Robyn is Senior Manager (Social Media Strategy) in Communications. Formerly a newspaper journalist, she is an experienced comms and content professional now leading the University's multi award-winning Social Media Engagement Team. She likes walking her cocker spaniel, Ralphie, reading crime novels and anything that involves laughing.
Today, Sir David Attenborough – Britain’s best-known natural history film-maker – celebrates his 90th birthday. With a career as a naturalist and broadcaster spanning six decades,…
The OU’s Dr Richard Heffernan, Interim Head of Politics and International Studies, caught up with OU News over the phone following results of yesterday’s (May 6th)…
With digital tools and technologies making it all too easy for us to switch between home and work life with the touch of an app or…
Digital technologies – smartphones, tablets and social media – are changing our relationship with work. The traditional clock on at 9am, clock off at 5pm work…
Was it the right players, the right manager, the right opposition or all of the above? OU sport and fitness lecturer Simon Rea on how Ranieri’s…
The German philosopher Theodor Adorno once wrote: “Football implies the desire to suffer” and by and large that is probably the experience of most football fans…
From the OU in Northern Ireland… The third opinion piece in our series of three from OU nation directors sees The Open University in Northern Ireland’s John…
For more than 15 years The Open University has recognised and rewarded exceptional achievement in teaching and learning. Under the theme of Learning Now for the…
From the OU in Scotland… The second opinion piece in our series of three from OU nation directors sees The Open University in Scotland’s Susan Stewart sharing her…
The UK goes to the polls on May 5th in the biggest set of elections outside a General Election in some time. As well as local…
