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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 degree is for those who want to develop their research and analytical skills and upgrade their qualifications. It will suit anyone with appropriate entry qualifications who has a passion for the arts and is looking for an intellectual challenge.

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This degree course will enable you to develop your research and analytical skills and upgrade your qualifications. It will suit you if you have the appropriate entry qualifications, a passion for history and are looking for an intellectual challenge.

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This degree course is for those who want to develop their research and analytical skills and upgrade their qualifications. It will suit anyone with appropriate entry qualifications who has a passion for classical studies and is looking for an intellectual challenge.

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This MA course will equip you with critical skills necessary for higher level study of art history and build on your existing knowledge in this field. You begin your studies by using texts and module materials to explore the theoretical and methodological issues in 'old' and 'new' art histories.

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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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