbsp;Head of Equality, Diversity &amp; Information Rights.

	10:10&nbsp;Welcome to our inclusive, responsive, innovative University.&nbsp;Martin Bean,&nbsp;Vice-Chancellor.

	10:25&nbsp;Public Sector Equality Duties and Academic Judgement. BaronessOnora O&rsquo;Neill,&nbsp;Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

	10:50&nbsp;Innovation in practice: Sharing some learning from our equality objectives Introduced by&nbsp;Tony O&rsquo;Shea-Poonwith contributions from

	
		Pat Atkins,&nbsp;Assistant Director,&nbsp;Associate Lecturer Support and Professional Development.
	
		Satvinder Reyatt,Head of Human Resources for Support Services.
	
		Rachel Cragg,&nbsp;Director, Academic Planning &amp; Resources.
]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	11:20&nbsp;Holding the Mirror to ourselves: bias in decision making ProfessorBinna KandolaOBE,&nbsp;Business psychologist, author, co-founder and senior partner at Pearn Kandola.

	11:45&nbsp;Panel discussion with Q&amp;A: &ldquo;What does innovation look like?&rdquo; Chaired byProfessorMusa Mihsein,&nbsp;Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic), with

	
		Baroness O&rsquo;Neill
	
		Binna Kandola
	
		Tony O&rsquo;Shea-Poon
	
		Rachel Cragg
	
		Satvinder Reyatt
]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Valedictory Lecture - Making Thinking Visible in Complex Times</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	In 1968 Doug Engelbart gave &ldquo;The Mother of All Demos&rdquo;: a disruptive technology lab had quietly invented the mouse, collaborative on-screen editing, hyperlinks, video conferencing, and much more. This was the start of the paradigm shift, still unfolding: computers were no longer to be low level number crunchers, but might mediate and mould the highest forms of human thinking, both individual and collective. In this talk I review nearly 19 years in KMi chasing this vision with many colleagues, inventing tools for making dialogue, argument and learning processes visible in different ways. How do we harness such tools to tackle, not aggravate, the fundamental challenge facing the educational system, and its graduates: to think broadly and deeply, and to thrive amidst profound uncertainty and complexity? These are the hallmarks of the OU &mdash; and indeed, all true education from primary school onwards.

	&nbsp;

	Twitter: #OU_inaugural]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Simon Buckingham Shum</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Engaging with international development</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Behind changes in the world economy, rising powers and new technologies lie the struggles of many individuals, groups and organisations to improve their livelihoods and well-being. Keeping these processes in our sights helps to ground our understanding of global trends. It also enables us to see the agency of low income and disadvantaged populations, and the opportunities and contradictions in interventions aimed at changing their conditions of existence.

	Twitter: #OU_inaugural]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Hazel Johnson</dc:creator>
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<title>Session 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	11.00&nbsp;Brief introduction to the day

	11.15&nbsp;DPP&rsquo;s Origins
	Why was DPP created?&nbsp; Why &lsquo;Development Policy and Practice&rsquo;?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	13.30&nbsp;DPP&rsquo;s Legacy
	What legacy from DPP activities has continuing importance and relevance?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 3</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	15.00&nbsp;DPP&rsquo;s Engagement Activities
	How has DPP engaged with various stakeholders and policy processes?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Panel presentations (Societies/Economies/Cultures)</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	10.30&nbsp;Panel presentations (Societies/Economies/Cultures)]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Panel presentations (Histories/Technologies/Environments)</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	11.45&nbsp;Panel presentations (Histories/Technologies/Environments)]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Plenary</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	15.30&nbsp;Plenary]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Introduction and Session 3</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	10:15 Introduction by Jef Huysmans (Director, CCIG)

	10:30 Session 3: Deconstructing Secular Citizenship

	Chair: Kath Woodward

	Dana Rubin &ndash; Against Modernity: Jewish Ultra-Orthodox and Religious-Nationalist Colonialism in West Bank Settlements

	Lisa Pilgram &ndash; Legal Orientalism and Citizenship: British Muslim Family Law

	Iker Barbero &ndash; Against Orientalism: Migrant Activism and the Claim for Justice]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Q and A on Session 3</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	11:50 Q&amp;A on Session 3]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Session 4</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	14:00 Session 4: The Indebted Citizen: Inheriting Orientalism

	Chair: John Clarke

	Andrea Mura &ndash; Indebted Citizenship: Acting Out Austerity

	Zaki Nahaboo &ndash; Multicultural Society Must be Defended?

	Engin Isin &ndash; Citizenship&rsquo;s Empire]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Q and A on Session 4</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	15:00 Q&amp;A on Session 4

	16:00 Final comments

	Close of Conference: John Clarke and Engin Isin.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Welcome by Engin Isin and Tim Blackman</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	09:30&nbsp;Welcome by&nbsp;Engin Isin (Social Sciences) and&nbsp;Tim Blackman&nbsp;(Pro Vice-Chancellor, The Open University)

	10:00&nbsp;Engin Isin&nbsp;Why Citizenship after Orientalism?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Session 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	10:30&nbsp;Session 1: Feminist Legacies and Challenges to Orientalism

	Chair:&nbsp;Darren Langdridge

	Alessandra Marino&nbsp;- Performing Citizenship: Acts of writing

	Leticia Sabsay&nbsp;- Abject Choices? Orientalism, Citizenship and Autonomy

	Tara Atluri&nbsp;- Haunted Citizens: Of Ghosts, Gang Rapes and Bureaucratic Fictions]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Session 1 Q and A</title>
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	&nbsp;

	11:50&nbsp;Q&amp;A on Session 1]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	14:00&nbsp;Session 2: Decolonizing the Lineages of Citizenship

	Chair:&nbsp;Raia Prokhovnik

	Aya Ikegame&nbsp;&ndash; Overlapping Sovereignties: Gurus and Citizenship

	Deena Dajani&nbsp;&ndash; Foolish Citizens

	Jack Harrington&nbsp;&ndash; The Imperial Citizen: British India and French Algeria]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Session 2 Q and A</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	15:30&nbsp;Q&amp;A on Session 2]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Introduction to In Conversation</title>
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	&nbsp;

	16:30&nbsp;Introduction to &lsquo;In Conversation&rsquo; by&nbsp;Kevin Hetherington&nbsp;(Dean, Faculty of Social Science)

	16:30&nbsp;John Clarke&nbsp;(OU) In Conversation with&nbsp;Samia Bano&nbsp;(SOAS),&nbsp;Humeira Iqtidar&nbsp;(King&rsquo;s College) and&nbsp;Gada Mahrouse&nbsp;(Concordia University)

	Closing remarks by&nbsp;Engin Isin]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Beyond politics - putting science at the heart of drug policy?</title>
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	The regulation of drugs &ndash; including alcohol and tobacco &ndash; is an issue of pressing importance due to the increasing health care costs associated with their use and the new sorts of synthetic agents being developed and sold over the internet. Also the impact of the law to impede research and treatment innovation is of growing concern.

	My talk will reflect on these issues in the light of my ten years&rsquo; experience on the governments Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs from which I was sacked two years ago. I shall present new analyses that compare the harms of drugs and alcohol using more sophisticated methodology and challenge many of the current misconceptions about drugs &ndash; their harms &ndash; and how to deal with them.

	Reading - Drugs without the Hot Air &ndash; UIT press]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof David J Nutt</dc:creator>
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<title>Science Matters - Event - Science Matters: perspectives on cutting edge research in physical and environmental sciences</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Event summary:

	Open University research in the physical and environmental sciences focuses on the origins, systems and processes that form the stars and planetary bodies, the processes and natural systems that shape the environment of our habitable world now and in the past, and essential properties of a Solar System that allows life to develop on one of its planets. In this programme of school lectures, jointly organised with the Denbigh Teaching School Alliance, we bring together four Open University scientists working at the cutting edge of physical and environmental science research. These scientists will explore key issues, questions and concepts relating to their particular area of scientific research. The talks will be followed by an opportunity to ask questions as the four speakers return to the stage for a panel Q&amp;A session.

	Sweat, mud and leeches: A day in the life of a geologist in the Himalayas - Dr Clare Warren, Senior Research Fellow, The Open University

	Geologists study rocks and fossils in order to understand how the Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, and how the continents and oceans have changed since then. I&#39;m particularly interested in mountains. Mountains form where two tectonic plates collide into each other (slowly!), and their rise and eventual erosion affects where geological processes such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides and even long-term climate change happen.

	In order to understand how (and how quickly) mountains grow and eventually erode, geologists do fieldwork in mountainous areas. We collect rock samples to figure out which rock types appear in different areas. Much of this aspect of my research takes place in the Himalayas. This talk will take you on a whistle-stop tour of a typical geologist&#39;s day in the Himalayan mountains in Bhutan - the delights of camping, the local food, the work and the fun.

	Exoplanets and how to find them - Dr Andrew Norton, Senior lecturer, The Open University

	20 years ago, astronomers did not know for certain that any star other than our sun had planets orbiting it. Now we know of around a thousand so-called exoplanets.

	I will explain one of the techniques for detecting planets around other stars and show what can be learnt about them from astronomical observations.

	Putting the citizen into science: iSpot, your place to share nature Janice Ansine Biodiversity Observatory Project Manager, The Open University

	A citizen scientist can be anyone; it involves members of the public collecting and sharing data. This could be from your local park, backyard or somewhere more exotic.

	One of the great things about being a citizen scientist is that you can learn more about the species around you while at the same time contributing useful information to science. iSpot (www.ispotnature.org) is one example of a citizen scientist website that allows you to do this.

	This talk will share the approaches the iSpot team are using to support citizen scientists as they build their identification skills. I will share some of the findings from the site, including a moth spotted for the first time in the UK by a six-year-old girl. I&rsquo;ll also provide details about how you can join the site and become a citizen scientist.

	Back to the future: using proxy data to assess environmental change Frazer Bird, Postgraduate Research Student, The Open University

	Our planet is very different from place to place; we have hot environments, cold environments, wet, dry, windy, even calm environments. But not only is it different from place to place it has also been very different back in time. The environment outside our windows has not always been like it is now. The desserts were not always desserts and the Polar Regions were not always icy and cold.

	I am a Palaeoecologist; I study how environments change on long timescales. I am interested in how our planet has come to be the way it is and how that might give us clues as to what it will be like in the future. In this talk I am going to give you an insight in to Earth&rsquo;s recent history. Humans haven&rsquo;t been here very long and so we can&rsquo;t rely on old books to learn about earth history. Instead, we have to learn to read the clues that are left behind. In other words, scientists look for evidence by proxy. I&rsquo;ll explain how I&rsquo;m trying to do this in the South American Andes mountains.

	Exoplanets talk.ppt]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Water in space: - from interstellar clouds to planets</title>
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	A keynote lecture:&nbsp; Water in space: from interstellar clouds to planets will be presented by Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at the University of Leiden who is the keynote speaker at the OU&rsquo;s Faculty of Science&rsquo;s Compositional Universe event.

	Professor van Dishoeck will discuss the fact that water is a key molecule in the physics and chemistry of regions in which new stars and planets are born. Thanks to recent new observational developments, especially the Herschel Space Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope, a comprehensive set of data on water gas and ice has been obtained toward a large sample of well-characterized protostars, covering a wide range of masses and luminosities -from the lowest to the highest mass protostars-, as well as evolutionary stages -from the earliest stages represented by pre-stellar cores to the late stages represented by the pre-main sequence stars surrounded only by disks.&nbsp; Special attention will be paid to the close interaction between laboratory experiments, molecular dynamics simulations and astronomical data on water.&nbsp; New insight into the origin of the water in oceans on Earth comes from observations of deuterated water. Future prospects for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) are discussed as well.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>IoP/OU Open Lecture Series - Opening the cosmic freezer:  the stuff of stars</title>
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	The cold, dark regions of space between the stars as not quite as empty as you might imagine. This &#39;interstellar medium&#39; is the vibrant recycling centre of our galaxy - the place where new stars and planets form, and a region of space where chemistry proliferates. As we enter the decade of Astrochemistry, heralded by world-class ground- and space based telescopes such as ALMA and the JWST, the question is why are astronomers interested in molecules? Which molecules are &#39;out there&#39;?, and what do they tell us about the evolutionary cycle of stars planets, and possibly life itself?

