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Trinity 2023
Applications are being accepted for our new Oxford University Visiting Fellowships in Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning; Roger Dalrymple, Deputy Director (Education and Student Experience), has been recognised for his exceptional track record and ongoing pedagogic research and scholarship with the title of Professor of Practice in Lifelong Learning; The Department was honoured to receive a gift from former student Fata Brian Kaio, Consul General of Samoa to American Samoa, who had travelled over 10,000 miles to attend our March 2023 Award Ceremony; The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently released its latest ‘Future of Jobs Report’ and findings show that over the next five years, lifelong learning will continue to be a core skill for the future workforce; VIDES Journal, 2023; Rewley House Lecture Series Hilary term 2023 recording now available; Summer schools in Oxford; Online courses for summer; Student spotlights: Ho-ming Lee and Judith Carrichner.
Hilary 2023
Applications now open for the new one-year part-time Postgraduate Certificate in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, led by Professor Sir Andrew Pollard; Registrations open for 'A repression of things past' – a free hybrid lecture part of the Rewley House Lecture Series; Online open events for our award-bearing programmes; Application deadlines for undergraduate and postgraduate courses; Short courses in Oxford and online including summer schools; Student spotlights: Sara Ali and Paul Hackett CBE.
Michaelmas 2022
Introducing Dr Roger Dalrymple, our new Deputy Director (Education and Student Experience); Dr Debbie Hopkins, Associate Professor in Human Geography, has been awarded a Government grant with a total value in excess of £700k; Graduate Scholarship for Ukraine Refugees: Viktoriia Khalanchuk, a student on our Master's in Diplomatic Studies, tells of the events that led her to Oxford; Sally Outen, a student on our Foundation Certificate in English Literature, has been awarded the Joyce Leech Prize for 2022; Scar Tissue by Clare Morgan: a new collection of short stories by Dr Clare Morgan, Director of our MSt in Creative Writing; The Kingdom by Jane Draycott: Senior Associate Tutor Jane Draycott's new collection of poetry, published by Carcanet Press; HIV and AIDS: Voices from the frontline: free event to mark World AIDS Day 2022; This year's Mick Aston Lecture looks at new excavations that provide important insights into life on the Northern Isles in the early Neolithic; Short courses for the new year – join us in Oxford or online in 2023; Applications open for our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes; Summer schools in Oxford next summer; Open events; Student spotlights: Ilina Jha and Louisa Reeve.
Summer 2022
Question what you read: What fake news about spiders can teach about the global spread of (mis)information; Introducing Ismini Pells: How did time served in the oldest regiment in the British Army set the course for academic research; Diverse Modernities: Architectural historians work to recognise and protect 20th-century ‘traditional’ architecture; 'Mobility of Objects' Project: Can a centuries-old key, a floor tile or a religious token influence how we learn about commerce and belief; Places of Worship: The seventh book in the series on places of worship in Britain and Ireland covers the complexities of the hundred years between 1829 and 1929; Our Mothers Ourselves: Six writers tell the extraordinary stories of ‘ordinary’ women – their mothers – and donate the proceeds from book sales to support refugee women; Short courses begin soon – don’t miss out; Student spotlights: Sarah McKeown and Bior Elliot.
Trinity 2022
Introducing two new academics: Dr David Lewis and Dr Sarah Frodsham; A new poetry blog helps you explore 'The Seasons' by 17th-century poet James Thomson; Freud Is Alive and Well: Alistair Ross publishes a new reference guide; Archaeology Training Dig 2022: Our students explore Besselsleigh, the site of an 11th-century manor and associated medieval village, now under peaceful grass parkland – but with an eventful history; Society for Medieval Archaeology Annual Conference: A two-day international conference on early medieval migrations will take place at Rewley House, Oxford. Attend online or in person 24 - 26 June 2022; VIDES Journal, 2022; Remembering Ann Rees, a former colleague who was instrumental in transforming a modest book room into our much-loved library; Online courses for summer; Student spotlights: Dr Thomas Peak and Judith Carrichner.
Hilary 2022
We welcome Professor Matthew Weait as the new Director of the Department for Continuing Education; New leader for the Diplomatic Studies Programme: Dr Yolanda Spies; Tony Harrison and the Classics: new book examines the importance of working-class poet and playwright Tony Harrison’s classical education; Routledge Companion to Jane Austen: This extensive volume provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works, reception and legacy; It's never too late to return your library books: Overdue by 46 years, a wandering copy of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight finally finds its way home to our Continuing Education Library, thanks to a Canadian bookseller; Events: The Axiom of Choice, Amnesty International and the rise of human rights activism; New summer school: 'Battle-Scarred': The Human Costs of the British Civil Wars; Student spotlights: Charles Bush and Sara Ali; Bringing Oxford to the World: In January we launched a new fundraising appeal.
