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Fanni Zombor

I am studying towards my business management degree with The Open University. I am 20 and originally from Hungary but have been in the UK for 4 and a half years.

In everyday life, I work as an interpreter, which I fit it around my full-time studying. In my free time I mainly volunteer for the students association or do horse-related things like horse archery or having a hack out with my share horse, Finbar.

I started studying with the OU in October 2017, with full-time intensity, so I am aiming to get my degree in 2020. I am studying full-time because I enjoy being busy and my job and hobbies allow me to spend as much time as I need writing assignments. Originally I wanted to do a degree around criminology, but then realised I have spent my working life managing people before I started volunteering, so I thought it would be easier to build onto that.

Fareeha Karim

Fareeha Karim is a Senior Advisor based in the Manchester office providing advice to students studying within the STEMA subject areas. Fareeha’s current focus is on the More Students Qualifying Initiative whereby the University proactively contact students at different stages of their study journey to ensure they have the support and knowledge they need for successful study. When she isn’t socialising with friends and family Fareeha enjoys reading, travelling and finding ways to bake ‘healthy’ treats.

Fary Cachelin

Fary Cachelin is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, and a Professor of Psychology and Wellbeing at the Open University (OU) which I joined in 2019.

Before joining the OU I was Pro Vice Chancellor of Community and Civic Engagement and Dean of the College of Applied Health and Communities at the University of East London. I was also Professor and Head of the Department of Psychological Science at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Prior to 2010 I was Professor and Chair of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles.

I received my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Stanford University, and my Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University.

Felicity Fletcher-Campbell

Felicity works in the Department of Education on the Masters in Education and Doctorate of Education programmes, with specialist interests in inclusive practices in education, special educational needs and research methodology.

Fenella Galpin

Fenella is a Student Experience Manager on the Law programme, working with tutors and students on the Law undergraduate degree. She has spent much of her career in management education, with a focus on online learning and online communities, and has also worked as a consultant for a range of organisations on a variety of online learning projects. She has also studied with The Open University and has a Masters degree in Online and Distance Education, so she knows what it is like to be an OU student and juggle work, family life and study.

In her spare time Fenella enjoys exploring the UK and further afield in her camper van - with daughter and dog in tow.

Finlay Games

Finlay Games is a blogger, Youtuber, writer and speaker. He shares candid, practical advice on mental health, recovery, gender transition and LGBT life. Identifying as a transgender gay man with a history of mental health challenges, Finlay shares passionately about helping people to recover their life and rewrite their story. As well as being an Open degree student, Finlay is also a Student Ambassador and the Trans Officer for PLEXUS, the OU Students Association’s LGBT+ group. In his spare time, Finlay enjoys dancing in muddy fields and geocaching for hidden treasure.

Website: https://finlaygames.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/FinnTheInfinncible

Twitter: https://twitter.com/FinlayGames

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finlaygames/

Fiona Doloughan

Fiona is Lecturer in English (Literature and Creative Writing) in the Department of English at the Open University. She works principally in the area of contemporary narrative fiction with a focus on Creativity and Translation. She is author of Contemporary Narrative: Textual Production, multimodality and multiliteracies (Continuum, 2011) and English as a Literature in Translation (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Fiona Durham

Fiona Durham is a Learning and Teaching Librarian supporting STEM subjects, Education and Languages, as well as working on the Library helpdesk and running on line Library training events. She joined the OU Library in 2001, but has been a serial OU student since 1989, her last module was S175 Frozen planet.

Fiona Henry

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Fiona Moorman

Fi is currently a Staff Tutor and has recently been appointed the Student Support Team Faculty Lead for the School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences. She started her OU journey as an Associate Lecturer when her second son was 3 months old and fondly recalls marking TMAs when the baby slept! She has also enjoyed being an OU student, studying the Level 2 music module A224 ‘Inside Music’.

Frances Butcher

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Francesca Benatti

Dr Francesca Benatti is a research fellow in Digital Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University. She leads the Digital Humanities at The Open University Research Collaboration and the CHASE Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age doctoral training programme.

Francesca uses computers to aid her in her research, such as analysing the style of nineteenth-century authors, finding reading experiences in digital collections, building virtual exhibitions about European Romanticism, and more.

Francesca’s other interests include comic books, the Irish poet Thomas Moore and the history of the book and reading.

Francine Ryan

Francine is a lecturer at The Open University’s Law School and a qualified solicitor. She is passionate about Open Justice, which gives students and academics the opportunity to work together to offer free legal services to the community.

Frank Farley

Frank Farley is an Educational Advisor for The Open University. He has proudly served the OU for over 11 years and also completed an OU qualification during this time. He has also studied full time at university so appreciates the demands higher education study can place upon time management.

Frank Monaghan

Frank is a senior Lecturer in applied linguistics with particular interests in linguistic landscapes, social media, football fan activism, and EAL.

He has been involved in the ‘Thinking Together’ research project, investigating the use of ICT in primary mathematics classroom to promote exploratory talk. He is an active CPD facilitator on the topics of language and mathematics, English as an additional language (EAL), and provision for gifted and talented EAL students.

The impact of Frank’s work have come through his work with NALDIC on EAL issues through publications and CPD. He has also written a number of articles for The Conversation on language, nationality and migration that have attracted interest from around the globe (over 30k readers so far). He has also made frequent appearances on national and local radio talking about language and migration issues.

Fred Motson

Fred Motson is a Lecturer in Law and has been heavily involved in designing and writing the new LLB Law degree which began to go live in 2021, having written units on W111 Criminal Law, W112 Tort and Civil Justice, W211 Public Law, W212 Contract Law, W311 Equity and Trusts and W323 SQE Business.
After more than a decade of full-time teaching, Fred became a student once again in 2021 when he commenced studying for his PhD through the Open University. His research combines two of his main interests, sport and technology, as it is focused on applying legal theories about interpretation and judicial decision-making to the use of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in professional football.

Balancing this part-time study with his full-time job and two children under 4 means that Fred is well aware of the types of pressures many OU students face!

Freya Wise

Freya is a PhD student investigating ways to reduce carbon emissions from residential heritage buildings in Cumbria while still retaining their heritage values. She started her PhD with The Open University in October 2018. Prior to this she completed an Open Degree with the OU and a Master of Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is really enjoying her PhD as it combines two areas which she is very interested in; history and sustainability. Her project is multidisciplinary as she is looking at peoples’ opinions and behaviour as well as the technical aspects of building performance. She has found OU study to be remarkably good preparation for doing a PhD as it develops your ability to study independently and manage your own learning.

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