	ALL WELCOME!

	Light refreshments after the talk when you can meet the speaker.

	Plenty of free parking nearby.

	For more information, maps or directions, please email:

	raymond.mackintosh@open.ac.uk]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dr Helen Fraser</dc:creator>
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<title>Charter Day 2013 celebration - The Vice-Chancellor, Martin Bean, Charter Day Speech and panel discussion</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	The Open University was established by Royal Charter on 23 April 1969, charging us with our mission &lsquo;to promote the educational well-being of the community generally&rsquo;. We have decided to begin a tradition of using this day as an occasion for the University to celebrate our history whilst looking forward to our future.

	Martin&rsquo;s Charter Day Speech will deliver his annual address to the University and be&nbsp;followed by a Q&amp;A panel discussion &ndash; members of the panel will include current and recent OU students. The event is focussed on celebrating our students at the very heart of everything we do and Council members and other guests have been invited to join us for this session.

	For those of you on the Walton Hall campus on Charter Day, please join us for a cutting of the Charter Day cake and drinks in the Hub Lecture Theatre at 12.15pm where you will also have the opportunity to visit the University Showcase consisting of more than 40 stands showcasing the latest projects and activities from across the University - we look forward to seeing you there

	Twitter: #OU_charterday]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Martin Bean</dc:creator>
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<title>Session 3 - Part 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	09:15&nbsp;Liesbet van Zoonen&nbsp;(keynote) Loughborough University and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL. Identification, information and narrative.

	09:55&nbsp;Robert Hunter&nbsp;Faculty of Engineering &amp; Environment, Northumbria University. How digital discourse has affected individuals ability to mould their identity and relationship to information online.

	10:15&nbsp;Jan Sliwa Bern&nbsp;University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland. Living in parallel worlds &ndash; two Polish nations.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 3 - Part 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	11:05&nbsp;Paul Adams&nbsp;Alcatel-Lucent, UK Identity. Shift: Where Identity Meets Technology in the Networked-Community Age.

	11:25&nbsp;Karen Kear, Frances Chetwynd&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Helen Jefferis&nbsp;Faculty of MCT, The OU. &ldquo;To give a better understanding of who I am&rdquo;: the role of personal profiles in online learning.

	11:45&nbsp;Robin Smith&nbsp;University Hospitals of Leicester, UK. Everything Must Go: Data Brokers and the Explosion of the Information Crime Economy.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 4 - Part 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	14:00&nbsp;Pedro C. Mariju&aacute;n&nbsp;(keynote Instituto Aragon&eacute;s de Ciencias de la Salud (I+CS), Zaragoza, ES. On being informational: caught into the communication flows.

	14:40&nbsp;Jo&atilde;o Alvaro Carvalho&nbsp;Departamento de Sistemas de Informa&ccedil;&atilde;o e Centro Algoritmi, Universidade do Minho, PT. Asking the right question: What is information? OR What is it that you are calling information?

	15:00&nbsp;Marek Hetma&#324;ski&nbsp;Marie Curie-Sk&#322;odowska University, Poland. Informational aspects of metaphors.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 4 - Part 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	15:50&nbsp;Marcin J. Schroeder&nbsp;Akita International University, Akita, Japan. Ontological Study of Information: Identity and State

	16:30&nbsp;Discussion.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 1 - Part 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	10:30&nbsp;Introduction to workshop (David/Magnus) and art activities (Derek)

	10:40&nbsp;Holger Schn&auml;delbach&nbsp;(keynote) Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham, UK. Adaptive Architecture.

	11:20&nbsp;Ambj&ouml;rn Naeve&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Carl Smith&nbsp;KTH, Sweden and London Metropolitan University. Spacification: How to design and construct spaces that can enhance artistic experiences.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 1 - Part 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	11:40&nbsp;Caitlin Bentley&nbsp;ICT4D Research Centre, Royal Holloway University of London. Information as evidence: The quest for development aid results.

	12:00&nbsp;Claudia Jacques&nbsp;Planetary Collegium, School of Art &amp; Media, University of Plymouth, UK Space-Time. Aesthetics in the Meta-Environment: A Cybersemiotics Analysis.

	12:20&nbsp;Derek Jones&nbsp;Department of Design, Development, Environment and Materials, The Open University. Where is information?

	12:40&nbsp;Discussion.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 2 - Part 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	14:00&nbsp;John Monk&nbsp;(keynote) The Open University What is time for?

	14:40&nbsp;Gabriela Besler&nbsp;and&nbsp;Jolanta Szulc&nbsp;Institutes of Library &amp; Information Science, University of Silesia, Poland. Time as a constitutive element of information expressed in signs.

	15.00&nbsp;Jan Sliwa Bern&nbsp;University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland. Trying to know everything &ndash; truth as a moving target.]]></description>
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<title>Session 2 - Part 2</title>
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	&nbsp;

	15.50&nbsp;Robin Laney&nbsp;Computing Department, The Open University. Difference as Meaning in Musical Narratives.

	16.10&nbsp;David Chapman&nbsp;Communication &amp; Systems Department, The Open University. Information is Provisional.

	16.30&nbsp;Discussion.]]></description>
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<title>CEPSAR 2012 Schools Christmas Lecture - THE LIGHTER SIDE OF EXPLORING</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	PaulRose is an television presenter, expedition leader, polar explorer and exploration and field science consultant. He has enthusiasm and drive and actively encourages young people to discover the wonders of our changing planet and to get involved in the amazing world of Science.

	Paul&rsquo;s television presenting credits include; Frank Wild &ndash; Antarctica&rsquo;s Forgotten. Hero, Britain&rsquo;s Secret Seas, Oceans, Voyages of Discovery, Take One Museum, Meltdown and Wind. He reports for BBC Newsand makes live appearances on BBC Breakfast, BBC 24 News, Sky News and local TV News and presented the BBC Human Planet Proms&nbsp;at The Royal Albert Hall.

	CEPSAR are delighted to welcome Paul to present this years Schools Christmas lecture

	Click here for replay of Mark Brandon &quot;Frozen Planet&quot; - 23rd March 2012 Berrill theatre]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Paul Rose</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Making space for African development</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Africa and Africans are usually considered the subjects of global history. They are seen to be on the receiving end of economic forces and political processes, rather than as the innovators and shapers of development solutions. The lecture examines how African development is actively made in places and across spaces, and draws on my work at the interface of political geography and development studies. I focus on political actors in African state institutions as well as those outside of the state who also act politically. My research is strongly transnational and I will draw on cases of African migrants in the UK and Chinese migrants in Africa.

	Transcript.doc]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Giles Mohan</dc:creator>
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<title>Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	11:25- Invited Speaker:&nbsp;Parveen Babbar, Assistant Librarian, Indira Gandhi National Open University. &ldquo;M-education reaching the unreached: a Government of India initiative&rdquo;.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	9.30- Welcome Chair:&nbsp;Steve Schafer

	09:45- Keynote Speaker:&nbsp;Char Booth,&nbsp;Instruction Services Manager and E-Learning Librarian,&nbsp;Claremont Colleges. &ldquo;The analog to your digital: re-examining library mobility&rdquo;.

	10.35- Invited Speaker:&nbsp;Martin White,&nbsp;Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd. &ldquo;Winners and Losers - What it will take to succeed in mobile services delivery in 2012&rdquo;.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 3</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	15.30- Closing plenary session Chair:&nbsp;Gill Needham.

	15:40- Mobile Imagination Presentations.

	15:55- Closing Keynote Speaker:&nbsp;Thomas Cochrane,&nbsp;Academic Advisor and Senior Lecturer in educational Technology,&nbsp;&nbsp;AUT University&#39;s Centre for Learning and Teaching. Beyond No Significant Difference: &ldquo;Designing mlearning as a catalyst for pedagogical change&rdquo;.

	16:45- Final Remarks and Close&nbsp;Nicky Whitsed]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session1</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	9:00- Welcome and Intro Chair:&nbsp;Alan Bassindale.

	9:15- Keynote Speaker: &nbsp;Steve Vosloo,&nbsp;Programme Specialist in Mobile Learning at UNESCO. &ldquo;The Power of Mobile to Educate, Support and Engage: Examples from Around the World&rdquo;.

	10:05- Keynote Speaker:&nbsp;Ellyssa Kroski,Manager of Information Systems,&nbsp;New York Law Institute. &ldquo;Libraries to Go: Mobile Tech in Libraries&rdquo;.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	11:20- Plenary session 2: Chair:&nbsp;Nicky Whitsed

	11:25- Invited Speaker:&nbsp;Bob Gann,&nbsp;Head of Strategy and Engagement,&nbsp;NHS Choices, UK Department of Health. &ldquo;Widening access &amp; stimulating innovation: opening up NHS information for creative mobile applications&rdquo;.

	11.55- Invited Speaker:&nbsp;Lee Stott,&nbsp;UK Academic Evangelist,&nbsp;Microsoft UK. &ldquo;The future of mobile&rdquo;]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session1</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	9.00 - 9.10 Welcome address: Tim Blackman, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Scholarship), The Open University

	9.10 - 9.20 Opening remarks: Giles Mohan, Development Policy and Practice, The Open University

	Session 1: Markets 

	9.20 - 9.35 Devendra Kodwani (The Open University Business School)

	Regulation of markets for public utilities in India: searching for a semi-visible hand 

	9.35 - 9.50 Andrew Lindridge (The Open University Business School)

	Middle class consumption in China and India: all change or retrenchment of cultural positions? 

	9.50 - 10.05 Raphie Kaplinsky (Development Policy and Practice, The Open University)

	Will the Asian Drivers be a source of Pro-Poor Innovation? 

	10.05 - 10.20 Masuma Farooki (Development Policy and Practice, The Open University)

	Why China&#39;s commodity demand is challenging development debates 

	10.20 - 10.40 Mike Morris (Economics, University of Cape Town)

	Global value chains and supplier development: Do Asian and Northern owned mines in Zambia behave the same? 

	10.40 - 11.00 Discussion]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session2</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Session 2: Mobilities 

	11.20 - 11.35 Monica Dowling (Social Work, The Open University)

	&nbsp;Globalisation and Orientalism &ndash; Chinese child care in transition &nbsp; 

	11.35 - 11.50 Melissa Butcher (Geography, The Open University)

	Navigating &#39;New&#39; Delhi: the experience of living in an Indian global city 

	11.50 - 12.05 Ben Lampert (Development Policy and Practice, The Open University)

	Chinese migrants in Africa: the next imperialists or new agents of development? 

	&nbsp;12.20 - 12.40 P&aacute;l Nyiri (Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam)

	Human flows in Chinese globalization 

	12.40 - 1.00 Discussion]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session3</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Session 3: (Geo)politics

	2.20 - 2.35 Giles Mohan (Development Policy and Practice, The Open University)

	China&rsquo;s resource diplomacy in Africa: powering development? 

	2.35 - 2.50 Parvati Raghuram (Geography, The Open University)

	The challenge of migration in a multi&#8208;polar world

	2.50 - 3.05 Alessandra Marino (OECUMENE, Politics and International Studies, The Open University)

	Whose nation? Whose development? Resisting orientalism in the Narmada Valley

	3.25 - 3.45 Discussion led by Uma Kothari (Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester)]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session4</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Session 4: Agendas

	4.05 - 4.35 Jan Nederveen Pieterse (Global and International Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara)

	Asia Rising: Growth or Emancipation? 

	4.35 - 5.00 Discussion

	5.00 Close]]></description>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Statistical thinking: the good, the bad and the ugly</title>
<description><![CDATA[Statistics is a strange discipline. Allegedly there are lies, damned lies and statistics, but politicians and pundits are criticised if they have no numerical data to back up their arguments. Statistics are reputedly boring, but if that&rsquo;s true, why are newspapers and other media so full of them? Many people think that statistics is about providing firm, objective answers that are either right or wrong, but actually one of the main goals of statistics is to cope with uncertainty, not certainty. In many disciplines, one cannot get research published without including statistical analysis, but some of the standard analytic methods, particularly significance testing, are coming under increasing criticism, from statisticians as well as users of statistics. Is this really a respectable subject for an academic to work in? The lecture will explain why it is, and why we need more of it. This event is not live but will be available later as a replay]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kevin McConway</dc:creator>
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<title>Session1</title>
<description><![CDATA[10:15 Welcome and introduction

	Erica Morris, HEA; Steve Swithenby, eSTEeM (OU)

	10:35&nbsp;Perspectives and questions about self-assessment&nbsp;(TGM)

	10:45&nbsp;How does testing affect learning and retention &ndash; for good or ill?

