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Vanessa Rosario

Vanessa Rosario works as a Strategic Communication Business Partner at The Open University, leading the delivery of internal communications for various projects, and working together with partners in the delivery of external and student communications.

Prior to that, she was the project manager for Student Hub Live, the Open University's live online interactive platform to facilitate academic community, a role that holds a special place in her heart.

Vanessa is also the author of four children's books on topics such as mixed-race families, adoption, diversity & inclusion, empowerment, and appreciation of African origins.

In addition, she loves decorating projects, spreadsheets/lists ( Yay \o/ ), and cooking/baking. She says that food is a big part of her (Brazilian) culture, and that a good meal warms the heart!

Various speakers

Various contributors

Various speakers

Verity Saunders

Verity Saunders is an elected student volunteer in the WELS Faculty Representative role with the Open University Students Association for the 2020/22 term. In the past she has also served on the Central Committee (2019/20). Verity is currently heading into her fourth year of study with The Open University, and is starting the final module of her BA (Hons) Health and Social Care degree in October. She has studied mainly modules in the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care during her degree.

Vic Nicholas

Vic Nicholas is one of the Associate Deans in the STEM faculty. She has worked for the OU for most of her career as an AL and Staff Tutor. Vic has also been an OU student and the OU is responsible for the only exam she has ever enjoyed (Engineering the future)!

Vicky Marsh

Vicky Marsh joined The Open University in May 2013, and is a statistician in the Student Statistics and Surveys Team. Her responsibilities include:

analysis of the student experience on a module survey (SEaM) and the National Student Survey
management of the data analysts who support faculty ad hoc data requests
exploratory work linking student outcomes to module Learning Design and VLE data, and
survey methodology and providing reliable metric advice

Prior to joining The Open University, Vicky worked as a Senior Statistician at NatCen Social Research, and before that as a Government Statistician in the Ministry of Defence. At NatCen she provided statistical support to the Children and Young People research team, developed and taught on a number of NatCen learning courses and contributed to methodological research projects.

Victoria Cooper (FASS)

Vickie Cooper joined the Open University in 2015 as a Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology. She is the Co-director of Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC), which is an interdisciplinary, cross-faculty research centre concerned with developing and supporting research projects and papers that think critically about problems of crime and justice. Vickie’s research on housing inequality and homelessness asks whether people can have a sense of belonging without a fixed home, without a private place normally afforded to those who are housed.

Victoria Cooper (WELS)

Vickie Cooper is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at the Open University, co-director of the Children's Research Centre and co-chair of KE206 Making a difference: working with children and young people.

Vickie graduated from the University of Warwick in 1989 with a BA in psychology and education. She went on to completed her PGCE (primary) at the University of York, and has since taught across a range of ages including early years, primary, further and higher education. While working towards her PhD at the University of Bristol, Vickie was particularly interested in quasi-markets in education and applied the Habermasian principles of lifeworld and systems to analyse the colonisation of education. Her post-doctoral research broadly falls into either the area of professional development in education, or the area of identity.

Victoria Hands

Dr Victoria Hands empowers individuals and organisations to discover and adopt regenerative practices through collaborative strategy development and delivery, training, innovation and research. As Director of Sustainability at The Open University, Victoria coordinates a pan-institution matrix team to deliver sustainability, upskilling over 700 staff and students to become ‘carbon literacy’ certified. Victoria authored a 100-hour microcredential ‘Climate Change: Transforming your Organisation for Sustainability’ featuring five ways of working for sustainability and referred to as ‘game changing’ by learners. Victoria holds a PhD on implementing sustainability from the London School of Economics, where she also initiated the LSE sustainability team.

Videos

Various videos

Virginia Campbell

Further information to follow

Volker Patent

Volker has worked in higher-education teaching and research for over 25 years following his training in occupational psychology at Hertfordshire University. He’s always been interested in psychometrics, assessment and development in workplaces, and is a chartered psychologist, his research interests focusing on business psychology and coaching. He also works freelance as a part-time coach, working with individuals and organisations to develop their assessment and development activities, and conducting applied research in organisational trust. His previous projects involved developing commercial and bespoke assessment solutions in industry, providing consultancy in assessment centre design and recruitment in difficult-to-recruit professions.

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