Michaelmas 2021
We introduce four new academics to the Department: Dr Stephen Law, Dr Leah Clark, Professor Andy Hopper and Dr Sean Wilcock; Inside COP26: Sustainable Urban Development alumna Katherine Maxwell gives us her insider's view of the COP26 Conference; Lessons from the vaccine taskforce: 2021 Oxford Romanes Lecture on 23 November; The human costs of the British Civil Wars: Dr Andy Hopper looks at the British and Irish Civil Wars (1638–1652); How to think about weird things: Dr Stephen Law helps us learn to weigh evidence sceptically; 'Adoration of the Magi': Dr Leah Clark discusses a Renaissance painting by the Italian court artist Andrea Mantegna; Courtier, Scholar, and Man of the Sword: A new book examines the life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury; VIDES 2021; Student spotlights: Anitra Mailin and Hardeep Narwan; Oxford awards and degrees; Join us for an open evening.
Summer 2021
We welcome four new academics to the Department: Dr Danny Wilson, Dr Donna Harris, Dr Thiago Alves Pinto; Seven Solutions to the Problem of Urban Shrinkage; Prize for Social Market Economy awarded to Alumnus Gorgi Krlev; Volume Six, 'Places of Worship' Series; Technology and Education: Dr Elizabeth Gemmill joined a panel in July on BBC Radio 4's 'Rethink' programme to discuss the role of technology in the future of education; Student spotlights: Jane Thomas and Stephen Barnham; Short courses open for enrolment.
Trinity 2021
Learn more about Marcelo Bravo, alumnus of our MSc in Experimental and Translational Therapeutics and Chief Executive Officer at OxVax – a company which aims to deliver vaccines capable of targeting cancer; Archaeology tutor Jennifer Foster joins with the Ashmolean Museum to shine a light on artefacts from an epic Iron Age site at Hallstatt, Austria; New book: Miscellanies, Poetry, and Authorship, 1680–1800 from Dr Carly Watson; Episode 6 of our Curious Minds Podcast with Dr Steven Parissien; The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion by Dr Tara Stubbs; Celebrating creative writing student and alumni achievement; Join us in Oxford this summer: summer schools still open for enrolment; International Politics Summer School: now fully online; Short online courses: Summer term open for enrolments; Last remaining seats: Oxford awards and degrees; Student spotlights: Amal Elsamani Ahmed Taha and Garyfallia Katsiara.
Hilary 2021
Meet Professor Andrew Pollard Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group; An interview with Carl Heneghan Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine; Jane Draycott made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; Welcome to Steven Parissien who joins us as a Departmental Lecturer in Architectural History; In Memoriam Professor Angus Hawkins; 'Current Legal Problems' free online lecture from Dr Shreya Atrey; 'In support of lifelong learning', a new article from Professor Jonathan Michie; Consider your Summer in Oxford, summer schools open for enrolment; Trinity term of Weekly Oxford Worldwide (WOW) courses available to book; Episode 5 of our Curious Minds Podcast; Student spotlights: Bior Elliott and Aditi Khodke.
Michaelmas 2020
East Oxford Archaeology: a new and richly illustrated eBook available to download from David Griffiths, Jane Harrison and Olaf Bayer; The Creativity Code: Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores the relationship between AI and creativity in episode 4 of our Curious Minds podcast; New book from Dr Kate Tiller: English Local History; VIDES - free volume of interdisciplinary essays produced by our MLA students; Awards & degrees, applications open; Virtual open evenings; Launch of our second term of Weekly Oxford Worldwide (WOW) classes; Student spotlight: Stephen Barnham and Amy Lim.
Trinity 2020
Poetry and Class: a new book from Dr Sandie Byrne: It may have a reputation for elitism – but we’d be wrong to think of poetry as being the preserve of the upper and middle classes; Lecturer wins prestigious award for technological innovation: Pioneering work in video analytics has led to Dr Sepideh Chakaveh winning the prestigious Everywoman Innovator Award 2020; How a spell on a remote island led to the creation of a new album: A guitar and nine months on Hornby Island, off Canada’s Pacific coast – where the lack of distractions made it easy to focus on making music; New books from the Psychodynamic Counselling programme: Alistair Ross and Val Parker explore the art and science of the unconscious, and the influence of sibling relationships on our adult lives; Application deadlines for all of our undergraduate award courses have been extended until 7.00pm GMT/BST Thursday 11 June 2020; NEW Fourth term of online short courses: Acting on feedback from students and followers worldwide, we are offering a summer term of online courses for the first time in our history; Student: Lachlan Moir & Melissa Tier; The Literary Clinic: Tell Dr Sandie Byrne your ills and she shall select a few leaves from her Physick Garden of Books to redress the balance of your humours; Curious Minds: Keep your brain active with free online educational resources, as recommended by academics and staff at the Department.