	John Kleeman, QuestionMark

	11:05&nbsp;Ipsative assessment: comparison with past performance

	Gwyneth Hughes, IoE

	11:25&nbsp;Self-assessment with Certainty-Based Marking

	Tony Gardner-Medwin, UCL]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Session2</title>
<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;

	12:00&nbsp;How do students engage with assessment?

	Sally Jordan, OU

	12:45 Lunch and Poster session

	14:00&nbsp;Opening up multiple choice: assessing with confidence

	Jon Rosewell, OU

	14:15&nbsp;Getting the right students to use self-assessments

	Nancy Curtin, Imperial

	14:30&nbsp;Self-assessment in specific disciplines: MATHS

	Tim Lowe, OU

	14:45&nbsp;Self-assessment in specific disciplines: LANGUAGE

	Maria Fernandez-Toro, OU]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Sesion3</title>
<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;

	15:15&nbsp;Specific Issues in other disciplines?&nbsp;Open

	15:25&nbsp;On-going improvements in Moodle to support self-assessment

	Tim Hunt, OU

	15:40&nbsp;Discussion: where next with self-assessment?&nbsp;Open]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>CEPSAR Lecture - Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and the Large Hadron Collider</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, is probably the biggest scientific experiment ever conducted. Thousands of physicists and engineers have worked for years, constructing 27km of superconducting magnets to collide protons at unprecedented energies, and building huge detectors to see what the result is. One of the headline goals is the hunt for the Higgs boson, which is more accurately described as the quest to understand the unification of the weak and electromagnetic forces and the origin of mass - or &quot;electroweak symmetry breaking&quot;. I&#39;ll give the latest news from the experiment - whatever it is by then!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Jonathan Butterworth</dc:creator>
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<title>International Development: - A new way of talking about development?</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	Featuring a welcome address from the Vice-Chancellor.

	Highlights include:

	
		Inspirational talks from Professor Tim Blackman on the importance of high-quality research in international development and Andrew Law on harnessing the reality of technology
	
		An overview of current OU research, programmes and teaching activity via 5-minute &lsquo;taster-talks&rsquo;
	
		A short presentation by the Development Office on potential sources of funding
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Welcome &amp; Keynote lecture</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	2.00-2.05&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Welcome: Professor Jef Huysmans&nbsp;(Director of Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance)

	2.05-2.10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#39;Public Engagement and the The Open University&#39;
	Professor Tim Blackman (Pro-Vice Chancellor, Research, The Open University)

	2.10-2.20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Introduction to the Creating Publics project
	Dr. Nick Mahony (Research Fellow, Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance)

	2.20-3.10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Keynote lecture: &#39;Practices of Knowledge in a Complex World: Experiments in collaboration and conversation&#39;
	Professor Lawrence Grossberg (University of North Carolina)]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Response &amp; Q&A</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	&nbsp;

	3.10-3.20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Response
	Professor Janet Newman (The Open University)

	3.20-4.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Q &amp; A]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Inaugural Lectures - How Do We Know? Methodological Journeys in Social Research</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	How we know social life depends on established theories and methods as well as on new ideas, creativity and imagination. Sociological research also involves processes of methodological unknowing - making the familiar strange, and the strange familiar. At a time when conventional methods of sociological enquiry are being thrown into question, for example by the advent of massive, automated digital data sets that appear to transcend the limitations of &#39;humanly generated&#39; data, we offer a robust defence of experimental, mixed methods for knowing the social. We trace our often unorthodox methodological journeys from the 1980s onwards, bringing to the fore the vital significance of creative collaborations which lie at the heart of publicly engaged social research. We argue that issues of methods are not only essential to how we know the social but are also central to securing greater levels of trust, transparency and authority in public life and to sociological research that makes a difference beyond the academy.

	Marie Gillespie is Professor of Sociology at The Open University and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. She researches diasporic and national cultures comparatively and historically.

	Elizabeth Silva works in the fields of sociology of culture, technology and everyday life. Social divisions, in particular those concerning gender, and cross-national comparisons have been central to her work in these fields.

	Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the Open University. She works on feminist materialist critiques especially in the field of sport and on cross-generational feminist dialogues between mother and daughter.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Marie Gillespie Prof Elizabeth Silva Prof Kath Woodward</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Citizens without frontiers?</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	

	Academics, auditors, entrepreneurs, footballers, investors, journalists, lawyers and managers move as professionals through distinct but overlapping fields (of expertise, knowledge, and competence) that traverse national borders. (Sans-fronti&eacute;risme has become their shibboleth.) Yet, when people move across these borders as citizens, unless authorized, they are treated as trespassers and their bodies are caught in border regimes that constitute them as migrants, refugees, or aliens. (Sans-papierisme has become their slogan.) There is a widening gap between those who can act across borders and those who remain confined within them. Cosmopolitanism or universalism have sought to close this gap but so far neither has identified a field in which citizens can act. This may be the end of citizenship. If not, what prospects can there possibly be for citizens without frontiers?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Engin Isin</dc:creator>
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<title>Citizenship After Orientalism - City, Nation, Globe : three moments in the history of citizenship:</title>
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	16:30 &ndash; 18:00 City, Nation, Globe: Three Movements in the History of Citizenship Bryan Turner (CUNY)

	In order to frame a discussion of space, sovereignty and power in the construction of modern citizenship, I hang my argument on three events in Western history and three texts. These are the writing of St. Augustine&rsquo;s The City of God (circa 413-426), the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) and the Declaration of Human Rights (1948). All three texts are set against a background of violence and destruction : Alaric&rsquo;s sacking of Rome in A.D. 410, the legacy of the Wars of Religion, and the civilian casualties of World War Two and the emerging recognition of the Holocaust. These settlements were woven around problems of difference, violence and exclusion: the Jews in early Christianity; Protestant dissent in relation to the authority of the Pope: and the fascist policy of ethnic cleansing. In short there were issues of human vulnerability behind all three. I argue that these three treaties involved a conceptualisation of the citizen with respect to the city, the nation and finally the globe. Each stage of the expansion of rights involved a breakdown of the previous framework such as the imperial city, the ecclesiastical structure and the nation-state system. Where and what is the breakdown of the rights regime created by the Declaration?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Bryan Turner</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Biography and the morality of style</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	This lecture will examine the craft of biography from the historical, ethical and stylistic points of view. Does biography possess a justification, and wherein lies its wide appeal? Is it motivated by curiosity,or something more? What are the particular challenges involved in writing the lives of poets, especially of recently dead ones? Does it make any difference if one knew the person whose life one is striving to evoke? Has the biographical form changed over time, and does it continue to mutate? What exactly are the pressures bearing down on the biographer, and how does one cope? In grappling with these questions, a few glimpses will be offered into the biographer&rsquo;s study, even into his storm-tossed mind.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Robert Fraser</dc:creator>
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<title>RoboFesta-UK 8th Annual Open Meeting - Session 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[10.00am Welcome from Professor Jeffrey Johnson

10.10 Jeffrey Johnson â€œMaking the futureâ€

10.30 Ashley Green â€œRobotics outreachâ€

10.50 Kate Sim â€œEmbedding Robotics in the Curriculum for all (ERICA)

11.10 Ajay Sharman â€œScience and Engineering Clubsâ€

11.30 Break]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>RoboFesta-UK 8th Annual Open Meeting - Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[11.50 Karen Bultitude and Catherine Aldridge â€œSTEM updateâ€

12.10 Emily Dawson â€œTalking Robotsâ€

12.30 Finish.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>2008 Pavis Lecture - Reflecting upon Reflexivity: is it just idle internal conversation?</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	The Sociology Department at the Open University warmly invites you to the 2008 annual Pavis public lecture, &quot;Reflecting upon Reflexivity: is it just idle internal conversation?&quot; which will be delivered by Professor Margaret Archer.
	
	Professor Margaret Archer is known internationally as one of the UK&rsquo;s leading social scientists and as the major social theorist of critical realism. She served from 1986 to 1990 as the first female President of the International Sociological Association (ISA). She is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Her work has focused on a classic social scientific issue; the structure and agency problem, that is to say the relationship between the social and cultural structures of societies, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, how people may reproduce yet also transform such social and cultural frameworks. Most recently she has reflected in particular on the way human agency emerges via &quot;internal conversations&quot;. Her books include (2007) Making Our Way Through the World: Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; (2003) Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and (2000) Being Human: The Problem of Agency, Cambridge University Press.
	
	See: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/academicstaff/archer
	also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Archer
	
	
	The annual Open University Pavis lecture is organised by the Department of Sociology&rsquo;s Pavis Centre which undertakes research concerned with the relations between culture and society. It was founded in 1993 with a bequest from former Open University student, the late James Pavis, a keen student of sociology and anthropology who wished to promote their study at the Open University.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Margaret Archer</dc:creator>
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<title>Fossil Detectives</title>
<description><![CDATA[Join us for an evening with Hermione Cockburn, presenter of the brand-new OU/BBC series Fossil Detectives. Hermione, who has also presented Coast and Rough Science, will talk about the making of Fossil Detectives and other OU/BBC series, the extraordinary fossils found in Britain, and some of our most surprising fossil-hunters. 

Fossil Detectives is a brand new series, produced by the prestigious BBC Natural History Unit and the Open University, which showcases Britainâ€™s amazing wealth of fossils, what they reveal about the mysteries of life and worlds long gone.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Hermione Cockburn</dc:creator>
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<title>(PBPL) Annual Conference 2008 - Assessment, experience and reflection</title>
<description><![CDATA[â€œAssessment is often thought of as an act of judging others. However, unless assessment engages learners, acknowledges their experience and enables them to be informed and reflexive judges of their own work, they are not being equipped for a changing future.â€ (Professor David Boud)
We are delighted to welcome Professor David Boud as the keynote speaker at this event which will be attended by colleagues from the Open University and other higher education institutions. David is Professor of Adult Education in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Currently he holds a Senior Fellowship of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council focusing on developing assessment for learning in and after courses. Prior to this, David was Dean of the University Graduate School at UTS. He has been President of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) and has written extensively on teaching, learning and assessment in higher and professional education.
David's presentation will explore the issues associated with moving ideas of assessment away from the past simplistic view that it is about making unilateral measurements of students to one that contributes to building capacity for judgment and learning in a future of complex practice.
The face-to-face event will continue throughout the day with discussion sessions, poster presentations from PBPL funded projects and an 'expert forum' with David Boud.  Further information is available on the PBPL website]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof. David Boud</dc:creator>
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<title>Leadership Academy Event - Session 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[10.00 â€" 10.15 Welcome (Mark Fenton-Oâ€™Creevy)
10.15 â€" 10.55 Etienne Wenger
11.00 â€" 11.40 Nigel Paine]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Leadership Academy Event - Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[12.15 â€" 12.55 Sarah Robinson, Sue Peters and Lesley Swinn]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Communicating mathematics: a historical and personal journey</title>
<description><![CDATA[For most of my life I have attempted to communicate mathematics to a wide range of audiences -- through my teaching, public lectures, publications, and other means. This illustrated lecture explores these in the context of the many ways in which mathematics has been communicated over the past 4000 years, and suggests implications for how we teach at the Open University.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Robin Wilson</dc:creator>
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<title>Art Talk - The Beast Within</title>
<description><![CDATA[International Artist Exchange and my work within it

Artistic exchange, who does it serve? The artists, the arts organisations or a broader financially led political strategy? 

The Symposium: 
The point of a symposium is to bring together several points of view on one subject and create friendly dialogue, an Ancient Greek drinking party. 
Is this artistic development or a promotion exercise for egos? I will talk about my experience of organising 3 International symposiums in Milton Keynes and taking part in Symposiums in Eastern Europe.

The workshop: 
A workshop has a more practical root, providing space and time for manufacture. The ethos is biased towards giving artists 'head space' rather than public exposure. 
Does the workshop really provide time out of the commercial rat race or escapism, an art club for the elite? I will be talking about my experience at Braziers International Workshop in Oxford, my pledge to face my inner beast! I will show the work I made there and also talk about the Triangular Arts international network.

