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OU staff investigate an array of musical practices in a variety of contexts, both historically and in the present day. Topics include performance (and performance techniques from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first; musical and textual sources; and film music and recordings.

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The research interests of members of the Department of History in this area range widely, from manufacturers to masculinity. Dr Robin Mackie specialises in business history, and relations between industry and science.

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This programme offers a unique opportunity to deepen and develop your knowledge of classical antiquity by combining a substantial (20,000 words) research dissertation with research training and taught elements. It can lead to doctoral research, but also provides the chance to undertake scholarly research as an enrichment of undergraduate study or for career development purposes.

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The History of Mathematics Group conducts internationally recognised work in several areas of the history of modern mathematics, and collaborates with many historians of mathematics in Europe. A long-running interest in celestial mechanics has recently led to an investigation of the network of astronomers in the years around 1900, and an overlapping international project on the role of mathematics and mathematicians in the First World War.

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The Department of History covers a broad range of the political and social history of Britain and Europe from the late middle ages to the present, with additional expertise in imperial history and in heritage studies. It has particular strengths in policing and crime (embedded in a multidisciplinary research group), medical history, and imperial history (supported by the University's multidisciplinary Ferguson Centre for Asian and African Studies).

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Several members of the Department of History contribute to the interfaculty and interdisciplinary Heritage Studies Research Group, which also has links to the Empire and Postcolonial Research Group and the Ferguson Centre. We invite proposals which take a critical approach to understanding the role of heritage and its institutions (museums, heritage sites, trusts and government).

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Research is at the heart of the Philosophy Department at the OU. There are nine full-time members of staff, all of whom are active researchers, who specialise in a range of subjects across the disciplines.

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This degree provides intensive research training in Egyptology to prepare students for the 20,000 word dissertation. It intends to deepen students' knowledge of those aspects of ancient Egyptian society that are the most relevant to the chosen research topic.

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This is a research degree with some provision for taught courses. It is aimed at those who wish to move beyond undergraduate work and to engage in research in depth for a postgraduate thesis, but who also wish to take courses in order to develop research and related skills, and to study broader historical subjects with other postgraduates.

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The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies in the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, is the only Centre in the UK which brings all its subjects together within a single unit. The Centre's full time staff cover between them a wide range of fields and expertise in respect of both the history and the languages of the East Mediterranean region.The Centre also acts as host on a three year rotating basis to the International Symposium on Byzantine Studies, and regularly hosts the annual Study Weekend of the Standing Committee on Modern Greek Studies.

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