Hilary 2020
Introducing Shreya Atrey: Dr Shreya Atrey teaches on our Master’s in International Human Rights Law, and her research is on ‘intersectionality’ in discrimination law; Smiths and Oxford: when Smiths wanted to train its staff in Lean Six Sigma methodology, it chose another historic institution with a gift for innovation: Oxford University; 10 Years of Sustainable Urban Development: a decade of training aimed at ‘greening’ the urban environment; Introducing Dr Carly Watson; Watson's great interest is the eighteenth century: ‘It’s the last century in which virtually everything is done by hand’; NEW: Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing Taught mainly online, with a three-week residential summer school in Oxford at the end of Year 1; NEW: Foundation Certificate in English Literature Attend three full Saturdays each term, along with a one-week non-residential summer school; Event – Jenny Diski – A Celebration, 7 April 2020; The Register of John Salmon, bishop of Norwich, 1299-1325 by Dr Elizabeth Gemmill; Student Spotlights: Vicky Davison & Oliver Markeson; Adult Learning: ‘A Permanent National Necessity’; Online Disinformation and Political Discourse: Applying a Human Rights Framework by Kate Jones; Enrol now for Oxford Summer School for Academics and Professionals and Oxford University Summer School for Adults.
Michaelmas 2019
In Memoriam Dr Cathy Oakes: Remembering Director of Studies in the History of Art who died unexpectedly in early August 2019, of sepsis; We Look to the Moon: The Bodleian Library celebrates 50 Years Since the Moon Landings; Revitalising Adult Education for the 21st Century: It’s 100 years since publication of the landmark Final Report on Adult Education, published in 1919; MSc in Translational Health Sciences: a new programme from the Department, in partnership with the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences; Citizen Scientists Needed for ‘Beacons of the Past’: Help wanted to identify new archaeological features in the Chilterns ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ (AONB); Detectorists Win National Archaeology Training Award; Student Spotlight: Amina Hadef; Open Events 2019-20: Applications for award and degree programmes are open - join us for an open event and have your questions answered; Rewley House Christmas: Make your festive lunch or dinner in central Oxford an occasion to remember; The Great House in the Twenty-First Century: join us for a weekend event in Oxford, 1-3 May 2020.
Summer 2019
Orkney - an archaeologist's paradise: a real insight into one of the first places the Vikings settled in the UK; Secrets of a 400-year old shipwreck: A 400-year old shipwreck unearths its secrets – but leaves some unsolved; Friendships and memories to last a lifetime: The Diplomatic Studies Programme celebrates 50 years; Student Spotlights: Sally Taylor and Jhabindra Aryal; Still time to book for Michaelmas Term: Want to challenge yourself this autumn? It's not too late to enrol on a course starting this September; Short forms and aphorisms: Dr Grant reviews famous aphorists from the past and asks if the rise of social media will play a part in aphorisms in the future; Introducing Debbie Hopkins: Climate change, transport and female truckers - the many interests of Dr Debbie Hopkins; VIDES: A free collection of interdisciplinary essays available to read online, created by our Master's in Literature and Arts students; 2019 Open Days: 30 & 31 August - Registration for our Open Days will open soon!
Trinity 2019
‘The untamed self of the unconscious’: Dr Sandie Byrne introduces sixth formers to Frankenstein and Dracula at the Bodleian; Researching the Lives of Asylum Migrants to the UK: Dr Isabel Ruiz compares economic outcomes of asylum migrants with other migrants and UK natives; A Walk in the Park – Just What the Doctor Ordered: What if your GP prescribed a visit to an art gallery? Meet 'Social Prescribing'; Award Ceremony 2019 Highlights Vital Importance of Adult Education: Rousing evening celebrates award recipients and calls for increased opportunities for adult learners; Student Spotlights: Shamim Chowdbury and Kushal Banerjee; Last Call, Trinity Term: Courses for Trinity Term launch this month - take advantage of the last remaining places; Undergraduate Awards: The May deadline to apply for an undergraduate award programme is fast approaching; 'The Education of a Whole Coalfield': A look back at our history and a unique form of cooperative education, with students helping students; Save the Date, Open Day 2019: Sign up to receive early notification of our 2019 Open Day, taking place 30-31 August.
Hilary 2019
John Ballam's Forthcoming Novel Blends Fiction and Family History; 100 Years and Counting: The Continuing Importance of Adult Education; Converging Cities: Why the Gap Between the Haves and Have-nots is Getting Smaller; Serious About Sustainability? Then Learn How To Put It Into Practice; From Twelfth Night to the Hubble Telescope: a Year in the Life of ‘Composers’ Workshop’; Student Spotlights: Rita McCormick and Edith Chin; Gain an Oxford Qualification Part-Time; The Student Experience: BBC Radio Oxford; Your Oxford Summer: Summer Schools; Enrol for Hilary and Trinity Term.
Michaelmas 2018
28 September 2018 marked our 140th year
Teaching Beyond the Limits of the University, 140 years ago; Open Day recorded lectures now online; Making History at Continuing Education, Dr Kate Tiller; Awards & Degrees, applications open; Student Spotlights: Pilar Barrera Way and Christopher de Gruben; National Poetry Day event at the Ashmolean Museum; Man Booker Prize Shortlist, could alumna Daisy Johnson becomes the youngest-ever recipient of the coveted prize?; VIDES, a free volume of interdisciplinary essays produced by our Master's in Literature and Arts students.
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