The fellowship/residency: 
The emphasis of a fellowship is in the partnership between host, funder and artist and in their common interests.  Drawing on my experience in Bangladesh, whilst on an Arts Council fellowship and on the experience of hosting artists at Westbury Farm, I will be asking questions about the role of artist as ambassador.
Are we making real shifts towards a universal understanding or serving a political agenda for the arts? Are we breaking down cultural preconceptions or continuing the colonialist culture? 

In the last half hour I will be showing a couple of short films]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jessica Rost</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - More Than a Thousand Words</title>
<description><![CDATA[This lecture will examine the challenges and opportunities of Multimedia Information Retrieval and corresponding search engine applications.

Computer technology has changed our access to information tremendously: 
We used to search authors or titles (which we had to know) in library cards in order to locate relevant books; now we can issue keyword searches within the full text of whole book repositories to identify the authors, titles and locations of relevant books. What about the corresponding challenge of finding multimedia by fragments, examples and excerpts?
Rather than asking for a music piece by artist and title, can we hum its tune to find it? Can doctors submit scans of a patient to identify medically similar images of diagnosed cases in a database? Can your mobile phone take a picture of a statue and tell you about its artist and significance via a service that it sends this picture to?

Some of the challenges of these questions are given by the semantic gap between what computers can index and high-level human concepts; related to this is an inherent technological limitation of automated annotation of images from pixels alone. Other challenges are given by polysemy, ie, the many meanings and interpretations that are inherent in visual material and the corresponding wide range of a user's information need. Stefan will argue that these challenges can be tackled by automated processing and machine learning and by utilising the skills of the user, for example through browsing or through a process that is called relevance feedback, thus putting the user at centre stage. Other automated processing methods that discover and disambiguate locations in wikipedia (an online, linked, multilingual and open content encyclopedia) will be shown to give surprising insights into the human nature of its view of the world.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof. Stefan Rueger</dc:creator>
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<title>April 2008 Inaugural Lecture - Is Religion History?</title>
<description><![CDATA[In this lecture Professor Wolffe will move beyond the truisms of the post-9/11 world, drawing particularly on his own expertise in modern British religious history and developing two central themes. First it will be argued that in order to achieve a balanced understanding of the place of religion in the contemporary world a strong historical perspective is essential. Second, the question posed by the title will be pursued at a methodological level. It will be argued that while secular historians are often neglectful of religion, and history can be distorted in the service of religious commitment, a constructive critical assimilation between the disciplines of History and Religious Studies has much to contribute to wider academic and religious understanding.

For further information on The Open Universityâ€™s inaugural lecture programme visit
http://www.open.ac.uk/inaugural-lectures/]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>prof John Wolffe</dc:creator>
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<title>RoboFestaâ€"UK Workshop - Session 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[10.00 am Welcome from Dr Ashley Green
10.05 am Torben Steeg and David Barlex â€œRobots and the curriculumâ€
10.55 am Bryan Williams â€œRobotics and the AQAâ€
11.25 am Clive Seager "Opportunities for robotics in the new Diplomas"]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>RoboFestaâ€"UK Workshop - Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[11.45 am Mark Walton â€œThe robotics curriculum at Belvidere Schoolâ€
12.05 pm Dave Catlin â€œThe ten principles of Educational Robotic Applicationsâ€
12.35 pm Mike Blamires  â€œThe e-Robot projectâ€]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>RoboFestaâ€"UK Workshop - Session 3</title>
<description><![CDATA[1.45 pm Mark Harmsworth â€œCurrent robotics perspective at KS2 and 3â€
2.05 pm Ian Johnston â€œTaking control: robotics for the new technology curriculumâ€
2.25 pm Adrian Marshall â€œRoboteers, teachers, and promoting maths and physicsâ€
2.45 pm Rob Widger â€œTeacher training in MINDSTORMSâ€
3.30 pm John Dobson â€œBridging the gap between electronics and technologyâ€
3.50 pm Jeffrey Johnson â€œRobotics education at The Open Universityâ€]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Human nature and human motivation - desire and temptation</title>
<description><![CDATA[The theme of the lecture is how we might gain insights into human nature by looking to the psychology of motivation. Professor Toates will consider various approaches to this issue, starting with that of B.F. Skinner and his utopian vision. He will then look at more recent ideas in psychology, including the distinction between 'wanting' and 'liking'. It will be suggested that human desires, failings and temptations can be better understood in terms of the layered organization of the brain. He will argue that recent developments in psychology lend support to much of the wisdom of philosophers, prophets and saints of past centuries.

Human Nature and Human Motivation.ppt]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Frederick Toates</dc:creator>
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<title>Developing an inclusive curriculum - Part 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[09.45 Welcome - Jane Wardale, Manager Planning and Curriculum

09.50 The importance of an inclusive and accessible curriculum - Professor Alan Tait, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Curriculum and Awards

10.05 How to build diversity into your curriculum: learning from Scottish institutions  - Rowena Arshad OBE, Director of the Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland and Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Edinburgh 

10.45 Case study 1: Starting with maths - Mrs Hilary Holmes, Course Production Chair

11.00 Case study 2: Archaeology, the science of investigation - Dr ArlÃ«ne Hunter, Course Team Chair 

11.15 Case study 3: The arts past and present - Dr Kim Woods, Course Team]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Developing an inclusive curriculum - Part 2 Q and A</title>
<description><![CDATA[11.30 Panel Q and A and discussion - chaired by Tony O Shea, Senior Manager Equality and Diversity

12.00 Close]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>MMKM Workshop - Session 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[09:45-10:15 Arrival, registration, coffee [in cafeteria, ground floor, Berrill Building]
10:15-10:30 Prof Stefan Rueger, The Open University Welcome and Information on the MMKM Network [Berrill lecture theatre]
10:30 Prof Frederic Fol Leymarie, Goldsmiths, University of London. The future of multimedia and the arts
11:00 Dr Alex Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University. The future of multimedia information retrieval
11:30 Prof Thomas Seidl, RWTH Aachen University. The future of multimedia databases and data mining

12:00-13:30 Lunch]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>MMKM Workshop - Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[13:30-15:30 position talks
13:30 Prof Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S, University of Hanover. So how can I ask for it?
14:00 Prof Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau. A Bright Future for Multimedia in the Semantic Web
14:30 Dr Ken Wood, Deputy Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge. Multimedia retrieval for real people
15:00 Prof Maja Pantic, Imperial College London. The future of multimedia and multimodal interfaces]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>MMKM Workshop - Session 3</title>
<description><![CDATA[16:10-16:40 Panel session: Future directions in Multimedia Knowledge Management with all speakers
16:40-16:50 Wrap-up and close]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>CEPSAR Lecture - Habitability</title>
<description><![CDATA[What do we mean by 'habitability' ? Habitability depends on the organisms that are considered and it is defined by the chemical and physical tolerances for a given organism. As we currently have no direct evidence for life on another planet, habitability is necessarily constrained by our knowledge of life on Earth. We use our knowledge of the extremes of life on Earth to assess extraterrestrial environments and the plausibility that they can support life. I will discuss the use and limitations of the concept of 'habitability' and provide examples of how we assess the habitability of other worlds using organisms from extreme environments on Earth. I will discuss how considerations of energy availability (redox couples), the presence of water and carbon sources have shaped our view of the habitability of other planets and will eventually be used to assess the habitability of extrasolar planets. The formulation of a definition of 'habitability' can greater assist us in defining the possibilities for life elsewhere.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof. Charles Cockell</dc:creator>
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<title>2007 CEPSAR Christmas Lecture - Extrasolar Planets and Extraterrestrial Life!</title>
<description><![CDATA[All Welcome!

The lecture is for Schools and Colleges. 

Prof. Done is an entertaining, enthusiastic speaker and she says the following about the lecture: How did life form on Earth and could there be life elsewhere in the Universe? Biology meets astronomy and physics to try to answer these questions, to see the science behind the science fiction!. 

There are still some tickets available (free of charge!), for tickets please email: cepsar@open.ac.uk

Note: This event will be available as a replay only]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof. Chris Done</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - The Age of Semantics</title>
<description><![CDATA[Professor Motta presents the current status and promise of this research area and will also situate these developments in the context of fifty years of research in Artificial Intelligence (AI). In particular, a long-standing research challenge in AI concerns the so-called "knowledge acquisition bottleneck".  Leaving aside the epistemological issues, this can be characterized in purely economic terms as an unfavourable trade-off between the cost of acquiring, modelling and maintaining the knowledge required by an intelligent system, versus the added value provided by this knowledge. In his lecture Professor Motta will argue that the emerging Semantic Web brings an unprecedented opportunity to address this long-term research challenge, by providing the large scale, massively distributed amounts of knowledge, which can enable the development of a new generation of intelligent systems. These will acquire dynamically from the Semantic Web the knowledge relevant to their problem solving needs, thus avoiding the brittleness characterizing earlier generations of knowledge-based systems.

Enrico Motta is Professor in Knowledge Technologies and Former Director (2000 - 2007) of the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) at the Open University in UK. Prof. Motta is one of the leading scientists in the world in the new field of the Semantic Web, which can be characterized as a large scale "web of data". 

For more information on Professor Motta and the Knowledge Media Institute go to: kmi.open.ac.uk]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof. Enrico Motta</dc:creator>
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<title>Pavis Lecture - A Sociologist in Politics</title>
<description><![CDATA[
	4.00pm Tea/Coffee - Berrill Cafe
	
	4.30pm Professor (the Lord) Giddens is widely recognised to be one of the world&#39;s leading social scientists and is known for his distinctive combination of scholarship with public and political engagement. He has published widely in many languages with his best known books including The Consequences of Modernity (1990), Modernity and Self-Identity (1991), The Transformation of Intimacy (1992), Beyond Left and Right (1994) and The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (1998). He was Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1997-2003 and became a member of the House of Lords in 2004. In 1999 he gave the BBC Reith lectures. &nbsp;en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Giddens
	The annual Open University Pavis lecture is organised by the Department of Sociology&iacute;s Pavis Centre which undertakes research concerned with the relations between culture and society. It was founded in 1993 with a bequest from former Open University student, the late James Pavis, a keen student of sociology and anthropology who wished to promote their study at the Open University.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Anthony Giddens</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Identities and Transitions: Youth and Development in Africa</title>
<description><![CDATA[The lecture will examine the challenges faced by young people in Africa in the construction of their identities. It will provide a synopsis of the multiple and complex roles young Africans play in contexts of political violence and profound social transformation. The lecture will consider the potential of youth, as a social category, to contribute to the development and prosperity of the continent. 

Alcinda Honwana is Professor and Chair in International Development at The Open University, and Director of the International Development Centre (IDC). She has taught at the University Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique, the University of Cape Town in South Africa and was a visiting Professor at the New School University in New York. Before joining the OU, Alcinda Honwana was Programme Director at the Social Science Research Council in New York where she directed the Programme on Africa and the Children and Armed Conflict Programme. She also worked as a Programme Officer at United Nations, in the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict in New York.

For further details on the International Development Centre (IDC) please visit their website: http://idc.open.ac.uk

Tea/Coffee served in the Berrill Foyer Area from 3.30pm. Buffet Reception afterwards in the Berrill Cafe Bar. 

All are welcome to attend.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Alcinda Honwana</dc:creator>
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<title>CEPSAR Lecture - Detection and characterisation of transiting extra-solar planets</title>
<description><![CDATA[Among more than 200 extra-solar planets discovered since 1995, the 20 or so that transit their host stars are of special importance.
Their radii and masses can be measured directly, and combined with structural models give important insights into their interior structures and formation histories. Their thermal-infrared radiation can be isolated as they pass behind the host star, giving us a glimpse of the thermal structure of their upper atmospheres, and their atmospheric transmission spectra probe their atmospheric chemistry. Professor Cameron will discuss progress with ambitious wide-field photometric surveys aimed at discovering dozens of such planets, and give an overview of present and future space missions that offer the prospect of characterising ice-giants and super-Earths in the same way.

