Further information to follow.

Further information to follow.

After school, Miss Joannou studied at Barnet College, toward a GNVQ in Art and Design, and gained an NVQ Level 2 in Administration, Access to IT and a HND in Multimedia with distinction grades.

Upon joining the Open University, she gained a Certificate in Higher Education in Healthcare and Health science, toward the degree in this subject with Honours. Miss Joannou really enjoys her studies and benefits greatly from the support given, by tutors, and staff at OpenLearn and on the Student Hub.  She was also recently accepted as a student representative on the life, chemical and health sciences faculty.

Karen Littleton is a poet, whose work explores the potentials and possibilities inherent in the short form. She reads her poems at venues in London and across the South East of England. She is currently writer in residence at Westbury Arts Centre in Buckinghamshire. She is also Professor of Education at The Open University, where she researches collaborative creativity, and doctoral tutor for the University of Cambridge.  Karen has recently been appointed as the digital poet in residence for the ‘iwriters.club’, which is launching in the autumn.

Professor Karl Hack was born in Singapore, where he also taught from 1995 to 2006. He is an expert on Southeast Asia, insurgency and (most importantly for today's topic) on the British empire and its decolonisation. He is passionate about unveiling the widest possible range of narratives of people and groups in empire, and about helping students to be coteachers and colearners: part of an active learning community. This has reflected in his teaching at the Open University, where he chaired produciton of A326 Empire 1492 to 1975, The Making of Welsh History, and of his topic for today: A328 Empires: Power, Resistance and Legacies.  

Awiting bio.

Awaiting bio.

Kate is a second-year psychology student studying DE200 who has always struggled with traditional educational environments. After being diagnosed later in life with multiple neurodivergent conditions and finding some peace with that, Kate decided she wanted to help other people who had been "missed" by services over the years and has been meandering towards a career in adult neurodevelopmental psychology/academia ever since.

When not studying psychology at the Open University, Kate has been an ADHD community builder - creating resources to help people with ADHD understand different parts of the condition, participated in numerous bits of research, and was a "lived experiences lecturer" on occasion at the University of Surrey, where she gave trainee clinical psychologists a chance to ask complex questions that they couldn't ask a patient. She also paints sometimes!

Katharine Reedy is a Learning and Teaching Development Manager for Learning Design and she has worked at the OU since 2000; mainly in the Library, and now in the Technology Enhanced Learning team. Her role is all about keeping the student at the heart of the design process. She collaborates with many people across the OU to evaluate and improve curriculum design, and ensure that the OU makes the most of the online environment. She is very excited to be involved with the OU’s fabulous Curriculum Design student panel, who provide important input into new developments, whether large or small.

She has a particular interest in digital literacy and ensuring that everyone gets to benefit from being online. In her spare time she volunteers as a trustee for her local Citizens Advice service, and plays the violin – occasionally at the same time! She also enjoys food, running, travel, and catching up with friends.

Katherine Moore started working at the Open University Library in 2009. She is a Learning and Teaching Librarian, and her interests include helping students with disabilities access online resources, and building online learning communities.

Dr Katie Chicot is a Staff Tutor in the Mathematics Department and CEO 

Katy has been a tutor at the Open University for 14 years and an OU student on and off for the last 22 years. She currently tutors on the access module Y032 People, work and society and E109, a Level One module linked to the Early Childhood Studies degree. Outside of work Katy enjoys trail running and walking her two dogs.

Keir Irwin-Rogers is a Lecturer in Criminology at The Open University. Keir’s primary research interests centre on the happiness, health and well-being of children and young people, with a particular focus on developing policy and practice to reduce levels of violence in their lives. Keir acted as lead criminologist to the cross-party Youth Violence Commission and co-authored the Commission’s final report. He has advised various social media companies on their safeguarding policies and provided evidence to a number of Parliamentary committees. 

Dr Kerry Jones is a Lecturer in End of Life Care at The Open University. Previous to the OU Kerry has researched and taught at universities in the south West of England following a career in the health and social care sector with older adults and individuals with learning disabilities. Her research and teaching focus is on death, dying and bereavement, end of life care across the life course, and nurses’ encounters with care of the dying. Kerry has published and presented her work on stillbirth, neonatal death, parental bereavement, paediatric palliative care, brain injury, dementia and suicide. More recently, Kerry’s focus has turned to the impact of loss on men following perinatal death, and the impact on nurses in caring for the dying and their families. As Area Lead for the Professional Doctorate in HSC, Kerry supervises two PhD students and two students on the Professional Doctorate Programme in Health and Social Care.

Kesi Mahendran is a social psychologist who works on migration-mobility, non-mobility, belonging, integration and citizenship. She currently directs the Enactments research programme within the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance and is the Qualification Director for the new MSc in Psychology (available in 2016).

Follow her on twitter @DrKesiMopen

Kevin Mayles is Head of Analytics at the Open University.

Kieran has been a Staff Tutor in the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport (ECYS) since August 2017 and a Tutor in Sport since 2008. He also works as a Tutor in the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Prior to this Kieran worked as a Coordinator and Sport and Exercise Lecturer in the Further and Higher Education Sector.

Kim Woods is a senior lecturer in Art History and has been the Arts Faculty Associate Dean for Curriculum for the last three and a half years. She researches late medieval northern European sculpture, which her son memorably described as her 'bits of old wood'. She has since graduated to alabaster.

Kirsty Bradd has been studying with the OU for just over 2 years and has just started year 3. She has a full time job and 3 kids so her life is pretty busy. Her kids love sport so she spends most of her time watching them play and train for football games. When Kirsty is not being a mum, she loves to work out and do 4-5 strength and conditioning classes a week which helps her focus her mind – she calls it her therapy sessions.

Kris Stutchbury is a senior lecturer in Teacher Education and Academic Director the TESSA programme. She works on the Teaching and learning pathway and is chair in presentation of EE831. Kris has over 20 years of experience of teaching in school. She was a Head of Science for 12 years. She joined the OU PGCE as a part-time tutor in 2005. In July 2015 she became Academic Director of TESSA and co-Director of ZEST. Kris frequently travels to Africa for these projects. She has recently completed a Professional Doctorate in Education which focused on teacher educators as agents of change. For more information about Kris’s teaching and research, see: https://wels.open.ac.uk/people/ks4474