Coffee will be available in the foyer from 1.30pm]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Andrew Collier Cameron</dc:creator>
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<title>Creating positive change for a gender-equal working and research culture - with a focus on Science, Maths, Computing and Technology</title>
<description><![CDATA[Whilst focused on Science, Engineering and Technology (SET), the learning and good practice shared during this event is likely to be relevant to the achievement of men and women in many units across the OU, so this event will appeal to anyone with responsibilities for implementing the OUâ€™s Gender Equality Scheme, or those interested in gender equality issues.  In particular, this event will help us to identify and address cultural practices and norms that might be perpetuating the under achievement of women in SET.

Background
The OU has been a partner since 2004, in the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (UKRC), a high profile government initiative to support women in SET.  An important area of their work has included supporting employers in HE, as well as industry to identify and overcome those workplace practices and norms of organisational culture, which might be preventing women in SET from achieving their potential.  Changing our culture will help us address horizontal and vertical gender based occupational segregation.

Purpose
The purpose of this event is to:Raise awareness of where we are on gender equality at the Open University.Share information about gender equality issues and initiatives nationally in Higher Education with a focus on SET.Share the expertise and good practice from the UKRC and JIVE projects.Inspire, encourage and enable senior staff to take a lead in tackling gender inequality within SET.Programme
Session 1

09.30	 Doors open. 

10.00 Welcome and introduction:  Clem Herman, Senior Lecturer, Department of Information and Communication Technologies and Dr Barbara Hodgson, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Educational Technologies.

10.10 Key note speaker 1:  Professor Brigid Heywood, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Staff) - the OU context, where we are now on gender equality, actions/initiatives being taken.

10.30 Key note speaker 2:  Norma Jarboe, Director, Opportunity Now - national gender issues, examples of best practice, current gender initiatives.
                          
10.50 Comfort break.

Session 2

11.00 Key note speaker 3:  Dr Sean McWhinnie, Manager, Science Policy, Royal Society of Chemistry â€" the work of the RSC around issues of Women in SET, and dissemination of good practice in the field.

11.20	 Key note speaker 4:  Professor Peter Main, Director, Education and Science, Institute of Physics â€" initiatives the IOP has implemented to change workplace culture.

11.40 Key note speaker 5: Julie Ashdown, Athena SWAN Charter Coordinator, Equality Challenge Unit - the Athena SWAN Charter initiative.

12.00 Questions and answers.               

12.20	 End of open sessions.

Links
The Open University website, equality and diversity. www.open.ac.uk/about/thiswebsite

UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology. www.setwomenresource.org.uk

JIVE. www.jivepartners.org.uk 

Opportunity Now. www.opportunitynow.org.uk

Royal Society of Chemistry. www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Policy/Documents

Institute of Physics. www.iop.org/activity/diversity


Athena SWAN Charter. www.royalsoc.ac.uk/athenaswan

Equality Challenge Unit. www.ecu.ac.uk/guidance/womenandmen/
and www.ecu.ac.uk/about/contact_staff.htm]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Forgiveness</title>
<description><![CDATA[Recent and less recent history alike show that forgiveness is a universal human value. Professor Chappell will look briefly at some recent research applying game theory to evolution that helps us to explain "from an external perspective" why this might be so. Can we also explain why forgiveness is a value, and what that value involves, "from an internal perspective"? The first obstacle to such an explanation is the notorious problem of free will and responsibility, which will be briefly considered. He will then consider a paradox about forgiveness and justice: where justice demands punishment, mustnÃ­t forgiveness be unjust? He will resolve this paradox by explaining the purpose of punishment. This is the vindication of the victim and of the moral order. Sometimes this vindication can be achieved via forgiveness instead of (or as well as) via punishment; in those cases, forgiveness is at least permitted and sometimes required by justice.

For further information on Professor Chappell and The Open University Ethics Centre visit: http://www.open.ac.uk/ethics-centre]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Tim Chappell</dc:creator>
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<title>STATE OF THE BOROUGH DEBATE - Session 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[PROGRAMME

5.00pm Welcome and Introduction
Welcome - Toby Friedner - BBC Three Counties Radio

Introduction - Isobel McCall, Chair of the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP)

5.10pm Milton Keynes in the National Context
Rt Rev Stephen Lowe â€" Bishop of Hulme and Bishop for Urban Life and Faith

5.25pm My Milton Keynes
An opportunity for the following speakers to give their view of Milton KeynesMichael SynnottJanet ShelleyChris Clarke to be interviewed by Rick TownsendPete WinkelmanYaw Asiyama6.05pm Key Challenges Facing Milton KeynesHow were these challenges identified6.15pm	Market Place/ RefreshmentsOpportunity to visit stalls presenting key challengesGraffiti Wall available for delegates to submit their comments about Milton KeynesTea and Coffee will  be available to delegates whilst visiting these stalls]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>STATE OF THE BOROUGH DEBATE - Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[PROGRAMME

6.45pm Panel Discussion on Key Challenges

Panellists to include:Chair - Toby FriednerJohn BestBarbara KennedyRt Rev Stephen LoweIsobel McCallRita SpadaMichael SynnottThere will be an opportunity for all delegates to participate through the use of voting buttons

7.55pm Summary of event and what happens - Geoff Snelson]]></description>
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<title>Sep 2007 Strategic Forum - International Literacy Day 2007</title>
<description><![CDATA[At least one billion people around the world can't read or write. In the Berrill Lecture  Theatre you can be part of forming the OU's contribution to the solution.

To mark International Literacy Day 2007, the Strategic Forum will hear from:

Mr Koichiro Matsuura (Director-General, UNESCO)
Mr Alan Wells OBE (Education Consultant)
Ms Julia Strong (National Literacy Trust)
Mr Adam Nichols (Changemakers)
Mr George MacFarlane (OUSA)
Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE (Chancellor of the OU).

The Strategic Forum is an opportunity for all staff and students in the University to  engage with the many critical issues surrounding literacy.

Presentations Available to view or download here:

Current Issues in UK Literacy by Alan Wells OBE
The Historical Context of Literacy by Professor David Vincent
What do Students Volunteer for by George Macfarlane]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - China, India and Africa â€" Threat</title>
<description><![CDATA[With 20% of the worldâ€™s population, China is now the worldâ€™s second-largest economy and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. India will have the worldâ€™s largest population by 2030, and has also grown very rapidly. It is less globalised than China, but is rapidly becoming more integrated into the global economy.

If current trends continue these two economies will transform the global economy, but with what implications for Africa?

Some of the opportunities such as increased trade and investment are easily recognised. But the threats are often less obvious and more indirect in nature. Chinaâ€™s manufactured exports crowd African producers out of global markets and the potential
offered by booming raw material prices often leads to war, instability and corruption. The quest for Africaâ€™s resources undermines global pressures promoting good governance.

This lecture will provide a synopsis of the range of challenges which China and India pose to SSA, and identify some of the ways in which opportunities can be maximised and threats minimised.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Raphael Kaplinsky</dc:creator>
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<title>Professor Trevor Herbert</title>
<description><![CDATA[10.00 â€" 10.30 Keynote Speaker Professor Trevor Herbert.
Bass Musical Instruments: Methods and Stories.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Clara Mancini &amp; Elia Tomadaki</title>
<description><![CDATA[11.00 â€" 13.00 Using Technology to Reduce the Carbon Footprint. (KMi mini conference)
Speakers: Clara Mancini &amp; Elia Tomadaki]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Clara Mancini Elia Tomadaki</dc:creator>
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<title>May 2007 Strategic Forum - Session 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[09.30-09.40 Welcome and introduction to the day Brenda Gourley, VC, The Open University.

09.40-10.40 Opening presentations (15 minutes each) Lord Puttnam, Professor Brad Hooker, Catherine Cameron, Dr John Drysdale

10.40-10.55 Coffee break

10.55-12.00 Panel discussion with the opening presenters.

12.00-12.30 The Open Universitys vision for the Ethics Centre: brief presentation and discussionTimothy Chappell


12.30-13.30 Lunch]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>May 2007 Strategic Forum - Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[13.30-13.55 Presentation: â€AIDS and the ethics of international development policyâ€ Jeremy Hunt MP

13.55-14.10 Discussion with respondent Lesley-Anne Cull

14.15-15.30 First three parallel sessions.Theme A: Reviewing the Stern Review Catherine Cameron and Chris BlackmoreTheme B: Ethical theory and moral practice Brad Hooker and Tim ChappellTheme C: Corruption and transparency Les Budd and John Drysdale15.30-15.45 Tea break

15.45-17.00 Second three parallel sessions: Theme A: Ethical issues in science Jeff Thomas and othersTheme B: Learning in Second Life: Real life ethical issues Kieron SheehyTheme C: Corporate social responsibility Anja Schaeffer and Aurora Voiculescu17.00-17.20 Closing reflections Richard Allen

17.20 Conference closes]]></description>
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<title>Fourth Oxdox International Festival - Round The World Screening</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Planet     
Directors: Michael Stenberg, Linus Torell, Johan Soderberg 
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sweden, Norway, Denmark 2006
Co-Production with SVT Sweden, NRK Norway, YLE Finland, DR TV Denmark

Twenty nine experts from around the world give their opinion about the state of Planet Earth in visually stunning images and commentary.  Their views on the consequences of the climatic, geographical and anthropological changes emerging now, demonstrate that a unique scenario is beginning to unfold, and witnessed globally. The film explores the latest facts and examples and leads us to the ultimate issue of how we will cope with the future.  The film is a wake up call to the world whilst we still have time to act.

Chiru
Director: Xiaoyen Men
Running Time: 10 minutes
Tibet 2007

The accompanying short film (12 minutes) is a premiere about the Antelope (Chiru) on the Tibetan Plateau.  Shot 16,000 feet up, including the first film of the highest railway in the world, it explores the dangers that face the antelope from human predators. The antelope is the symbol of the forthcoming Chinese Chinese Olympics.
Live IPTV Broadcast of the Question and Answers with participating cinemas.

This is the replay of the Question and Answers session involving the participating cinemas.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Models of Science Communication - how many can there be?</title>
<description><![CDATA[A guest lecture given by Brian Trench at the MSc Science Weekend School. Brian is head of the School of Communications, Dublin City University, and coordinator of the Masters in Science Communication at that University.

This lecture looks at the various communication models applied in science communication, presents a classification of these models according to various characteristics, and reviews the discussion in science communication circles about preferred models.  It will question whether the widespread view in these circles that science communication has moved along some supposed evolutionary path from one model (â€œdeficitâ€) to another (â€œdialogueâ€).  It will consider the social and political circumstances favouring particular approaches to science communication.  It will argue for a clearer articulation of the strategic choices facing those engaged in science communication practice, based on the possible co-existence of diverse communication models.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>CCIG Books Launch and Public Lecture - Session 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[Launch of books from members of CCIG. The new books of 13 members of the research centre will be featured. Two roundtable discussions, each lasting one hour, will draw on the authorsâ€™ work. 

The first, on Identities, includes Kath Woodward, Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Sarah Neal, Helen Lucey, Darren Langdridge and Wendy Hollway. It will be chaired by Professor Ann Phoenix who has just published a special issue of the European Journal of Womenâ€™s Studies on Intersectionality.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>CCIG Books Launch and Public Lecture - Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[Launch of books from members of CCIG. The new books of 13 members of the research centre will be featured. Two roundtable discussions, each lasting one hour, will draw on the authorsâ€™ work. 
  
The second, on Citizenship and Governance, includes John Clarke, Janet Newman, Mike Saward, Jef Huysmans, Margaret Wetherell, Celia Davies and Elizabeth Barnett. This will be chaired by Professor Engin Isin, who has just published the 10th anniversary issue of the journal, Citizenship Studies, which he co-edits.]]></description>
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<title>CCIG Books Launch and Public Lecture - Session 3</title>
<description><![CDATA[Launch of books from members of CCIG. The new books of 13 members of the research centre will be featured. Two roundtable discussions, each lasting one hour, will draw on the authorsâ€™ work. 

THIRD.]]></description>
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<title>Widening Participation and Race Equality Fair - Session 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[10.00am    Welcome â€" Will Swann, Director 

10.20am    Keynote address by John Storan, Co-Director, Action on Access

10.50am    Keynote address by Robert Berkeley, Deputy Director, Runnymede Trust  

11.20am    Short break]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Widening Participation and Race Equality Fair - Session 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[11.30am    Panel discussion

12.30am    Folktales from Igboland â€" storytelling by FranÃ§oise and Clifford Ugochukwu 

1.00pm    Close]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>MMKM Workshop - Morning session</title>
<description><![CDATA[1020: Introduction and welcome (Stefan Rueger)

1030: Industry talks

1330: Posters from academic institutions

1500: coffee &amp; refreshments]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>MMKM Workshop - Afternoon Session</title>
<description><![CDATA[1520: Industry talks]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>2006 CEPSAR Christmas Lecture - The Mechanics of Space Exploration</title>
<description><![CDATA[Many mechanical examples of Newton's laws of motion and the nature of our 'clockwork' universe will be demonstrated. These laws have enabled us to venture out into space and explore other worlds. The Voyager Mission to the outer planets will be examined, and the slingshot effect, which enabled the Voyager spacecraft to reach their destinations in a fraction of the time taken by a direct route, will be explained and demonstrated. Finally, how likely are we to reach our nearest star in this millennium?

OU staff and students are most welcome to attend the 11 am presentation. 
To book a seat, please e-mail Tracey Ward]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dr Cyril Isenberg</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - What are Open Universities for?</title>
<description><![CDATA[The question 'what are Open Universities for?' may seem unnecessary after some 30 years of their existence, now established in many countries around the world. It may even seem impudent. The central proposition of the lecture will be that the question is and remains an essential one to ask. The main intended outcome will be to demonstrate that point rather than to answer the question in detail (although some answers will be given). The proposition will be explored using a range of examples across time and place from major higher education distance teaching interventions.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Alan Tait</dc:creator>
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<title>Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) seminar series - Interdisciplinarity in Technology Enhanced Learning</title>
<description><![CDATA[What is the difference between interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity?Does it matter?Can you engineer interdisciplinarity or can it only arise spontaneously?What about funding for interdisciplinary work? These and other issues raised by the audience will be the focus of discussion by a panel that will include Prof. Alan Bundy, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh; Prof. Yvonne Rogers, Department of Computing, The Open University; Dr Annamaria Carusi, Oxford University Computing Laboratory.
 
The session will have an 'Any Questions' format after short presentations by the guest speakers. If you have a query you would like the panel to address, please email it to Josie Taylor

You can register at: TEL Events

About the seminar series:
On behalf of EPSRC and ESRC, the Teaching and Learning Research Programme is supporting the development of a new interdisciplinary UK research community on TEL. Two Â£6m rounds of project commissioning have been planned, together with associated capacity building activities.  The second competition is expected to be announced in spring 2007.  

This seminar series focuses on key research issues and criteria in the funding competitions. Attendance at any seminar is open to all UK researchers or users with an interest in research on TEL, subject to places being available.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Josie Taylor</dc:creator>
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<title>CEPSAR LECTURE - Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission</title>
<description><![CDATA[Steve Squyres is the Mars Exploration Rover Principal Investigator at Cornell University and he will be giving this Lecture. 

Two solar-powered rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been used to conduct robotic field geology on the surface of Mars. They touched down on Mars in January of 2004, and since then they have conducted extensive observations with the Athena science payloads that they both carry. The two rovers have operated for more than ten times their design lifetime, and together have traversed more than 16 km across the martian surface.

Spirit, located on the floor of Gusev crater, has made measurements on basaltic plains, and also on more ancient materials in the Columbia Hills. At Meridiani Planum, Opportunity has carried out the first outcrop-scale investigation of ancient sedimentary rocks on Mars.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof. Steven Squyres</dc:creator>
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<title>Robofesta-UK - Part 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[10.00am - Morning Session Start of Webcast
12.30pm - End of Webcast

Educators, academic researchers and industry representatives met at the Open University on Thursday 2nd November to discuss the development of RoboFesta-UK, an exciting nationwide initiative to help children learn about science, engineering, technology and mathematics through building and experimenting with robots.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Robofesta-UK - Part 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[10.00am - Morning Session Start of Webcast
12.30pm - End of Webcast

Educators, academic researchers and industry representatives met at the Open University on Thursday 2nd November to discuss the development of RoboFesta-UK, an exciting nationwide initiative to help children learn about science, engineering, technology and mathematics through building and experimenting with robots.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Speaking, Thinking and Education</title>
<description><![CDATA[One of Professor Messerâ€™s current interests concerns children who have language difficulties involving word finding. These children show slower retrieval of words, use of fillers (um, err), use of general terms (stuff). The difficulties appear to affect at least a quarter of children receiving language therapy and result in social and learning problems. He aims to show that by carefully studying the childrenâ€™s cognitive abilities we can gain insights into the reasons for their difficulties, and this will help us understand other forms of language and reading disability. 

Another of his research interest concerns the way that childrenâ€™s thinking develops. All of us experience difficulty when expressing some forms of knowledge in speech - for example how to ride a bike. What has fascinated him is the progression from thinking that is not available to consciousness, to more advanced forms that enable us to explain something. He will present findings drawn from investigations of primary school pupils that explore the importance of different levels of thinking and show how these can impact on childrenâ€™s ability to learn.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof David Messer</dc:creator>
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<title>Developers Workshop - Part 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[This was a joint event promoted by Maths &amp; Computing and IBM.
It was a mixture of talks and demonstrations about software and systems

Presentars were:
David Clover, Maja Dunn - Open University
Ian Stewart, Zoe Potter - infosys
Adrian Hollister, lalit Mohanty and Simon Bradford - IBM]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Developers Workshop - Part 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[This was a joint event promoted by Maths &amp; Computing and IBM.
It was a mixture of talks and demonstrations about software and systems

Presentars were:
David Clover, Maja Dunn - Open University
Ian Stewart, Zoe Potter - infosys
Adrian Hollister, lalit Mohanty and Simon Bradford - IBM]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Developers Workshop - Part 3</title>
<description><![CDATA[This was a joint event promoted by Maths &amp; Computing and IBM.
It was a mixture of talks and demonstrations about software and systems

Presentars were:
David Clover, Maja Dunn - Open University
Ian Stewart, Zoe Potter - infosys
Adrian Hollister, lalit Mohanty and Simon Bradford - IBM]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Pavis Lecture - When Species Meet</title>
<description><![CDATA[Exploring philosophical, historical, cultural, personal, technoscientific, and biological aspects of animal-human inter- and intra-actions.

The Lecture will end with a discussion and followed by a reception from 6.00pm - 7.00pm.

All Welcome
Admission Free

The event has been organised by the Sociology Department's Pavis Centre.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Donna Haraway</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural lecture - Mark Fenton-O'Creevy</title>
<description><![CDATA[Ideas and practices travel but they don't always travel well. In the world of business people often talk about knowledge transfer as if knowledge were a thing which can be lifted out of one context and placed in another. However, as ideas and practices travel from one context to another they require translation and are often corrupted.

In this lecture Mark Fenton-O'Creevy will look at three contexts in which ideas and practices travel.

His lecture will look first at the travel of ideas across national boundaries and will draw on research into the translation of management ideas between countries with different cultures and different social and economic institutions. Many argue that globalization has brought about a cross-national convergence of management practices. However, while capitalism has become a dominant economic mode around the world, it is practiced in many different forms. Drawing on research in this area he will argue that the extent of convergence is often overstated.

The second area he will consider is the translation between academic practice and workplace practice. Using examples from research on the role of traders in investment banks and from his period as Director of the centre for Practice Based Professional Learning, he will argue that Higher Education needs less focus on knowledge acquisition and a much greater focus on enabling students to learn the skills of translating ideas into new contexts.

Finally the lecture will touch on the travel of management ideas and practices from the private sector to the public sector. Using examples from higher education he will argue that, while such ideas may on occasion translate successfully, they are often either corrupted as they are bent to serve the status quo or are adopted for mainly rhetorical purposes.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Mark Fenton O'Creevey</dc:creator>
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<title>New Europe, New Energy: - Part 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[9.30 Registration and coffee Berrill Foyer

10.00 Introduction to the day
Chair: Professor David Elliott, OU Energy
and Environment Research Unit

10.05 Opening Address
Richard Brooks, Head of Business Development, DTI 2010 Target Team

10.15 Session 1: Setting the political scene
10.15 Eryl McNally, Chair, National Energy Foundation.
10.25 Claire Ball, Assistant Director, Emerging Industries and Technology Unit, DTI

10.35 Professor Jim Skea, Director, UK Energy Research Centre

10.45 Session 2: Case Studies of RES in the New EU Member Countries	
10.45 ROMANIA - Restructuring the Energy Sector in Romania 
Cristian Tantareanu, Romania Centre for Promotion of Clean and Efficient Energy

10.55 LITHUANIA - Report on renewable energy in Lithuania
since accession
Marijus Franckevicius, Energy Agency

11.05 CENTRAL &amp; EASTERN EUROPE AND TURKEY - The Role of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) 
                       Judit Balint, Climate Change Programme, Energy Centre for Central &amp; Eastern Europe

11.15              CZECH REPUBLIC - Development of support system for RES-E in the Czech Republic
                       Jaroslav Jakubes, Enviros

11.25              Coffee]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>New Europe, New Energy: - Part 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[11.50 UKRAINE - Sustainable Energy Development in Ukraine
Dr.Victor Kyrylenko, British Council

12.00 POLAND - Polish sustainable energy: a country overview
Gerard Lipinski, Ministry of Economy

12.10 ESTONIA - Wind Energy in Estonia
Martin Kruus, Pakri Windpark

12.20 SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE - The Energy Community Treaty
Dr. Helene Ryding, Independent consultant

12.30 Q &amp; A and discussion

13.00 Lunch
Berrill Foyer]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>New Europe, New Energy: - Part 3</title>
<description><![CDATA[14.00 Session 3: Supporting RES in Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: John Buckley, DTI Renewable Energy Trade Promotion Service

14.05 Prospects for Renewables in the New EU Member States
Mike Rand, European Bank for Reconstruction &amp; Development.

14.15 Case studies presented by UK Companies:
Jacquie Berry, AEA Technology:Marcus Gover, Biojoule:Neil Atkinson, Garrad Hassan15.00 NGO ability to influence demand for renewables
Gunnar Boye Olesen, International Network for Sustainable Energy

15.10 DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS

15.40 Coffee]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>New Europe, New Energy: - Part 4</title>
<description><![CDATA[16.10 Session 4: Future prospects

Discussion with Panel members

Gunnar Boye Olesen, International Network for Sustainable Energy
Claire Ball, DTI

Dr Helene Ryding, Independent Consultant
Eryl McNally, NEF

16.20 Questions to the Panel

16.55 Round up and close from the Chair

17.00 Conference end - refreshments available in foyer]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Oral History in the UK Being an oral historian: the route from the margins to the centre</title>
<description><![CDATA[Oral history, the investigation of the past through memory, has never been more popular. Family history, local history, the story of empire, the professions, migration, parliamentary history, science and medicine, the fire service, the stage, what we eat, buy, create, design, conflict, combat, oppression, there's no shortage of people ready to interview eye-witnesses or of people ready to tell. Audiences are world-wide, no longer local or specialist, they're global and accessible at the tap of a keyboard. It hasn't always been so. Oral history in the UK began as an organized endeavour over forty years ago in quite different technological and political circumstances. Oral historians were on the margins of academe and of society and though we railed at our exclusion, we revelled in our singularity. We were the people who enabled talk of remembered pasts, challenging and disturbing official and dominant accounts. Now we've moved from the margins to the centre, what does this mean for oral history and oral historians? Have we done our work and is it time to move on to other things, or does being in the centre offer us new and exciting challenges?

Professor Bornat will argue that while the centre is an attractive place to be, it presents problems for oral historians who hold to their original mission of disturbance and challenge. We championed people who were marginalised out of history; there are new margins created ever day, new arguments to stir up. From this new position for oral history she will point to the future while looking back at the past.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Joanna Bornat</dc:creator>
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<title>Moodle Moot Conference - Part 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[09:00 - 09:15 Conference day 2 introduction by Sean M Keogh, Founder and Organiser of MoodleMoot 

09:15 - 11:00 Keynote - Martin Dougiamas, Moodle.com - Founder and Lead Developer of Moodle]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Moodle Moot Conference - Part 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[11:30 - 12:15 Glasgow University E-Learning team - Three years of Moodling:  Meandering or Mountain Climbing?

12:15 - 13:00 Tamara vanova, Anna Vanova, Masarysk university Czech Republic - You CAN teach an Old Dog New Tricks (...If you have Moodle)]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Moodle Moot Conference - Part 3</title>
<description><![CDATA[14:15 - 15:00 Howard Ramsay, University of Strathclyde - Moodle masters: setting up and running Masters degrees to be run entirely at a distance. 

15:15  - 15:45 Closing addresses from Martin Dougiamas and Sean Keogh]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Moodle Moot conference - Part 1</title>
<description><![CDATA[09:00 - 09:15 Conference introduction by Sean M Keogh, Founder and Organiser of Moodlemoot

09:15 - 10:00 Keynote - Niall Sclater - VLE Programme Director for The Open University, UK 

10:15 - 11:00 Richard Wyles, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand - "Moodle in New Zealand"  - a reference model for broad-based collaboration]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Moodle Moot Conference - Part 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[11:30 - 12:15 Richard Treves, Southampton University - Video Podcasting, Open Courses and Moodle

12:15 - 13:00 Stephen Musgrave, Blackpool &amp; The Fylde College - Moodle, Poodle?  doodle; A tale of the city and the citadel]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Moodle Moot Conference - Part 3</title>
<description><![CDATA[14:00 - 14:45 Keynote - Jason Cole, Open University - Open Source / Open Content / Open University

15:00 - 15:45 Steve Hyndman, Eastern Kentucky University - Moodle as a department website and student ePortfolio Portal:  Our successes, challenges and future direction.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Moodle Moot Conference - Part 4</title>
<description><![CDATA[16:15 - 17:00 Derek Briton, Athabasca University, Canada - Leveraging Moodle in support of inquiry-based, student-centred learning]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>CEPSAR Lecture - Life in the Undergrowth</title>
<description><![CDATA[Sir David Attenborough's CEPSAR lecture entitled "Life in the Undergrowth" is now available for viewing as streaming video. In his fascinating talk, delivered in his usual relaxed and engaging style, Sir David recounted the changes in technology he has seen over his 50 years or more of natural history broadcasting. These innovations have allowed ever more intimate views of wildlife to be captured and often allowed the viewer to gain important insights into an animal's perspective on the world. His lecture was punctuated by film clips dating back to his early attempts to capture the displays of Birds of Paradise in Papua New Guinea using clockwork 16 mm black and while film cameras and asynchronous sound, to the real-time miniaturised colour video cameras attached to animals as diverse as sharks and eagles.

Introduction by Prof. Brenda Gourley, Vice-Chancellor, The Open University.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sir David Attenborough</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Doing Theory: political representation</title>
<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to 'do theory', or to be a theorist? The lecture will reflect on how real-world political examples, and unexpected sources of ideas, can inspire theories. The example of political representation - a topic receiving a great deal of attention in both the theory and practice of politics today - will be used to illustrate the often messy process of building, and knocking down, political theories. In particular, the lecture will explore the issue of who has the right to speak for us in political matters.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof Michael Saward</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural lecture - The Social Life of Networks</title>
<description><![CDATA[This lecture is about the impact of the Internet on our society. Why has the network been such a disruptive force? What are the origins, dimensions and implications of this disruption? What are the technological, economic and social explanations for it? And where is it heading? Drawing on his experience as an historian of the network, John Naughton seeks to explain how a geeks' "network of computer networks" came to have such a transformative impact on industry, government and social behaviour.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof John Naughton</dc:creator>
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<title>Robin Mason - H802 its history and achievements</title>
<description><![CDATA[In its eight-year life, H802 has been particularly successful and innovatory.  Many course participants have built 

on their experience as H802 students, and associate lecturers, to innovate in the fields of education where they 

work as professionals. H802 and the MAODE are part of the professional development of many elearning professionals. 

 The course has had a significant impact on elearning practices globally, and lessons learned from it inform the 

design of new courses in the MAODE programme and elsewhere.

H802: a core course in the MA in Online and Distance Education (MAODE), had its last presentation in 2005. January 

2006 is a good time to review the experience of a generation of elearning practice through the lens of this course. 

This one-day symposium is a chance to celebrate the influence of H802 across its eight year life, though the 

experiences of those who studied it, taught on it, and researched aspects of it.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Bill McNeill - What I learned from H802 and the MAODE - the student experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[In its eight-year life, H802 has been particularly successful and innovatory.  Many course participants have built 

on their experience as H802 students, and associate lecturers, to innovate in the fields of education where they 

work as professionals. H802 and the MAODE are part of the professional development of many elearning professionals. 

 The course has had a significant impact on elearning practices globally, and lessons learned from it inform the 

design of new courses in the MAODE programme and elsewhere.

H802: a core course in the MA in Online and Distance Education (MAODE), had its last presentation in 2005. January 

2006 is a good time to review the experience of a generation of elearning practice through the lens of this course. 

This one-day symposium is a chance to celebrate the influence of H802 across its eight year life, though the 

experiences of those who studied it, taught on it, and researched aspects of it.]]></description>
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<title>Gill Clough - What I learned from H802 and the MAODE - the student experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[In its eight-year life, H802 has been particularly successful and innovatory.  Many course participants have built 

on their experience as H802 students, and associate lecturers, to innovate in the fields of education where they 

work as professionals. H802 and the MAODE are part of the professional development of many elearning professionals. 

 The course has had a significant impact on elearning practices globally, and lessons learned from it inform the 

design of new courses in the MAODE programme and elsewhere.

H802: a core course in the MA in Online and Distance Education (MAODE), had its last presentation in 2005. January 

2006 is a good time to review the experience of a generation of elearning practice through the lens of this course. 

This one-day symposium is a chance to celebrate the influence of H802 across its eight year life, though the 

experiences of those who studied it, taught on it, and researched aspects of it.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Brian Joyce - What I learned from H802 - the tutor experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[In its eight-year life, H802 has been particularly successful and innovatory.  Many course participants have built 

on their experience as H802 students, and associate lecturers, to innovate in the fields of education where they 

work as professionals. H802 and the MAODE are part of the professional development of many elearning professionals. 

 The course has had a significant impact on elearning practices globally, and lessons learned from it inform the 

design of new courses in the MAODE programme and elsewhere.

H802: a core course in the MA in Online and Distance Education (MAODE), had its last presentation in 2005. January 

2006 is a good time to review the experience of a generation of elearning practice through the lens of this course. 

This one-day symposium is a chance to celebrate the influence of H802 across its eight year life, though the 

experiences of those who studied it, taught on it, and researched aspects of it.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Helen Chappel-Hayios - What I learned from H802 - the tutor experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[In its eight-year life, H802 has been particularly successful and innovatory.  Many course participants have built 

on their experience as H802 students, and associate lecturers, to innovate in the fields of education where they 

work as professionals. H802 and the MAODE are part of the professional development of many elearning professionals. 

 The course has had a significant impact on elearning practices globally, and lessons learned from it inform the 

design of new courses in the MAODE programme and elsewhere.

H802: a core course in the MA in Online and Distance Education (MAODE), had its last presentation in 2005. January 

2006 is a good time to review the experience of a generation of elearning practice through the lens of this course. 

This one-day symposium is a chance to celebrate the influence of H802 across its eight year life, though the 

experiences of those who studied it, taught on it, and researched aspects of it.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Agnes Kukulska-Hulme - What I learned from H802 and the MAODE - the research experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[In its eight-year life, H802 has been particularly successful and innovatory.  Many course participants have built 

on their experience as H802 students, and associate lecturers, to innovate in the fields of education where they 

work as professionals. H802 and the MAODE are part of the professional development of many elearning professionals. 

 The course has had a significant impact on elearning practices globally, and lessons learned from it inform the 

design of new courses in the MAODE programme and elsewhere.

H802: a core course in the MA in Online and Distance Education (MAODE), had its last presentation in 2005. January 

2006 is a good time to review the experience of a generation of elearning practice through the lens of this course. 

This one-day symposium is a chance to celebrate the influence of H802 across its eight year life, though the 

experiences of those who studied it, taught on it, and researched aspects of it.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Robin Goodfellow - What I learned from H802 and the MAODE - the research experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[In its eight-year life, H802 has been particularly successful and innovatory.  Many course participants have built 

on their experience as H802 students, and associate lecturers, to innovate in the fields of education where they 

work as professionals. H802 and the MAODE are part of the professional development of many elearning professionals. 

 The course has had a significant impact on elearning practices globally, and lessons learned from it inform the 

design of new courses in the MAODE programme and elsewhere.

H802: a core course in the MA in Online and Distance Education (MAODE), had its last presentation in 2005. January 

2006 is a good time to review the experience of a generation of elearning practice through the lens of this course. 

This one-day symposium is a chance to celebrate the influence of H802 across its eight year life, though the 

experiences of those who studied it, taught on it, and researched aspects of it.]]></description>
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<title>Chris Pegler - What I learned from H802 and the MAODE - the research experience</title>
<description><![CDATA[In its eight-year life, H802 has been particularly successful and innovatory.  Many course participants have built 

on their experience as H802 students, and associate lecturers, to innovate in the fields of education where they 

work as professionals. H802 and the MAODE are part of the professional development of many elearning professionals. 

 The course has had a significant impact on elearning practices globally, and lessons learned from it inform the 

design of new courses in the MAODE programme and elsewhere.

H802: a core course in the MA in Online and Distance Education (MAODE), had its last presentation in 2005. January 

2006 is a good time to review the experience of a generation of elearning practice through the lens of this course. 

This one-day symposium is a chance to celebrate the influence of H802 across its eight year life, though the 

experiences of those who studied it, taught on it, and researched aspects of it.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Questions and answers - A CELEBRATION OF INNOVATION</title>
<description><![CDATA[In its eight-year life, H802 has been particularly successful and innovatory.  Many course participants have built on their experience as H802 students, and associate lecturers, to innovate in the fields of education where they work as professionals. H802 and the MAODE are part of the professional development of many elearning professionals.  The course has had a significant impact on elearning practices globally, and lessons learned from it inform the design of new courses in the MAODE programme and elsewhere.

H802: a core course in the MA in Online and Distance Education (MAODE), had its last presentation in 2005. January 2006 is a good time to review the experience of a generation of elearning practice through the lens of this course. This one-day symposium is a chance to celebrate the influence of H802 across its eight year life, though the experiences of those who studied it, taught on it, and researched aspects of it.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Engineering workplace cultures: men's spaces and (in)visible women? - This lecture is given as part of  a special event to launch the course: Science, engineering and technology: a course for women returners ( T160).</title>
<description><![CDATA[Presenter: Dr Wendy Faulkner

The lecture will be introduced by Annette Williams, Director of the UK Resource Centre for Women in SET.

The lecture  is based on an ESRC funded ethnographic study entitled; Genders in/of Engineering. 
Dr Faulkner has been working on gender and technology issues for 15 years, and on industrial innovation. She teaches sociology of technology on the Edinburgh University Post-graduate programme on Science and Technology Studies The aim of this research project is to examine in detail various ways in which professional engineering may be 'gendered'. In particular, it addresses the premise that the retention and progression of women engineers is impaired because the occupational practices, cultures and identities of engineering are more comfortable for their male colleagues. In contrast to research on women engineers, the focus of this study is therefore on engineering as a community, and on how it comes to be 'coded' and experienced as masculine. This focus is justified on theoretical as well as policy grounds, since engineering represents a powerful emblem of pervasive and (apparently) durable symbolic equations between technology and masculinity in our culture. 
The research brings for the first time a gender-aware gaze to the investigation of engineers and their work. The project is framed by an understanding of gender as actively 'performed' and 'constituted' in a range of often subtle and contradictory everyday practices. Accordingly, it investigates engineering work practices (work organization, interaction and collaboration, career patterns and status, 'styles' of work); engineering cultures (ways of thinking and talking, shared values and perspectives, 'belonging' as an engineer, shared humour); and engineers' identities and subjective experiences (backgrounds, feelings about the job and about technology, professional and other identities, out-of-work lives).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>CEPSAR special lecture - Life on a Young Planet</title>
<description><![CDATA[Members of the Knoll lab are broadly interested in the evolution of life, the evolution of Earth surface environments, and the relationships between the two. We are particularly interested in Archean and Proterozoic paleontology and biogeochemistry; however, both past and current projects include investigations of selected problems in Phanerozoic Earth history. Motivating evolutionary issues include the diversification of prokaryotic metabolisms on the Precambrian Earth, the initial radiation of eukaryotic life, and the rise of large complex algae and animals near the end of the Proterozoic Eon. Current projects that address these issues include coupled paleontological/biogeochemical work on late Archean basins from southern Africa and Australia, mid-Proterozoic basins in Australia, and Neoproterozoic-Cambrian successions in northern Russia and Australia. In a genuine extension of this research, we are also involved actively in Mars exploration, both as part of the 2004 MER missions and in planning for future landings. In other work, our lab is engaged in studies of Triassic recovery from end-Permian mass extinction and, more broadly, in an effort to apply physiological insights to problems of Paleozoic biological and environmental evolution. Specific research in the latter area includes combined microchemical/anatomical analyses designed to provide quantitative estimates of whole plant physiological performance in extinct vascular plants.

More information please visit the CEPSAR website cepsar.open.ac.uk]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2005 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Professor Andrew Knoll</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Probing the Molecular World; Adventures with Electrons and Light</title>
<description><![CDATA[We live in a molecular world; a nano-scale world in which molecules are constantly interacting with one another and external stimuli to produce physical and chemical processes that influence the macroscopic world around us. The formation of molecules in the interstellar medium; the processes that lead to the destruction of ozone in the terrestrial atmosphere; the engineering that underpins the construction of semiconductor chips and the mechanisms that lead to radiation damage of DNA - all are controlled by molecular processes. Understanding such molecular interactions and devising new techniques that allow them to be manipulated and controlled remains one of the greatest challenges for modern research and underpins the development of many of the new technologies for the 21st century.

This talk will describe how Professor Mason's research on electron and photon interactions with molecules has revealed that it is possible to control the excitation and dissociation of molecules through the adaptation of selective cleavage of chemical bonds. Such 'single molecule engineering' provides exciting new opportunities that can now be exploited by both the research and technological communities and may even help explain the origins of life itself!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof. Brenda Gourley Professor Nigel Mason</dc:creator>
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<title>CEPSAR special lecture - A frozen ocean on Mars. A habitat for life?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Images taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft, currently orbiting Mars show a frozen body of water, less than 5 million years old, about the size of the North Sea beneath the surface of Mars. Dr Murray is the lead author of a paper in Nature and has been working with the Mars Express imaging team. It is becoming increasingly possible that this area may have supported life in the recent geological past and the area also coincides with the most significant current methane fluxes and therefore may be an environment where life continues to thrive. This considerably raises the need to return to Mars with analytical packages capable of identifying biologically produced methane and even drill down to the remnant water.

More information on the discovery is on the CEPSAR website cepsar.open.ac.uk]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dr John Murray</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Living in the sun: Residence abroad and university language learning</title>
<description><![CDATA[There are more than six billion language learners in the world, of whom only a minority suffer from the disability of monolingualism. As the very nature of higher education is changed by processes including globalisation, marketisation, massification, Englishisation and infantilisation, the number of international students is set to rise in two decades from 1.8 to 7.2 million a year. This challenging and wide-ranging lecture will address the research issues raised by student residence abroad within degree programmes, and review the complex of factors which influence the learning outcomes of residence abroad.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof. Brenda Gourley Professor James Coleman</dc:creator>
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<title>Session two - Pannel Discusson</title>
<description><![CDATA[A range of experts will explore the key technical, economic and strategic issues surrounding the proposed expansion of nuclear energy. Although pro- and anti- nuclear arguments will be discussed, the main aim is to set the debate in the wider context: what is the best way to deal with energy supply and demand in relation to climate change?

Chair: Prof Andy Blowers


The Conference will conclude with a Panel discussion with Steve Kidd, Jean McSorley, Geoff Hammond and Philip Wolfe]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Session one - Alternatives</title>
<description><![CDATA[A range of experts will explore the key technical, economic and strategic issues surrounding the proposed expansion of nuclear energy. Although pro- and anti- nuclear arguments will be discussed, the main aim is to set the debate in the wider context: what is the best way to deal with energy supply and demand in relation to climate change?

Chair: Prof. David Elliott

Paul Allen (Renewables not Nuclear)
David Green (Energy Efficiency) 
Godfrey Boyle (Sustainable Energy Futures)
Discussant: Prof. David Infield, followed by discussion and questions]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Session One - Nuclear Power</title>
<description><![CDATA[A range of experts will explore the key technical, economic and strategic issues surrounding the proposed expansion of nuclear energy. Although pro- and anti- nuclear arguments will be discussed, the main aim is to set the debate in the wider context: what is the best way to deal with energy supply and demand in relation to climate change?

Nuclear Power: (10.30am)
Chair: Prof Andy Blowers

Introduction: Rt Hon Michael Meacher MP
Malcolm Grimston (Do we need nuclear?)
Discussant: Prof. Geoff Hammond]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Session Two - Nuclear Power</title>
<description><![CDATA[A range of experts will explore the key technical, economic and strategic issues surrounding the proposed expansion of nuclear energy. Although pro- and anti- nuclear arguments will be discussed, the main aim is to set the debate in the wider context: what is the best way to deal with energy supply and demand in relation to climate change?

Chair: Prof Andy Blowers

Specific Issues:Gordon MacKerron (economics)
Ian Fairlie (radiation hazards)
David Lowry (security issues) 
Steve Kidd (new nuclear technologies) 
Discussant: Prof. Gregg Butler, followed by discussion and questions]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Identities, Relationality and the Psychosocial: Different Journeys to the Same Place?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Programme
In the first half of the inaugural event, each Professor will take 15 minutes to examine aspects of what it means to take a psychosocial approach to understanding identities and in the process the different emphases, as well as what each of the approaches have in common, will become apparent. In the second half of the programme, after a half hour refreshment break, they will each provide a more detailed illustration of what is particular about their research interests and writing. The event will be introduced by the Vice-Chancellor of the Open University, Professor Brenda Gourley, and closed with a few words by Professor Stephen Frosh, Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Research, Birkbeck College, University of London.

3.00 - 3.30	Tea on arrival	 
3.30 - 3.40	Introduction from the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gourley	 
3.40 - 3.55	Introduction from all three Professors	 
3.55 - 4.10	Relationality, Professor Wetherell	 
4.10 - 4.25	Identities, Professor Phoenix	 
4.25 - 4.40	Subjectivity, Professor Hollway	 
Break	 	 
5.10 - 5.25	The Discursive Turn, Professor Wetherell	 
5.25 - 5.40	Everyday Life and Social Policy, Professor Phoenix	 
5.40 - 5.55	Becoming a Mother and the Capacity to Care, Professor Hollway	 
5.55 - 6.05	Concluding Commentary, Professor Stephen Frosh, Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Research, Birkbeck College]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof. Brenda Gourley Professor Margie Wetherell Professor Ann Phoenix Professor Wendy Hollway Professor Stephen Frosh</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Identities, Relationality and the Psychosocial: Different Journeys to the Same Place?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Programme
In the first half of the inaugural event, each Professor will take 15 minutes to examine aspects of what it means to take a psychosocial approach to understanding identities and in the process the different emphases, as well as what each of the approaches have in common, will become apparent. In the second half of the programme, after a half hour refreshment break, they will each provide a more detailed illustration of what is particular about their research interests and writing. The event will be introduced by the Vice-Chancellor of the Open University, Professor Brenda Gourley, and closed with a few words by Professor Stephen Frosh, Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Research, Birkbeck College, University of London.

3.00 - 3.30	Tea on arrival	 
3.30 - 3.40	Introduction from the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gourley	 
3.40 - 3.55	Introduction from all three Professors	 
3.55 - 4.10	Relationality, Professor Wetherell	 
4.10 - 4.25	Identities, Professor Phoenix	 
4.25 - 4.40	Subjectivity, Professor Hollway	 
Break	 	 
5.10 - 5.25	The Discursive Turn, Professor Wetherell	 
5.25 - 5.40	Everyday Life and Social Policy, Professor Phoenix	 
5.40 - 5.55	Becoming a Mother and the Capacity to Care, Professor Hollway	 
5.55 - 6.05	Concluding Commentary, Professor Stephen Frosh, Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Research, Birkbeck College]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof. Brenda Gourley Professor Margie Wetherell Professor Ann Phoenix Professor Wendy Hollway Professor Stephen Frosh</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Doubly secret history and the modernism of mathematics</title>
<description><![CDATA[Much of the life of modern mathematics is revealed in its history, and much of that history has been discovered in the last forty years. In particular, we can begin to see the arrival of modern mathematics as a cultural Modernism, and deepen our understanding of the nature of mathematics and its place in modern life.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof. Brenda Gourley Professor Jeremy Gray</dc:creator>
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<title>&quot;Huygens&quot; - A first look at Titan</title>
<description><![CDATA[After an interplanetary journey of 7 1/4  years, the European Space Agency's probe Huygens landed on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, having been released from NASA's Cassini spacecraft last Christmas Day. Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury, is the only planetary satellite in the entire Solar System to possess a significant atmosphere. Most interestingly, it appears that Titan's atmosphere is the site of a whole range of chemical reactions which produce increasingly complex hydrocarbon molecules. Similar reactions in Earth's early atmosphere over 4 billion years ago led to the conditions under which simple life evolved. The journey of the Huygens probe will be described as well as its final dramatic plunge to the surface. Very early results will be presented with emphasis on The Open University's contribution.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Professor John Zarnecki</dc:creator>
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<title>Inaugural Lecture - Making Mountains - Causes and Consequences</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Tibetan Plateau is a region about the size of western Europe elevated to an average height of 5 km above sea level and bounded to the south by the world's highest and youngest mountain range - the Himalaya. For over two hundred years Tibet has fascinated geographers and geologists alike for both strategic and scientific reasons. Understanding the geology of Tibet and the Himalaya has proved to be the key to deciphering the way in which the world's great mountain ranges are made. This lecture will trace the contributions of early explorers of the plateau to our present understanding of the uplift of Tibet. It will examine the impact of the theory of plate tectonics on unravelling the mechanisms of Tibetan uplift, and will high-light the current renaissance in scientific research in Tibet that is driven by a multi-disciplinary approach to Earth Sciences, linking the uplift history of the plateau to the intensity of the monsoon and to global climate.

The programme of lectures is published to allow our friends and guests to attend as well as members of our own academic community. For more information go to http://www.open.ac.uk/inaugural-lectures/.

Each lecture is followed by a reception. If you would like to attend a lecture please contact Sally Eaton ext 53253 or Email to s.p.eaton@open.ac.uk]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Prof. Brenda Gourley Professor Nigel Harris</dc:creator>
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<title>Open Meeting for active OUSS members - Additional Voluntary Contributions</title>
<description><![CDATA[Open meetings are available at 12.00 p.m. and 1 p.m. for active OUSS members going into USS following the merger.  The meetings will focus on Additional Voluntary Contributions with Prudential and Added Years.

This event will be Video conferenced live to the regions. A replay will be available on this page, shortly after the event.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Colin Busby Joe Devlin Eifion Morris</dc:creator>
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<title>Open meeting for active OUSS members - proposed merger of OUSS with USS</title>
<description><![CDATA[We would like to invite you to a further Open Meeting in the Berrill Lecture Theatre when representatives from USS (Universities Superannuation Scheme) will be presenting details of the USS benefits. There will be an opportunity to ask questions at this meeting.

This follows on from our letter of November 27 about the discussions which are currently taking place with regard to the proposed merger of the Open University Superannuation Scheme (OUSS) with the USS.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Joe Devlin Colin Busby Eifion Morris</dc:creator>
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<title>Open meeting for active OUSS members - Potential merger of OUSS with USS</title>
<description><![CDATA[At the Open Meeting progress on a potential merger will be reported.

Questions may be submitted prior to the event or during the live web-cast using the button on the left of this web page. Every effort will be made to include these on the day but any unanswered questions will receive a written response via email after the event.

Download PowerPoint Presentation]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Joe Devlin Miles Hedges Philip Marsh</dc:creator>
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